If you diligently analyze the early reactions to the allegation that Mmesoma Ejikeme falsified her Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) exam result on social media, it would be difficult not to conclude that his race was the wrong one. . That she was wrong to be born Igbo at such a critical time. Or that the politics of his race was his albatross. Ejikeme has drawn so many hateful comments to himself, like the one who deliberately scratched a pile of feces on himself. It wasn't until Friday that an Anambra State commission of inquiry revealed that it had indeed rigged the result.
Senator Shehu Sani, born in Kaduna State, put the issue in its sharpest perspective when he wrote on his Twitter account that: “Girl forged UTME result. against her are more fallout from the 2023 election than forgery For most people who speak, their language speaks counterfeit, but their heart is political The girl committed an offense at a time when people are looking for a reason to stoke the flames of verbal warfare.The girl flew a helicopter between the border of Ukraine and Russia…Most Nigerians now wear ethno-religious and political sunglasses;everything is seen from the perspective of that lens. We're probably going to live like this for a very long time."
Mmessoma’s first venture, it seems, was to live and write the JAMB exam in Anambra State. Didn't she realize that this is the home state of Peter Obi, the Labor Party presidential candidate? It felt like every square inch an anathema. Her second offence, based on social media comments about the tampering, it seems, was that she shared, albeit tangentially, ethnicity with Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, a candidate for governor of the LP Lagos State. Rhodes-Vivour's mother is said to be Igbo.
The Igbo have always been repelled by Mmesoma by the rest of Nigeria. While the North oversaw the terrorist crackdown against the Igbo (remember the 1966 pogrom; the killing of dozens of Igbo over the alleged desecration of the Quran, such as Godwin Akaluka; the civil war; the government terrorist attack that the 'little dot in a circle' represents, etc.), Yoruba confrontation with the Igbo has always been intellectual. This comes in the form of disregard for the Igbo's claim to ethnic superiority. belief that Igbo leaders prefer and act on behalf of their own ethnicity in what were supposed to be purely federal appointments.
The First Republic politics of survival that Chief SL Akintola found himself in dictated that he ally himself with the Hausa-Fulani. This was also what was responsible for his disdain for the Igbo. This was at a time when Nnamdi Azikiwe's West African Pilot was accused of always unfairly projecting his Igbo stock, instead of seeking the balance required by journalism . Some editorial content in the pilot seemed to have substantiated this accusation. For example, the Pilot edition of December 30, 1938 had as its main article on its front page: "Two Ibo students pass doctoral examination". The newspaper also placed the photographs of these Ibos, RM Ojike and JPC E Okala on its front page, along with that of Green Mbadiwe, who it said was "a Nigerian millionaire and patron of higher education" and that of MC Okechuku, whose "maternal nephew is going to America to study medicine."
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If you diligently analyze the early reactions to the allegation that Mmesoma Ejikeme falsified her Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) exam result on social media, it would be difficult not to conclude that his race was the wrong one. . That she was wrong to be born Igbo at such a critical time. Or that the politics of his race was his albatross. Ejikeme has drawn so many hateful comments to himself, like the one who deliberately scratched a pile of feces on himself. It wasn't until Friday that an Anambra State commission of inquiry revealed that it had indeed rigged the result.
Senator Shehu Sani, born in Kaduna State, put the issue in its sharpest perspective when he wrote on his Twitter account that: “Girl forged UTME result. against her are more fallout from the 2023 election than forgery For most people who speak, their language speaks counterfeit, but their heart is political The girl committed an offense at a time when people are looking for a reason to stoke the flames of verbal warfare.The girl flew a helicopter between the border of Ukraine and Russia…Most Nigerians now wear ethno-religious and political sunglasses;everything is seen from the perspective of that lens. We're probably going to live like this for a very long time."
Mmessoma’s first venture, it seems, was to live and write the JAMB exam in Anambra State. Didn't she realize that this is the home state of Peter Obi, the Labor Party presidential candidate? It felt like every square inch an anathema. Her second offence, based on social media comments about the tampering, it seems, was that she shared, albeit tangentially, ethnicity with Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, a candidate for governor of the LP Lagos State. Rhodes-Vivour's mother is said to be Igbo.
The Igbo have always been repelled by Mmesoma by the rest of Nigeria. While the North oversaw the terrorist crackdown against the Igbo (remember the 1966 pogrom; the killing of dozens of Igbo over the alleged desecration of the Quran, such as Godwin Akaluka; the civil war; the government terrorist attack that the 'little dot in a circle' represents, etc.), Yoruba confrontation with the Igbo has always been intellectual. This comes in the form of disregard for the Igbo's claim to ethnic superiority. belief that Igbo leaders prefer and act on behalf of their own ethnicity in what were supposed to be purely federal appointments.
The First Republic politics of survival that Chief SL Akintola found himself in dictated that he ally himself with the Hausa-Fulani. This was also what was responsible for his disdain for the Igbo. This was at a time when Nnamdi Azikiwe's West African Pilot was accused of always unfairly projecting his Igbo stock, instead of seeking the balance required by journalism . Some editorial content in the pilot seemed to have substantiated this accusation. For example, the Pilot edition of December 30, 1938 had as its main article on its front page: "Two Ibo students pass doctoral examination". The newspaper also placed the photographs of these Ibos, RM Ojike and JPC E Okala on its front page, along with that of Green Mbadiwe, who it said was "a Nigerian millionaire and patron of higher education" and that of MC Okechuku, whose "maternal nephew is going to America to study medicine."
Another example is the main article of the newspaper of July 18, 1941 with the scr...
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