BlastAfonja:


Stupidity runs in your vein i swear. Igbos have never served anyone, not even the British, which is the reason they supplied arms to Nigeria to fight Biafra despite colonising all of us Nigerians.

Ibadan is like toy compared to Enugu, are you crazy to even compare the world aclaimed "brownroof" city to the coal city of Enugu. You are far from normal.

If i call you Afonja now they will think i'm being wicked.

Mind yourself o

Are you mad? Which Enugu? What’s enugu in igr and gdp? Industrial estate Dey Enugu? Does Enugu have up to 12gras? Does it have up to 3 standard cinemas?does it have 7 shopping malls? Which industrial estate in potorpotor region is bigger than oluyole industrial estate? You’re really mad for saying such nonsense

BlowBack:
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Igbos have suffered in Nigeria all because they lost a war of independence.

Imagine this nonetity of a being deginerating Ibos when his own people are by far the most lazy delinquents south of the Niger.

Never ever in your life think that by degenerating Ibos you will some how find unity among Niger Deltans.

I am a Niger Deltan and I can state categorically that you Binis are a big disgrace to the region.

Hell, even you don't even share same political views with us as can be seen with your prefered broom party.

Edo state is filled with Zombies
Poverty, crime and all vices are your trade marks.

You suffer the ignoble roles as being both the Yorubas (treacherous bastards) and fulani (criminals) of the SS people.

I just stumbled upon this thread to see your outrightly amusing vituperations against Edo State.
I think we at this point need to tell ourselves some uncomfortable truth about this marriage of convenience called South-South. For the sake of fostering brotherhood, Edos have never used these ugly truths against the other SS people especially those from the present Rivers and Bayelsa which I logically guess is your state of origin. But there is no use pretending now, hence I have to lay it bare before you.
Let me start by making it abundantly clear that the people now collectively referred to as Edo State have been a unique people before and after colonization. They also, as attested to by cultural historians and experts, are a people richly blessed with intellectual resourcefulness and commitment to ideals of any struggle in which they find themselves. These are borne out by numerous Edo-first records like; an Edo man being the first to move motion for independence, the same Edo man also being the first mover of the motion for seceesion clause which if had been allowed would have been a very powerful check on the misgovernance we are all reeling from today, Edo State being home to the first polytechnic in the country, the first private university in the country, the first state owned university in the country, the first private airline owned by a Nigerian anywhere in the world, the cradle and home of the pioneership of the struggle for the emancipation of minorities from WAZOBIA strangehold....a movement which gave birth to the SS identity of today; etc. That consciousness of their uniqueness is deeply ingrained in them so much that they have a hard time trying to follow the crowd just for the purpose of political correctness especially when the crowd is totally wrong.

In case you are not aware, the first ever SS governors meeting, tagged a handshake across the Niger, was held in Benin City as a mark of honour for Edo State in acknowledgedment of the pioneering role played by Oba Akenzua in freeing Southern minorities from the clutches of Yorubas and Igbos. Edo in the form of Midwest was able to extricate itself from Yoruba domination while you Eastern minorities could do practically nothing to free yourselves from Igbo domination in the Eastern Region. So if we are talking of superiority in the strange marriage called SS, do you think you a Bayelsan should be anywhere comparable with Edo? But have you ever heard any Edo person ridicule any Eastern minority tribe with this ugly truth about them?

