Bayo Olupohunda’s article on page 24 of The Punch
of Thursday, November 28, 2013, titled, “Will the Igbo ever rule
Nigeria?”, made an interesting reading to me as it might have made to
many of the target readers of his illuminating column. Much as I agree
with the writer that the access of the Igbo to the Presidency of Nigeria
is proving elusive in the extreme, due to the grounds enunciated in the
write-up under reference, I do not agree however that an ethnic group
has to produce the President of the country before the so-called
dividends of democracy, which I believe is the idea behind the scheming
for political power domination at the centre, can be enjoyed by the
ethnic people.
After all, some people believe, rightly
or wrongly, that, during the tenure of a particular President in the
recent past, that President’s people did not “enjoy” the expected
benefits of the Presidency as much as some other zones of the country
enjoyed under the same Presidency.
It is noteworthy that, even though in the
current dispensation the Igbo do not have the Presidency, they have
Deputy Senate Presidency, Deputy House Speakership and Secretary of the
Government of the Federation.
It would appear, in my own opinion ,that
the Igbo have used the combination of the occupied plum positions to
promote the general interest of their Igbo people through placement of
their kith and kin in several strategic positions in the key sectors of
the Federal Public Service – despite that they don’t have the
Presidency.
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