WHO WE ARE TRULY AGAINST

WHO WE ARE TRULY AGAINST

To be emphatic, we don't hate the average hausa man. Never. We don't. Also, by default, we don't hate an average yoruba man. We hate their politicians with the same gusto we do ours. This is not about Buhari, either is it about Goodluck. It is neither about APC nor PDP. It is about them.

I Completed my primary and secondary education in Plateau state, Jos to be precise when that sobriquet "HOME OF PEACE AND TOURISM" was alive and kicking. It has gone back to that moniker lately though. So I know the behavior and accommodating spirit of an average middle belt man. In my secondary school, CSJ (the acronym ), we igbos were treated equally with our indigenous counterparts. We were friends and brothers who underwent all the NDA-like routines we were subjected to. Our teachers loved us according to our performances or by virtue of being your guardian or close relative. Though we were called "INYAMIRI" but it was just our tag even though derogatory. We saw it as zilch because the inyamiris were always among the tops in the class (note: I didn't say ONLY tops). So this was how we lived. One family. Same with home, we lived free and no one ever troubled us. I have also been in Kano and Maiduguri and they are still the same.

Now, I live in Port Harcourt. We call the hausas here "ABOKI" which means friend. Literally speaking, it is a harmless alias but some apply some derogatory undertone to it just like inyamiri that we are called. I haven't seen where a group of people ever gathered to intimidate any hausa man. Even when I travel to my state Enugu and hometown Nsukka, I haven't seen. In fact Abdullahi, the guy who fixes batteries in my wristwatches is a very nice guy and am also very nice to him.

But is being nice only enough? What if he is commanded to slide a dagger through my chest because I urinated 2yards from the mosque that they worship at "SLAUGHTER MARKET". Will Abdullahi, remember that I should be his friend and have a conviction of the sacredness or sanctity of life? Or will he obliterate the infidel? If he obliterates the infidel, then there lies my grouse with an average northerner.

You see, there is something we don't know. The political elites are in an unbreakable marriage with religion. Nothing makes an average Nigerian to display unquestionable servitude like when given a "RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION". Just quote the scriptures then watch how the brains and common sense will compete on who has the highest acceleration to vacate the cranium. The sultans, the priests, the pastors and the imams are all concubines to these politicians. The politicians know that religion to us is like a juvenile addicted to tramadol and codeine.

If not for these two factors, we could have always had the effrontery to call a spade a spade no matter whose ox is gored. Regionalism is also a factor but in Nigeria, it is still a subset of religion.

So when we clamor for secession, we are not actually trying to undermine you or trying to tell you that we want to be rid of you. No. We want to govern ourselves with our own laws, free from the inherent corruption Nigeria has been known with. We have made a conviction within ourselves to change our behavior and thought process. We as a people want a new way of living our lives.

We are not up against you, we are against your elites, we are also against our elites because our elites and your elites exploit you and us most especially using religious and tribal tools but when they are up there, they are a trinity in corruption and that's why they tell you of the indivisibilty of the country and how it is none negotiable. We are also up against their apparatchiks and vuvuzelas. These are the people who eat from their crumbs. Then lastly, we are up against those who are against us, those who are so stupid not to see the revolution, those who think that revolution should be elitist. We are up against ignorant entities who just hate it because they just feel it is an igbo affair. We are up against those who see their shackles as diamond studded manacles.