Thirdly, to Edo people, the SS identity is to some extent a subsumption and dilution of their unique identity and glowing records with those of others who had no defined political identity for a long time until very recently. But we choose to accept the SS grouping for the sole purpose that its objective ultimately broadens the scope of Oba Akenzua's Western Minorities struggle. So don't think Edo gives priority to being SS over being just their unique selves as before colonization. Based on the foregoing, it is therefore ridiculous and very irritating that the SS identity which began as a new dimension in the struggle for Southern minorities extrication in the sense of seeking a return to 75% resource control as it obtained when Hausafulanis, Yorubas and Igbos owned and controlled their groundnut pyramids, Cocoa and oil palm respectively; has now been reduced by you to a mere voting pattern affair.
So, going by your rather poorly made opinion, Edo must stick to PDP so as to qualify for SS membership even at the risk of misgovernance which Edo State chapter of the PDP is notorious for? I wish you had the likes of Tony Anenih, Gabriel Igbinedion, and other heartless Edo PDP chieftains as leaders of PDP in your Bayelsa State so you understand on first hand basis why Edo people did away with PDP after 8 years of experimenting with them. There is no controversy about the fact that Lucky Igbinedion of Edo State remains the worst of all the 36 governors that reigned from 1999 to 2007. Bad as his closest brother governor, Ibori, was, he was thousand times better than Lucky Igbinedion. At least Ibori built schools, roads, homes, etc for Deltans amidst his looting. But lucky's looting was so 100% pure that the resultant frustration in the land led to a massive increase in the state of human trafficking for prostitution in Italy as you rightly observed but wrongly ascribed to an imbred culture. Lucky Igbenedion's PDP government constructed not even a meter of road anywhere in Edo State but looted the state blind to invest in his father's businesses all over Africa. When Edos claim that Lucky did nothing in the state in his eight years, do you think it is an exaggeration? Under PDP years from 1999 to 2007, Edo State was struggling with Northern States for the bottom of GDP statistics tables, but just within 8 years of APC rule, the state has risen to 4th position on the GDP per Capita table beating your own Bayelsa silly.
Tony Anenih, another Edo PDP chieftain and Works/Housing minister got over N6bn three different budget years for the Benin Lagos Road, but all of it went into his pocket and Edos paid the price bitterly. It was so bad in Edo State under PDP that while other SS states were always in the news for one project or the other being undertaken by their governors, what made news from Edo State were stuffs like "Anenih and Lucky Igbinedion snub each other at a public event", "A child who fails an exam should repeat that class", etc.
How many would one mention? Which other SS state was so unlucky to be home to such a collection of evil men as PDP leaders in Edo State? Yet you want Edo to have foolishly, stupidly and blindly stuck to PDP with such characters in charge of the party? You think we are cursed? Isn't this weird expectation of yours an evidence that you are actually guilty of the zombiism you try to accuse Edo people of? Your state of Bayelsa is the lowest among the SS on the GDP per Capita table despite the huge oil revenues you collect. As long as GDP/Capita is the measure of overall wealth of societies, isn't it therefore a display of ignorance on your part to claim that Edo with it's 4th position is poorer than Bayelsa with it's 20th position? How much does Edo get from oil compared with Bayelsa yet Edo is ahead clearly on that table and would have been number one if not for the 8 year monumental misrule of the state by your beloved but Hausafulanis founded PDP?

BlowBack:
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Igbos have suffered in Nigeria all because they lost a war of independence.

Imagine this nonetity of a being deginerating Ibos when his own people are by far the most lazy delinquents south of the Niger.

Never ever in your life think that by degenerating Ibos you will some how find unity among Niger Deltans.

I am a Niger Deltan and I can state categorically that you Binis are a big disgrace to the region.

Hell, even you don't even share same political views with us as can be seen with your prefered broom party.

Edo state is filled with Zombies
Poverty, crime and all vices are your trade marks.

You suffer the ignoble roles as being both the Yorubas (treacherous bastards) and fulani (criminals) of the SS people.

