Chief Ralph Uwazurike, the founder and leader of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), has said that the Igbo are stupid.
The man who started MASSOB said that an Igbo could not become president of Nigeria because they only fight for their own benefit.
In an interview with Punch, Uwazurike talked about how Igbo was pushed away after the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was formed in 1999.
He said that anyone who wants Nigeria to be one country is not trying to help the country, which is already in trouble.
“Remember, an Igbo man started this PDP, but they took it away from him,” he said. Then, it was clear that a man from the Igbo tribe would be Nigeria’s president. But in Jos, it was the Igbo who didn’t take advantage of that chance. At that political event in Jos, the Igbo began to speak Hausa.
“The Igbo started backing (Olusegun) Obasanjo against (Alex) Ekwueme, giving N100 million and other things to help another tribe rise to power. Let me tell you something: the Igbo tribe is the stupidest tribe I’ve ever seen.
“While the Yoruba wanted to work together, the Igbo man was the one speaking Hausa in Jos. The Igbo man was also the one who gave money to a different candidate in Jos instead of his own brother.
“Are they a smart people? Then, who should I apologize to for using the word “foolish”? So, what did we get out of the PDP? How long has the PDP been used by the Yoruba? It’s been eight years! Now that the South-East had its turn, they sent it to the South-South.”
