Why are our people, families still live, trade in Fulani-dominated North if we are sincere about invasion of South East?

By CHIOMA AMARYLLIS AHAGOTU

You cannot claim existential fear in one breath and pursue economic opportunity in the same space with the other. That contradiction alone exposes the dishonesty in the argument.

If you are genuinely worried about Fulani “invading” the Southeast, a basic question should bother you: why are our people still living, trading, investing, and raising families in the North , where Fulani actually live in their highest numbers?

You cannot claim existential fear in one breath and pursue economic opportunity in the same space with the other. That contradiction alone exposes the dishonesty in the argument.

Igbo traders dominate markets across Kano, Kaduna, Jos, Minna, Zaria, and Abuja. They own shops, warehouses, transport lines, spare-parts hubs, and real estate. They marry and procreate there. They bury their dead there. They rebuild even after crises. That is not the behavior of a people who believe they are facing annihilation.

So what exactly is the fear narrative about?

The fear narrative comes directly from Biafra agitation. Fearmongering is necessary because it externalizes the enemy. Someone else must be blamed. Someone else must be coming for you. Because if there is no external enemy, you may remember something inconvenient.

You may remember that you elected governors, senators, and assembly members who have done absolutely nothing to change things forcthe better. No industrial policy. No security architecture. No infrastructure. No unified strategy.

That is why many of them quietly allowed the agitation to take ro0t and spread. It was useful.

While you are busy chanting Biafra and arguing online, nobody is asking them questions. Nobody is auditing their performance. Nobody is demanding outcomes.

Biafra became the distraction.
Fear became the organizing principle.
Accountability disappeared.

Because if the concern were truly demographic domination or ethnic extermination, the logical response would have been strategic withdrawal from the North decades ago. It did not happen. Instead, economic integration deepened.

What people are reacting to is not “Fulani invasion.”
It is state failure, weak policing, and elite irresponsibility , problems that exist nationwide, not ethnically.

But blaming an ethnic group is easier than demanding policy.
Easier than asking governors why ranching laws are not enforced in your village.
Easier than asking why forests are unprotected.
Easier than asking where security votes go every month.

So fear is outsourced to identity, and anger is weaponized as politics.

You cannot say “they are coming for us” while voluntarily living among them where they are most concentrated. You cannot build wealth in the North and perform victimhood in the Southeast.

That contradiction is why the conversation never progresses.
It is emotional, not analytical.
Performative, not strategic.

And as long as the ndi ” we are Biafrans” keep confusing insecurity with ethnicity and agitation with governance, it will keep fighting the wrong things while the usual suspects remain comfortably unaccountable.

Fear without logic is not vigilance. It is self-sabotage.

P.s The South-East is in Nigeria. And all Nigerians can come in to do their business as you do yours across Nigeria. Ya diri gi na uche!

“Ain’t no Biafra Bihhh”