I just stumbled upon this thread to see your outrightly amusing vituperations against Edo State.
I think we at this point need to tell ourselves some uncomfortable truth about this marriage of convenience called South-South. For the sake of fostering brotherhood, Edos have never used these ugly truths against the other SS people especially those from the present Rivers and Bayelsa which I logically guess is your state of origin. But there is no use pretending now, hence I have to lay it bare before you.
Let me start by making it abundantly clear that the people now collectively referred to as Edo State have been a unique people before and after colonization. They also, as attested to by cultural historians and experts, are a people richly blessed with intellectual resourcefulness and commitment to ideals of any struggle in which they find themselves. These are borne out by numerous Edo-first records like; an Edo man being the first to move motion for independence, the same Edo man also being the first mover of the motion for seceesion clause which if had been allowed would have been a very powerful check on the misgovernance we are all reeling from today, Edo State being home to the first polytechnic in the country, the first private university in the country, the first state owned university in the country, the first private airline owned by a Nigerian anywhere in the world, the cradle and home of the pioneership of the struggle for the emancipation of minorities from WAZOBIA strangehold....a movement which gave birth to the SS identity of today; etc. That consciousness of their uniqueness is deeply ingrained in them so much that they have a hard time trying to follow the crowd just for the purpose of political correctness especially when the crowd is totally wrong.

In case you are not aware, the first ever SS governors meeting, tagged a handshake across the Niger, was held in Benin City as a mark of honour for Edo State in acknowledgedment of the pioneering role played by Oba Akenzua in freeing Southern minorities from the clutches of Yorubas and Igbos. Edo in the form of Midwest was able to extricate itself from Yoruba domination while you Eastern minorities could do practically nothing to free yourselves from Igbo domination in the Eastern Region. So if we are talking of superiority in the strange marriage called SS, do you think you a Bayelsan should be anywhere comparable with Edo? But have you ever heard any Edo person ridicule any Eastern minority tribe with this ugly truth about them?

Thirdly, to Edo people, the SS identity is to some extent a subsumption and dilution of their unique identity and glowing records with those of others who had no defined political identity for a long time until very recently. But we choose to accept the SS grouping for the sole purpose that its objective ultimately broadens the scope of Oba Akenzua's Western Minorities struggle. So don't think Edo gives priority to being SS over being just their unique selves as before colonization. [b]Though I put the blame of this nonsense here on the OP who brought Edo so low to be seeking capital of a strange bedfellows region which to a large extent is an erosion on the uniqueness of Edo.
Based on the foregoing, it is therefore ridiculous and very irritating that the SS identity which began as a new dimension in the struggle for Southern minorities extrication in the sense of seeking a return to 75% resource control as it obtained when Hausafulanis, Yorubas and Igbos owned and controlled their groundnut pyramids, Cocoa and oil palm respectively; has now been reduced by you to a mere voting pattern affair.
So, going by your rather poorly made opinion, Edo must stick to PDP so as to qualify for SS membership even at the risk of misgovernance which Edo State chapter of the PDP is notorious for? I wish you had the likes of Tony Anenih, Gabriel Igbinedion, and other heartless Edo PDP chieftains as leaders of PDP in your Bayelsa State so you understand on first hand basis why Edo people did away with PDP after 8 years of experimenting with them. There is no controversy about the fact that Lucky Igbinedion of Edo State remains the worst of all the 36 governors that reigned from 1999 to 2007. Bad as his closest brother governor, Ibori, was, he was thousand times better than Lucky Igbinedion. At least Ibori built schools, roads, homes, etc for Deltans amidst his looting. But lucky's looting was so 100% pure that the resultant frustration in the land led to a massive increase in the state of human trafficking for prostitution in Italy as you rightly observed but wrongly ascribed to an imbred culture. Lucky Igbenedion's PDP government constructed not even a meter of road anywhere in Edo State but looted the state blind to invest in his father's businesses all over Africa. When Edos claim that Lucky did nothing in the state in his eight years, do you think it is an exaggeration? Tony Anenih, another Edo PDP chieftain and Works/Housing minister got over N6bn three different budget years for the Benin Lagos Road, but all of it went into his pocket and Edos paid the price bitterly. It was so bad in Edo State under PDP that while other SS states were always in the news for one project or the other being undertaken by their governors, what made news from Edo State were stuffs like "Anenih and Lucky Igbinedion snub each other at a public event", "A child who fails an exam should repeat that class", etc.
How many would one mention? Which other SS state was so unlucky to be home to such a collection of evil men as PDP leaders in Edo State? Yet you want Edo to have foolishly, stupidly and blindly stuck to PDP with such characters in charge of the party? You think we are cursed?

