Look inwards for source of your problems, not at Yorubas, Abraham Nwankwo tells Ndigbo

Dr. Abraham Nwankwo, an Igbo leader of repute, has called on Ndigbo to look inwards for the the source of their problems and stop finding faults with the Yoruba.

Nwankwo, a renowned economist, in a statement, said that the Igbo should focus on what they are doing against themselves rather than what outsiders are doing against them, insisting that governors of the South East states in the last 20 years should be asked why they had not developed the zone to the point where it would become attractive to foreign and Igbo investors as well as Igbo parents and youths.

He asked: “is it (President Bola) Tinubu that made Igbo Governors for the past 20 years to make Ala-Igbo unattractive – unattractive to investors (foreign and Igbo); unattractive to Igbo parents who now boast of celebrating traditional weddings in Lagos and Abuja; unattractive to Igbo youth who can’t return to Ala-Igbo and are, therefore, alienated from their ethnic root, etc…. – ?”

The outspoken critic of bad governance wondered why “Igbo intellectuals and activists have the courage to find fault with the Yoruba; but go deaf and dumb when it comes to asking their political leaders – Governors, Legislators, Political Party Stalwarts, etc – to confront and stop the near-sack of Ala-Igbo by occupationist terrorists and sundry criminals.”

Insisting that the Igbo must stop the long stories of Yoruba predation of Igbo, Nwankwo noted that the accusing fingers should be pointed backwards, as according to him, “the Yoruba are not at fault. They are simply irritated by irrationality and lack of understanding of the Nigerian political ecology exhibited by Igbo.”

In reality, he stressed, “the Yoruba are trying to force the Igbo to come to their senses. They are doing the Igbo good,” concluding that “the Yoruba are a hundred times good to Ndi-Igbo, compared to Igbo sons and daughters scrambling to be assigned Emirs in Ala-Igbo.”