By PAUL NWOSU
Any South-Easterner, or indeed anyone from the old Biafra enclave in the South-East and South-South, who watched Ali Modu Sheriff on Channels Television’s Politics Today would have been alarmed by the depth of the hateful tirade unleashed against Peter Obi from a man whom many Nigerians, despite his repeated denials, still associate with the religious sect that helped to nurture the cancerous insecurity which has gradually but relentlessly brought this country to its knees.
Before this intervention is casually dismissed as a partisan defence of Peter Obi, let me make one thing abundantly clear: I am not a member of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC). Since Seun Okinbaloye hosted Sheriff on his programme, apart from Senator Victor Umeh, who promptly appeared on the same platform to rebut Sheriff’s divisive and incoherent diatribe, I am yet to see any other robust pushback from our political leaders in the South-East.
In Ogbaru, where I come from, we say that when you seize a fish from one Ólú person, you have seized it from all Ólú people, and they will respond accordingly. Likewise, slaves who watch unconcerned while one of their own is buried with a rickety digger should expect that the same indignity awaits them.