Edo in thej form of Midwest was able to extricate itself from Yoruba domination while you Eastern minorities could do practically nothing to free yourselves from Igbo domination in the Eastern Region.

I don't know the meaning of this.
But I know that if not for the Igbo led NCNC government, ably represented Igbos like Dennis Osadebay and Azikiwe, their wouldn't have been Midwestern region.

You overexaggerated Edo role in the Midwestern struggle, while diminishing and even presenting Igbos as villains.
You have always been dishonest, so I'm not surprised.

If Edo State people's preference for APC as a result of PDP's monumental failure in the state makes them the Yorubas and Fulanis of the SS, then what do we say of the Ijaws whom every other Southern Nigerians refer to as the Fulanis of the South owing to their penchant for uncontrolled migration and struggle with others over lands?
Aren't you Bayelsans part of the old Rivers State which preferred the Fulani owned NRC hence oddly voted massively for Tofa a fulani man at a time most other Southern States dominated by SDP were irritated over the North's strangehold on power and therefore resolved to have a Southerner have it in the person of MKO? Who, in the entire South let alone Edo, begrudged you Riverians and Bayelsans for that off choice which ran against those of other SS states of today like Edo, Delta, Akwa Ibom and Cross River? Wasn't it partly due to you present day Bayelsans' preference and love for Hausafulani headed federal government of Balewa that you declared secession from of Nigeria seeing that your darling but despotic Balewa had been slain? While every other Southern state had representatives in NADECO which fought the Hausafulani militaristic Oligarchy to relinquish political power to the South, you Bayelsans and Riverians had no member in the group because you were wining and dining with the Hausafulani Generals in power while the struggle lasted.
No state of the SS had been as treacherous as you people of Old Rivers State.
What about Jonathan your fellow Bayelsan who abandoned the SS Question and in pursuit of a non-existent one-Nigeria wasted funds building unsolicited Almajiri schools for the same Fulanis at the expense of his own SS people's wealth? No president from any of the four other SS states would be that treacherous.
Did anyone on account of that referred to you as the Fulanis of the South?
Even in both the first and second Republics, your political alliances always gravitated towards the Hausafulani controlled NPC and NPN respectively. Who labelled you Bayelsans and Riverians the fulanis of the South for those political betrayals of the South? I don't know how you comfortably forgot that your beloved PDP was a metamorphosis of the PDM owned and controlled by the fulani dominated Katsina Mafia. Hasn't the APC today won in Bayelsa the very senatorial seat of the constituency of the very Jonathan around whose 2015
defeat your sudden and overnight hatred for your hitherto darling Fulanis is built?
Aren't all of your sister Rivers State's Senatorial seats currently in the kitty of the broom party despite the claim that PDP is Rivers and Rivers is PDP?
When it mattered most, And the South-South solidarity became an issue of action over words, only the Governor of Edo State, Oshiomhole from the opposition party, was bold and daring enough to stand by Jonathan over his rather unpopular and wrongly timed policy of subsidy removal. At the risk of being accused of anti-party activities, Oshiomhole and Edos openly sided with Jonathan against an overwhelming majority just for SS solidarity. Ironically the other five SS governors from Jonathan's own PDP could not stand the ignominy of siding with Jonathan a supposed brother over such unpopular policy. They all chickened into their shells while Oshiomhole put his hard earned credibility on the line for Jonathan who, in his treacherous attitude, later plotted to impeach Oshiomhole, and you think Edos should have stuck to PDP all the same? Oshiomhole was initially a toast as most Nigerians saw him as an ideal presidential candidate in his NLC days. But he has become a hard sell today partly due to his open support for an unpopular policy of a treacherous Bayelsan in the name of solidarity for a region for which Edos have sacrificed so much but are getting insults and abuses from some thankless fellows across the Niger.

