IGBO SCHOLAR DISGRACES
Femi Fani-Kayode •Demolishes claims on Igbo/Yoruba history with facts and figures

An Igbo scholar, Dr. Samuel Okafor, has made one-time Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, look so small and uneducated by using facts and figures to demolish the claims he made in the controversial August 8 article, “The Bitter Truth About The Igbo”, which set off a storm that almost threatened Igbo-Yoruba relations.

In the first part of an article entitled “The Lies of Femi Fani-Kayode”, Okafor, who has a First Class in History from the University of Nigeria Nsukka and then did a Ph.D in Nsukka on scholarship, dismissed Fani-Kayode as a “half-baked intellectual.” He then proceeded, point by point, to address what he termed “the most reckless amongst the tangle of reckless comments spewed by Femi, a character who with each punch of his keypad stresses his severely unwell conditions of logorrhoea, delusions of enlightenment, history and sociology – amongst others.”

Below are Okafor’s words:

FEMI AND HIS SEVERELY IGNORANT LIES:

•Femi Lies About the Yorubas Being Nigeria’s Earliest Graduates:

From his myopic bubble Femi FaniKayode claims the Yoruba were the first to acquire Western education; the first ever known record of a literate Nigerian in the English Language is the narrative of an Ibo slave who regained his freedom and documented his life history as a slave from the time he was 11 years old in present day Ibo land till the time when he gained his freedom in the middle of the 18 th century. He later married an English woman and had 3 children. He died in 1795.

Femi, a basic Google-research will do you good here; check out the name, Equanoh OLAODAH. Further Femi claims that the Yoruba were the first lawyers and doctors in Nigeria. This is again a big falsehood. The first Nigeria doctor was an Effik man Silas G. Dove who obtained a medical degree from France and returned to practise medicine in 1840 in Calabar. This fact can also be verified from historical medical records in Paris.

I would also ask that you google the name BLYDEN – Edward Wilmot BLYDEN – an educated son of free Ibo slaves who by the mid-19th century had acquired sound theological education. He was born in Saint Thomas in 1832. He is one of the founding missionaries that established the Archbishop Vining church in Ikeja. Before the next time you succumb to your long-running battle with logorrhoea, Femi please do some research.

What about the third president of a free Liberia – President J JRoyle – again, a man of Ibo descent. Please take some time to do some research so that we can discuss constructively. It is wrong to peddle lies to your people. It is academic fraud to knowingly misrepresent facts just to score cheap points with people who do not have the discipline to do research and accept anything you pour out simply because they say you are well educated. To again quote the great Nobel Prize Winner in Economics Joseph Stiglitz; Femi fits into the category of third rate students from first rate universities with an inflated sense of self-importance. Let’s go on!

Who was the first Nigerian Professor of Mathematics – an Ibo man – Professor Chike Obi – the man who solved Fermat’s Last Theorem. He was followed by another Ibo man, Professor James Ezeilo, Professor of Differentail Calculus and the founder of the Ezeilo Constant. Please do some research on this great Ibo man. He later became the Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria Nsukka and one of the founders of the Nigerian Mathematical Centre. Who was Nigeria’s first Professor of Histroy – Professor Kenneth Dike who published the first account of trade in Nigeria in pre-colonial times. He was also the first African Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan. Who was the first Professor of Microbiology – Professor Eni Njoku; he was also the first African Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos. Anatomy and Physiology – Professor Chike Edozien is an Asaba man and current Obi of Asaba. Who was the first Professor of Anatomy at the University College Ibadan? Who was the first Professor of Physics? Professor Okoye, who became a Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1960. He was followed by the likes of Professor Alexander Anumalu who has been nominated for the Nobel Prize for Physics three times for his research in Intermediate Quantum Physics. He was also a founding member of the Nigerian Mathematical Centre. Nuclear Physics and Chemistry – again another Ibo man – Professor Frank Ndili who gained a Ph.D in his early ’20s at Cambridge Univesity in Nuclear Physics and Chemistry in the early ’60s. This young Asaba man had made a First Class in Physics and Mathematics at the then University College Ibadan in the early ’50s. First Professor of Statistics – Professor Adichie who’s research on Non-Parametric Statistics led to new areas in statistical research. What about the first Nigerian Professor of Medicine – Professor Kodilinye – he was appointed a Professor of Medicine at the University of London in 1952. He later became the Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria Nsukka after the war. What about Astronomy – again another Ibo man was the first Professor of Astronomy – please, look up Professor Ntukoju – he was the first to earn a double Ph.D in Astronomy and Mathematics.

