Spy360:

No body is forcing anybody. If Ikwerre man's language is same as that of an Owerri or Umuahia man but he claims not to be Igbo. The Owerri or Umuahia man will surely be confused but will only keep silent and walk away considering the Ikwerre man a fool.

Nothing more, nothing less, brother

Someone needs to study why people think like this. Or is this how politics can make people so confused as to loathe their own identity? It's just like saying "I'm an ijebu man, but I'm not Yoruba". In the end, Ikwerre is neither a tribe nor an ethnic group. It's simply a dialect within a larger ethnic group. There's not a single sensible person that doesn't know what that larger ethnic group is.

Two pains the ibos will continue to be pass down from generations to generations!
1. Gowon with the help of awolowo stopping ojuku and his people from dominating the south south and snatching them from ibos domination of their oil!
2. Tinubu pummelling them with all the lies and propangandas against him in the last election!

If my blood sport brother wakes up tomorrow and say " I am not your brother" my response will be, ok.

Spy360:

No body is forcing anybody. If Ikwerre man's language is same as that of an Owerri or Umuahia man but he claims not to be Igbo. The Owerri or Umuahia man will surely be confused but will only keep silent and walk away considering the Ikwerre man a fool.

i am a yoruba man that served in PH. Till today, i still wonder why ikweeree folks claim they are not igbo. The language, attitude and children names is screaming igbo but they dont agree to be igbos.

Justnation:
See this talkative, spewing rubbish as usual.
Who needs a drunkard and turncoat.

We Igbos should stop this attaché by force.

How many tribes are going to force to identify with Igbos.
.
Enough of this embarrassment,

able20:
Wike, you're a Fulani man, nothing do you

Ikwerres are not Igbos.

We Igbos should stop this desperate attaché by force.

There are over 200 ethnic groups in Nigeria.

gidgiddy:
Mbata and Wike are two Ikwerre men from the same LGA. One says he is Igbo, the other said he is not Igbo. Some Ikwerres says they are Igbo, others say they are not. I suspect that those who trace their ancestry to Bini are the ones who say they are not Igbo, who can blame them? They are Bini people, like Wike

The Igbo nation already has enough population, we don't necessarily need more

Ikwerres are not Igbos .

We Igbos should stop this desperation. It's embarrassing to people like us.

Mbata father is actually an Igbo man who lived in ikwerre land. He's joining back his brethren.


Ikwerre not Igbo folks

Spy360:

No body is forcing anybody. If Ikwerre man's language is same as that of an Owerri or Umuahia man but he claims not to be Igbo. The Owerri or Umuahia man will surely be confused but will only keep silent and walk away considering the Ikwerre man a fool.

Stop this needless explanation.

Ikwerres have rejected and disowned Igbo origin severally.

I don't know why we Igbos keep doing attaché by force.

Research the story of mbata father and how he came to ENEKA.


Mbata is originally an Igbo man. This is a clear fact

Arostar2023:


You are not exactly right. A man who knows his ancestry is telling you that he is not Igbo and you are saying another thing. Wike's father is alive and knows where they came from. Rivers State is far from been homogeneous.

I want to dig this with U bro. Can we talk about this maturely ?
Okay, after the English colonised the world, including us in Nigeria, we bear English names and practices their culture, but as powerful as the English are, they couldn't wipe out our native culture. As powerful as the french are, they couldn't wipe out the native language, culture and tradition of these countries that they colonised.
So, how come an Ikwere man whose dieties bear same name with the dieties in other Igbo communities, his culture and tradition same as that of Igbos in other Igbo lands, none of his practices look like the Bini one, claims that he is not igbo? What happened to their native language and culture ? If the powerful English and french people couldn't wipe out the native languages and cultures of those they colonised, how come the Igbos could do it? Does it mean that the Igbos are so powerful that they colonised Ikwere, and wipe out their native identity ?
When some of these people claim they are Binis, I laugh because Beni was an empire made of many people from different ethic groups. It is very possible that after the empire collapsed, many returned to their original home lands. U don't share anything in common with Bini people.
Even the British histories about early Nigeria regarded these guys are Igbos. They met these people who share same culture and tradition and call them Igbos. They were called ibo before.
Infact to show U how deadly this strategy about denying being Igbo, could U believe that some people in Anioma are saying they not Igbo? Same Anioma where the first military could leader came from whose action contributed massively to the civil war. I wish the time can go back to that time so that Igbos will deny those people.
The fact that there are people from Anioma who deny being Igbo shows that this was a pure strategy. After the Igbos lost a war and were struggling to get serious position in Nigeria politics, people had to deny being Igbo. Many never gave their kids Igbo names anymore to help them navigate Nigeria. Some in civil service couldn't get promoted becus of being Igbos.
I have said it many times that the civil war was a disaster to the Igbo nation.