Do you just speak out of emotions of the moment without a deep reflection on the issues in a holistic manner?
Let me pause here first and await your response.

pazienza:


I don't know the meaning of this.
But I know that if not for the Igbo led NCNC government, ably represented Igbos like Dennis Osadebay and Azikiwe, they wouldn't have been Midwestern region.

You overexaggerated Edo role in the Midwestern struggle, while diminishing and even presenting Igbos as villains.
You have always been dishonest, so I'm not surprised.

See who Is accusing me of dishonesty? If the Igbo controlled NCNC was that magnanimous to have helped Edo get the Midwest Region as you would have us believe, then why couldn't they extend the magnanimity to their closer relatives (the Eastern minorities) to achieve the COR Region which they too were asking for at the same period? I thought they say charity begins from home? You think there is any kind of dishonesty greater than a claim which implicitly indicts the claimant of not beginning his charity from home? Commedian!

BlowBack:
Hardcoreedoman, let us take this your trash into perspective...

Are you basing your Benin as capital of SS Region on which of the following: Political, Economic, Spiritual/Morality or Education?

Lets start with Political.

Is Benin the Political [/b]capital of the SS region and people? The answer is a resounding NO as can be seen with the mere fact that Edo politics for the last 8years has never been in tandem with that of the rest of the SS region and as things stand it will not change anytime soon.

[b]Economic reasons require solid economic facts and inices so this will not be that difficult. Is Benin city the leading city in terms of economic activities in the entire SS region? The answer again is a resounding NO! Whatever little decaying infrastructure you have in Benin was built during the old days of Bendel where Benin city was the capital with monies from Delta streaming in to develop that city. With PH, Warri, Uyo, Calabar, Yenegoa and even Asaba topping your backward city that relies solely on repatriated funds from illicit sex trade and human trafficking.


Spiritual reasons won't hold either as the Oba of Benin remains the Oba of Benin only. His influence and reach may have extended to Asaba and as far as Onistcha to the east and southwards to Warri in the past, but that is all in the distant past! Or how do you expect an Efik man to worship your god-King in this day and age when he never had any influence on the Efik people?

The morality question is also to be considered and from all look of things you are not in the right position o preach morality and ethics to the rest of the SS when you have no problem benefiting from modern-day sex slavery.

What of Education and enlightenment? The Bini man is no longer interested in the pursuit of education. All they want is to go to abroad to engage in petty crimes. When last did you hear of a Bini man or woman being honored for educational achievements? Your guess is as good as mine.

From all this we can simply state that the Binis are in no where qualified to lead the SS in any capacity but rather we see that you are a disgrace to the region.

Of course Edos are not a follow follow people who would for some mudane reasons of blending in politically allow themselves to continue being ruled by the rapacious gang of Anenih, Igbinedion, Ikhimi which constitutes the state's PDP leadership which has been tested but woefully failed the people resulting in everything currently wrong with the state?

The modern sex slavery you talk of was a resort taken to in the face of the state's crippling economy wrought by the mountainous misrule of the same PDP you want them to have stuck to so as to blend with the other SS states. Mind you that even your Bayelsa State has started falling out of line with the political identity you assume for the SS. The recent victory of the APC candidate right inside Jonathan's senatorial district in Bayelsa attests to this, and that will not change anytime soon.

On the WAEC performance statistics, Edo with its third position behind Anambra and Abia has always led all other SS states which hardly make the top seven. Moreover, Edo State has over 11 higher institutions while it took the FG's magnanimity for Bayelsa to have her first university. So on what grounds exactly is Bayelsa educationally ahead of Edo?

