The statement 'Yoruba's are political rascals' was said in an event to mark the first anniversary of Chief Charles Soludo the refined Governor of Anambra State, in Awka, these unexpected words were reeled out by an arm of the Igbo socio-cultural group ably led by Chief Emmanuel Ahaejiejemba Iwuanyanwu, Born 1942 who doubles as an elder and the Chairman Ohaneze Ndigbo Council of elders, he said;
"I want to let our people(the Igbo) in Lagos to know that...we have resolve and we have told those in Lagos to return home, that never, never again can we allow anybody to take the life of an Igbo person, all of us are going to fight the person, we are going to fight the person."
He continued "We are in Nigeria and we have invested in Nigeria, our investments are so much, we are not going to take the question of people telling us to go, we are not going anywhere. I want to let those in Lagos to realize that there is no war between us and the Yoruba's, 'They are just political rascals!' and we are going to deal with them!..."
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While he said the excerpt, the people cheer him on because that is what they want to hear, the speech represents in the whole an accumulated hatred for a people - the Yoruba people. On one hand, it should be taken as a joke, on the other, it should be meted with strong caution, because it represents a public spewing of unbalanced words in a live televised event.
More painful is that there was a former President Chief Aremu Okikiola Olusegun Obasanjo on sit, listening to the Chief without giving a rebuttal or calling him to order that the speech is against the loving and accommodating spirit of his people, why he allow that is not of man to answer. But then, do we take this matter lightly or allow it to go as just a pain of losing the 2023 Presidential election by Mr. Peter Obi the anointed candidate of the Eastern region?
The Future of Nigeria post 2023 election
Rhetoric like this is likely to press on in the media and public domain, because a joint 13million people voted against the eventual winner in the 2023 Presidential election which saw the candidate of the All Progressives Congress APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu emerged as the winner with an over 8million votes in what is adjudged the freest, fair, and credible election in the history of Nigeria.
The winner, Tinubu, since the election has been working and bracing for the May 29 inauguration to office, he called for unity among brethren, tribes, regions, and minority groups, and he has shown he will work with all regions for the betterment of the nation in his Renewed hope political mantra.
The election has come and has been won, this is a time to throttle down the hate speech, the tensions, the boycotting of business, the cancel culture, and the very unfounded statement "Lagos is no man's land" by certain persons.
We all should remember Nigeria is ours to build, and there is no place like home, he who eats a meal daily under his roof is better than he who depends on foreign aid to survive.
We can all do our part to allow the nation to grow not burn it with our words. So many times words are like actual fire, and when cast out they can't be taken out.
God bless Nigeria.
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