Our focus today is on the injustice being done to the Igbos and other ethnic minority groups in Nigeria. Nigerians both at home and abroad saw during the election in Lagos State how some individuals loyal to the All Progressives Congress treated the Igbos and other ethnic minority groups. Up until now, such animosity has not stopped. Our findings also revealed that some Igbos in Lagos who bought their properties there have lost them, all because the Lagos state government allegedly said that those buildings were built on no building areas. Our question is this: why didn’t the government destroy those buildings before? The Viewers Corner News team believes that it was a result of the Igbos not supporting the All Progressives Congress during the 2023 general elections; hence, they are paying the price now. We have also seen from the federal government’s appointment how the government has shared positions, leaving certain ethnic groups behind, but the constitution of Nigeria made it mandatory that the federal appointments be shared among all ethnic groups in the country. Those who drafted the constitution of Nigeria considered so many factors before arriving at such a decision to have all positions properly shared; unfortunately, the All Progressives Congress, which is the ruling political party at the moment, thinks differently. Again, the Viewers Corner News team is calling on the federal government of Nigeria and the Lagos state government to avoid what will lead the Igbos and other ethnic minority groups to start fighting back because such a level of animosity may lead to a conflict that may cause a tribal war in Nigeria, and when that happens, other minority groups may take sides to join whoever they wish to associate with.
We have also seen recently how the Tudun-Biri community in Kaduna State was mistakenly bombed. Instead of admitting it as a military error, some people from the south-west allegedly said that it was an Igbo army general and his division that carried out the operation that killed so many people from the Tudun-Biri community in Kaduna State. This is so sad. These are issues that can set a nation on fire if wisdom is not applied. This is how the 1966 coup happened and was named an Igbo coup, while most of the young military officers who took part in the coup were from the Yoruba tribe. This is based on our findings. The war Nigeria fought with the Igbos was due to propaganda and other factors because a certain ethnic group at the time was controlling the media space. Hence, the war went the way it did. The Viewers Corner News team would use this opportunity to call on those who are pushing the Igbos and other ethnic minority groups to understand that the war fought in the past was fought when so many Nigerians were uninformed. Now Nigerians, especially the Igbos, are everywhere around the world, and they have access to wealth and others, so if anyone should push them and other ethnic minority groups to the wall, Nigeria may be on fire, which is going to be difficult to put off. So we are appealing to those pushing the Igbos and other ethnic minority groups in Nigeria to tread carefully. Nigeria belongs to all Nigerians, and no Nigerian is better than another Nigerian. Treat all Nigerians as your brothers and sisters so that permanent peace can be achieved.
Source: Viewers Corner News