On the economic front, Edo is the least in the SS in terms of oil receipts but third in GDP and GDP per Capita hence without oil which is soon to give way to cleaner energy sources, Edo has the potential to lead the region. If Nigeria returns to true federalism, the SS movement birthed on the quest for restructuring will become irrelevant and the whole talk about its capital will die a natural death.



The SS is an artificial creation lumping rather strange bedfellows together. Bayelsa with its numerous shanties and their decision to give Obasanjo bloc votes in 2003 just three years after he massacred innocent women and children in Odi, is the disgrace to the SS. No SS state will vote for a presidential candidate who ordered their massacre.

Albert0011:
What's the fuss all about nah...am from Delta state(ukwuani LGA) precisely,if am to give the south south region a political capital then i will give it to PH,my community shares boundary with Edo state (urhonigbe) and they share same political ideologies with South west and more politically inclined to the SW,Benin city or Edo state as a whole is not even supposed to be in SS region not talk of giving them SS political capital.

The SS is not a monocultural region and neither a single political bloc in the real practical sense. In your Delta State the Itsekiris are manifestly Yorubas and they don't deny it. They are politically inclined to the SW because of being naturally Yorubas and due to Awolowo's assistance to them to cannonize their Olu as the prescribed traditional ruler of Warri. The rest Deltans don't even really see your own Ukwani community as real Deltans but as Igbos. Itsay Sagay's recent utterances are all tailored towards pulling you out of Delta to the SE.

Then to the OP, I don't really know what exactly you wanted to gain with this kind of post which basically ridicules Edo State by seeking for it the status of capital of a political marriage of convenience consummated among strange bedfellows whose opinion or approval was not sought by the Nigerian Government which did the amalgamation just like Lord Luggard did Nigeria's.
If you were really from Edo, you would have known that Edo is not a unity begging state as historically evidenced by our pioneership of the motion for seceesion by our able Anthony Enahoro who was visionary enough to see that Nigeria was a failed experiment from the very 1914 it was created.
All this talk of Ikweres and some Rivers State ethnicities being migrants from Edo must stop because Edo State is as of today is really not interested in anyone not a native of the 18 LGAs which make up the state. We have fought pre-colonial and post colonial battles for Southern minorities and borne the collateral damages alone yet we get insults from the same folks in return. If not for the military prowess and might of the Benin Kingdom whose soldiers halted Usman Dan Fodio's jihad match to the Atlantic coast, these people would have all been islamized even before colonization hence wouldn't have been different from the Fulanis they claim to resent today. We bore the collateral damage of having some few communities islamized in Edo North. But rather than thank us for that sacrifice, they shade us with the presence of moslems in our demography whereas they too have indigenous moslems who willingly changed from Christianity unlike ours who were forcefully proselytized.
We as a state are minding our business and doing our things our own way regardless of the amoeboid classifications called geopolitical regions.
We have never begged for friendship or brotherhood with anyone, not even in the closet neighbor Delta State. All past bonds have become history and the feelings should go with it. Our joy today is that no one can accuse us of reaping their wealth as our crude oil output is more than what we get as federal allocation coupled with the fact that the precious stones deposits in abundance in Edo-North are under the exploitative licenses of WAZOBIAns.

pls no true SSner sud insult a fellow SSner, I've always admired us for our ability to live together as one people. Yes! u may want to point to few crises here n there but no family is perfect, believe me, n I'm not saying this to bash d oda tribes but i if the wazobia tribes were made to share a region like we SSners deir own fights wud b worse, luk at hw hausa, yoruba n igbo r always at each others throat n dey don't even live close to each other o

The states of the SS, everyone of the six states is unique and though u may say it's a "forced marriage" it's the best combination we cud ask for

From Auchi to Oron, Ogoja to Benin, bini, isoko, ijaw, Ikwerre, annang, warri, yenagoa, ph, uyo we r all one

Deadlytruth:


See who Is accusing me of dishonesty? If the Igbo controlled NCNC was that magnanimous to have helped Edo get the Midwest Region as you would have us believe, then why couldn't they extend the magnanimity to their closer relatives (the Eastern minorities) to achieve the COR Region which they too were asking for at the same period? I thought they say charity begins from home? You think there is any kind of dishonesty greater than a claim which implicitly indicts the claimant of not beginning his charity from home? Commedian!

