The Canadian Igbos have shocked the world with the latest move. They have shown their unbiased support for Atiku and have therefore advised Nigerians to vote for the People’s Democratic Party Presidential candidate Atiku and his running mate, Mr. Peter Obi.
In a letter of confirmation showing the Igbos endorsement which was released to the media on Wednesday, the Igbos based in Canada under the Igbo Canadian community (ICCA) said Atiku and Obi were the only hope Nigeria had at redemption to redeem the nation back to its former glory.
The letter of endorsement was signed by the association’s president, Ugochukwu Okoro; chairman, some board of Trustees, Benjamin Chike Allison; Public Relations Officer, Ahaoma Kanu; and Secretary, Board of Trustees, Chris Chike Nsoedo.
The signatories had said that the position of the association was influenced by the present dilapidated state of the nation, the depth of poverty, the increasing delusion that was moving towards the continuous death of the rich informed Nigerians mind, the blurred horizons who were the worst affected. They had expressed the hope that Atiku would bring back Nigeria’s lost glory.
They also went ahead to agonize over what they referred to as the “unrepentant penchant for nepotism, unapologetic ethnocentrism and blatant display of sectionalism” under the Buhari-led All progressives Congress, APC, government.
They momentarily brought into light the back ground of Atiku and Obi, including their long experience in service to Nigeria, their leadership, entrepreneurship skills and impeccable statesmanship, would surely lead Nigeria from the present state of great unemployment, job losses, progressive demise of industries, increased brain-drain, and a failing health sector”.
The association expressed confidence that in Atiku and Obi, Nigeria had discovered two economic surgeons that would “put her on the recovery theater and perform procedures that will make our economy become healthy again.
“We see in you a bridge-builder that will bring some measure of stability, calm and trust in governance and belief in our country, which is going through a divisiveness that is as scary as it is gruesome,” the association said.
The Igbo people also Ibo, formerly also Iboe, Ebo, Eboe, Eboans, Heebo; natively Ṇ́dị́ Ìgbò are an ethnic group native to the present-day south-central and southeastern Nigeria. Geographically, the Igbo homeland is divided into two unequal sections by the Niger River – an eastern (which is the larger of the two) and a western section. The Igbo people are one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa.
The Igbo language is divided into numerous regional dialects, and somewhat mutually intelligible with the larger ” cluster. The Igbo homeland straddles the lower Niger River, east and south of the Edoid and Idomoid groups, and west of the Ibibioid (Cross River) cluster.
In rural Nigeria, Igbo people work mostly as craftsmen, farmers and traders. The most important crop is the yam. Other staple crops include cassava and taro. The Igbos are also highly urbanized, with some of the largest metropolitan areas, cities and
townsin Igboland being Onitsha, Enugu, Aba, Owerri, Orlu, Okigwe, Port Harcourt, Asaba, Awka, Nsukka, Nnewi, Umuahia, Abakaliki, Afikpo, Agbor and Arochukwu.
Before British colonial rule in the 20th century, the Igbo were a politically fragmented group, with a number of centralized chiefdoms such as Nri, Arochukwu, Agbor and Onitsha. Frederick Lugard introduced the Eze system of “Warrant Chiefs”. Unaffected by the Fulani War and the resulting spread of Islam in Nigeria in the 19th century, they became overwhelmingly Christian under colonization. In the wake of decolonisation, the Igbo developed a strong sense of ethnic identity.
During the Nigerian Civil War of 1967–1970 the Igbo territories seceded as the short-lived Republic of Biafra. MASSOB, a sectarian organization formed in 1999, continues a non-violent struggle for an independent Igbo state.
Small ethnic Igbo populations are found in Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea,as well as outside Africa.
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