Tell Buhari And Your Slaveonwers To Guarantee Peace In Nigeria By Supporting Igbo Presidency – Onwuasonya FCC Jones

Dear Governor Uzodimma,

Onwa Oyoko, I didn’t believe you made the statement credited to you until someone had to cut out the particular part you made that very unfortunate slip and sent it to me this morning. I was ashamed that I have you as a governor and heartbroken that Providence has thrust you on us at this time in our history as the most connected with the ruling Party from the Southeast. And this is how you use that opportunity?

You are aware how more than three million of your kith and kin were slaughtered in a civil war they did not provoke. You are aware of the pogrom that preceded the civil war. You are aware of how billions of Pounds worth of Igbo assets were taken over by people who didn’t work for it. You are aware of the unending injustice being meted to the Igbo by the political class you serve. You are aware of how the Party you have recently become a major stakeholder in has exacerbated the marginalisation of the Southeast in the politics of this nation. You are aware of the power sharing understanding in Nigeria, that should have naturally conceded the presidency to the Igbo in 2023. You are aware that your Party and your former Party conspired to deny the Igbo of this opportunity, and even went ahead to ensure that they are further alienated from the power circle in the country. My governor, you are aware of these, and all you can say is that Igbos should go and make peace with Nigeria?

What you are saying in essence is that Ndigbo, who have been severally cheated, maligned, killed, robbed, blackmailed and victimised, are now the aggressors? Onwa, you have not disappointed me more before. I am ashamed and heartbroken that a man who should be a warrior and a leader is making himself appear like a helpless slave.

I understand that you might be a victim of blackmail by a Northern cabal who are holding you captive with some illicit favours they might have done you and might be promising to do for you in future, but I used to think of you as a smarter and more courageous power player. I would have expected you to dribble those guys the way you have been dribbling your friends at home, without unwittingly turning yourself to the public enemy Number One of your own people.

No matter what the insecure charlatans around you tell you about me, I should think that you know that I love you. And sometimes you act in ways that make me feel proud of you. I like it when you outwit your political opponents in the power chess board, and I admire the courage with which you have approached some of our challenges in the State, especially, insecurity and the dilapidated infrastructure you inherited. But, you seem to be a coward to your Northern masters. What do you owe them? What can they do to you?

I can tell that it is your overt reliance on them that has made you ignore the things you can do to earn your people’s love. You speak and act like Imo people don’t matter, like Igbos are irrelevant to you. Onwa, we will shock you. If you do not begin to quickly amend your ways with our people, you will become a persona non grata, and that is never my wish for you.

You will not be governor forever, I can assure you. You might think that you can use federal power to force your second term on us. And I assure you; be ready to kill all of us, and govern a desert. How do you aspire to continue ruling a people you don’t have any regard for? A people you scorn their pains? A people you see as conquered? Onwa, you have missed it, you have lost it and I sympathize with you.

Unfortunately, you are supposed to be one of the smartest leaders we have currently. But, is this how your smartness works? Is that how those before you exhibited their smartness? Didn’t you experience first hand, how Chief Arthur Nzeribe, the Oshiji, Damanze, Ogbuagu navigated through the power corridors, riding on the strength of his people, and never betrayed them? Did you ever hear him beg for acceptance or denounce his people in order to be accepted? Yet, he was accepted and he was valued.

Onwa Oyoko, you have betrayed your people, you have sold us off, and you will never be forgiven until you apologize and retrace your steps. How do you explain to millions of Igbos killed through starvation, through economic emasculation, through bullets and missiles, through blockades, that they are now the aggressors who needed to go and “make peace”? How do you explain to those mothers and sisters of ours raped and dehumsnized, that they were the aggressors who should go on their knees to apologize in order to be accepted?

Hey, Onwa Oyoko. I sympathize with you. May your chains be broken and may you see the light of freedom.

Go to Aso Rock again, ask them to call a meeting of all those who have told you what you said, then, tell them that they should guarantee peace in Nigeria by supporting justice, and the best way they can show themselves as being ready for justice is by giving the Southeast what is due to them. Injustice breeds crisis, and as long as any part of Nigeria continues to be relegated, maligned, scorned, then, trouble shall persist in Nigeria. That’s not a threat, it is an analysis of fact. Even Nature shall continue to be against a Nigeria where injustice is the rule.

TRUTH SHALL WIN!