Igbos didn't help Edos get Midwest region. We helped our Igbo Anioma people in western region get Midwestern region.
Midwestern region wasn't about Edo, it was about Ndiigbo in western region, that was why Osadebay and not Osagie, became the first premier of the newly created region.

It was not about Edo only. Midwest was a home of Igbo too, Igbos like Osadebay, Nzeogwu, etc. Stop making it seem to be all about Edo. For all we know, Edos like Enahoro were vehemently against leaving Yorubas to form Midwestern region.

pazienza:


Igbos didn't help Edos get Midwest region. We helped our Igbo Anioma people in western region get Midwestern region.
Midwestern region wasn't about Edo, it was about Ndiigbo in western region, that was why Osadebay and not Osagie, became the first premier of the newly created region.

It was not about Edo only. Midwest was a home of Igbo too, Igbos like Osadebay, Nzeogwu, etc. Stop making it seem to be all about Edo. For all we know, Edos like Enahoro were vehemently against leaving Yorubas to form Midwestern region.

Igbo needs to roll back its frontier and build its base.

The emphasises of Yoruba is to keep Igbo off the SE.

Igbo needs to do more to keep off the SW and North and head home.

Our girls are the dumbest set of women in Nigeria regardless of their level of education.

Our men are fustrated out of Igbo land and Nigeria.

We cannot continue like this.

pazienza:


Igbos didn't help Edos get Midwest region. We helped our Igbo Anioma people in western region get Midwestern region.
Midwestern region wasn't about Edo, it was about Ndiigbo in western region, that was why Osadebay and not Osagie, became the first premier of the newly created region.

It was not about Edo only. Midwest was a home of Igbo too, Igbos like Osadebay, Nzeogwu, etc. Stop making it seem to be all about Edo. For all we know, Edos like Enahoro were vehemently against leaving Yorubas to form Midwestern region.

And I guess the Oba Akenzua who created the consciousness and pioneered the motion for the creation of the Midwestern Region was an Anioma person, right?
Midwest was mainly about Edos, and Edoid tribes who formed the overwhelming majority of the region. Aniomas and the rest were secondary. Dennis Osadebey became the Premier not because he was of any spectacular status in the struggle but because he was by default the leader of the dominant NCNC in power over the administrative divisions which were to be pulled out of the Old Western Region to form the Midwest.
In fact the Akoko-Edos and Itsekiris were far more important Midwest minorities than the Aniomas as there was a special provision in the Midwest constiution protecting their interests. But no such for Aniomas.
Enahoro, as a former NCNC member who switched over to AG in protest of the betrayals and dishonesty of the NCNC leadership, never stood in the way of Midwest creation. His stand was that of the AG which was in protest to the hypocrisy of NCNC in trying to instigate their Fulani owned coalition partner, NPC, to split Western Region not out of genuine concern for the Midwest struggle but in a bid to persecute Awolowo while refusing to grant the Eastern minorities their COR Region just like the NPC too was refusing to grant the Northern minorities their Middle Belt Region.
From the results of the plebiscite, the highest percentage votes in favour of creation of the new region came from the Edoid parts and not Igboid ones.

fero007:
pls no true SSner sud insult a fellow SSner, I've always admired us for our ability to live together as one people. Yes! u may want to point to few crises here n there but no family is perfect, believe me, n I'm not saying this to bash d oda tribes but i if the wazobia tribes were made to share a region like we SSners deir own fights wud b worse, luk at hw hausa, yoruba n igbo r always at each others throat n dey don't even live close to each other o