Let’s go to the Social Sciences – Demography and statistical research into population studies – again another Ibo man – Professor Okonjo who set up the first Centre for Population Research in Ibadan in the early ’60s. A double Ph.D in Mathematics and Economics. Philosophy – Professor G D Okafor, who became a Professor of Philosophy at the Amherst College USA in 1953. Economics – Dr. Pius Okigbo who became a visiting scholar and Professor of Economics at the University of London in 1954. He is also the first Nigerian Ph.D in Economics. Theology and theological research – Professor Njoku who became the first Nigerian to earn a Ph.D in Theology from Queens University Belfast in Ireland. He was appointed a Professor of Theology at the University College Zambia in 1952.

I am still conducting research in areas such as Geography where it seems a Yoruba man, Professor Mabogunje, was the first Professor. I also am conducting research into who was the first Nigerian Professor of English, Theatre Arts, Languages, Business and Education, Law and Engineering, Computer Technology, etc. Nigerians need to be told the truth and not let the lies that Femi Fani-Kayode has been selling to some ignorant Yoruba who feel that to be the first to see the white man and interact with him means that you are way ahead of other groups. The Ibo as The great Achebe said had within a span of 40 years bridged the gap and even surpassed the Yoruba in education by the ’60s. Many a Yoruba people perpetually indulge in self-deceit: that they were the first to go to school; to be exposed to Western education; that they are academically ahead of other Nigerian cultures of peoples. Another ignorant lie.

As far back as 1495 the Benin Empire maintained a diplomatic presence in Portugal. This strategic relationship did not just stop at a mere mission but extended to areas such as education. Scores of young Benin men were sent out to Portugal to study and lots of them came back with advanced degrees in Medicine, Law and Portuguese Language, to name a few.

Indeed, some went with their Yoruba and Ibo slaves who served the sons of the Benin nobility while they studied in Portugal. These are facts that can be verified by the logs kept by ship owners in Portugal from 1494 to 1830. It is kept at the Portuguese Museum of Geographic History in Lisbon.

Why then would several Yoruba people peddle all these falsehoods to show that they are ahead educationally in Nigeria? The true facts from the Federal Office of Statistics on education tell otherwise, showing that 3 Ibo states for the past 12 years have constantly had the largest number of graduates in the country, producing more graduates than Ondo, Osun, Ekiti and Oyo states. These eastern states are Imo, Anambra and Abia. Yet he calls Ibos traders. Indeed, the Igbos dominate because excellence dominates mediocrity – truth.

Let me enlighten this falsehood’s mouthpiece even further: before the civil war Ibos controlled and dominated all institutions in the formal sector in Nigeria from the universities to the police to the military to politics:

•The first Black Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan was an Ibo man

•The first Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos was an Ibo man

•The first Nigerian Rector of the then Yaba College of Technology was also an Ibo man

•The police was run by an Ibo IG

•The military as a professional institution was also run by elite-ilk Ibos.

Facts can never be hidden. To be first does not mean you would win the race; let us open up all our institutions and may the best man win. Let us not depend on handouts or privileges but on heard work. Let us compete and give the best positions to our brightest – be it Ibo, Yourba or Fulani, and then we shall see who is the most successful Nigerian.

I find it difficult not to respond to some of these long-held lies that are constantly being peddled by Yorubas. One is that the Yoruba have the largest number of professors in the country. I would again ask that we stick to facts and statistical records. The Nigerian Universities Commission has a record of the state with the largest number of professors on their records and as at 2010 that state is Imo State followed by Ondo State and then Anambra State; the next state is Ekiti and then Delta before Kwara State. I am sure you Yorubas are surprised. When you sit in the South-West do not think others are sleeping but I wish to address another historical fact and that is who were the first Nigerians to receive Western education. It is important that these issues be examined in their historical context and evidence through research be presented for all to examine.

I have continued my research for as the great sociologist and father of modern sociology – Emile Durkheim – put it, the definition of a situation is real in its consequence . What this simply means is that one must never allow a perceived falsehood to become one’s reality and by extension individuals who accept a defined position act as though the situation is real and apply themselves in that narrowly defined perspective.

Why is this important to state it is because for long the Yoruba have peddled lies that have almost become accepted as the truth by other Nigerians but it is important that we lay down the facts for others to examine and come to their own conclusion for facts are facts. Let’s go back to education. Historically, Western education resulted as a product of indigenous ethnic groups interacting with the whites through trade. The dominant groups sold slaves, ivory gold and a host of other products to their European counterparts in exchange for finished goods – wine, tobacco, mirrors, etc.

