IGBOS Vs NORTHERNERS: HATE & NATIONAL COHESION.


“They shall beat their swords into ploghshares,

And their spears into prunning -hooks;

Nation shall not lift up sword against Nation,

Neither shall they learn war anymore” – The Holy Bible

Polemicist and dialectical logicians tend to agree that sanctimonious rantings, verbal acrobatics, sentimental effusions constitute negative building blocks in the march to nationhood and peace. Hence, the essayist and orator Cicero (106-43 B.C.) posited that “The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices”. This is substantiated by the English playwright William Shakespeare that “A peace is  of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued and neither party loser”.

Nigeria has been befuddled and bedraggled from independence till today by a track record of monumental ineptitude, leadership crisis, psychotic malfeasance, corrupt administration and political visionlessness. In his bid to right these solecisms in his second coming, President Muhammadu Buhari has chosen to be circumspect in making his appointments. His extension of his anti-graft war to 1999 and few appointments made has generated criticisms and fears from some areas, especially amongst the Igbos.
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