The states of the SS, everyone of the six states is unique and though u may say it's a "forced marriage" it's the best combination we cud ask for

From Auchi to Oron, Ogoja to Benin, bini, isoko, ijaw, Ikwerre, annang, warri, yenagoa, ph, uyo we r all one

You might have spoken well, though I don't know which part of SS you are from, your tone and maturity points to either Akwa Ibom or Cross River.
However, due to the anti-Edo sentiments being spread by those of Bayelsa and Rivers State extraction these days, albeit hypocritically, just because Edo people decided to reject the PDP which through the very wicked administration of Lucky Igbinedion milked the state dry for 8 years non-stop, we Edo State people are being forced to regret all our sacrificial and pioneering struggles for the Southern minorities freedom from the crippling clutches of WAZOBIAns.
For the sake of SS solidarity we, in 1999, deliberately voted the dull and less than credible cannabis smoker Lucky Igbinedion of the PDP to the rejection of a more decent Lucky Imasuen of the ANPP who presented a beautiful manifesto that would have made Edo the envy of all other states today.
As if that was not enough, four years later after Lucky Igbinedion and his PDP failed us woefully that Edo began to drag bottom positions with Northern States on educational and economic development statistics tables, we rejected a brilliant Owie of ANPP and reelected Lucky and his PDP again just to flow with the rest SS. But the PDP and Lucky, rather than make amends, became even worse.
Were we therefore wrong to have experimented with another party? These Bayelsans are saying yes to this question, thus we should have stuck to the rapacious gang of the PDP network in Edo State. There is no greater evidence that they don't wish us well, hence the SS objective has been reduced to inanities and therefore no longer worth the attention.

Oh really

ohx

HardcoreEdoman:
[s] outhwest has Lagos state
South east has Enugu
North has Sokoto.

Likely candidates for capital of south south.

Benin city in Edo state

Port Harcourt in river state

Warri in delta state.

The answer in Benin city, here's why.

Ikwerre(majority in river state is from present Edo)

Urhobo from Edo

Ishekri from Edo

Isoko from Edo, all in delta.

The present day Benin is strategically position in between north,east, south and west as a road to all regions.

Edo nation is currently ruling 3 states in Nigeria.

What do you think?

By the way ilage is part of the Edo nation, obj created us but that will be corrected [/s]

trash

mercenary:
But we do not even recognise Edo as a part of the south south in reality... Sorry you can go join the west

lolsssss you are so right

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OgaBuhari:
lolsssss you are so right

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when I first created this thread,, it was filled with insults by the Igbos..

Guess the people who's taking the obi campaign to another level

HardcoreEdoman:
typically Igbo man, speaking nonsense.

I won't go into gutter with you

now you want to drag igbo in this una nonsense one Nigeria topic

TheCeasar:
when I first created this thread,, it was filled with insults by the Igbos..

Guess the people who's taking the obi campaign to another level

That is why I only pity the Edos currently singing OBIdient. A lot of them are of the indomie generation who are ignorant of the fact that the average Igbo man hates anything Edo and hates Edo people more than any other tribe in Nigeria. If Peter Obi becomes the president, these Edo guys will regret.

Deadlytruth:
That is why I only pity the Edos currently singing OBIdient. A lot of them are of the indomie generation who are ignorant of the fact that the average Igbo man hates anything Edo and hates Edo people more than any other tribe in Nigeria. If Peter Obi becomes the president, these Edo guys will regret.

� exactly.. I created this thread with my moniker that year,, Omo my eyes was open

TheCeasar:
� exactly.. I created this thread with my moniker that year,, Omo my eyes was open

I knew them far before the day you opened that thread. I had been having engagements with them since 2015 and through that I saw their raw hatred and envy for Edo.

Just goes to show the south- South region is just another realistic construct.
The best thing will be a confederation based on the current state structure.
The truth is the current south south is made up of tribes some of which are just not compatible, as can be seen from above comments.

Edo people don suffer

Funny thread