Somebody is causing
signs in Nigeria that many people dared not, because of their egoistical
approach to things. This person has refused to lose substance for shadows. This
person is simplifying the complicated and, not complicating the simple. This
person is Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, (popularly called OUK by friends and
followership).
Kalu’s untiring
crusade for Igbo presidency in 2015 cannot be overemphasized. His love for
Nigeria can never be swept under the carpet. From the United Kingdom to the
United States, he has been delivering lectures for justice and equity to reign
in Nigeria. He recently bared his mind on (some governors-made) crisis that has
been rocking the once vibrant and remorseless Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF),
asking them to sheathe their blunt imbroglios. OUK is not a rabble-rouser. But as
he took the Igbo cause to the UK to understand some malevolency done against
the Igbo nation in Nigeria, Kalu who speaks about justice, has also taken a
message to the NGF to douse the lingering tension that has characterised the
once moral forum. His employment strides for the once unemployed youths are story
for another day.
It is a well known
fact that for the period of 53 years Nigeria officially got her independence
from the rapacious colonialists, Ndigbo have only been the president of this
country for just a period of six months and 13days, while the North has smiled
home with the presidency for a period of 35yrs. This angers Kalu a lot. But, especially,
when those who are suffering from Igbophobia
speak that the Igbo are not united, hence they have been facing challenges
to emerge the president of the country.
Social injustice in
our country is the real clog in the wheel of progress of the country. This is
what Kalu has been toiling to re-write, to make the message of justice clear,
so that the country can move forward. Some persons think that his messages are
not being recognised, but Kalu would say that the British he took the case of
the Igbo in Nigeria to, were surprise that Ndigbo are facing such political catastrophes
in a country that is so blessed by nature and, obviously cursed by man, woman,
in leadership.
Bring practical
leadership into the country again, Kalu had said that leaders of this country might
not have gotten it right before, but in earnest, things would be gotten right
with his clarion calls for practical leadership. He tells those using
propaganda that Ndigbo are not in unity to go pick their towels from the
bathrooms where they took their baths and leave Ndigbo alone, because even the
South-West where ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo comes from was not in unity during
the period Obasanjo ruled Nigeria like the Owu-generalissimo he has always
been; the North was also not even united when the late President Musa Yar’Adua was
in power; not even the South-South is in unity now that President Goodluck
Jonathan is president. Anybody using the issue of ‘unity’ and any garbage to
pull Ndigbo down politically irritates Kalu so much.
Kalu wants a free
and fair election in Nigeria, and not whether when Dim Chukwuemeka
Odumegwu-Ojukwu ran for the presidency, he got an awe-inspiring vote from the
South-East as anticipated or not. Kalu is calling on all the Igbo to be united.
He might not be the leader that Ndigbo would reverence the way they reverenced
Ojukwu, but Kalu is paving the way for Ndigbo to talk in Nigeria without fear,
and for the elites to also speak-up, without being eroded in semi-blindness,
else Ndigbo will perish.
Njiko Igbo being
his pet project for the realisation of the Igbo unity and Igbo presidency, the group
is working hard to ensure that Kalu’s vision for Ndigbo is achieved, using the
best tactics to fight for the Igbo cause, Igbo agenda, for 2015.
Kalu is making sure
that apart from Ndigbo having many brains and those who understand what
politics is all about and its importance, the need for grooming more Igbo sons
and daughters is timely. However, he is not against those people, those Igbo
sons and daughters, who have sold out, for the continuous humiliation of Ndigbo
in the political space in the country. Nevertheless, he wants Ndigbo to chase
for substance and not shadow; Kalu says that 2015 will define the justice in
the country, where Ndigbo are, as enshrined in the Constitution.
It is time Ndigbo
came together and understand what Kalu has been fighting for: there will never
be a time when shadow will be precious than substance. Never! Ndigbo do not
lack the substance and should not be allowed to be seen as those who chase
shadow. If anyone is finding to chase
shadow cool in 2015, that person certainly, is not Kalu. Ndigbo should be ahead
of the time that their perceived enemies are setting for them.
Contributed by Odimegwu
Onwumere
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