The Bini who were the dominant military force from the 15th to the 19th century raided and sold other ethnicities to the Europeans. Top on the list of those they sold were the Yoruba, Ibo and Igala. Various other ethnicities suffered as a result of the Bini military expansion. And the Benin Kingdom stretched from present-day Benin up to what is now geographically referred to as Republic of Togo. Indeed, the influence of the Benin Empire extended to the banks of the river Niger to present-day Onistha. There are huge Yoruba settlements in the Anioma part of Delta State who fled Yoruba land as a result of these attacks and constant raids. Yes, there are Yoruba people who are currently living with Ibos in the Ibo-speaking part of Delta and they are full citizens of the place no one refers to them as strangers and there is no talk about the Ibos being the host community like we hear from the Governor of Lagos State. But let me return to research. Slaves were moved from the hinterland to the coast and many were sold through Eko to the New World. These slaves were the first to encounter the Europeans and by extension their way of life – this included education in a Western sense. The Bini King had taken pains to establish a diplomatic presence in Portugal and the relationship developed into areas that extended beyond trade in the late 15th century and lasted well into the early 19th century. Scores of young Bpni youth were sent to Portugal and studied there, coming back with advanced degrees in various disciplines. The next set of people to receive Western education were the slaves themselves. Some of them managed to buy their freedom and develop themselves further.

For the Ibo it does not matter who your father is; the question is: Who are you? Who was Obasanjo’s father? Was he the most educated Nigerian? I am sure the answer is no. Yet this Great Nigeria led this nation two times as a military Head of State and as a civilian President. What about GEJ? Who was his own father? Was he the first Nigerian to go to London? The answer is no. In fact, he had no shoes, yet he is fully in charge. So it does not matter if your father was the first Lawyer or first Doctor in Nigeria but rather what matters is what an individual does with the talents the Almighty has given to him. Let us open up Nigeria for competition. That is the solution to our problems. Those who want privileges keep reminding us that their fathers were the first to go to school in London. Every generation produces its own leaders and champions. Like Dangote who is the biggest employer of labour in Nigeria today and the richest man in Africa. Was his father the first to go to study in London? Yet he is the master of people whose parents gave them the best. My brothers, the answer to the Nigerian problem is that we should establish a merit-dr[truncated by WhatsApp]

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Donald Ekpo replies Alhaji Sagir

RE: BIAFRA IS A PLOT BY IGBO TO COLONISE SOUTH SOUTH – Alhaji Sagir Ringim

Sir, I want to thank you for your concern about the welfare of the people of the South South by exposing the plans of the Igbos to recolonize the region. But I am worried about the sincerity of these your concerns. Because of these worries, let us dissect and carefully assess your statements of fear and concerns in four (4) segments, so as not to repeat the mistakes of 1964, 1966 and 1967-1970s till date. In your carefully written letter or chat with the Journalists as reported in the national dallies yesterday, you clearly stated that the Igbos want to;

(1). SEIZE THE ECONOMIC PROSPECTS OF THE MINORITY ETHNIC NATIONALITY OF THE OIL RICH REGION.

Alhaji Ringim, may I remind you that the economic prospects of the South South is currently being seized and controlled by your people of the Northern protectorate of Nigeria. Does that in anyway mean that you agree that your people have colonized my region? Are you also aware that even the oil wells in Abia State, Imo State and Anambra state and recently Enugu State (Igbo land) is being owned by your people in the Northern Protectorate? Are you aware that we in the oil rich region (South South) do not have control over our wealth, and its fortunes are determined by your people? Are you also aware that after sharing the proceeds of oil between your protégés in Shell, Mobil, Agip and Chevron, the left over is given to 44 local government of your state Kano, and only 8 Local government of Bayelsa? How more criminal could that be?

Do you know that even when the Natural Gas from my State Akwa Ibom is used to generate power from my state owned Power Station, that the fraud of a constitution you fostered on my people does not allow me to use same electricity in my state or region, but I am forced to load it into the National grid that sends same power to your home in Kano State? Have you seen how the United Nigeria is enslaving me? Are you aware that the fraud of your constitution took away the economic prospects of my region by empowering only the Federal government to build roads that your people from the Northern protectorate never built in my state for over 40 years until the coming of our own Son Goodluck Jonathan, when he allowed state governments to tamper with Federal Roads, yet you were busy building all the so called federal roads in your region.

