Shun The Hate Game
If you have never considered that the joint looters of the common wealth are neither related by ethnic affiliations but by a zeal to jointly pillage and out pillage the rest of us, you need to realize that now.
The elites use ethnicity and religion to divide the ignorant populace who will not accept responsibility for their own poverty. They also manipulate the poor masses at will through religion and ethnicity to accomplish their objective: power for economic gain.
The elites, are they even elites? Cabal is a better word. The cabal may disagree from time to time but ultimately, they are cordial. No matter how quarrelsome news of disagreement between members of the cabal sounds, they eventually shake hands and drink together behind the scenes.
But at the bottom, what do we have? Hate speech to the races and religions. Threats and counter threats. The poor would rather blame anyone but himself for his woes. This makes them pawns on the chessboard. They can be sacrificed at will to gain material and control good spaces.
The Hausa Fulani you hate are also on the streets struggling. The Igbos you ordered to vacate your cities are there on your streets striving to make ends meet. The Yoruba whom you term slaves to the Hausa Fulani are equally in a struggle of survival at the bottom. Try asking yourself if the leadership of Abacha shared any of his loots to the common Fulani man. Perhaps Obasanjo was gracious, he made Ogun state people millionaires while he was in charge. Goodluck Jonathan actually paid me and a few other Igbos in millions of words for being Igbo. Across the Nigerian space, those who pay or settle kinsmen for being kit and kin are few and far in between. Even at elections, what is doled out to garner votes is peanuts compared to what they jointly desire of us.
So what have we in this continuous acrimony of ethnic insults everywhere? The cabal ultimately serves themselves and their interests. If you would listen to their conversations, they would tell you that there are no permanent friends, only permanent interests. At the bottom, you will stand in defence of the cabal just because you are coincidentally related by ethnic affiliations. Sometimes to shameful and needless deaths.
The agitation for Niger-Delta republic is also gaining steam. I knew they were never going to consent to playing minority in the Biafra dream, not then and not tomorrow, they would always not support it. Their former militants are moving in now and are asking the Federal Government to withdraw all licenses to oil block owners. For the avoidance of doubt, the claim that oil blocks are predominantly owned by the north is not correct. The foreigners own a better deal in that regard. Of the Nigerian content, it is shared by a great number of ethnic groups who at one point or the other had shared interests with those in power.
Give yourself brain. Hating other people will only result in further deepening of hate for you and those you care about. Everyone you meet, one way or the other carries a piece of your puzzle. Why act as though, you've fully figured out everything alone.
Ideologies are far greater and superior to championing ethnic causes and the reason is obvious: the issues affecting ndi Igbo in Aba also affects Hausa youths in Aba. The taxes of Lagos affects Yorubas and Igbos resident there. The issues do not pick and choose, it is we that are selective and biased. Bad roads do not become good for the Hausa Fulani herdsmen nor did electricity become constant for Boko Haram.
Because ideologies are superior and result in our better understanding of politics, we must shun the hate game, it will do us no good. Dialogue and persuasion, ballots not bullets are the best deal for any people who wish to make progress. If you choose to promote hate, get ready, your house will burn first.
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