Could someone please help with either the video or audio clip of where professor Shoyinka was quoted from?
In these days of outright fabrication and doctored quotes, one must be wary in commenting on issues without hearing from the other side, or understanding the context in which such statements were made.
But, wether it's true or not, the Igbo bashing over how they voted in this year's elections must stop.
The essence of democracy is the freedom of choice. And choosing not to go with the majority is a fundamental right.
I mean, even the ijaws, the ethnic nationality of the vanquished president, and his south south zone,did not get as much flak as the igbos are getting over the matter.
After all, the Yoruba, the nation's most populous ethnic nationality according to the 2006 census, their south west zone, the most developed and with the highest per capital income according to UNESCO, and home to seventy percent of its industrial and commercial complex and its main ports and international airport, had voted consistently against the party at the center in the present and past democratic eons, with little or no adverse economic consequences.
Besides, order would soon return to the polity once the North start flaunting their newly acquired political power, and the South West promptly return to their traditional role of checkmating them, while the east, the perennial bride, moves in to provide support and succor to the North.
History never lies, we are a very predictable people.
So, leave the igbos alone!
My ten kobo.
The essence of democracy is the freedom of choice. And choosing not to go with the majority is a fundamental right.
I mean, even the ijaws, the ethnic nationality of the vanquished president, and his south south zone,did not get as much flak as the igbos are getting over the matter.
After all, the Yoruba, the nation's most populous ethnic nationality according to the 2006 census, their south west zone, the most developed and with the highest per capital income according to UNESCO, and home to seventy percent of its industrial and commercial complex and its main ports and international airport, had voted consistently against the party at the center in the present and past democratic eons, with little or no adverse economic consequences.
Besides, order would soon return to the polity once the North start flaunting their newly acquired political power, and the South West promptly return to their traditional role of checkmating them, while the east, the perennial bride, moves in to provide support and succor to the North.
History never lies, we are a very predictable people.
So, leave the igbos alone!
My ten kobo.
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