That your fraud of a constitution imposed on us by you and your allies in the southwest took away the power from us to develop on the economic prospects of the region thereby taking away our rights to economic progress for over 50 years. And here you are sir getting worried of what the Igbos will do to my people. Sir, have you been ever worried about what your people have done to my people? How many of my people have you killed in your region? Please tell me the number of my people slaughtered by the Igbos in their land that is enough for me to be weary of them. Remember that these are my neighbors that lived peacefully with us for centuries, shared cultures, intermarried and even celebrated common cultural events before you came with your successful propagandas that deceived our fathers?

(2). COLONISE THE SOUTH SOUTH, CAPTURE THE REGION, COLONISE THE OIL FIELD FOR BETTERMENT OF THE IGBOS.

Alhaji Sagir Ringim may I remind you that the Igbos are not the colonist as you have insinuated here, but you and your people in the northern protectorate. They have so far not shown the threat to colonize as when compared to your people. It is your people that used the oil from our region to better the livelihood of your people and that of your few allies in the Southwest. It is you that is synonymous with the word “CAPTURE”. It is your people that kill non-indigenes in your region to take-over their property. Alhaji Sagir Ringim, just in case you think this generation is as vulnerable are our grandfathers and fathers you deceived by your propaganda. You were able to make them see the Igbos as their enemies in the 60s. Please note that this is the 21st century of 2016.

We are aware of these same lies you told our grandfathers and fathers in the early 60s. We are aware that after lying to them that they were different from the Igbos, you still went ahead and killed them in the name of killing the Igbos. We are aware of the devilish, malicious and infernal act you used one of your willing protégés General Gowon to do when you suddenly created the South East State (Today’s Cross River/Akwa Ibom State), Rivers State (Today’s Rivers and Bayelsa state) just to devise the divide-and-rule policy that was advise by the evil British woman just to break the unity of the region.

We know that is was also based on Awolowo’s advise that certain parts of Igbo were sliced off, and added into the new states you created so as to weaken any form of unity that could hold. We have also read from a list of newspaper publications from the New York Post of the 60s as compiled by the LOWER NIGER CONGRESS on all the atrocities you committed against the people of the region before your final propaganda to separate them by these hypocritical lies. And we promise you that even though you used your fraud of a constitution to discourage the study of Nigerian History of the said period in Nigerian Schools, we will do well to expose this events in a carefully Chronicled format for every child/youth of this generation to know the truth. How dare you assume that even in the retard state of your protectorate, that you can conveniently influence the minds of the learned region in this millennium?

(3). BIAFRA IS LANDLOCKED AND WASN’T BLESSED WITH SOLID MATERIALS APART FROM COAL, ADDED THAT THE GEOLOGY OF THE ENCLAVE CAN’T SUPPORT AN INDEPENDENT COUNTRY.

Alhaji Sagir Ringim, if these are your fears about the existence of Biafra, first of all, are you revealing the fears of your region, the Northern protectorate of the 12 Sharia states or the entire protectorate? You do not have any mineral resources and you are landlocked. Are you telling me you and your people have been so worried of surviving alone hence your insistence of a non-functional ONE NIGERIA PROJECT? Let me explain this to you Sir;

The Igbos you are taking about do not just have a large reservoir of Coal in Enugu that can last for another century knowing that Coal is presently running major economies in Europe, South America and South Africa, the region also has a large reserve of Oil and gas in Abia and Imo state. Oil exploration in Anambra state has also commence and will soon commence in Enugu State. Can you see that your propagandas won’t work as it did in the 60s?

Apart from the fact that your people maliciously separated the Igbos from their original race to Delta, Rivers and Akwa Ibom states, we at the LOWER NIGER CONGRESS have taken it upon ourselves to expose the malicious schemes of lies you used to separate our region. Your protégé General Buhari made it easier for us on National Television when his hatred for the people overwhelmed his ability to continue in the cover of your propaganda. He acknowledged the fact that we were all the same people. That notwithstanding, in a matter time, your lies and propaganda will hit the broken bridges of discontinuity. How dare you generate fears that do not exist for your selfish interest? You must have been thinking how successful your deceitful and hypocritical lies would go in rejuvenating the lies of the 60s.

(4). BECAUSE OF THESE NATURAL SHORTCOMINGS, IGBOS SURVIVED AS A DIASPORA RACE THAN ANY DOMINANT GROUP IN NIGERIA. THE ECONOMIC PROWESS OF THE IGBOS IS DOMICILED OUTSIDE BIAFRA.