ManOfSon:
Someone needs to study why people think like this. Or is this how politics can make people so confused as to loathe their own identity? It's just like saying "I'm an ijebu man, but I'm not Yoruba". In the end, Ikwerre is neither a tribe nor an ethnic group. It's simply a dialect within a larger ethnic group. There's not a single sensible person that doesn't know what that larger ethnic group is.

Your analysis is meaningless.

Ikwerre is an enthnic group, Ijebu is not an ethnic group.

Ikwerres are not Igbos.

AguluLiar:


We Igbos should stop this attaché by force.

How many tribes are going to force to identify with Igbos.
.
Enough of this embarrassment,

Show me an example of Igbos dragging the drunkard,Wike or anybody at all to be Igbo?

It's a good thing they renamed all their street in Port Harcourt to indigenous names. Biafrans would have claimed that city.

If not for Wike they would have been sit at home every Monday in PH

eyah

gidgiddy:
Mbata and Wike are two Ikwerre men from the same LGA. One says he is Igbo, the other said he is not Igbo. Some Ikwerres says they are Igbo, others say they are not. I suspect that those who trace their ancestry to Bini are the ones who say they are not Igbo, who can blame them? They are Bini people, like Wike

The Igbo nation already has enough population, we don't necessarily need more

Many people don't know there are two kindreds in Ikwerre.

The Bini migrants came in much later from Bini and in small population and met the Igbo Ikwerres from Ohaji/Egbema part of Imo state. The Bini migrants got assimilated and outnumbered so over time, started speaking Igbo.

Till today, such families know they're from Bini and that's why each time Bini ancestry is raised, they insist they're not Igbo.

Unfortunately, they are more vocal than the Igbo ones, they have also held more political positions, so tend to dictate the pace and path of the entire Ikwerre.

In your meaningful reasoning can you explain it to me as you would to a 10-year old why Ikwerre is an ethnic group but Ijebu is not. Can you go ahead to explain how Ikwerre is a distinct ethnic group but speaks an Igbo dialect!

AguluLiar:


Your analysis is meaningless.

Ikwerre is an enthnic group, Ijebu is not an ethnic group.

Ikwerres are not Igbos.

Bede2u:
if you know of a local government in this our one Nigeria that speaks your language 100% and follows your customary practices but says they have 'nothing' to do with you, won't you find it strange?
That's what's happening here bro, nothing to do with oil or Biafra. I never hear say Enugu man steal Imo state oil. Even Ebonyi that accepts being Igbo said they are not part of Biafra. Ikwere can be Igbo and still refuse to be part of Biafra or share their oil with SE. We have more oil in SE than ALL ikwere local government areas combined.

The delusion amongst the Igbo borders on psychological issues.

How many oil do you folks have in the SE?
Even Edo that has very meager deposit produce more oil than the enter SE combined!

If there is a person who speaks your language in far away land, rather than you trying to drag him at all cost to associate with you, it is better to let such decide for himself where and who he wants to associate himself with

Idiots

If you like come from sokoto

Igbos no even needs a confused man like you

You can even deny your papa

Arostar2023:


You are not exactly right. A man who knows his ancestry is telling you that he is not Igbo and you are saying another thing. Wike's father is alive and knows where they came from. Rivers State is far from been homogeneous.

