The bishops she appointed, beyond appointing priests who could speak the language of their parishioners, also had little patience with it. (Read up on the Polish National Catholic Church and Alexis Toth sometime.) Refusing a bishop because he's the wrong ethnicity just isn't a traditional Catholic value [tm]. Sorry.
>>The Mbaise, legendarily ferocious about their Catholicism, are sometimes called the “Irish of Nigeria” because of their penchant for generating priests and dispatching them as missionaries. Yet they’ve long complained that their fidelity goes unappreciated, charging that the country’s hierarchy is dominated by rival ethnic groups from a neighboring state that forms the ecclesiastical province of Onitsha, which includes Okpaleke’s home diocese.<<
https://cruxnow.com/analysis/2017/06/11/three-ironies-dramatic-show-papal-muscle-nigeria/