Alhaji Sagir Ringim, this is the most absurd and ridiculous of all your concerns as expressed by your expression of love towards my people in the Niger Delta region. Industrialist do not just sit and lazy about as expected by you. And these were one of the fears and concerned expressed by your late Sultan in a video we managed to see where he was worried about the Igbos in the north. Alhaji, are you aware that your successful brother, Dangote; one of the richest man in Africa, has his economic wealth spread and domiciled outside the Northern region? Or are you in anyway saying that because people expand, explore greener areas, that means such an individual has no space in his home? Your points are a bit too ridiculous to have considered as your reasons for granting this interview.

Having segmented your major reasons for advising my region to be weary of our Igbo brothers as those that intend to recolonize my people, I stand bold to say that you and your kinsmen are guilty of all your worries. It is also a cause for concern that you and your allies have suddenly decided to worry about the Niger Delta region. When did you love the region this much?

1. Are you not the same people that classify us all as Igbos during your killing and butchering spree and largess in the north?

2. How come you are bothered that the people you classify as one when butchering, are two different people when it comes to owners of wealth?

3. If you could desecrate our land as if we do not exist, come in and take away our oil wells as though it belongs to you?

4. Announce on National Television that the Oil in Bayelsa belongs to you in Kano and Jagawa?

5. Kill us at will if your religion is disrespected in faraway Norway?

6. Determine for us when and how our roads are built and how we use power generated from our resources?

7. Swore over your graves that our our kinsman cannot be President or else you make the country ungovernable of which you did?

Yet you have the guts to tell us to be weary of those that have not in any way attempted to take anything from us by force. I truly hope you realize that this is 2016 and not 1964.

It is best to inform you and all those that have decided to cry more than the bereaved that we are aware that these are the same propaganda you used to separate us, then forced us to continue in this unholy Union. That was a very unfortunate thing to have happened that kept us in this bondage.

Fortunately for us, the UNITED NATION CHARTER ON THE RIGHTS OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE is a tool you cannot do anything about. THE LOWER NIGER CONGRESS has taken advantage of these rights and it is set to call for a referendum. Quit crying on our behalf, we are presently studying the Constitution of which the Region will be built upon and so far, it can never be an evil as the Forced Marriage called Nigeria.

Thank you for your concerns Alhaji and co."

By Donald Ekpo

greenermodels:
the Bmc crew are now asking for a Niger Delta republic? these guys are clowns. God bless Biafra.

neoOduduwa:
And why on earth would we hate Igbos? You're actually the hateful ones who'll never get along with anyone. Nairaland, Facebook, Twitter you're always there throwing insults around. You so much despise Yorùbás, but you're using Nairaland which is a Yoruba man's platform. You hate Yorùbás so much but your majority can't stop flocking into our cities. What's there to hate about you? You're just mad we're not taking part in your Biafra shenanigans and it's eating you up real bad. Yorùbás don't give a sh¡t, hate the north all you want, who cares. As long as the south west is peaceful and keeps developing. You want to throw tantrums, face your nothern tormentors because they're the ones cracking the whip on your heads. Igbos make up a great number of the stakeholders in different political parties and you still blame the SWers for being behind your misfortune? Why are your fellow igbo men not making better decisions in your interest? I'll tell you why, they're all greedy cynical buffoons who don't give a sh¡t about the Ndigbo, they're the main dogs wagging their tails at the bones of the northerners. Blame your people for your misfortune, not SWers. Awa ko la ko ba yin.

Ok oo. I've heard you. Like I said you asked me a question and I gave you an answer.

If you want to see who really hates the Yorubas then leave your region. Go to the north, the middle belts, the SS minority tribes. They will tell you the same thing. '' ''yorubas Have this irritating deceitful character''. Nobody likes deceitful people.

I served in the middle belt and a lot of times i heard this people voice their disapproval of your people and it always come down to the same thing :TREACHERY.

Sexina851:



But he didn't say anything about northerns there nau.

wen was the last time oduduwa son punish that thing between ur legs? i thing u are over due.

irrefragable:
Ok oo. I've heard you. Like I said you asked me a question and I gave you an answer.

If you want to see who really hates the Yorubas then leave your region. Go to the north, the middle belts, the SS minority tribes. They will tell you the same thing. '' ''yorubas Have this irritating deceitful character''. Nobody likes deceitful people.

I served in the middle belt and a lot of times i heard this people voice their disapproval of your people and it always come down to the same thing :TREACHERY.

