Balarabe Musa on Igbo Marginalisation!

From every context, Igbos are for the most part marginalised in Nigeria. If you do not understand contextual determinism, if you do not, you can never understand anchorage. If the FaceBook interpretative community has necessitated one’s choice of lingo and semantics, it has not in the least foreshadowed the intellectual propensity that forms our learning and debate fundamentals. Igbo marginalisation is not a myth. When Orji Uzor Kalu came to London to present the case on Igbo marginalisation, a case many professors are not rich enough to sponsor, I was frankly delighted. More so, to be frank once more, was I angry about the government’s refusal to give him the licence to build a refinery in the south east? Yes. It is a matter-of-fact symbol of marginalisation yet again.

There is no intellectual in Nigeria who does not know that Igbos are marginalised in every context and sector in Nigeria. Balarabe Musa, a former Governor of Kaduna State, the bold-to-gold man made this comments; “All governments in Nigeria marginalized the Igbo since the civil war. Marginalization is on the ground that they participated in the civil war.” You cannot believe that only in 2013 that the international airport was designated in Enugu. Lagos, Calabar, and Port-Harcourt Airports have been internationalised long ago. There is no sea port in Igbo land. There is no internationally acclaimed conglomerate in Igbo land.

Can you not see that since 1970 no Igbo has been the president of Nigeria? And frankly, there is no hope for Igbo presidency in the future. If you do not see the marginalisation of Igbos in political and economic administrations in Nigeria, you are then unable to understand signs and seasons and the linguistic and sociological anchorage that link them to the marginalisation of Igbos in the Nigeria society!