I have been pondering as I go through discussions on various platforms, forums, and with friends that live in the USA, and I am quite surprised at what I am hearing, which drives me to ask a very worrying, but important question indeed.
The question is, did the over four million legitimate U.S. citizens in the USA, of Igbo extraction (Eastern Nigeria, or as a few would call Biafrans) that voted in the Tuesday U.S. Election, vote for Donald Trump? Because if what I’m hearing is true, and looking at the votes in those States that were pretty close, perhaps this evolving powerful block (Ndigbo) in the USA may have just put Donald Trump in the Oval office.
Sometimes interfering in the politics of a country as large and as dynamic as Nigeria, where the majority of those that migrated from Nigeria to the USA, and other countries, that work very hard there, but still keep their connections with their ancestral lands deeply, by sending money to relatives, and listening to the plight of their people back home, and are from a particular ethnic group, is very dangerous indeed. Especially in these times of social media, where communication is vast, and collective decisions can be made at high speed.
It is widely felt by all Nigerians that Obama and the democratic party interfered in the Nigerian 2015 elections, by supporting the North to take power back from the very first and only President, Jonathan Goodluck, from the oil rich area of Eastern Nigeria. The Eastern Nigerians are also staunch Christians, mainly Catholics, and detest abortion, gay rights, and same sex marriages, something they associate Obama and the democrats with. Their main beef though is the abrupt removal of Jonathan Good luck, when all.expected him to serve a second tenure of four years.
Whether it was a protest vote against the Obama and the democratic party, or whether many actually thought Donald Trump would give them the republic of Biafra, they fought a bloody three year civil war for between 1967 and 1970, and have since been clamouring for. Especially since President Mohammedu Buhari, a Northern Fundermental Muslim of Fulani extraction came to power, and further marginalised EASTERN Nigeria and Nigerians, through his skewed appointments, lack of investment in the Eastern Nigeria, the unlawful detention of a young south eastern Nigerian leader, Nnamdi kanu, the militarization of Eastern Nigeria, the constant police check points and extortion going on in the East, the cold blooded murder of innocent peaceful Eastern Nigerian protesters, the Brutal killing and Kidnapping of hundreds of Nigerians by the Fulani herdsmen, etc…. or whether they thought that Donald Trump would support their cause is hard to say.
What can be said though, and should be advanced upon, and built upon, is that Ndigbo in the USA have over the years indeed become a very powerful block, and can easily change the direction the world is headed under real, free and fair democratic electoral conditions, in their host countries. A right most are denied in their host country, as elections are rigged by those at the centre, where people are usually selected, rather than elected, and rigged in by a powerful Nigerian rigging machinery.
Only recently in the UK, the bulk of Nigerians voted for BREXIT, because they felt their jobs and progress in the UK had been undermined by a massive in flux of foreigners and Eastern Europeans, who where ready to work for less, and were more attractive to employers, than their commonwealth competitors. At the time I asked a few British Nigerians, why they were going to vote for Brexit, they simply said, “that when the bus is full and overloaded, and the driver asks the conductor to get some people off, who is the conductor going to start with? The African migrants, or the Eastern European cousins? The answer is pretty clear to many.
If my observations are correct, and I suspect they are, now is therefore the time build upon this block vote, if indeed it is true; and lobby/work hard to try and reverse the effects of U.S. foreign policy over the years, on both Eastern, south Eastern, and Southern Nigerians. Policies that have resulted in Eastern Nigeria feeling completely marginalised and enslaved by a constitutional that continues to reject both regional autonomy and a restructured Nigeria, in which each region controls their resources, tax, education, health provision, infrastructural development, security, etc…., A constitution that is fraudulent, encourages corruption, nepotism, underdevelopment and pain.
Perhaps the Igbo/Yoruba numbers abroad are the secret ingredient to change world policy in their favour. The Igbo lobby may never be as strong as the Jewish lobby, but it appears to exist and is growing in both effect and magnitude, at an alarming rate.
Western governments need to study their demographic voters better, and work hard to avoid such protest votes. Today we have Trump! Next time it could be much worse.
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