 Nigeria and Nigerians have a common enemy. Politically speaking, only two tribes exist, the rich and the poor, and there are only two religious extremes, the wealth extreme and the poverty extreme. The elites know this very well, but the mass is done. Nigeria's political elites may be incompetent about governance, but they are definitely competent about incompetence and politicking. The truth is to mentality of systematic indoctrination and divisive religious and tribal sentiments that have strategically maintained their grip on power despite their class incompetence, impunity and corruption. The average northern Muslim grows up believing he was born to rule and that the only enemy he must overcome is the infidel and that is the southern Christian. The average Yoruba man grows up believing that he has to get rid of Omoibu who is occupying his land and monopolizing the business is daring. Why the average Yoruba man like me grows up believing that the house man doesn't want his existence and would easily partner with the Yoruba man to achieve that. However, from my experiences, some of the most supportive people around me are from the north and west. Now when they teach us history, they teach us conveniently doctored and regional historical perspectives. The Ibo's are taught that the Biafran genocide happened because Ibo simply demanded their own nation as a way of forestalling the marginalization and massacres of Ibo's in the north. The Ausaflanese are taught that the war happened because the Ibo caucus connived and executed the massacre of northern elites and the Yorubas are taught that the Ibo man will never trust or love him because of the betrayer role Omoibu supposedly played in the failure of the Biafran mood. Now instead of admitting that the war was avoidable and was a result of the egotism and parochial interest of our rulers they forced the masses into believing that tribal differences necessitated this war, which is wrong. What then is the consequence? Why the rulers revel the masses are divided by parochial regional interest and that jeopardizes our sense of objectivity, merit and nationhood during national elections. The northerner would rather vote the worst northerner than vote an easterner. The westerner would prefer to pander to the north when he can't be in power than risk an easterner and the easterner prefers to leave the union than vote the northern or western option and the southerners will often pander to the east. Nevertheless, there is still hope for Nigeria but it will start materializing when the masses realize that we have a common enemy and that is our rulers. We also need to realize that the ruling class is threatened by our unity and would do anything to jeopardize it. This was clearly demonstrated in the Arabic crackdown of the Ansar's protest and very importantly we need to realize that our political elites are united in the oppression and suppression of the masses and that PPP and APC are the same party. The ruling is however different. Nothing else can be true about who our enemy is. We already know who our enemy is but what actually struck me is how they are threatened by our unity and I keep saying it that the Ansar was the very first time since my own existence that I could see everybody despite religion where you are from origin, background, qualification, whatever everybody came together for the first time and it never mattered where you are from it never mattered your tribe, it never mattered your religion things were working, it became like a nation of its own it just sprung up in different parts of the country there was food, nobody complained of hunger there were medical, medication, health care there were legal services it was a nation of its own these guys are threatened by our unity and the best way to really achieve their enemies is to ensure that these guys are set up because provided they come together it's a very big problem it reminds me of an advocacy we had a few weeks ago where we talked about everybody being a victim whether you are Igbo, you are a teacher, you are a citizen you are jobless, you have a job, you are civil servant we are all victims because whatever we are going through was dictated by a group of people who have decided to just make us feel you are better than this person and until, like Riley said, until we come to that realisation and that is where it baffles me that even in the era, in the 80s, in the 70s where there was no internet where people didn't have access to information they tend to understand things better than we are now than we do now now we have access to information you can Google, I've downloaded so many documents from online about the Igbo Biafra the civil war, it's a Niger war and I've seen so many angles I mean you download, you see what is happening in the north and for example when people say the north is destroying Nigeria I tell them that listen if any sensible president comes into power today and wants Nigeria to be good he has to focus on investing in the north because they don't have anything look at all the kidnappings that is happening because a lot of the schools are in the house schools don't have walls you see model colleges are like this one is the model college in the north and we accuse the north and they have the number ripping us out I always say that one thing in Nigeria is that the politicians we ponise poverty and illiteracy absolutely, don't educate them so that you can move them in the direction you want put religion there and divide them apart put ethnicity and throw them apart but when you come to the offices when you go to the markets when you go to the grass roots we are all together in this even if your lad knows that when he gets to wherever he is I once you are in Nigerian bro, we are together but when you come home you find this line literally not supposed to be there tell us what you think let's hear from you I think it's funny because even though we started my best friends are from all parts of the country absolutely and it's always so funny for me when we are having these discussions because they actually mean nothing when you think about it really in the sense of the word when somebody has done a transaction with you you don't care whether they are from the north or from the east if you are going to send a proper somebody for hundreds of millions of now you wouldn't be like oh I'm not telling this person because it's from this part of the world this is the thing that I find a bit frustrating about Nigeria is that we conveniently find these escape routes when things are not working out for us but when things are working out great for us our best friends are we are all most of what we did travel in Nigeria I just wish that we would go beyond just same things same thing we said about religion we would go beyond just same things and start to do more and show people like proper the way things should be properly done let me give you something before you wrap up it's so bad that right now in terms of insecurity we are saying all these people are coming from Nigeria but you know at Saturday a lot of people still take the local security guards from Nigeria thank you my brother that is how you know that in our mind we don't really care where you come from we just want solutions because where I live well we happen to own the property we have a tenant two young ladies beautiful hard working girls hard working girls they are in our BQ they are evils and our security man that lives in beside the BQ he is an awesome man you know we wake up in the morning we are living in the house everybody is just in babazakari have a good deal those of you who can take care by there is nothing like anything I think this is a political machination our politicians may not understand governance but they know politics they know as long as we have remained divided along political religious and tribal lines they can have their way for instance if an incompetent northerner is coming to power the average northerner who is not exposed we vote him regardless of how incompetent he is as long as he is a northern Muslim so they continue to sponsor those sentiments because those sentiments benefit them and elongate their stay in power so I just wish there is a way that the poor masses that the masses can realize that we are one we are one this advocacy this program is one of the ways to educate them but what is even more scary to me is that rather than watch this a lot of the people that are concerned that are badly hit will go watch other entertainment program because they don't understand they don't understand the value I mean here people say you actually don't concern me and I'm like how can you say that that means your future is that we also need to start understanding that we are different and not better and I'm saying that because of what he said we need to start really realizing that we are different from each other if I was born in the north and I have that environmental influence from the north I will not behave anything less than what they are doing so the fact that you are born in a different place completely make you different and so you shouldn't despise the other person they grew up as a result of what they are upbringing they are the culture and all those things we need to really start understanding because because you guys understand that you are different it makes you to appreciate your similarities diversities and uniqueness rather than drive us apart you should bring us together well time is never our friend on this program however the advocacy continues on our social media platforms on Facebook plus TV Africa hashtag the advocate NG or on Twitter and Instagram plus TV Africa hashtag the advocate NG to catch up with previous broadcast go to plusTVAfrica.com slash the advocate NG and don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel plus TV Africa till next week same time on this station let's keep advocating for a better society see ya