RELEASE NNAMDI KANU TO US, WE WILL ADVISE THEM - Igbo Elders.

Chief Dozie Ikedife, "disclosed that the elders resolved that if the Federal Government could release Kanu and other detainees to them, they would take up the responsibility to advise them as elders."

Good. 
However, pray, who will advise Buhari and his forces of coersion? They need it more.

Note that the elders also decried the lack of a speedy trial for Kanu and others. Obviously these elders do not get it. Has the Nigerian "federal" government EVER concluded ANY of the various trials for treason instituted against MASSOB leader Chief Ralph Uwazurike over the past twenty years? The overt aim has been to cow Ndigbo into submission, even to the point where they no longer demand to even participate in their own governance. That is why there is never an official response when Ndigbo state what is obvious to all, that 50years after the end of the Nigeria-Biafra war, Igboland is still treated as hostile conquered territory. To quote our daughter Chimamanda in a different circumstance, we are supposed to "get over it." Really?

The following is not a prophesy. Unless Nigeria let's Ndigbo go free either within or outside this not-so-funny federation, it can never achieve its manifest destiny. Even the impoverished north cannot be developed by its own elite. It is not in their DNA to do so. Ndigbo will do it for free, but they have to be FREE first. Shame on the northern elite, who can hardly lace their own shoes.

One final point. I really wonder what position this Buhari administration can give to me to be able to shut me up, cease being analytical like my revered Prof Awojobi, and make me abandon my civic responsibility to criticize the government IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST. I am stating this because there is this silly notion that if an Igboman is appointed to head INEC, Ministry of Finance, the DSS, EFCC, the Nigeria Police, Nigerian Navy, JAMB, etc, etc, then these agitations will perhaps cease. Like I said, this is silly. For goodness sake how many Ndigbo, (this actually applies equally to other Nigerians) work in any role for the government? It is not as if I will ever benefit from the salary and fringe benefits that accrue to Dr Emeka Ngige or that noisy chap at Voice of Nigeria, Osita Okechukwu. Many will recall that the irrepressible Eddie Iroh held that position with impeccable dignity.

Restructure Nigeria.
Das all.