Of course, you'll ever use whatever stereotype that suits you. Why should I travel around like a Fulani nomad? I told you earlier that you're hateful and until you learn to let go, your hatred and frustration will keep eating you up. All Igbos are saints abi? The same dunce that led millions of people into slaughter ran off to Ivory Coast to save his ass. I ask you once again, how many of them stood with Kanu. Didn't they keep mum on the orders of their nothern masters? Are your eastern leaders not living large while your young ones die like chickens in protests? You travel to a man's land; you eat his food, taste his water and breathe his air, and yet you still badmouth him, who's the real pathetic being here? Thanks to this forum, I think fellow Yoruba people are now beginning to see you people for what you really are. I was amazed when Olamide made a caption on instagram that said "say no to tribalism". Is it the same with the hateful Igbos? A Yoruba man supports others, but Igbos will ever support only thiers, they'd rather support the third party than a Yoruba man. A Yorùbá man is ever tolerant of just about anybody, but no, hateful Igbos will ever hate.

Jodha:


Yhu said it all bruh... Long live the ijaw nation... Long live Niger delta...


No be small kain cun men...we all know Igbos want us because of our... They want to take control of our God given natural resources... We don't want...


We shall rise up.. They themselves (Igbos) they know.. If it comes to war... They can't fight us... We'll bring back egbesu... Dem no fit sef...

For peace to reign.. Easterners should go with their Biafra.. We the south South will have our own Republic...

Thanks bro for supporting the movement..

you don't need to worry yourself. I can confidently tell you that ijaw, itsekiri, urhobo and ogoni will most likely not be among the Biafran nation. We don't need you people to be with us.

neoOduduwa:
Of course, you'll ever use whatever stereotype that suits you. Why should I travel around like a Fulani nomad? I told you earlier that you're hateful and until you learn to let go, your hatred and frustration will keep eating you up. All Igbos are saints abi? The same dunce that led millions of people into slaughter ran off to Ivory Coast to save his ass. I ask you once again, how many of them stood with Kanu. Didn't they keep mum on the orders of their nothern masters? Are your eastern leaders not living large while your young ones die like chickens in protests? You travel to a man's land; you eat his food, taste his water and breathe his air, and yet you still badmouth him, who's the real pathetic being here? Thanks to this forum, I think fellow Yoruba people are now beginning to see you people for what you really are. I was amazed when Olamide made a caption on instagram that said "say no to tribalism". Is it the same with the hateful Igbos? A Yoruba man supports others, but Igbos will ever support only thiers, they'd rather support the third party than a Yoruba man. A Yorùbá man is ever tolerant of just about anybody, but no, hateful Igbos will ever hate.

On the issue of ojukwu, i will say his escape to Ivory Coast really robbed you Nigerians off the much needed satisfaction that you lots craved. If you had captured him then, you would have beheaded him and used the pictures to taunt the Igbos till today.

On nnamdi kanu, i will tell you not to be deceived. There are underhanded manoeuvres going on. Igbo leaders are with him but they won't expose themselves yet.

And please remember we only desire to have a different country from you guys, no time to be hating anyone.

Pharaoh9:



Mr man, South South is just a Nigerian Region, Not because the Nigerian govt divided the Old Eastern Region in to two, I know people who shout Niger Delta were Mid Westerners. you can be on your own or join the Oduduwa people, the South East including Akwa-Ibom and Cross-Rivers are Biafra...

Edo people who couldn't give GEJ enough votes despite relating to Ijaw by State is shouting Niger Delta. I'M A NIGER DELTA

Abeg abeg Cross River is not part of your Biafra ,do u think we will sit n fold our arms and watch you guys ride on us?

Jodha:
While at it... Just know that South South.. We're not part of yhu guys...

We want our own "Nigerdelta Republic"... We just dey look una...

Lead the way.. We'll follow suit..


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Igbos be quoting me up and down... No matter how hard yhu wail.. We can never be part of yhur Republic..
It's only a fool that will accept to do things together with Igbos. ...
We're patiently waiting for yhu guys to succeed in yhur Republic of Biafra quest... Then the ijaw nation and the whole Niger delta will rise up.. And demand for our own Republic...

Long live Niger delta.. Long live the ijaw nation.. Egberifa oo.. Yaah..

am form Niger delta and I must tell we are all biafra like it or not

irrefragable:
On the issue of ojukwu, i will say his escape to Ivory Coast really robbed you Nigerians off the much needed satisfaction that you lots craved. If you had captured him then, you would have beheaded him and used the pictures to taunt the Igbos till today.

On nnamdi kanu, i will tell you not to be deceived. There are underhanded manoeuvres going on. Igbo leaders are with him but they won't expose themselves yet.

And please remember we only desire to have a different country from you guys, no time to be hating anyone.

