Let me be clear: the Igbo are the makers of modern Nigeria. Let no one quibble about this. But the Igbo project of nation-building stalled in when the republic was overthrown, and a violent civil war levied against the Eastern Region, where the Igbo were dominant.
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igbo men roles The massacre andrew borden face mostly the Igbo, including the Western Igbo across Nigeria leading to that war however made it very clear that the Nigerian civil war was not a war simply against the Eastern region; it was a war mostly against the ethnic Igbo, whose insurgent rise in the new nation constituted a great challenge, and a source of great fear to their neighbors and adversaries for power in the contested space called modern Nigeria.
Very few people recollect today that the Igbo were not only the main group in Eastern Nigeria, but that they were also a very prominent group, and part of Western Nigeria. Aside from their huge presence in Lagos, the boundary between the West and igboo East was at Asaba, by the lordly Niger. That igbo men roles why the Igbo could play prominent political roles igob the Western region because the Igbo were part of the Western Region.
They were the largest minority group in the Western region, capable of competing, and contesting for power in alliance with other minority groups against the majority Yoruba in the Western region. That fact igbo men roles the ground rolees not changed. The Igbo were the dominant ethnic group in the Midwest thus, when that region was created out of the western region. Very many Igbo communities were ceded to the Northern region too. But what makes the Igbo a formidable national political force is their potential dominance of urban cities — the epicenters of political action in Nigeria.
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Igbo presence in great numbers in key urban epicenters in Nigeria is a source of great unused political power. Let me extrapolate a bit, and highlight this fact. Sapele was clearly long an Igbo town.
Port Harcourt is of course an Igbo city, to the effect that if the mainland Igbo decide that nobody else will be governor in Rivers state, they have both the resources and the numbers to effect it.]
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