Arthur Eze

Soludo, Arthur Eze and other south east politicians with eyes on selfish politics, can go about their mercantilist agenda without dragging the south east.

The politicians from the East are the problem of the zone. This is even when the people have exhibited greater commitment in the unity of the country through their expansive interactions and investments in all the geo-political units. It should not for any reason be for his state governor, Soludo and his kinsman, Arthur Eze, to act the agent provocateur against his candidacy. Rather, Soludo, Arthur Eze and some other politicians from the area are further retreating in their cocoons in sheer timorous mode, looking up to Atiku Abubakar to hand over power to them by the time he may have served out his two terms in 2031. A house slave worked, and often lived, in the house of the slave-owner. By fact and history, the region has been grossly marginalised in all aspects of the national life, particularly political leadership. Even at that, Nigerians of equity and fair mindedness are also agreed that it is time to give his south east political zone the chance to produce the next president. Earlier, the North had produced Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and Alhaji Shehu Shagari in the first and second republics, respectively. Celebrated Essayist and author, Chinweizu, describes them as “Comprador Bourgeoisie”, in his work, ‘The West and The Rest of Us’. In the history of slavery in America, there were the house slaves and plantation slaves. In the French and Belgian colonies, they found comfort in a special class referred to as the Évolué – a French label to describe a native African or Asian who had “evolved” by becoming Europeanised through education or assimilation and had accepted European values and patterns of behavior. They were often employed in white-collar jobs (although rarely higher than clerks), and lived primarily in urban areas of the colony.