Dear critic, I am back with my logika reversus. I am not particularly gifted in predicting the future, but extrapolating from the past could well be the easiest way to define (y)our now and later. It is a mad world, and so-called conventional wisdom is being punctured with minimal fuss. The prodigal son is permanently resident and even bed-ridden at home. Papa has left nought to squander. Check your radar mate, the Old and New Igbo are steering a collision course.

When Muhammad Ali the heavy weight pugilist was confronted by a group of American college students who wanted to hear a poem from the lips of "the greatest", he'd obliged by saying: " ME, WE!". Poetic purists agree it was a most profound utterance and I can only flow along with their educated assessment. The perennial conflict and dialogue of the Igbo generations has
entered the critical phase. I feel things have gotten to the stage where ME must make way for WE.

 Here is my own rhyme: We see, we hear, we read, we think and then we talk.

It may well be that Mike and the Mechanic had us, Igbo generations, in mind when they sang the
"living years":

Every generation
Blames the one before
And all of their frustrations
Come beating on your door

I know that I'm a prisoner
To all my Father held so dear
I know that I'm a hostage
To all his hopes and fears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years

Crumpled bits of paper
Filled with imperfect thought
Stilted conversations
I'm afraid that's all we've got

You say you just don't see it
He says it's perfect sense
You just can't get agreement
In this present tense
We all talk a different language
Talking in defence

Say it loud, say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
It's too late when we die
To admit we don't see eye to eye.

Mike & The Mechanics  , From the album "The Living Years."

If you are one of those who struggle to make sense of the sand that is stuffed in the mouth of the Igbo in BiafraNigeria, then cheer up. You are not alone. Like you I am trying to understand how N'aaba v. Obasanjo suddenly changed to Nzeribe v. Anyim.

I watched BiafraNigeria devour Chinwuba Okadigbo when Obasanjo v. Democracy played out. The Obasanjo v. Zamfara ended with both men still standing, albeit, on the dead bodies of a few thousand "nyamiri."  Similarly, we have watched Obasanjo v. IBB and Obasanjo v. Buhari come and go with the dramatis personae still on their feet and even partying together as members of the "council of State."

Back to the present.  Why should nutty professor Anyim and/or Nzeribe bear the brunt of Obasanjo and Na'Abba's ineptitude? As the Igbo would ask, "obu nani udara muru nwa ana apiwa onu?" (Why must the mouth of the udara's offspring be squeezed at every turn?). There must be a subterranean pull that makes the educated Igbo willing fodder for the uncouth nearly – man called Obasanjo and his Awusa-Fulani collaborators.

Obasanjo and Signatures:

The recent syndicated newspaper reports which centred on what Obasanjo signed with the Awusa-Fulani was the desperate effort of a drowning Obasanjo to retain tenancy of the Aso Rock mansion. I thought it was interesting that a man who had warned a few days earlier on the dangers of words and actions that could over heat the polity and cause a civil war, could stoop
so low, and deliberately set his Yoruba tribe against the Awusa-Fulani who made him in the first place.

His tribe's man Rueben Abati, a half -baked journalist, immediately rallied to make it a "South" v. Hausa-Fulani issue.  I hope the Igbo are not taken in by Abati's silly antics. Was Abati not the same guy who wrote some appalling accounts of the civil war about this time last year to remind the Igbo of what a "dull Christmas" they had in 1966?.

I have been waiting for Abati to conclude that the Yoruba had a dull Christmas last year after some sons of Oduduwa lodged a couple of warm slugs in the frail body of their Cicero Ige and ate his food to boot. For the Abatis of BiafraNigeria, Yoruba and South are interchangeable depending on which BiafraNigerian nation they want to rubbish. As his master's voice (HMV), Abati couldcelebrate "the retreat of the jihadists" when Obasanjo quipped "Sharia is unconstitutional".  That was before Obasanjo credited himself at the BBC global videoconference with introducing Sharia.  Abati could also boast to the Igbo that "Obasanjo could cut off an Igbo head if he so desires" when Obasanjo embarked on his well-worn scare mongering antics on secession and civil war.

 Always remember; we see, we hear, we read, we think, and then, we talk.

