Many thanks to Charles Ogbu for putting the feet of our Igbo "leaders" to the fire. I wrote a forthnight ago that the position of the Elders of Igboland, calling for extreme caution, is but one of the several tendencies on the table up for discussion. I stressed that they are entitled to their views, even though many of us regard them as naive to expect anything good from the north. Unfortunately for them, they seem to have no followers, as in "troops."
If this latest blow by the Northern Caucus at the Senate does not open everybody's eyes, nothing else will.
On the demand for Special Status for Lagos, my views are on record and do not need repeating. It is however sad that the arrowheads of that demand, like Dr Jide Oluwajuyitan, have not learned any lessons from the debacle. For them to demand #Restructuring is to surrender to the Igbo narativre. Nigeria's national interest is readily consigned to the back burner simply because it willy-nilly coincides with demands of not only Ndigbo but the generality of people from Chibok-land, Southern Kaduna, Nasarawa, Benue,Taraba all the way down to the Niger Delta.
As regards the recently floated South-East Reconstruction and Development Commission, please perish the thought.The very idea is 50years too late. Anyway it has had a stillbirth, courtesy of the Arewa/Caliphate positioning. No sane Igboman wants that distraction at this point in time. Same goes for Igbo presidency which kite some criminal elements flew recently.
In conclusion, our man Godwin Ogbu has only reminded us that the only person who currently has any agenda worth discussing is Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Having ignored him in the past, obviously to our own peril, it is necessary to now come on board. You don't have to love Nnamdi or like his current methods. Your fault is refusing to engage him in any meaningful way.
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