PERSPECTIVE: Why It Is Necessary to Leave Nigeria

In order to leave Nigeria’s failures behind, and even more important, in order to leave behind Nigeria’s impregnable attachment to failure, it is necessary to leave Nigeria.

This is why, in order to regroup and relaunch themselves as an industrious and enterprising culture capable of extraordinary achievement alongside the rest of the modern world, it is necessary for the Igbo to leave Nigeria.

To escape the hundred and seventy million ton yoke that has held them down for over a century, and made it impossible for them to soar like they can and should, the Igbo must leave Nigeria.

The ever so worried ask; but how?

The answer is: By any means necessary.

An entire people cannot eternally weld themselves to failure for fear of how.

Let history and the full potential that the people stand to realise and achieve justify how.

Let our children’s future and their children’s future justify how.

Let the enabling fresh breath of self-determination justify how.

Let the breakthroughs in science and arts and engineering that we stand to accomplish in a new and free nation justify how.

Let the great industrial feats that our indomitably energetic entrepreneurs stand to accomplish and take to new heights in a nation that does not impede and punish their genius justify how.

Let the world renown that our sports men and women finally stand to regain in a new nation that is properly organised to fully support and drive their talents, without the insurmountable impediments of corruption, incompetence, and demoralising cronyism, justify how.

It is necessary that we leave Nigeria not just because of what Nigeria is and has been, but more importantly, because of what we as a people can be; because of what Nigeria has deliberately and systemically made not just difficult but practically impossible for us to be.