Igbo Hate In Nigeria: Bashir Ahmad Shares His Experience Working With The Igbos
Former presidential aide, Bashir Ahmad has waded into Igbo-hate rhetoric in Nigeria, recounting his personal experiences from dealings with the Igbos.
Bashir Ahmad who had in the past made some derogatory remarks about the Igbo ethnicity, antagonizing notable persons from the ethnicity such as Peter Obi and Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, took to his X handle on 11th of December, 2025 to share his real life impression about the Igbo people.
The controversial ex-presidential aide explained that he receives hateful words and insults from the Igbo people online and does not know why he gets such magnitude of animosity from people of the Igbo ethnicity especially online.
He stated that contrary to insinuations online that his dealings with the Igbos in real life is different from what he gets from some of them online. According to him, he maintains a commendable relationship with Igbo people in real life, noting that every Igbo person he had met in real life was good to him.
He thereafter pointed out that his hostility online towards some persons from the ethnicity as well as the reactions of a few Igbo people to his opinions online, does not define his actual impression about the entire Igbos ethnicity.
He wrote: I don’t have issues with Igbo people or with any tribe at all, Will. Yes, I have been receiving more insults and hate, mostly from Igbo on this platform, on a daily basis. But surprisingly, in real life, I have never had any problem with any Igbo person. Every Igbo I have met or encountered has been nothing but good to me. That is why you will never see me hating Igbos here or anywhere else. My personal encounters with them have always left a positive impression, so because of that I will never allow online hostility to define how I see the entire Igbo tribe
Though the Nigeria-Biafra civil war ended in 1970, but it appears that the relics of the war have not been eroded from the psychology Nigerian nation.
55 years after the civil war, there is seemingly a collective quiet rancor against the Igbos presumably for the Nigeria’s civil war. Amid the cry of marginalization by the political and religious leaders in the region, there is renewed agitation for secession or rather the restoration of the defunct Biafra nation.
