Nigeria: Parley Between the East and West

opinion

The first Yoruba man to show the type of unmitigated and unprecedented love Governor Ayodele Fayose just showed to Nnamdi Kanu was Professor Wole Soyinka. Soyinka literally died that the Igbo may live. Soyinka told the world the truth about the persecution and pogrom meted out to the Igbo. This Nobel Laureate was apprehended and imprisoned for speaking truth to power.

How many Igbo governors and high-ranking assembly men from Igbo land (other than distinguished Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe) can lay down their honour and ambition for the sake of a hapless and helpless victim of absolutism Nnamdi Kanu, the way Fayose did? It was a pleasant surprise in Igbo land, that there is a Yoruba man who prepared to die that a young and budding Igbo man, Nnamdi Kanu, may live! It is on this substratum that I want to anchor my comment on Luke Onyekakeyah's article titled the Ohaneze-Afenifere parley, (The Guardian Opinion page 17, 28/02/17).

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