They tried force. They tried sabotage. They tried betrayal.
Abraham Madu
If You Cannot Beat Them, You Make Peace With Them
For years, South-East governors and political elites have played a dangerous game of denial, arrogance, and proxy warfare. They believed power flowed only from Abuja. They believed titles mattered more than legitimacy. They believed uniforms, press releases, and paper-based security outfits could erase a movement rooted in grievance, memory, and mass support. They were wrong;
They tried force.
They tried sabotage.
They tried betrayal.
They tried silence.
Yet IPOB endured. ESN endured. And the streets kept speaking.
Ebubeagu collapsed without a sound. Not because of lack of funding, but because it lacked belief. You cannot impose security on a people who no longer trust you. You cannot defeat an idea whose fuel is injustice. You cannot criminalize a cry that rose from decades of exclusion, humiliation, and broken promises.
Every attempt to “defeat” IPOB only exposed the poverty of leadership in the South-East. Instead of protecting their people, many governors outsourced violence against them. Instead of dialogue, they chose distance. Instead of courage, they chose comfort.
Now reality has caught up.
Across towns and villages, loyalty has shifted from Government Houses to the grassroots. Authority has moved from titles to conviction. Influence has moved from politicians to movements. This is not romance; it is political fact.
At this point, the smartest political move is no longer confrontation but reckoning.
Not the fake kind performed in hotel meetings.
Not the cowardly kind whispered in Abuja corridors. But a public, honest admission that the South-East political class failed its people and failed spectacularly.
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu did not create the anger in Igboland. He articulated it. IPOB did not invent insecurity. It emerged where the state abandoned its duty. ESN did not replace governance; it filled a vacuum governors left behind.
History is ruthless to leaders who refuse to read the moment. It forgives those who correct course early and punishes those who cling to dead strategies.
This is not about surrender, it is about relevance.
It is not about fear, it is about realism.
It is not about ego, it is about survival, political and moral.
If South-East governors still believe they can govern a people whose trust they have lost, they are honestly living in yesterday. The ground has shifted. The narrative has shifted. The power equation has shifted.
When force fails, wisdom speaks.
When arrogance collapses, humility becomes strategy.
When you cannot beat a movement sustained by the people, you stop fighting shadows and start addressing causes.
The choice before the political class is simple: continue pretending or confront the truth and seek reconciliation. As it is right now, they are the captain to their ship and at the same time the passengers. No one else is there with them.
History is already writing its verdict.
Family Writers Press International
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