Biafran struggle & the limits of sit-at-home

In all of his 69–79 years in this world, how many times has Bola Tinubu, the man who could be the next president of Nigeria, visited the South-East?

I guess that it may not be up to a dozen times. He didn’t go there to school, compete in debate, quiz or Koran recital challenges. He surely didn’t go there on a school excursion to visit a major dam or a game reserve. Who wants to cross the Niger River just to visit Ogbunike Cave, Ngwo Pine Forest or Oguta Lake? The Umuahia Biafra War museum was not yet built when he went to school. We know that he did not go to the South-East to work after school. With Ndubisi Kanu, Ebutu Ukiwe, Anya O. Anya, Ralph Obioha and others in NADECO, Tinubu most definitely did not go to the South-East to solicit support for MKO Abiola’s mandate during the pro-democracy movement of the 90s. When he emerged and became the governor of Lagos State, he had no need to campaign in the South-East. The same as when he became a National Leader of APC.

Why is that important? What has that got to do with the sit-at-home order introduced in the South-East by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to add pressure to their quest for the actualization of an independent nation of Biafra?

I will get to that in a short while. In the meantime, follow me on this little detour.