Funny how you refer to me as a Nigerian and you probably still have a Nigerian passport. I don't know what will become of the Biafra story but as at now, you can be a Biafran only in your mind because you're still a Nigerian in reality. I'm not surprised you're crediting desertion as an heroic feat in Ojukwu's case. And if there are Igbos who've refused to declare their support for Kanu and Biafra publicly, then I now know who the real cowards are. You're not hating, really? Really? Like seriously, really? Igbos just keep disgusting me by the day, honestly.

eki2000:
I am a true son of mkpat enin L.G.A in Akwa Ibom State, My clan is Ikpa -Ibom clan, ward 4, Mkpat enin. I want to clear the air that Akwa Ibom is not and will never be part of Biafra, Let no Igbo man think that we are fools or we do not know what an average Igbo person is. You people are oppressors, liars and cheats. As a matter of fact, No single Flag of Biafra has ever been raised or even held in Akwa Ibom before. We are waiting for a day any Idiot or group of fools would carry, display or Wave a Biafra flag in our streets so that we use them to set example for others to learn. I believe same of my fellow NigerDelta States.

They think we don't know what there are driving at ,they just want to use us to achieve what they want and after the creation of Biafra they will start oppressing us by that time we may not even have a say in the country

bounty007:


where is nigerdelta. who and who are the Nigerdeltans... what tribe made up the Nigerdelta as a nation..

we have the igbo nation. Yoruba nation or oduduwa..
Hausas..fulani.. these are tribes.. even the ijaws..

now which tribe is called the nigerdelta or south south..

please explain..

The Niger Delta is a combination of various tribes which have come together to be recognised as a single entity. It started one day.
No member of the Niger Delta states are denying that name Niger Delta. Unlike biafra which folks are refuting up and down

YelloweWest:

The Niger Delta is a combination of various tribes which have come together to be recognised as a single entity. It started one day.
No member of the Niger Delta states are denying that name Niger Delta. Unlike biafra which folks are refuting up and down

various tribes come together..recognised as a single entity..
when was that... which tribe and which tribe came together..
pls can you provide facts to this..

thank you..

bounty007:


various tribes come together..recognised as a single entity..
when was that... which tribe and which tribe came together..
pls can you provide facts to this..

thank you..

Pls ask any urhobo, isoko, Ijaw, efic, Ikwerre Kalabari. Okirika, ogoni, eleme, esan etc man whether he is Nigerdelta then hear his response.

By the way it's not by force. Any community not will to join will be left alone but the last time I checked no one has complained.

bounty007:


who be south south?

abeg i need answer na na...

no matter how yu try to twist it, we are not, and will never be Bifrans. NIGER DELTA REPUBLIC WE STAND

Dopeluiz:
no matter how yu try to twist it, we are not, and will never be Bifrans. NIGER DELTA REPUBLIC WE STAND

Hallelujah!! Bless you Bro.


Any how they like let them twist it. We will NEVER drop Niger Delta for biafra. NEVER!

neoOduduwa:
Funny how you refer to me as a Nigerian and you probably still have a Nigerian passport. I don't know what will become of the Biafra story but as at now, you can be a Biafran only in your mind because you're still a Nigerian in reality. I'm not surprised you're crediting desertion as an heroic feat in Ojukwu's case. And if there are Igbos who've refused to declare their support for Kanu and Biafra publicly, then I now know who the real cowards are. You're not hating, really? Really? Like seriously, really? Igbos just keep disgusting me by the day, honestly.

Igbos keep disgusting you by the day, you see? You see where the hate is coming from?

I have said it before that only yorubas would attack someone and then turn around to tell the world how they are being attacked.

You hate the igbos then asked me a question 'why the igbos beef yorubas' just to start a meaningless argument. DECEIT. The only difference is that you guys have learnt to mask your own hatred while the igbos only say it as they feel it. TREACHERY
I have told you what the igbos Really want is to have their own country but you lots have jumped in like a swarm of bees to scuttle their secession plans and when they reciprocated your attack you accuse them of hate.

If you so much love Nigeria then why not stay and build it with your northern brothers?

centboy123456:




am form Niger delta and I must tell we are all biafra like it or not

What part of the Niger Delta are u from??

YelloweWest:

Hallelujah!! Bless you Bro.


Any how they like let them twist it. We will NEVER drop Niger Delta for biafra. NEVER!

bro these guys only want us because of our proximty to the ocean and because of the oil we have... we will surely become a worse minority than we are already under this Nigerian govt. Never enter into an agreement with an igbo. They always after their benefits

Its even good sef let dis idiots and ret@rds leave Nigeria for good.

YelloweWest:

What part of the Niger Delta are u from??

