Veteran Nollywood actor, Kanayo O. Kanayo has said Nigeria would start progressing as a country the day an Igbo ethnic extraction becomes the president. Kanyo made this remark while speaking on what being an Igbo and a Nigerian means to him on the latest episode of ‘The Honest Bunch’ podcast.
He said that “Igbophobia” which has made some sections of the country blacklist the Igbos from the presidency was only a figment of imagination. Speaking further, he posited that “Being an Igbo means that I come from a side of the country that speaks a dialect just like the Hausas, Fulani, and others. “It also means to me that I’m a special person created that everything I touch prospers.
When we (Igbos) are called the Jews of this part of the world, it means a lot. “And to whom much is given, much is expected. A tree by the road is the one that receives the knife cut.
“We’re in the marketplace always and we dance beautiful dances. That’s who the Igbos are. So we become the envy of other people.
“An Igbo man starts his business with a kiosk today, give him the next one year, he will turns it to a shop. From a kiosk to a shop. “It’s here.
Spit into our hands by a force we call Chukwu Abiama. You can’t take it away. So we would continue to be the envy of other people.
“I remember during the elections last year, some people said the Igbos want to take over Lagos. How can we take over Lagos? For what when we have an ancestral home we come from? “But then mos.
