Kanu did not use magic to convince many Igbo people. He understood something very dangerous about wounded people. Once you convince them that all their suffering is caused by outsiders, they stop examining what is breaking down inside their own space.
That became the foundation of the IPOB menace.
Nigeria was the problem. The military was the problem. The Fulani were the problem. Yoruba were the problem. Everybody else became the explanation for “Biafra” suffering.
But there is an important distinction that gets lost in the noise. The South East has real grievances. Poor infrastructure, insecurity, corruption, distrust in government, and generational trauma are all real. The mistake begins when these realities are framed as uniquely Igbo, instead of understanding them as part of a wider national failure.
Nigeria has failed many of her citizens, not just Igbo people.
Poverty is not ethnic. Bad governance is not ethnic. Unemployment is not ethnic. Police brutality is not ethnic. State failure is not ethnic.
The Hausa trader feels it. The Benin youth feels it. The Ijaw fisherman feels it. The Yoruba worker feels it. The Middle Belt farmer feels it. Nigeria’s failure is broad, not selective.
The damage begins when shared national failures are reframed as exclusive ethnic persecution. Once that happens, thinking shifts to sentiments and emotion. Every hardship becomes proof of targeted hostility instead of structural breakdown.
That produces a permanent victim mindset. From that point, solutions lose importance. Everything becomes grievance, interpretation and anger.
Instead of building institutions, improving education, attracting investment, or developing economic strategy, attention shifts to emotional survival narratives. Over time, people begin to believe they are permanently doomed, and that belief quietly destroys ambition.
This is where manipulation becomes powerful. When people are already hurt, they become receptive to certainty that removes questioning. Over time, questioning becomes betrayal and reflection becomes disloyalty.
That is how messiah style “leadership “forms.
Then real questions disappear. What is the economic plan. What is the governance plan. What happens to businesses under prolonged shutdowns. What happens to schools, transport and investment when you shut down your own region because you are mad at Nigeria?
Without answers, emotion fills the vacuum.
That is why the destruction IPOB brought to the Southeast was often defended instead of questioned. Once identity is tied to a movement, evidence no longer matters.
Many who defend it have never engaged the source material. They have not read transcripts or listened fully to broadcasts. They argue from fragments instead of facts.
So the question is simple. If you did not read it, did not listen to it, did not research it, did not verify it, what exactly are you defending.
You cannot build conviction on what you have not examined.
At some point the issue is no longer just leadership. It is the refusal to interrogate ideas that have already produced visible consequences.
When a people refuse to self correct, they do not stand still. They move backwards.
By Chioma Amaryllis Ahaghotu
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