JONATHAN does not LOVE NDIGBO?

Icheoku bemoans that the people of Southeastern Nigeria Igbo has been exhilarating celebrating the emergence and presidency of Goodluck Jonathan and beating their chest of his love for them? Icheoku says based on available statistical evidence and unless the universally accepted definition of love has morphed into something extraordinarily different, with this kind of love Jonathan has for Ndigbo, Ndigbo needs no enemy.  Icheoku recalls that it was the late Nigerian democracy personified and the holder of June 12th presidential sacred mandate, Aare MKO Abiola, who famously said 'with a friend like IBB, no one needs an enemy." Icheoku says MKO was right then on IBB and in relationship to the proverbial Jonathan's love for Ndigbo, his admonition is sacrosanct and a statement of equal application to Jonathan on behalf of Ndigbo. 

Icheoku has labored to understand this burning romantic love Ndigbo has for Jonathan and what the president did or is doing to deserve such infectious admiration but has successively come up empty. Icheoku went even further to see if it was because Jonathan has an Igbo sounding middle name "Ebele" that endears him so much to the Igbo nation only to be disappointed by learning that his Ebele was an abbreviated form of an Ijaw name Ebelesiemi? Icheoku tarried further, what about "Azikwe?' but again hit a brick wall as the "Azikwe" was not a registered name of his but merely a form of alias. His first name is Goodluck; his middle name is Ebelesieme and his last name is Jonathan. So query is Azikwe his baptismal or confirmation name except that Jonathan is not a Catholic for having a confirmation name purposes. 

Now getting back to the main gist of this article - whether President Jonathan has proved his admiration and love for Ndigbo as to rightly earn all the encomiums and fanatical unalloyed and unconditional support Ndigbo has been and continues to bequeath him, Icheoku says the jury is still very much out. So what then is driving Ndigbo towards this Ijaw man whose Igboness has not been established and at best is only tepid, clever, calculated and cunning? Icheoku answers that the answer is fogged up and admitting of no sunlight or x-ray. Icheoku therefore sounds the alarum bell that Ndigbo should quickly either retract their support for this president or make him truly and sincerely earn their loving support with meaningful commitments to do better for Ndigbo next time, his second term.

Icheoku laments that never in the history of the ever-ailing Nigeria has a whole Igbo nation been so marginalized as is being witnessed under this supposed Igbo-lover's presidency?  Icheoku makes bold to say and unequivocally too, that Ndigbo has never had it this bad in a Nigerian government, where they are completely left out holding the plate and sidelined entirely out of power. Icheoku asks does anybody know why the Igbo nation is in the dog-house of  President Jonathan's government? 

Imagine for the first time in Nigeria, no Igbo occupies any of the following arterial-vein offices and yet a man who has unceasing tingling in his legs each time Igbo is mentioned is occupying Aso Rock?

1. The Presidency of Nigeria - non Igbo

2. The Senate President - non Igbo

3. The Speaker of the House - non Igbo

4. The Chief Justice - non Igbo

5. The IG of police - non Igbo

6. The Chief of Defense Staff - non Igbo

7. The Chief of Army Staff - non Igbo

8. The Chief of Navy Staff - non Igbo

9. The ruling party PDP chairman - non Igbo

10. The chairman of Nigeria Ports Authority - non igbo

11. The chairman of Nigeria Railway Corporation - non Igbo

12. The Controller General of Customs - non Igbo

13. The Controller of Immigration - non Igbo

14. Minister of Defense - non Igbo

15. Minister of Interior - non Igbo

16. Minister of Police Affairs - non Igbo

17. Minister of Justice and Attorney General - non Igbo

18. Minister of Works - non Igbo

19. Minster of FCT - non Igbo

20. Minister of Foreign Affairs - non Igbo

21. Minister of Petroleum resources - non Igbo

22. Governor Central Bank of Nigeria - non Igbo

23. Ambassador to the United Kingdom - non Igbo

24. Ambassador to the United States - non Igbo

25. Group managing Director of NNPC - non Igbo

26. Chief of Staff - non Igbo

27. President of Court of Appeal - non Igbo

28. EFCC chairman - non igbo

29. Niger Delta Minister - non Igbo

30. Minister of Agriculture - non Igbo

Icheoku begs to stop at ONLY 30 of the "Fortune 500 offices in Nigeria" but it shows beyond all shadows of doubt that all the juicy ministries and security apparatus as well as the cash-cows of Nigeria PLC have in their driver's seats Nigerians other than Igbos; including people who did not even vote for Jonathan and people who are still continuously piling up on his administration without ceasing. Icheoku asks anyone who has a refutal to please furnish it or rebut; but if someone who loves a people would so marginalize the same people he loves and in this manner, please can someone tell Icheoku what a real hater would then do? 

Icheoku says if only there would be a credible alternative come 2015, this particular Jonathan has not shown or in any meaningful and purposeful way manifested his love for Ndigbo thus far and therefore does not deserve Ndigbo's en-bloc loyal vote again. Needless to add that the promised second River Niger bridge is nearly stalled as it was not provided for in several budgets. The same Jonathan invited other tribes' "armies" including OPC and APC to the National Conference but left out Ndigbo's MASSOB? The same Jonathan went outside his usual practice of filing existing political vacancies, when he moved the then FRSC chief marshal over to Aviation, but failed or rather refused to replace that Igbo lot with another Igbo person? Now people do the math and tell Icheoku that Jonathan's fabled love for Ndigbo is genuine and not a drinking from a poisoned chalice showboating? Icheoku is emphatic that "this kind of love I never see am" and maintains that if love indeed now looks like this Jonathan's love for Ndigbo, then enmity should be erased out of the vocabulary; or better still let the two words be used interchangeably going forward. What fucking love are we talking about that this man has for Ndigbo yet he would not entrust them with sensitive or appoint them to mouth-watering positions!