By Ken Falano
Nobody is just going to “allow” Peter Obi to become the President of Nigeria!!
Obi has, so far, displayed his clannish tendencies and had not shown the intelligence or ability to be a cohesive leader – he is too invested in his IPOB/Biafran/Ndigbo clan – that you will never find him to comment (talk less of condemn) activities like Nnamdi Kanu’s excessive, fake drugs manufacturers and marketers, the drug dealers jailed all over the world, the Eze-anointing all over other nations, Obidiots harassment of non-Obidients like Professor Wole Soyinka, Obidiots singing the old national anthem (which Obi joined them in signing, whilst the mature NDC Lagos State Governorship candidate – Funso Doherty – had the commonsense to refrain himself….)
Obi has not shown maturity and has not been able to convince his political peers that he deserves their respect or rights to rule (he has never stood for or won a single primaries), he is too unstable jumping from pillar to post – in his desperation for power.
He cannot even reach any form of compromise and alignment with his fellow opposition parties…..
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*Yes Igbos deserve to be the executive president one day ** – Unfortunately, @Ozodi Osuji Ph.d failed to acknowledge that the first executive prime minister of Nigeria *should have been Azikiiwe* – he was offered the position on a plate, by Awolowo in 1959….. **but Zik of Africa chose to wear the Agbada of a ceremonial Governor-General **Why? 🤦🏽♂️…….
How does @Ozodi Osuji Ph.d overlook such important fact?, unless he is ethnically biased and hope that the readers are gullible and foolish enough not to know history 🤷🏽♂️.
Saying that Aguiyi-Ironsi was not an Executive President, is a pure piss-take! Again @Ozodi Osuji Ph.d is taking his readers as Mumus!
In fact Aguiyi-Ironsi was the first all powerful, almighty, supreme executive leader of Nigeria (probably first of his kind in Africa) – a man who was as powerful as Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat, Afrifa, Idi-Amin and Mobutu Sese-Seko!
A man who unilaterally destroyed and devolved the Federation and arrogantly centralised all power to his supreme self.
A man who showed empathy to the murderous Igbo coup plotters and shielded them (because they were from his Igbo clan), yet he conveniently ignored/locked up the Leader of the West (despite appeals for release to the Almighty crocodile 🐊 carrying party-loving Nigeria’s version of Idi-Amin Baba).
Saying that Aguiyi-Ironsi was not an Executive President because he was an accidental dictator – makes an atrocious total mockery of the article and the intent of the writer – who is too ‘Igbonessed’ to see his folly!!
So was Gowon not an accidental dictator – a 32 year old young soldier who had more commonsense than the almighty Aguiyi-Ironsi…. Gowon not only quickly appeased the people that was hurting, released Awolowo and all political prisoners, formed a National government and prosecuted a civil war that was forced on him by a bullish uncompromising entitled coward Ojukwu (which then created years of mistrust of the Igbos).
Since the illegal declaration of secession (illegal because an Igbo leader -Zik – ensured it was illegal)… despite knowing it was illegal, Ojukwu did it anyway, forced the Igbos over the Eastern minorities and plunged the whole country into chaos and destruction and the killings of millions (yet the coward ran away like a ship sewage rat 🐀 – when he was defeated / surely honourable war loser commits ritual seppuku or fight to finish or wait to face the firing squad -Ojukwu who killed his friends and gullible followers like Victor Banjo, Emmanuel Ifeajuna etc -so Ojukwu is happy to kill his traitors but fled when it was his turn )….and Igbos threw him a welcome party in 1982 🤦🏽♂️) – How do you expect the rest of Nigeria to trust such people? 🤔) – I digress!!!
Was 39year old Obasanjo (who allegedly dressed like a woman to escape Dimka killing mob, hid underneath a table when called to takeover and had to be shouted at by Danjuma) not an accidental president??
He was able to manage the delicate balance of power, executive the coup plotters (not harbour them like Ironsi did) managed the precarious and vulnerable situation he found himself – handed over power to the maraudering and hungry Fulanis (and managed not to lose his head!!) – thereby earning the trust of the Northerners, which held him in good stead, they brought him back in 1999 (despite the fact that his Yoruba people did not trust or want him).
Apart from listing Gowon and Obasanjo (both who were dragged into the HoS seat), he listed Shonekan (83days as Interim Head of State) and Abdulsalami Abubakar (354 days as an emergency military Head of State) – if listing these two does not show an ulterior motive, then the gullible reader deserve to be ‘mumufied’!
Have you asked yourself, when it was the turn, for Obasanjo, in 2007, to choose a VP for the sickly Yaradua (knowing very well that whoever he chooses, was literally lined up to become the next President), why didn’t the so-called Igbo loving 🥰 Obasanjo find one single suitable Igbo??? Why??? – Ngozi Okonjo- Iweala would have been perfect!!!
I am afraid to say, that it is the Igbos that have isolated themselves, from becoming the executive president of Nigeria!!!
Why would a people put forward an IPOB Nnamdi Kanu replica as their poster-boy? …. when you have cerebral and collaborative people like Soludo (who ironically is hated by most Igbos on this platform!!).
The example goes back to Obasanjo and the Yorubas in 1999.
Nigerians rejected the Awolowo/Afenifeka/Odua-centric technocrat candidate (Falae) and chose their trusted collaboration Obasanjo (this show that a region need to present a nationwide acceptable candidate and not a local champion!).
*Igbo will eventually become the president of Nigeria…..but not in 2027, and definitely not Peter Obi,* not an Nnamdi Kanu and not an IPOB/Biafran dressed up like a sheep 🐑 (but obviously a wolf 🐺)….
The answer to @Ozodi Osuji Ph.d question is not why Nigerians don’t trust Ndigo, it is when would Nigerians trust Ndigbo ….
It is when Ndigbo put forward a trusted, credible collaborative candidate to represent them …… come 2039. IMO
