Truckpusher:
Thank you very much for enlightening these folks once again.

Initially they said Etche , Ogba , Ekpeye, Bonny , Opobo , Omuma, Ikwerre et al are all Igbos , some them registered with a new handle and claim to be coming from these places like Chiwude is claiming he is from Ogba .
I don't usually have time for threads of this nature but when I noticed how they've been bullying HopeAthand allover the forum for saying that Ikwerres are not Igbos that was when I had to say it the way it is.
We all can work together after all we run with the same ideology but trying to hide my own identity to be accepted by some few fellows that won't make any difference in my life is something I can never do.

Oildichotomy:
This Tonyebarcanista guy is just some chameleon of some sort.

Always changing colours to suit the derided environment it found itself. The whole epistle reeks more of some brainwashed sentiments of being Ijaw. My only concern is dragging the Niger Delta man to the scenerio. If we decide to play this divisiveness as he wants it played, Niger Delta as a whole will bé in particles of fluked ameoba.

I would rather prefer to bé jacked with some Igbo fellows after stating my case for the federation (if at all it comes to fruition) than the current lopsided Nigeria as it is.

Bé guided, I am proper blooded Niger Deltan and a patriotic Nigerian still 

Oildichotomy:
Very annoying i must say.. The likes of tonye, Truckpusher are just tilting the foolishness bermuda triangle to their direction.

When are we going to stand together against a common enemy is a fairy tale with no good ending!

I won't take them serious again from now on. Including the APC goons 

xtropy:


Lagos — Complaints of marginalisation have resurrected an age-old agitation by the people of Oyigbo local government in Rivers State for a merger with their kith and kin in Abia State.

There is a grounds- well of discontent and agitation in Oyigbo local government area of Rivers State. The people are seriously complaining of marginalisation in the affairs of the state and now want to go back to Abia State from where they were carved out in 1976. Oyigbo local government was merged with Rivers State following federal government's acceptance of the report of the Justice Mamman Nasir boundary adjustment commission. Besides, they insist that they are Igbo and would be better catered for in a predominant Igbo territory. The people, under the aegis of Asa-Ndoki-Obigbo League, ANOL, have petitioned President Olusegun Obasanjo, alleging denial of social amenities such as electricity, pipe-borne water, motorable roads and hospital, among others. "Since we have been denied everything due to us, we must go back to our kith and kin in Abia State", they wrote in a petition dated February 18, 2000 and signed by Stanley Akaya and Johnson Ezenma, president and secretary-general respectively. In the petition, ANOL gave 17 reasons why the people want to go back to Abia State.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200008290349.html


http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etche

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anioma

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyigbo

Truckpusher:
Thank you very much for enlightening these folks once again.

Initially they said Etche , Ogba , Ekpeye, Bonny , Opobo , Omuma, Ikwerre et al are all Igbos , some them registered with a new handle and claim to be coming from these places like Chiwude is claiming he is from Ogba .
I don't usually have time for threads of this nature but when I noticed how they've been bullying HopeAthand allover the forum for saying that Ikwerres are not Igbos that was when I had to say it the way it is.
We all can work together after all we run with the same ideology but trying to hide my own identity to be accepted by some few fellows that won't make any difference in my life is something I can never do.

HopeAtHand:


You got that wrong Truckpusher, i was giving them game!!! Being in majority didnt mean they were winning.

The Igbos who do not reside in PH have this fantasy belief that every name that seems Igbo must be Igbo. But the Igbos who have lived in PH like lygn19, Afam4eva, Abagworo et al can attest to the fact that being Ikwerre, Ogba, Etche etc is alot different from being Igbo.

Most people are having a hard time trying to accept reality, but the sooner they get real, the better.

Truckpusher:
Thank you very much for enlightening these folks once again.

