Politics
Don’t Politicise IPOB, Find Lasting Solutions – Bello To Lai Mohammed
Former Taraba commissioner of information, Emmanuel Bello, has urged the Federal Government not to politicize crisis in parts of the South East, occasioned by the Nnamdi Kanu led Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
The Federal Government, through its minister of information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, had said political opponents of the administration were behind the agitation, stressing that it was contrived to rubbish the incumbent administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.
But in a sharp rebuke, Bello noted that such a position would stifle serious efforts at seeking clear solution to a multifaceted problem. He noted that Lai Mohammed sounds like those who still believed Boko Haram was created to railroad the last administration.
“This kind of conclusion,” Bello said “is too simplistic and patently wrong. That’s the sort of thinking that slowed down finding serious solutions to the Boko Haram insurgency years ago. Nigeria, like every nation, would have its share of challenges but with good leadership we address them. My thinking is that Nnamdi Kanu is actually fuelled by hate and his own kind of radicalization. So even if, for instance, an Igbo man were to be President, “Kanu” still might have happened. By the way, the immediate governments he’s antagonising back home are manned by people of his own tribe. Ideologues are often not reasonable. So Lai Mohammed must look beyond politics in these matters. If any time we have a huge challenge, the first thing to do is point accusing fingers, then we are just looking for cheap solutions or even trying to coop out. It is another way of admitting we don’t have answers. Some of these national crisis are anchored in our historical developments and things we have chosen to neglect as a nation. Of course, there are those who seek to take advantage of these troubles to advance their positions but we are a nation. We have our difficulties. But then that is why there is leadership too. Good leadership tries to fix a problem and not creatively find scapegoats.”
Bello said that by reducing the Biafran agitation to the handiwork of political opponents of the government, the minister has ignored the higher levels of the crisis and has thus lost his ways in finding answers.
He said, ” a simplistic over view of this crisis won’t help us. And trying to make political gains from it may even backfire. We need leadership now more than ever before. After all, if there is no Nigeria tomorrow, will there be APC or PDP? So we must first deal with this existential threat. There should be a think tank that is studying this problem and watching its growth. We must have a bipartisan approach to dealing with it. This is not time for hurtling accusations. Each time we say people are sponsoring anything why can’t we find such sponsors? Who are Kanu’s backers? Who gives insurgents weapons? I’ve never heard of an arrest. If Lai knows the sponsors of IPOB, why not at least name and shame them, rather than make a sweeping statement capable of further befuddling an already amorphous
problem? I don’t know of any decent Nigeria who does not shudder at the hate Kanu represents. Yet, we must now begin to closely interrogate the problem through dialogue, carefully assessment and a willingness to listen to the other side even if we don’t like what is being said.”
Bello said the greatest enemy of the APC right now is the pervasive hardship in the country. “I think, rather than worry about those who are politically disgruntled, Lai Mohammed should be concerned about millions who are hungry and angry across the country. These one, to my mind, are the real threats to the APC.”
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NO 17 OKETAKO OKE SOPIN IJEBU IGBO OGUN STATE NIGERIA
Ngozi Chiagoro
September 23, 2017 at 1:54 pm
Ezi okwu bu ndu, may ur days be long sir
Ucbest Nwafor
September 23, 2017 at 1:07 pm
Tnk u sir
Uche Chidiebere Joe
September 23, 2017 at 12:48 pm
Find lasting solution with which brain
Christopher Ochini
September 23, 2017 at 12:01 pm
Good
Ernest Jombo
September 23, 2017 at 11:54 am
Well said Bello, thanks for ur lectures to the minister of information
Pishon Lordking
September 23, 2017 at 10:22 am
My brother forget about tham, Nigeria always sweeps things under carpet, Nigeria leaders are selfish and misleading his people, no biafra is benefits from Nigeria as his or her country, hausa foolani take Nigeria as they private farm, while millions of south are die every day, we from south part of Nigeria are not slave to them, remember foolani is alien in Nigeria soil.
Ikelle Onuohar
September 23, 2017 at 10:15 am
hate speech……….Lair Mohmd.
Prince Gaiser Osagie - Erese
September 23, 2017 at 9:59 am
IPOB and Nnamdi Kanu feed on propaganda posts on Facebook by Igbo diasporians.
Spersadex Uwa
September 23, 2017 at 9:01 am
We have not seen what to believe in Nigeria
Ezeamama Felicia Chinelo
September 23, 2017 at 8:14 am
On point sir.
Chukwujieze Prince
September 23, 2017 at 7:52 am
Tell am, he feels that everything is all about politics.
Onwe Uchenna Papoose
September 23, 2017 at 7:50 am
The zoo called Nigeria government though we Biafrans are joking, you can
Massacre the people but you can never kill the ideology of Biafra in us, a call for referendum is not a call for war, it is our right as an indigenous people to agitate and ask for referendum. Stop the genocide
Michael King
September 23, 2017 at 7:45 am
Leave lie Mohammed. He has been cursed for life. No matter Wat he cannot stop lying that’s his name and nature
Chimar Friday
September 23, 2017 at 7:44 am
On point bro!
Chidi Kingsley
September 23, 2017 at 7:42 am
They never see anything yet
Chizoba Ubaezu
September 23, 2017 at 7:41 am
The reality of today’s Nigeria
By Uche Gabriel
In London, i hear the so called “terrorist group IPOB” applied to protest, were granted permission and they matched the streets of London in their numbers. I hear they were not onitsha and Aba traders, neither were they some ramdom hustlers in London. From the grapevine, some of them are lecturers in Universities and staff of blue chip corporations. In New York similarlly, the same terrorists applied to protest at UN headquarters and got permission. I hear also that pro Nigeria group also applied for counter protest, but were denied. Pythons will neither dance in London nor New York. They wish they could, but they cannot. Were the struggle not designed in stages, with bare hands, pythons will be disarmed. Only fools mistake the silence of the river for the absence of crocodiles, they step into it and become history. In my dream, i saw that he lives well, who conceals himself. If we saw them coming, it is because they never walked well. TIME! TIME!! TIME!!!, the thing I reverence next to God, it works wonders through perseverance.
Samson Kanayo
September 23, 2017 at 7:35 am
Lie Muhammad and buhari is empty vessel
Monday Onuoha
September 23, 2017 at 7:33 am
brother pls tell them oo
Emeka Elvis
September 23, 2017 at 7:31 am
Tell them
Ogu Egege Samson E
September 23, 2017 at 7:31 am
Wise one
Biafra Nation
September 23, 2017 at 7:30 am
All d Biafra’s ipob say is no more one Nigeria again