Singer-turned-activist, Charles Chukwuemeka Oputa popularly known as Charly Boy, has expressed concern over the unwillingness of the Igbo people to take their destiny in their hands.
A frustrated Charly boy told our correspondent that the average Igbo politician is not politically-savvy.
“It’s simple and that statement is really for the Igbo race that enjoys gallivanting around the globe. Yes, I like them for their tenacity, their hard work, focus etc. But I think it is high time they started thinking of home.
“For all their ingenuity in developing other places, let them go back home, charity begins at home, and start deciding on what to do about their region, because they have all it takes. It’s just that the Igbo don’t have political sense and that is a big problem,” he said.
The ‘Area Fada’ as he is fondly called stated that the South East will experience a rapid growth the day its people make up their mind to develop the region.
“But they can go back and start developing their region and so should everybody, including people from the South-West, who don’t really go to other regions to develop other places. We should all pay attention to our regions because I don’t see the longevity of this contraption anymore.
“I know that once that region comes together and decides to do something, it will be done. It is the same for the South-West. The day that the Igbo man and the Yoruba can, just for the sake of these injustices, have a little understanding and agree, Nigeria will settle and make progress.
“But unfortunately, these people, who have some kind of political superiority, understand the game more than the Igbo and Yoruba people and that is why it is possible for them to be messing things up for all of us. And that is why they are setting us against one another because they know that the day the Igbo man can sit down and come to an understanding with the Yoruba man, Nigeria will work,” he noted.
