Fani: In an environment where the gluttony and want of wealth always
trumps principles, a clamor for unison based on those tribal
commonalities is a waste of time. These are not limited to the South
West alone.
South Westerners generally can respond to tribal sensibilities
without the projection or practice of purity. We always have welcomed
people in our mists, the evidence are overwhelming. The opinion leaders
and the political class are however miles apart and they can’t be
reconciled.
They can’t be reconciled because the differences between those two
groups are irreconcilable. While politicians have the pulse of the
people, they are gluttonous and self-centered and lack a strategic
cohesive plan or nation (Oduduwa) building.
They enjoy the benefits of chaos, the advantages of having peoples
pulse at their finger tips and thus have the upper hand. Things are the
way they are because people want them that way; otherwise they won’t
posses those invincible but real powers.
The Upper class in the South West are uninteresting, bored, either
beaten to apathy by the perceived futility of participating in politics
or shear laziness, I don’t know. To crown it, the scramble to acquire
wealth is not a scourge afflicting just South Westerners; it’s the whole
South, the whole country, the majority of Black Africa.
Only a block head will believe in Nigeria, I don’t have to elaborate. The youths are the ones I bemoan.
Intellectuals (or technocrats) cannot create or rule Oduduwa and the
Rich Elite are too selfish for nation building. The political class with
pulse has to do that (Short of taking it by force). This artificially
created behemoth (Nigeria) is a shaky center holding because the people
that have stolen us dry have investments across the Geo political zones
and they don't want to lose that. THEY WON’T.
While it is practically impossible to accommodate militant Islam with
secularism and tolerance, which we practice in the south, yet the
deafening silence over the preponderance of these militancy is note
worthy.
Noteworthy in the sense that there is no sense of outrage about it,
until these recent Boko Haram and the recently fashionable "BRING BACK
OUR GIRLS".
What works in our South West is tolerance, tolerance of differences,
tolerance of other tribes, and tolerance of religious diversity. We
(South West) are not a rigid non tolerant land (Nation). Rather than
pursue a peaceful break up from Nigeria and create a Nation bursting
with development, ideas, cultures, the South Western Political class who
have the pulse of the Nation follow their egotistical acquisitive
reflexes and thus we nudge ahead at snail speed pretending togetherness
in a farce called NIGERIA.
The quicker the country can peacefully break up into convenient and
natural factions, the better it would be for those units to manage their
natural existence.
Wanting a nation based on Tribal commonalities is not faux
anthropology; genocide is bad management of processes leading to that.
Wanting a nation is not an awful thing, quite the opposite, it is
inherent in the human spirit, to be able to control one’s destiny,
govern one’s self and welcome others within those confines. The
Southwest has a successful history of these open-mindedness, all we have
to do is look within our individual lives, kin, family and experiences
within our geographical boundaries.
Nigeria has degraded Our Nation (Southwest) in to a drifter nation,
always conniving for crump’s of currency, short gains benefiting a few
and consistently under developing its most essential assets, its people…
Oduduwa (Or whatever it will be called) remains a fantasy, because
like my (Political) friends will say, the facts on ground don’t support
your argument. Those facts are its people (The political class who
comprehend the machinery of thoughts)
Charles Sogbesan
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