HopeAtHand:



The Ikwerres and Ekpeyes were never an Igbo speaking group.Its not like you lived in Rivers state or you are an Ikwerre..you are simply relying on lies told you by desperate Igbos looking to create a non-existent brotherhood with Ikwerres.

I'm not saying there are no shared words or traditions, neighbors everywhere in the world overtime share some words and form of tradition but saying Ekpeye and Ikwerre speak Igbo as their lingua is an attempt at mischief.

Please and please do not twist issues because of oil.

zuchyblink:
https://www.nairaland.com/2709471/list-oil-producing-states-nigeria
the real information

Keneking:
Where is Akpabio sef?
Anambra is coming to join soon and perhaps would be the least producing.

chuna1985:

Ur map is false, dubious and nonsensical.
Igbos have a direct access to the sea, educate Ur self with a real map.

seunmsg:



Actually, it was the federal government that approached the supreme court for a constitutional clarification on the matter. The court in 2002 affirmed that littoral states can not claim revenue generated from resources in the exclusive economic zone and the continental shelf as they are the exclusive preserve of the federation. That was why the onshore/offshore dichotomy bill was introduced.

chuna1985:



Ur map is false, dubious and nonsensical.

Igbos have a direct access to the sea, educate Ur self with a real map.

Phame:
until then, the one you are taking right now belongs to kogi people.

stanech:
sorry to dissapoint you brother the oil is in anambra as of now theres no oil in kogi state

laudate:

Not true, sir!

stinggy:

Don't let Olugbo see this ooo


Humour me

https://www.nairaland.com/2582369/ilaje-people-ondo-state-history

pazienza:


If Ilaje was Igbo speaking, it would have been hauled into Delta state and forced to take on a distinct ethnicity. That Olugbo that is Yorubaphilic will be forced to become Yorubaphobic or lose his throne to become replaced by a new Yorubaphobic Olugbo, who would be empowered by the FG and together with his new cabinet re write the history of the town and distort history as much as possible to present Ilaje as a new distinct ethnic group that even though is Yoruba speaking, is not Yoruba.

This was the fate the Igbo suffered in Southern Igboland as many of our oil bearing communities and clans were given distinct ethnicities and then lumped with the Eastern minorities in the old Rivers state.

From the article I quoted, Yorubas speaking clans in the old Bendel state were returned back to the current Ondo, which is why Ondo is oil producing today.

But on the case of Igbo speaking parts of the old Rivers, the opposite was done.

pazienza:


If Ilaje was Igbo speaking, it would have been hauled into Delta state and forced to take on a distinct ethnicity. That Olugbo that is Yorubaphilic will be forced to become Yorubaphobic or lose his throne to become replaced by a new Yorubaphobic Olugbo, who would be empowered by the FG and together with his new cabinet re write the history of the town and distort history as much as possible to present Ilaje as a new distinct ethnic group that even though is Yoruba speaking, is not Yoruba.

This was the fate the Igbo suffered in Southern Igboland as many of our oil bearing communities and clans were given distinct ethnicities and then lumped with the Eastern minorities in the old Rivers state.

From the article I quoted, Yorubas speaking clans in the old Bendel state were returned back to the current Ondo, which is why Ondo is oil producing today.

But on the case of Igbo speaking parts of the old Rivers, the opposite was done.

IlekeGD:



Another Ilaje association, once again, claims Yoruba

http://www.ilajecwa.org.uk/history.htm

IlekeGD:



Another Ilaje association, once again, claims Yoruba

http://www.ilajecwa.org.uk/history.htm

pazienza:


They rightly claim Yoruba because there are no external forces at play, trying to give them a distinct identity.

[s]Eze Ogba, Ogbuehi Francis Ellah and his supporters in Ogba Maintained that Ogba is a branch of the Igbo ethnic group, but the breakaway groups were financed and encouraged to grow by the FG, they frustrated Francis Ellah throughout his stay on the throne, and immediately replaced him with an Igbophobic New Eze, who changed his throne to Oba from Eze.

The same scenario played out throughout Rivers state. All Ezes with any allegiance to the rest of Ndiigbo must either renounce their allegiance, or abdicate their throne, and be replaced by an Igbophobic one.
Even non Igbo kings in Eastern region with any form of allegiance to Ndiigbo were not spared.

This was part of the post civil war internal policy of one Nigeria[/s].

pazienza:
My argument was never if Ilaje is Yoruba. Any blind man just by looking at Ilajes and their names, will know that they are just Yorubas with riverine culture.

IlekeGD:


So son, what are you whining about?

pazienza:


[s]Just giving a historical perspective to the presence of crude oil in larger quantity in Ondo, and relatively lesser quantities in Abia and Imo.
[/s]
While Oil bearing Igbo speaking groups that should have been in Abia or Imo were put in Rivers state and encouraged to take on distinct ethnicities, and as well as carving out the few remaining Igbo speaking oil communities in Abia and Imo and added to Rivers, where as the same time,the oil bearing Yoruba speaking communities in old Bendel were being selectively carved out and rightly added to the SW( Ondo in this case).

So why the SW was being carefully weaned to have crude oil, SE was carefully deweeded of any oil producing community.

scholes0:


Which rogue boundary adjustment is that? What were the ceded communities?
the boundary of Ondo state has remained the same since the days of the Old western region.
If anything , they should have allowed the Itsekiris of the three Warri LGA'S to vote to join the Western region as an hypothetical Warri state, or the Mid-West at its creation.

You people are shameless concoctionists who can lie for Africa.
You will stop at nothing in shoving your stupid agenda down everyone's throats.
In case you don't know, Nigeria's first oil was actually discovered in Ondo state in a place called Araromi, not Oloibiri in Bayelsa. (Although the first export came from Oloibiri)


http://nigeriadaily..ca/2009/10/crude-oil-crisis-in-nigeria.html

So, tell me how the rubbish you posted above there is true, when Ondo has always been an old Oil producing state, and I suspect there is even more, though not on the same levels as the big players such as Akwa Ibom and Delta.

IlekeGD:


Someone already answer this lies you keep posting.

Ondo border remained the same before and after discovery of oil.

Pele, even if they find oil in Ogun/Ondo [which i am sure will happen], you guys will claim that the people in those states are not Yoruba

pazienza:


No it didn't. Ondo borders didn't remain the same.

sanerugwei:


Hope@hand , it is a hopeless lie for you to say the Ikwerres are not Igbo speaking...when all the Igbo town names have been corrupted and prefixed with R. Eg. Umuola is now rumuola...umuokuta is now Rumuokuta...umubiaka is now Rumuobiakan...etc Obiigbo meaning heart of Igbo is now called Oyigbo abi na rumuigbo....Make we dey fear God o. History can be twisted but can never be erased.