I am from Agbor... pay no mind to the idiot... Even if they break away and somehow agbor becomes part of them, will still be a Niger Deltan!!

irrefragable:
Igbos keep disgusting you by the day, you see? You see where the hate is coming from?

I have said it before that only yorubas would attack someone and then turn around to tell the world how they are being attacked.

You hate the igbos then asked me a question 'why the igbos beef yorubas' just to start a meaningless argument. DECEIT. The only difference is that you guys have learnt to mask your own hatred while the igbos only say it as they feel it. TREACHERY
I have told you what the igbos Really want is to have their own country but you lots have jumped in like a swarm of bees to scuttle their secession plans and when they reciprocated your attack you accuse them of hate.

If you so much love Nigeria then why not stay and build it with your northern brothers?

Deceit? Treachery? What is this one talking about? I said Igbos keep disgusting me by the day, how does that infer hatred? Read between my comments before giving me a mention please. Yorùbás don't mask sh¡t, if you fvck up, we'll say it straight to your face. Igbos are the ones who use tribe to defend crime and all that, if you're Yoruba and we find out you're a criminal, we'll castigate you accordingly without leaving room for that he-is-our-thief nonsense. We don't go around badmouthing people like sissies. The fate of Biafra isn't in my hands so face your nothern tormentors and stop hating.

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Queenybliss:


Abeg abeg Cross River is not part of your Biafra ,do u think we will sit n fold our arms and watch you guys ride on us?

But your forefathers fought for Biafra?

FemiFimile:


wen was the last time oduduwa son punish that thing between ur legs? i thing u are over due.

Nah ur mother u dey talk to. U just picked the wrong person to exchange words with I asked u at simple question, in fact I wonder what attracts goats like u to social medias cos ur composition and understanding is animal like

FemiFimile:


wen was the last time oduduwa son punish that thing between ur legs? i thing u are over due.

Nah ur mother u dey talk to. U just picked the wrong person to exchange words with I asked u a simple question, in fact I wonder what attracts goats like u to social medias cos ur composition and understanding are likened to animals

FemiFimile:


wen was the last time oduduwa son punish that thing between ur legs? i thing u are over due.

Nah ur mother u dey talk to. Cos I only asked a simple question. But sincerely I wonder wat attracts goats like u to social medias. Cos ur response just showed u are a little better than an animal

YelloweWest:

Pls ask any urhobo, isoko, Ijaw, efic, Ikwerre Kalabari. Okirika, ogoni, eleme, esan etc man whether he is Nigerdelta then hear his response.

By the way it's not by force. Any community not will to join will be left alone but the last time I checked no one has complained.

okay...
but you've said nothing..
am from nigerdelta.. and am igbo... and i understand fact that nigerdelta struggle has always been an ijaw struggle for resources control on their soil..

many of you dont understand what it takes to be called a nation..

you guys keep saying things just for sayin sake..

when push come to shove.. you will understand the fact. that there is nothing like nigerdelta or south..

the best is for minorities in the south to align with any major tribe..

if you're ever dreaming of a country with efik,anang,ijaw,ikwere, etch,epie,ogbia,urhobo,benin,anioma as a nigerdelta republic..

then you my friends and others like you are. and will be on a long thing..

enjoy.

YelloweWest:
What part of the Niger Delta are u from??

delta state

Dopeluiz:
no matter how yu try to twist it, we are not, and will never be Bifrans. NIGER DELTA REPUBLIC WE STAND

twist what...

what do you know about Nigerdeltans..

tom dick n harry..want comment..

which states made up of the so called nigerdelta..

abeg no dey mention me.. if you gat nothing..

thanks.

bounty007:


okay...
but you've said nothing..
am from nigerdelta.. and am igbo... and i understand fact that nigerdelta struggle has always been an ijaw struggle for resources control on their soil..

many of you dont understand what it takes to be called a nation..

you guys keep saying things just for sayin sake..

when push come to shove.. you will understand the fact. that there is nothing like nigerdelta or south..

the best is for minorities in the south to align with any major tribe..

if you're ever dreaming of a country with efik,anang,ijaw,ikwere, etch,epie,ogbia,urhobo,benin,anioma as a nigerdelta republic..

then you my friends and others like you are. and will be on a long thing..

enjoy.

The best thing is for minority tribe to align with any major tribe

Yet you are a minority tribe in Nigeria who dose not want to align with the majority. That's why u seek secession.

The Niger Delta has all it takes to be a sovereignty. You igbos just want sea port and oil.
We dont want to be part of Biafra. It's not by force.