{"id":10650,"date":"2015-04-13T06:06:16","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T10:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/verastic.com\/?p=10650"},"modified":"2015-04-13T02:07:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T06:07:00","slug":"we-are-not-one-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/social\/we-are-not-one-nigeria.html","title":{"rendered":"We Are Not One Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"

In America, we are dealing with racial tensions. It’s never over really, but sometimes, it dies down a little bit, and temporarily, people sleep with both eyes closed. And then cases like Walter Scott unfortunately happen, and we have to wonder yet again why another Black man has been murdered, and will we be next?<\/p>\n

In Nigeria, we deal with tribal tensions and discord. I might be wrong, but I tend to think that our tribal discord is worse than the racial discord in America because in America, certain forms of blatant racism are unacceptable – at least on paper anyway – and in America the major tension is between the Black and White people, and we can justify that well, their skin colors are different and they just don’t understand each other. But what about Nigeria? We’re all Black and there is division everywhere possible. Between tribes, between States, between local governments, between towns, between villages, and between dialects, of course.<\/p>\n

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People say that we are one Nigeria, but you’d have to be living under a rock in Mars to not know that there is nothing one about Nigeria. Nigeria is a young country, so I’m hopeful that some day, there will be much less tensions. I am not naive to think that it will be over and we will all live happily ever after, but at the very least, there will be more acceptance – hopefully.<\/p>\n

But there are bigots and hypocrites and tribalists who hide behind the curtain of “One Nigeria” to incite hatred and tension. They say “We are One Nigeria” from one corner of their mouth, and from the other corner, they say the opposite and their actions are not indicative of one Nigeria. People like the Oba of Lagos and Kunle Afolayan, the movie producer\/director who said that movie piracy is only done by Igbo people, they don’t help anyone. When you make a hateful and derogatory statement in which you judge an entire people, there is nothing peaceful about it. It’s just dumb and stupid and ignorant and unfortunate.<\/p>\n

It’s never been as obvious to me as now that I am married to a person of a different tribe and Nigeria just had an election. I was not a GEJ supporter, but I still do not understand why only the Igbos are being dragged through the mud for voting for an alleged Igbo man. And GEJ is not even Igbo. The Hausas voted for Buhari, no? Why aren’t they being dragged through the mud? And if there was a Yoruba man on the ballot, would the Yorubas not have voted for him instead? I think it’s unfortunate that we still vote for people based on tribe and religion, but if we must criticize people for doing so, then we have to be equal opportunity criticizers.<\/p>\n

In the case of the Oba of Lagos, when I saw the video, I actually wasn’t worried about him. I thought him to be an old, senile man whose best days are behind him, but I wondered about the Igbo buffoons who stood there and listened and clapped. What is wrong with you people? On Kunle Afolayan, all he did was offer a piss poor apology, which I am convinced was not to anyone but himself. The good news is that we know how he truly feels now. Shame.<\/p>\n

How can anyone say that we are one Nigeria when at any time, if any one group is promised victory and no repercussion, they would gladly annihilate the other tribes? Is that One Nigeria?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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