Opinion: Professor Nwankwo Tony Nwaezeigwe Addresses Those Igbo Ethnic Chauvinists Against Governor Nyesom Wike
Recently, Governor Nyesom Wike of River State has come under attack by some Igbo who either speak out of ignorance or out of share hatred.
Many of these Igbo are disciples of Nnamdi Kanu who stays outside this Nation, Nigeria to incite his members against innocent Nigerians.
Governor Nyesom Wike is not spared by these people as he was recently accused of \”ethic chauvinism\” in which in real sense is a wrong accusation.
One of this people who frown at Kanu\’s followers outburst against Governor Nyesom Wike is renowned professor Nwankwo Tony Nwaezeigwe in what he titles, \”To Those Igbo Ethnic Chauvinists Against Governor Nysom Wike\”
Let us read his apt opinion: \”Let us be factual just for posterity for once, Wike never hated the Igbo because he knows he is Igbo.
It is people like you that divide the Igbo in your vile bid to claim superiority of your Igboness over the South-South Igbo of which I belong.
No Governor from the Southeast has been more patriotic as an Igbo man than Wike.
IPOB members were massacred in Abia and Anambra States by Operation Python Dance on the invitation of the Governors yet we did not see any strong opposition or propaganda against their actions the way and manner people like you are carrying out against Wike.
You can imagine a small rat like Nnamdi Kanu placing a ransom of 100 million naira on Odogwu Wike.
The truth is that Nnamdi Kanu attempted to blow up his useless infantile ego by directing his IPOB members to claim every action of the EndSARS demonstrations thereby putting the lives of the Igbo youth on the firing line.
Why should IPOB claim responsibility of the killings?
Even if they were involved, why should they claim responsibility in an action that up till today nobody knows the leaders?
If not for the timely intervention of reasonable Yoruba leaders, Nnamdi Kanu\’s reckless utterances had nearly put the massive destructions in Lagos State on the heads of the Igbo in Lagos.
More soldiers and Police men have been killed in Rivers State by unnamed militants without anyone being held responsible.
Why should IPOB leave the Southeast and then go to Rivers State to claim responsibility of killing soldiers and expect the Governor to keep quiet?
So the talk that Wike hates the Igbo is as vexatious as it is arrant nonsense\”.
Nwankwo Tony Nwaezeigwe, PhD, DD
Senior Research Fellow@Exile in Togolese Republic,
Institute of African Studies
University of Nigeria,
Nsukka, Nigeria
Odogwu of Ibusa Clan, Delta State
E-mail: nwaezeigwe.genocideafrica@gmail.com
