Igala: We Sell Our People And Undercut Our Kindred

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The Igala people have traditionally been their worst enemies. We sell our people and undercut our kindred and fellow Igala people. We are too “smart” for our own self-destruction. We pride ourselves as highly sophisticated and educated, but many of us will sell our parents for money. See the young boy making a fool of himself, because Bello has given him a token. See a young boy turning himself into a jackass, because Bello made him his SSA. Why is it that we Igala’s do not learn from history? Why are we our own enemies as Pogo once said; “We have seen the enemy; the enemy is us?” Why are these opportunists abusing Igala elders and making fools of themselves, because of Bello, while people like Deputy Governor inside Lugard House keep quiet, and yet are being paid the same money and even more by Bello ? It is incredible how some Igala people emasculate themselves and belittle the Igala race! Those who betrayed the late Prince Abubakar  Audu and worked assiduously in the background to scuttle the Nov 21, 2015 gubernatorial election victory were Igalas.
l will not allow self-seekers to represent my interests in the corporate entity known as Kogi state. The forthcoming elections will not be decided by past mistakes or misdeeds of either President Muhammad Buhari or Bello. Never in the history of the Igala people had our collective future as a people been traded or bargained for on the altar of mere porridge by political brokers and self-seekers.
Every Igala son and daughter that has procured his/her Permanent Voters Card should use it wisely come 2015. Thank God for the new social media and the Internet, every human being on the planet earth now has a voice. The days of information oligopoly are over. Every 18-plus and 21-plus year old now can dissect issues eloquently and intelligently, because they are at the receiving ends of the current economic miasma crippling Kogi state under the watch of Bello.
The cost of living to the average Kogites and to the Igala people under Bello are issues that should weigh heavily in the minds and hearts of our people when they enter the polling booth come 2019 to decide their future.
A man who has no honor, and cannot be trusted, clueless and a non-performer is not worthy of a second term and genuine Igala sons and daughters should not make the mistake of voting for such a man for a second term. Those self-styled Igala Leaders that gathered at Kogi State University the other day represent their pockets and do not represent the legitimate aspiration of the Igala people.
Half of the towns were in complete darkness, yet Bello and his blind supporters are shouting all over the place to return the man for a second term. All the choicest properties in Nigeria have been bought over. It is incredible how our people are wired and even created. Why are our so-called leaders wicked and do not learn from history? Can’t they learn from the recent death of Sani Abacha with all the billions he stole which he never took with him?
Following Prince Abubakar Audu’s demise in 2015, the Igala people seemed to be leaderless and rudderless.
– Alfa Tijani
Kogi-based creative writer and political analyst

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