By Chuks Nwachuku
Do not join them to parrot Yoruba hate of Igbo. There’s hardly anything like that. The reality is the average Yoruba love for and protection of corruption, just like you find elsewhere in Nigeria.
When attacked, corruption would shout “they are after me because I’m Yoruba”. Most fall for it because at their core, they are corrupt; they love corruption in the way that people love and instinctively rise to the defence of royalty. It is a question of long association with and within the society in which corruption becomes woven into its fabric and wears many faces.
The ethnic sentiment is one of the facades for the love and defence of corruption. For many Church going people, what this election has revealed is that their first and true love is corruption. It cuts across all churches and church groups, including mine. If you attend a church that has at the core of its teaching, material blessing, “success” and self-preservation on earth, no matter that they claim that”holiness” and “righteousness” or being”born again” are the doorway to these, the chances are that you are corruption walking on two feet.
Corruption is the instinctive defence of unearned material advantage, even when it does not exist. The irony is that in most parts, it does not exist. The corrupt mind believes that it does exist and should be protected.
Chuks Nwachuku can be reached at [email protected]
