The Display Of Hitler’s Disorder By Some Yoruba Denizens Of Lagos -By J. Ezike

Anyone who is not by sentiments of race and language confined to a partisan political party would discover for himself out of all the disturbing footages of the 2019 Nigerian elections a new and radicalized hatred for the Igbo which is heading into full bloom, and in which the indictment of its place as inconsequential things in the exercise of civil rights through elections and the abuse of their political convictions, choice of electoral candidates and most importantly, the hostility for the collective agreement towards an ideal they share or hold sacrosanct is simply a recurring symptom of the deep-seated outrage and suffocating resentment for the Igbo and all that is affiliated with its values.

This new hatred for the Igbo borne out of desperation to preserve the incumbent Fulani-Yoruba political relations through the 2019 elections that seemed like some ‘blood-fest bazaar’ and began as a rigging ritual, a ‘vote-padding’ in favor of the Abuja electives of APC, has become a museum filled with all the evils which some of the political actors belonging to the Fulani-Yoruba cult of aristocracy and slavocracy created and furnished as democracy.

We are not surprised that the familiar pattern of Nigerian election violence and disorder followed 2019. But what is surprising is the display of Hitler’s disorder by some Yoruba denizens of Lagos towards their Igbo associates and who by necessity of protecting the conservative political traditions in the interest of the APC and its idol of worship deified in flesh, took the extreme lane, the incendiary pathway in defense of ignoble political sentiments that appeared dangerously armed to ignite violent salutations between the two tribal giants of the South.

The ungraceful art of racialized politics and the cosmopolitan ideals espoused by the Yoruba towards the Igbo in the course of the 2019 Nigerian elections and past xenophobic utterances and hostile innuendoes are provocative enough to transcend what is currently a nascent conflict to an established cosmopolitan warfare if little and nothing is done to abort the narrative of inter-tribal war, the uncouth incitation and mindless aggression from some misguided youths of the Yoruba towards the Igbo collectives resident in Lagos and other regions within the territorial appellation coined Oduduwa Republic.

Those Diasporan and local Yoruba youths mouthing obscenities, bellowing with intoxicated depression and heaving with false sense of valor should be reminded that the Igbo people of Biafra, as conditioned by nature and in their strategic place in the union of attrition, are not prudish to the climate of blood and genocidal violence. If anything, the Igbo is by far the most electrified in thoughts and actions, the only tribe to have dulled the sword of extinction, multiplied in vast millions from the ashes of its political slaughter and possesses a sophisticated understanding of the art of war and survival. Neither the towering military power of Britain, nor the Caliphate-slavocratic agenda, nor the consuming wave of ethnic cleansing and successive persecutions could wither the spirit of the Igbo who has proven with unmistakable certainty to be a phenomenon fortified, preserved and nursed by a celestial force.

This enjoyment of war threats by Yoruba youths from time to time by some so-called Oduduwa revolutionaries, even amongst the pro-Nigerian members of the tribe is a joke sick enough to unleash unspeakable things. Inasmuch as the Igbo denizens in Lagos and elsewhere chose to ignore the vocal expression of hate and instead toed the line of peace and civility, the Yoruba must view it as an opportunity to avoid the long-term consequence that could contribute nothing of value but complete ruination of its reputable history.