The time is ripe for the Igbo efulefu working for Obasanjo to come clean and tell us what they signed on assumption of their various offices. There is a saying in ala Igbo that "awo anaghi agba oso ehihie n'efu" meaning that; it is not for nothing that the toad goes wandering in the hot sun.   But for an ex-minister in the technology sector who hails from the North of BiafraNigeria, we would not have known that Obasanjo made some ministers sign an undated resignation letter on assumption of office to enable the Yoruba warlord dispense with them at his convenience.  It was the same minister that was eased out for daring to consult with Emeagwali and some other Igbo on how to move BiafraNigeria into the digital age.  The Igbo efulefu with apologies to Prof. Egboka have maintained a cowardly silence even though it is obvious to all that they are bound by more than duty.

In his present war with the nutty professor, Arthur Nzeribe came out and told the world that he told Obasanjo what was discussed at the World Igbo Congress much to the chagrin of the nutty professor. Nzeribe's "confessions" predictably got a lot of backing and publicity from the Lagos-Ibadan press, the same gang that declared him a persona non-grata in Lagos Y2K, and even went as far as telling the Igbo that Nzeribe supplied them with weapons for use against his own blood. Rueben Abati was the author and Nzeribe's sin then was calling for Obasanjo's impeachment.

It is good that Nzeribe has come out to confirm what some of the New Igbo have always known:

that the Igbo efulefu are sent to pan Igbo programs by Obasanjo. It is part of their pact with the Yoruba warlord. While the rest of the nations of BiafraNigeria migrate centripetally to Abuja with their agendas, the Igbo efulefu drift in the contra direction with Obasanjo's agenda. The statement credited to ABC Nwosu after the WIC 2002 convention is not much different from Nzeribe's.

The Abuja-Igbo have a pact to diminish, contain and ridicule the Igbo Nation within their sphere of direct “control.” The major legacy of Kema Chikwe's era as minister for Aviation is the renovation/modernisation of Genocide Murtala Mohammed Airport in Lagos (Yoruba land) and the ignominious dismissal of Rochas Okorocha (Igbo) as chairman of the BiafraNigeria
Airspace Management Authority (BNAMA). Similarly, Ojo Maduekwe could be credited with the modernisation of Tin Can Island Port (in Lagos Yoruba land) and the sacking of Dr. Nnamdi Ozobia the MD of Nigerdock. Ozobia's sin is that he had the oversight of the only profitable BiafraNigerian parastatal in addition to an employee strength consisting of 50% umu Igbo. Rochas Okorocha has long since been exonerated of any manner of blame and guilt.

We see, we hear, we read, we think and then we talk.  When Kema Chikwe was quizzed about the status of Enugu Airport at the last WIC convention in Houston, she insulted her audience by telling them that the Igbo should be more concerned with trains and cars. This was from the BiafraNigerian minister for Aviation. Her Transportation counterpart Ojo Maduekwe also an Abuja-Igbo believes Igbo should be more interested in Bicycles rather than concern themselves with such complex matters as a decent rail network and seaport. Who is fooling who?

A Diaspora Igbo called M O Ene has since gone to the Awusa-Fulani Gamji (among other places) to try and break down Mrs. Chikwe's speech to the "mentally challenged" Igbo. What a load of trash! Considering that Mazi Ene had also reported on a favourable one-on-one with Ojo Maduekwe shortly after the latter had insulted the Igbo with his "idiotic" outburst. If Ene
goes home as a Politician’s personal assistant next year, we know how he earned it!   What Ene has failed to realise is that his Kema had told the Igbo in Owerri another cock and bull story in January this year.  Please see Guardian of 02/02/2002 where Chikwe explained that the Imo airport could NOT be upgraded to an international airport owing to the proximity of the Port Harcourt Airport.  Those in the East Coast of the USA know how close Newark, JFK, and La Guardia Int. airports are.

We see, we hear, we read, we think, and then we talk.