I am 100% right
Wike is doing what he is doing because of his political ambition.
Are you saying that the earlier Ikweres like Obi Wali,Prof Wonodi,Chief Aguma,Chief Oriji who are more educated and more exposed than Wike, and identified themselves as igbos didn't know their ancestry ?
Asari did more than Wike when he was looking for patronage from the FG but today he is singing a new song.
This one too will come to pass

Ikwere are not igbo

Exactly! They want to force their Biafra on the Niger Delta people including the Akwa Ibom people. They told us that we are under igbo.. I laugh them... They come to your place and build their businesses, build their houses and live in peace, but go to their places to buy land, either they kidnap you or unknown gunmen kpai you. They love to go to where there is peaceful coexistence to claim as their own. Igbos are just like Fulani people... Conquering mentality.

Godwin4444:
Igbos just want to grab those people's land n oil

Don't worry they will force d next ohaneze president on Benue state so they can claim there too

Bunch of clowns

Pls people should stop disturbing this man as per hs robot plsss.


He said he is not Igbo then leave him? Is it by force to be a igbo? Honestly I don't really get these nonsense talks.

So many people already insulting him and the truth is 85% Anambrans are not originally igbo by root even Peer shit Obi Iis not a full igbo man by root he is only looking for votes claiming igbo if I lie go and trace his root and come back here.

Abriba are originally from SS, in Ebonyi the wahwah people are from another region by root, same is Abians, some in Enugu who are migrants settlers centuries ago pls let Wike rest he said he is not igbo so be it it's not by force..

I shake table fir the nonentities half educated morons to come and attack me now instead to go and do verification of what I have said. Before opening your moth like ekuke spewing shit ps kindly tell me the meaning of "Soludo" in igbo language. Thanks

NOETHNICITY:
The delusion amongst the Igbo borders on psychological issues.

How many oil do you folks have in the SE?
Even Edo that has very meager deposit produce more oil than the enter SE combined!

If there is a person who speaks your language in far away land, rather than you trying to drag him at all cost to associate with you, it is better to let such decide for himself where and who he wants to associate himself with

First of all, most oil currently in Rivers are in the sea and Ijaw/Ogoni areas. So yea, even if Edo has more oil than SE, we still have more oil than Ikwere.
Two, far away land you say? Well Ikwere and Igbo share a direct border. Nothing separates us, not water, not even artificial state creation because there are many towns in Rivers like Obiigbo who don't have identity crisis.
So go and sit on something sharp, talking about something you know nothing about.

Spy360:

No body is forcing anybody. If Ikwerre man's language is same as that of an Owerri or Umuahia man but he claims not to be Igbo. The Owerri or Umuahia man will surely be confused but will only keep silent and walk away considering the Ikwerre man a fool.

Is language the main yardstick in identifying someone's tribe? Are Brazilians Portuguese? Are Brazilians Yoruba? Are Switzerlanders Germans? Language is language. Nothing more nothing less. And for your information, an Igbo man cannot understand Ikwerre language. They're two different languages with some similar words

Godwin4444:
Igbos just want to grab those people's land n oil

Don't worry they will force d next ohaneze president on Benue state so they can claim there too

Bunch of clowns

You don analyse finish abi?

Well done!

obasanjonews:

https://dailypost.ng/2025/01/19/im-not-igbo-wike/

This is food for parasites of Nigeria.
They feed from divide and rule and exploit the mineral resources in the Niger delta region. Useless persons like Wike who fights every reasonable person in Rivers state is well liked by the parasites of Nigeria.
Agbadorians, don't mention this comment.

Enice:
Is language the main yardstick in identifying someone's tribe? Are Brazilians Portuguese? Are Brazilians Yoruba? Are Switzerlanders Germans? Language is language. Nothing more nothing less. And for your information, an Igbo man cannot understand Ikwerre language. They're two different languages with some similar words

Actually Brazilians are Portuguese and Yorubas, they didn't fall from heaven.
Switzerland and Austrians are ethnic Germans too.
An Igbo man can understand Ikwere as much as they can understand Nsukka or other non-central Igbo dialects spoken outside the major cities.

NOETHNICITY:
The delusion amongst the Igbo borders on psychological issues.

How many oil do you folks have in the SE?
Even Edo that has very meager deposit produce more oil than the enter SE combined!

If there is a person who speaks your language in far away land, rather than you trying to drag him at all cost to associate with you, it is better to let such decide for himself where and who he wants to associate himself with

keep fo0ling yourself .

They will cry blood. Wike sabi flog them wella