Re: Will the Igbo ever rule Nigeria?

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.