28/02/24

Francis Nwapa Watch
Revolutionary Activist

After Religion this narrative is the most widely spread brainwash by ethnic divisive agents of the Nigeria ruling elites from the East in the past one week.

As an Igbo man who is a Socialist Revolutionary, I highly condemn promoters of this malicious narrative.

In a period of revolutionary agitation by the working class of Nigeria across all ethnic group and religion who have been subjected to hunger, misery and pain due to Government Neolibral policies, it’s expected that there’s a unity of all oppressed class in demanding total reversal of such policies and not a loophole to be maliciously explored by a section of the Nigeria political class from the Igbo ethnic group.

There’s massive poverty in the East, poor healthcare services, underfunded education system, bad roads, poor power supply etc, just as it is across Nigeria, majorly attributed to long years of capitalist exploitation of the economy. Just a few individuals can brag about wealth while vast majority are in poverty.

The Igbo working class are not immune to the current hunger and continuous increasing cost of food, goods and services. They do not operate a different market where things are sold at a cheaper rate, so why then shouldn’t the Igbo worker join the #Endhungerprotest?

Those pushing this narrative says the “Yorubas voted for Tinubu, yet according to INEC published results at the 2023 general election Tinubu got 127,605 votes in the South-East while he got 799,957 votes in the South-South, are this people not Igbos and other tribes different from Yoruba? Are they not entitled to their democratic right of choosing who to vote for? Were the over 6 million votes gotten by Peter Obi all Igbo voters?

There are 6 Labour party candidates in the Senate and 34 House of Rep members in National Assembly, yet Jeeps were shared, emoluments, Jumbo pay, huge allowances are shared on monthly bases and they remain silent and simply join this brazen waste of public funds by political office holders without rejecting it.

The truth is that the ruling elites are united in their interest of looting and exploiting the working class irrespective of tribe, religion or gender and so the workers irrespective of tribes and religion must be united to defeat them base on their collective interest and take political power.

The working class Igbo must reject this narratives and join the protest to boot out all members of the ruling elites irrespective of their tribe and religion. We are united in our HUNGER.

EndHungerprotest

Francis Nwapa Watch
Revolutionary Activist