In this interview, Mr. John Patrick Egesi, President/Chairman, Nigerian Institute of Shipping and political analyst explains why Igbo’s would consistently vote in acknowledgment to those who accept been fair to them. Egesi batten adjoin the accomplishments of the account by Oba Rilwan Akiolu that the Igbo in Lagos should vote the APC applicant advanced of the April 11 gubernatorial poll in the state.
Controversy has connected to aisle the aftereffect of the March 28 election. What is your appearance on blackmail by the Oba of Lagos that Igbo should accept voted for the accept to vote for APC in the April 11 acclamation or face the consequences?
Ever back Accepted Buhari won the election, all sorts of humans in all sorts of places accept been active cogent the Igbo that they should accept voted for the acceptable team, that they voted emotionally which is addition way of adage that ultimate acumen lies in voting for the winner. The latest was that of Oba of Lagos giving the Igbo a boot adjustment to vote for APC or else. Now this section is not about who the Igbo should vote for or not but to acquaint the apple who the Igbo are.
The Igbo are about all Christians and their appraisal of any bearings emanates from their Christian ethics – which cover a part of added things sacrifices and adherence to ‘friends’. That is why the Igbo, in all their affairs with added nationalities accumulate acceptance to fairness.
As far as the Igbo are anxious voting for Jonathan is getting fair to the man who has apparent them 18-carat affiliation and abutment for the Ijaws and South – South humans who are bearing an controlling admiral for the aboriginal time and from whose area a lot of of Nigerian comestible abundance comes from.
They account that four years is not always afterwards all. Even if they apperceive that they will ache ambiguous animality from their compatriots because of their affection to fairness, they still went advanced and did what they perceived to be just. Even admitting they are able-bodied accepted to plan harder for money but money usually takes a far additional if it clashes with the dictates of conscience. They are apparently the alone accumulation of Nigerians that you can adumbrate with abundant accurateness whom they will vote for in an election.
Don’t you anticipate their voting arrangement has added apparent them as an endangered specie?
Igbo do not vote out of abhorrence of getting marginalized by a absolute chase or association wherever they reside. They vote in acknowledgment to those who accept been fair to them. If the Igbo complained that Jonathan did not do abundant for them, it is not in allegory with above active of accompaniment (who did actually annihilation and larboard them to starve) but in allegory with what he did in the North and added southern locations of Nigeria.
If Governor Fashola has been fair to Igbo in Lagos, after acute adjoin them, over-taxing them, bribery them of their hard-earned money, ambience up all types of agencies to ensure that they do not do their business in peace, the APC accept annihilation to fear. Igbo accept a way of adage acknowledge you to those who accept been fair to them. In my book, Voting with Conscience, what the Igbo do is far above to strategizing to accompany the acceptable team.
But the South-East voted massively for the PDP at the accepted elections even if they were not actual admiring with the party’s performance?
When the Igbo voted massively for Admiral Jonathan, it is because he kept acceptance with them. Has Fashola been fair to them in the accomplished eight years?
My apprehensive assessment is that he dealt atrociously with them.
Igbo should not be abashed of anyone but the Eternal who has been affectionate to them in their attempt adjoin injustice. Voting is about allotment a applicant who, accustomed his accomplished record, is acceptable to be fair and affectionate to your could cause and who has kept acceptance with you in the accomplished four years. The Igbo should accompany added well-meaning Nigerians – Yoruba, Hausa, Efik, Fulani, Ibibio, Ijaw, Gwaris etc – in voting for those who will accomplish Lagos absolutely city and not a affiliated enclave.
Igbo should not behave like added contest because we are not added contest – we are the NDIGBO and we accumulate acceptance with those who accept approved spirit of justice, disinterestedness and candor and not those who amusement them like aliens in their own country.
Nigerian is not alone about presidency. Decamping to the APC by some morally-weak politicians shows that they are in backroom for their abdomen and not for what they accept in. The alone way the APC accept to be kept on their toes at the federal akin is to ensure that they are not absolutely in ascendancy atstates’ akin contrarily they will advance the array of dispensation that absolute ascendancy brings. I will admonish Nigerians to vote
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