Igbos too deserve Nigeria’s presidency

One out of the plethora of reasons Nigeria keeps failing is because of its widespread injustices. One such apparent case is sidelining the Igbos from the presidential contest arena.

For many years now, since the leadership of Dr. Nnamdi Azikwe, and Aguiyi Ironsi, the east has not been allowed to produce any president for the country. Whatever the reason maybe, now is time to let them too. Zoning of the presidential seat should be done putting the Igbos in calculation. The way to getting the country thrive is what we all yearn for thus if it is an Igbo president who can do the job let him.

We must stop this injustice of marginalisation of the Igbos and the born-to-rule ideology of the north. The Igbos are being flogged and prevented from crying.

Years have gone by, global politics and democracy have revolved, and we must revolve with it to keep the country united in peace.

In Nigeria, we must kill the habit of born-to-rule mentality and look for leaders with values and principles to lead us regardless of their tribe or religion, and if at all, we must continue the zoning phenomenon, we must do so justly. The country doesn’t belong solely to the north, nor the south or west, or east but to all of Nigerians, therefore it must be handled as such.

We must not keep allowing the Igbos to vent up their grievances and give them a chance to lead us as well as we do not want to set our country on fire when the bottled up emotion of a certain marginalised region ruptures.

It is not something that is wise to procrastinate, Nigeria must begin to do what is right come 2023 in order to keep the country together, otherwise, the price may be heavy. We must remember that peace comes at a cost of a just dispensation and not the opposite.

Sa’adatu Aliyu wrote from Zaria, Kaduna State