SURVIVING BUHARI'S PRESIDENCY, NDIGBO NEEDS A NEW STRATEGIC THINKING.

Icheoku says an aphorism has it that "it is either you are sitting on the table or you may be on the menu as part of the dinner." This reflects to a great extent the current state of affairs of complete exclusion and fate of Ndigbo in Nigeria under the present government of the man from Daura. The lanky one; the Cassius of Daura, President Muhammadu Buhari, who has successfully and audaciously excluded Ndigbo from all the very important positions of government so far filled. A matter made worse because neither the president nor the vice president nor the senate president nor the speaker nor the chief judge is an Igbo person. The result, there is no single Igbo person in occupation as head of any of the three arms of government - the executive, the legislature and the judiciary. 

Then add the Inspector General of Police; director general of Customs and Excise; Immigration chief; National Security Adviser; head of State Security Service; head of Army; head of Navy and head of Airforce - all positions filled without any Igbo person? Icheoku queries who will therefore get Ndigbo's back when matters affecting them as integral part of Nigeria is being deliberated on, at their back, without any of them being present? The signs are ominous and only a strategic thinking on their part will see Ndigbo through this very insensitive government of President Muhammadu Buhari. Ndigbo will need to adopt a "clever and smart" app in navigating the minefield that is President Muhammadu Buhari's presidency in order to survive the evil being hatched against them. Icheoku is not a seer but prophesies that he is evil that will so exclude an entire one third of a country's population and in this brazen manner of "to hell with you, Ndigbo." It is grave and it does not bode well for Ndigbo,  being so blatantly marginalized in this manner and you wonder whether President Muhammadu Buhari is by his actions so far, telegraphing a sinister message of "NOT PART OF OR WANTED IN NIGERIA" to the people of Southeast Igbo? 

Icheoku only prays that this latest anti-Ndigbo actions will help in galvanizing Ndigbo into a more cohesive and united people they used to be, who will once again start speaking with one voice of IGBO KWENU; and it does not and should not matter whether Joe Igbokwe decides not to "kwe" alongside. But whatever provocations of marginalization, Ndigbo must not bite the bait and give this proven demon an excuse to go ballistic on them with his dogs of war and instruments of mass destruction since he cannot wait to finish his unfinished business against Ndigbo. Ndigbo must think outside the box and play to survive the next four or eight  years, assuming brief illness does not intervene earlier and on their behalf. What a time to be a Nigerian when nobody wants you in Nigeria including a president who had sworn under oath to respect the tenets of the constitution, promised to be president of all and everyone; but who unfortunately is now showing his true colors, baring his fangs against a people many of whom gave him and his party their votes. Icheoku says the cattle-man President Muhammadu Buhari is simply wasting his time as no weapons fashioned by anyone including himself and/or Bola Tinubu shall prosper against Ndigbo, the God's anointed people of Nigeria IJN. Icheoku says "IGBO KWENU, KWESI ENU IKE.....IYOOO!!! IYAAAA!!!!!"