What if Southeast shuns National Parties?

 

                     Comrade Akpunonu

By Christian Akpunonu

The recent outcome of the PDP's primary election for the presidential candidate should be a pointer to the long alleged hidden agenda for the Southeast region of Nigeria.

While we are still expecting the result of the ruling APC presidential primary election,it has really downed on the Southeast politicians that they are inconsequential in the national politics of Nigeria. 

In fact,this allegation plays out severely in the general national scheme of things.

Of course, no surprise is bound to spring up from the expected outcome of the ruling APC presidential primary election.

The Southeast has been completely edged out of the game in the two mega parties.

 Equally, in the armed forces, Southeast has been systematically consigned to the so to speak reserve bench.

In fact,this development is somewhat ominous, and succinctly indicative of the desired angle to which the national political pendulum shall soon swing as usual.

The Hausa-Fulanis have stoically stood their ground as the born to rule.

They have sustained the manifestation of the secrete pacts between the British Colonial masters and the Fulani empire.The British empire succeeded in conquering the entire Nigeria except the Fulanis, who are equally conquerors of the territory known as Nigeria today.

Indeed, both the  British empire and Fulani empire are partners in crime.The neo-colonial stings of their antics are getting even more heinous and the continuous domination of political power by the Hausa-Fulani is not only a manifestation of the plot for the materialization of their colonization - cum- domination agenda.

As the situation of the country stands today, this grandstanding is not clement at all , especially for illusions of peaceful coexistence of the of over 250 ethnic nationalities that constitute Nigeria.

Something should be done to address this arrant injustice and brazen inequity in a more decisive way.

Political power is not meant for only some sections of the country and whosever justifies such injustice for whatever reason is only pretending but such pretences can be so dangerously inimical to the unity and progress of the country.

Any wonder why the growing agitations for self-determination have become strident and disturbing for some realistic analysts.  

If the topmost political office is an exclusive preserve of only a section of the country, then it is imperative that the ostracized should be exploring alternative source of succour.

As a great lesson, the Southeast politicians ought to borrow a leaf from the body language of the counterparts.This is the opportunity for us to change the narrative. Failure to cash in now, might spell doom for Igbo posterity.

It is more feasible for the Southeast to achieve "negotiated power through outright abstinence from the mega parties and flex their muscles in the weaker or Oriental parties.So, what the gentleman,Peter Obi did by exiting the PDP for the Labour Party is plausible and laudable as well.

Afterall, the incumbent president Marcon of France did not win the seat from the French mega party.

Moreso the incumbent president Muhammadu Buhari tried becoming the President three times with the platform of not- so-strong political parties to no avail but he eventually garnered reasonable "negotiated power" with the  Southwest and some contribution from other regions like Southeast, in the most unholy merger that crystalized into the APC today.

As a great source of lessons, our politicians should exercise some restraint, bestir themselves and recoil tentacles borderlands.

Afterwards,they will gather relevance and copious political momentum for national political negotiation notwithstanding insinuations making the rounds of them being minority.

Records are available to debunk such spurious and erroneous impression often used to hoodwink or cajole our political sinews.

Far from it, because,those counterparts in the southwest and Northern Nigeria are not as invincible as they display or claim.

Interestingly, Southeast indigenes are permanently domiciled in almost every nook and cranny of this country.They cast votes wherever they live.

There is every reason for the Southeast to learn serious lessons from the recent political developments in the mega parties.It takes grit and guts to masticate, cogitate and swallow this height of humiliation and insolence meted out to the Southeast politicians.

It is high time the Southeast region did a rethink and retrace her steps for proper repositioning and political posturing otherwise, there is bound to be more and more humiliation along the continuous "blind followership" often made by the Southeast region, which will only end in perpetuating their subservience and servitude. Enough is enough of the senseless second fiddle role played by southeasterners all the while. 

Certainly, it is consistently affecting the national integrity of the Southeast negatively.

Disclaimer

Opinion expressed in this article is entirely that of the writer and does not in any way reflect the views of the Nigerian Academic Excellence Magazine.