Nigeria, Feb. 9 -- A netizen just stirred social media with what he described as a blunt opinion: that Peter Obi cannot become president now, or that no Igbo man can, because of how Northerners allegedly perceive the Igbo. He further attributed this impossibility to what he called the aggressive and insulting posture of Obidients toward Northerners. His remarks were followed by a categorical dismissal of any potential Obi-Kwankwaso alliance, which he declared "dead on arrival," complete with a tone of finality that sounded more like condolence than analysis.

Unsurprisingly, the comments attracted fierce backlash. Even Igbo members of the APC joined in condemning what they considered an offensive, disrespectful, and unnecessarily abrasiv...