Another deal the Abuja-Igbo cut with Obasanjo is his compulsory reselection as the president of BiafraNigeria in ala Igbo. It was an agreement our efulefu brethren signed before they assumed their present offices.    To say that the Abuja-Igbo have pursued this task with single – hearted assiduity is an understatement.  We know Obasanjo did not go public on his re selection project until late spring 2002.  But it is a matter of public record that as far back as summer 2001, Ojo Maduekwe and the other Igbo efulefu had been subjecting the Igbo to public verbal abuse on account of Obasanjo’s reselection.  The following is a verbatim report from “This day “ of July 9, 2001:  

Ministers of Igbo extraction, led by Minister of Transport, Chief Ojo Maduekwe, at the weekend stormed Aba, Abia State, to drum support for President Olusegun Obasanjo in a bid for his re-election in 2003.

 In his speech at the Aba rally, Maduekwe lambasted proponents of non-performance of the Obasanjo administration and described them as "the newest barbarians".   "Those who say Obasanjo has not performed since assumption of office two years ago are the newest barbarians of our time because they have not understood the meaning of democracy. To abuse the President and get away with it is in itself a democratic dividend.

 This day 09July 2001.

Not to be out-done, Kema Chikwe took her own battle for their messiah’s reselection to her Owerri home base.  The first paragraph of the vanguard of January 7 2002 had this to say: 

THE campaign to return the President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, and his vice, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, to Aso Rock has been flagged off in Owerri, Imo State capital.

Vanguard January 07,2002. 

Some of the statements credited to Kema Chikwe in the vanguard report are too nauseating to be repeated here. 

But the fact is that even before the other nations of BiafraNigeria had done their evaluation of Obasanjo’s first term in office, the Igbo efulefu had already made up their minds that Igbo should be handed over to the Ota ape-man, gratis.  They have not spared words in the language they have used to insult the Igbo Nation, from “idiotic” to barbarian, so long as baba Iyabo was happy, the Igbo could go to blazes!  On his own part ABC Nwosu lambasted the Igbo for even thinking an Igbo could be selected.  He foolishly asked when the presidency of BiafraNigeria had ever been done by selection all because he has been appointed by Obasanjo who we all know was selected in preference to Ekwueme.   

They have since brought their crass dishonesty to the Diaspora Igbo.  From Chikwe’s pathetic excuses on an international airport in Igboland to Maduekwe’s grotesque reasoning on the level field and middle class obasanjo has created, efulefu are working too hard.  Only an imbecile would agree with Ojo Maduekwe that the pawning-off of oil blocs, the “dashing” of billion dollar telecom licences, the many “Lebanese” & “Greek” Road construction companies and the widely publicised dubious privatisation are creating a level playing field.  But the relationship between the Igbo efulefu and the Diaspora Igbo is the subject of path II.   In part II, I shall show how the sour grapes eaten by the old Igbo need NOT set the teeth of the new Igbo on edge.

We see, we hear, we read, we think, and then we talk.

The BiafraNigerian landscape has been altered in diverse ways since Obasanjo publicly out-ed with his reselection bid.  His campaign office in Kano was set ablaze and his deputy attacked in spite of his numerous visits to the Awusa-Fulani traditional rulers (This day, May 4. 2002).   Mohammed Abacha, the son of Kano’s most celebrated-armed robber has been released from detention.  Obasanjo has publicly apologised for the Tiv massacre.  The On-shore and Offshore issue has been given a political treatment.  In ala Igbo, Balogun’s men who lack the resources to fight crime in BiafraNigeria have disbanded the local vigilante groups that have so far ensured the security of lives and properties in Igboland.

When some aged Igbo traditional rulers made the risky journey to Abuja to beg Obasanjo to permit the state-established vigilante groups to stay, Obasanjo would have none of it.   “The groups will be deployed for political purposes,” he quipped.  The same week, the murderous Yoruba gang, OPC brought Lagos to a standstill with a political rally for Obasanjo.  Let’s give the man some credit, he told some of his kinsmen in Abeokuta last week that the state of federal roads are a disgrace.  He said it in his Yoruba vernacular ostensibly for the benefit of the Abuja-Igbo who flagged off his Aba campaign by accusing the Abia State Government of censoring information on all the roads obasanjo was fixing or had fixed in ala Igbo. 

Igbo must be thankful that a “Greek” construction company will commence work on one of the many bad roads in ala Igbo next spring after we must have selected Obasanjo for a second time.  Not before, because of the “rainy season” .  Talk about a Greek gift!

To be conitinued….