Something instructive is about to happen to the political psyche of my people. It is coming in the most uncomfortable way, probably as a lesson to our excessive reliance on emotions in taking political decisions that otherwise should ordinarily be in our favour.
I see Datti, I see Obasanjo and I see Okowa as the antitheses of our current self-defeating political thesis – a thesis that is sustained by extreme generalization wherein “all correct Sir” must be the response of all and sundry as any dissenting view is treated as sabotage.
Now I ask, has Datti become any less a person in the North for his choice to align with a Southeasterner? Would Obasanjo’s Ota farm become a target for destruction for his self-impossed role as Obi’s local lobbyist? Has Okowa incensed the sensibilities of Southsouth youths and elders for electing to deputize a Northeasterner?
These questions and more clearly exposes the deficiencies in our political engagement as people of the Southeast who, by virtue of our itinerant nature, should be more Nigerian than any other ethnic group.
We are on another familiar turf with predictable outcomes that must be accepted, as nothing different in style has happened that should help us move to the next level. We keep learning anyways!