OPEN LETTER TO THE SOUTHEAST GOVERNORS Written by Mazi Ngozi Osuji. Dear governors, compliment of the new month of September. I am compelled to write you this letter by the exigencies of the ugly events that have been happening in your political domain of the Southeast. I am highly appalled and disappointed by your seemingly lack of political will in assuming proper and gubernatorial control of your various states as it concerns your own people the Igbo race. Before I proceed, permit me to call your attentions to the undeniable fact that you rode to power on the electoral franchise and geographical locations of the Igbo people. Whether you were dully elected or rigged into office, as it has become the disaster and shame of Nigerian brand of democracy, the fact remains that you are in power today as governors because of the geographical locations of your people. Even those of you who are clearly imposed on their states could not be there if the people are not there. Therefore, you...
THE APOLOGY THAT LOWERS THE IGWE THRONE Written by Mazi Mike Ngozi Osuji The throne of an Igwe in Igbo land is sacred and ancestral. The sacredness of the Igwe Royal stool is therefore, not meant to be compromised by the occupant of the throne for reasons which has the underlining of personal aggrandizement and political shinanigans. Over the years, criminal elements and charlatans have successfully forced themselves on the thrones of their ancestors by bribing their way to the sacred throne. In doing so, the eze stool in many Igbo kingdoms remain debased under the rulership of criminals and charlatans. The Eze is on throne primarily as the custodian of the Igbo culture and traditions of his people, but what obtains these days gives the stools of Igwe out as a throne of charlatans who are there for their own personal gratification. The Eze stool must not suffer reproach and embarrassment as it were, but the Igwes' meddlesome behaviors in political matters...