Neocolonial Stupidity and Tribal Political Hypocrisy of Those Calling for US/UK Visa Bans on MC Olumo, FFK and Others
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Neocolonial stupidity is when the natives are still the puppets of their colonial masters.
Those calling on the governments of the United States of America and United Kingdom to place visa bans on those behind political violence during the 2023 elections in Nigeria need to read "The Wretched of the Earth" by Frantz Fanon.
Have we not witnessed political violence in America and Britain?
Have we not seen electoral malpractices in these so called developed Western countries?
Are they holier than us?
Which country has placed a visa ban on the immediate past President of America, Donald Trump who actually instigated the violent mob of his supporters to attack the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021?
The majority of those asking for visa bans on their fellow citizens of Nigeria are Igbos who accused certain political stalwarts of the national ruling party, All Progressives Congress (APC) of tribal bigotry against the Igbos in Lagos State, that became the Battleground of the 2023 presidential election and gubernatorial election. But the divisive political campaigns of demagoguery of the dominant Igbo presidential candidate, Peter Obi of the opposing Labour Party (LP) who exploited the angst of majority of Igbos against the Nigerian government caused the bitterness between the Igbos and Yorubas.
He deliberately stoked the embers of hatred against the APC by his call to action on his fellow Igbos in their largest locations in Lagos State to support and vote for him to win the presidential election on February 25, 2023.
He also used the same political tactics in religious demagoguery for his fellow "Christians" to vote against the Muslim presidential candidate of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his Muslim running mate, Alhaji Kashim Shettima Mustapha.
His divisive political campaigns provoked the APC and as they say: there's no smoke without fire.
The Igbos provoked the Yorubas to attack them in Lagos State during the elections.
The political hypocrisy of those asking for the visa bans is that they have ignored the fact that, the worst cases of violence during the elections occurred among their fellow Igbos in their own states in the south eastern region of Nigeria. But they have not included the name of any Igbo political stalwart or terrorist on their visa bans list.
All Igbos supporting the violent separatist groups attacking and killing people in the south eastern region of Nigeria are equally guilty of political violence against democracy. And they should be banned from entering the United States of America and the United Kingdom.
