Yesterday, 1st June 2021, Major General Buhari (Retd) threatened Ndigbo with civil war over the unrest in the Southeast. He said this in a meeting with INEC officials who paid him a visit and mentioned many things including electoral reform.
Buhari skipped everything and dwelled on the destruction of INEC facilities in the region. “Many of those misbehaving today are too young to be aware of the civil war,” he said, made reference to “loss of lives that occurred during the Nigerian Civil War before threatening to “treat them in a language they understand.”
If this comment was lost on Igbos and other Nigerians, Buhari and his media aides made sure the whole world sees it when they posted it on Twitter.
This tweet was greeted with outrage from civil rights groups and conscientious Nigerians online and offline. A Nigerian rapper, M.I Abaga went further to create a hashtag for this. #IamIgboToo has been trending across all social media platforms since morning.
The narrative that "Nigeria hates Igbo people" is an outdated context that will leave with the old and bitter generation
Today let us stand with our Igbo family and say #IAmIgboToo #Ozoemena ♥️🇳🇬 pic.twitter.com/B0xGAjnfMG
— The Guy (@MI_Abaga) June 2, 2021
“The narrative that ‘Nigeria hates Igbo people’ is an outdated context that will leave with the old and bitter generation,” M.I Abaga wrote. Today, we stand with our Igbo family, he added.
A popular Twitter Dr. Harvey Olufunmilayo posted: “For the 30,000 Igbos killed in 1966, I am Igbo too; For the 1,000 killed in Asaba 1967, I am Igbo too; For the 3 million massacred and starved in the Civil War, I am Igbo too. For all the Igbos threatened with genocide yesterday, I stand with you.”
X-raying Indigenous Igbo Communities in Benue State
Human rights activist Aisha Yesufu adopted Somtochukwu as her middle name to post, “Any threat to Igbo people is a threat to me. Any attack on Igbo people is an attack on me.”
“You can’t be reinterpreting killer Bokoharam into the society, be funding bandits and killer herdsmen and be threatening harmless Igbos,” another posted.
Idongesit Uduehe wrote: “Akwa Ibom/Cross River Twitter, I know we all try to explain how we’re not Igbos but trust me if they come for Igbos, we ain’t left out. They put us together in the same category so we’re all together. Go through history and see they killed our people too. #IamIgboToo.”
A certain Lot Samuel with the handle JosTechFarmer posted: “As a kid from Plateau State, I grew up with Igbos, I schooled with Igbos, I worked and still working with Igbos, I learn business, hard work, and dignity in labour from Igbos… #IamIgboToo.”
One user just shared a glorious image of Nwankwo Kanu in Atlanta ’96 and wrote, “He is Igbo too.”
Twitter has deleted the genocide-threatening post but #IamIgboToo, like firewood in harmattan, is still burning.
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