According to renowned Nigerian actor Pete Edochie, Igbo men are not ideally suited for politics. Politics frequently entails “treachery,” a quality that Igbo men “struggle to endure,” the famed actor asserted in an interview on Afia Culture & Lifestyle. He said that rather than continuing to engage in political scheming, an Igbo guy who has been betrayed prefers to entirely retire.
“An Igbo man is not a good politician, and I will tell you why. People who are used to politics or the treachery that often characterises politics can overlook a lot of things,” Pete Edochie said. “But the Igbo man is not constituted to condone treachery more than once. If you hurt an Igbo man once in politics, he will never give you the opportunity to hurt him again.
“He will recoil himself. That is the average Igbo man. The Igbo man simply is not built to endure political betrayal. “The moment you show any sign of treachery in dealing with him, he cuts you off. That is it.”
After starring in the lead role in the Nigerian Television Authority’s rendition of Chinua Achebe’s book “Things Fall Apart,” Edochie became well-known in the 1980s.
He is an Anambra state native of the Igbo ethnic group. Then-President Olusegun Obasanjo bestowed the 78-year-old with the national honor of Member of the Order of the Niger (MON) in 2003.
