Mixed Signals From The Tiv Natien
It was only a matter of time before the unguarded utterances by Wantareuh Paul Unongu against Biafra would draw the ire of IPOB (see press release down below) and drag the Tiv nation by default into this debate and identity crises all tribes have about Tiv people. Besides self-aggrandizement and self-elevation, it is difficult to understand why Unongu was elected or appointed chairman of the Northern Elders Forum in light of the slaughter of innocents in Benue State and it is equally conflicting that Unongu has not resigned his position after these massacres. Was Unongu allowed to emerge as chairman of the Northern Elders forum in his personal capacity, or as an agreeable Tiv man, better still, whose interests does he represent, is it for a unified Arewa or does he speak for Tiv people, or is he chairman to weather the storm of reactionary statements that would have been more incendiary if there were a Fulani man in his stead instead? Equally more confusing are statements attributed