Initially they said Etche , Ogba , Ekpeye, Bonny , Opobo , Omuma, Ikwerre et al are all Igbos , some them registered with a new handle and claim to be coming from these places like Chiwude is claiming he is from Ogba .
I don't usually have time for threads of this nature but when I noticed how they've been bullying HopeAthand allover the forum for saying that Ikwerres are not Igbos that was when I had to say it the way it is.
We all can work together after all we run with the same ideology but trying to hide my own identity to be accepted by some few fellows that won't make any difference in my life is something I can never do.

Asari Dokubo Dares Patience Jonathan: You Can’t Make Wike Rivers Governor



The next governor of Rivers State will not be determined by First Lady Patience Jonathan, according to leader of outlawed Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force Alhaji Mujahedeen Asari Dokubo.

An attempt to make supervising minister of education Mr Nyesom Wike the next governor of the state, Dokubo warned, would not only affect the political fortune of President Goodluck Jonathan but also the chances of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state.

He said the plan by the first lady to impose Wike on the people was morally wrong in the light of the dominance of the political landscape of the state by the Ikwerre group, to which Wike belongs, in the past 16 years.

“To make Wike a governor in Rivers State in 2015 is not morally right. All the fellows endorsing him for whatever reason should know that it will injure PDP, it will injure Goodluck Jonathan. If Goodluck’s name is brought into it, that he is in support of the perpetuation of an Ikwerre hegemony in Rivers State, which is not right by population, which is not right under any calculation, it will injure him and PDP,” Dokubo stated in an exclusive interview with LEADERSHIP friday yesterday.

Mrs Jonathan had ignited a controversy over the governorship ticket of the PDP in the next election in Rivers State on Tuesday when she said Wike enjoyed her backing in his gubernatorial ambition.

The first lady, in a statement issued in a reaction to a report that she had dumped Wike for a candidate from the riverside area of the state, preferably one from her Okirika stock, in the countdown to 2015, said she was solidly behind the minister in his bid to occupy the Brick House, Port Harcourt.

She said, in a statement issued by her media aide, Mr Ayo Adewuyi: “In the case of Rivers State, the First Lady wishes to state categorically that the Supervising Minister of Education, Chief Nyesom Wike, is the leader of PDP in Rivers State and he enjoys the followership of the people of the State. The First Lady is solidly behind Chief Wike.

“The people of Rivers State are also solidly behind Chief Wike and are prepared to follow him. It is therefore mischievous to insinuate that Mrs Jonathan is working to ensure that the governorship candidate comes from one of the riverine areas of Rivers State which may not be where the people are going.

“It is also imperative to state that the First Lady is always with the people and will continue to go with the wish and expectations of the people. Mrs Jonathan has not withdrawn her support for Chief Wike at any time and will always work for the interest and the good of Rivers people. As far as the First Lady is concerned, there is NO SHAKING in Rivers State.”

In yesterday’s interview, Dokubo insisted that Wike could not become the next governor of the state in view of the interests of the three ethnic clusters in the state.

He said an Ikwerre man had no business in Rivers Government House in 2015, adding that it would amount to political suicide for PDP to field Wike in the next election.

Dokubo said the Ogoni should be supported to produce the next governor in the interest of justice and fair play, adding that it is only the Ogoni cluster that has not produced the governor of the state.

“As far as we all know, there are three ethnic clusters in Rivers State: the Ijaws, the Igbos (Ikwerre is part of the Igbo cluster) and the Ogonis. After Bayelsa was excised from Rivers State, the Igbos have ruled for many years. Odili was an Idoni Igbo; he ruled for eight years. Omehia/Amaechi, who are also Ikwerres, by 2015 would have ruled for more than eight years, making over 16 years,” he explained.

Insisting that it is impossible for an Ikwerre man to emerge as successor of the incumbent governor Rotimi Amaechi, he said: “It is morally wrong for any anybody to say that Igbo cluster should produce the next governor in 2015. I am an Igbo man also, by virtue of my origin, and so I am not against the Ikwerre people or against the Igbo. I repeat, I am an Igbo man; I can narrow it down: I have Ikwerre blood flowing in my veins.

“Having said that, the next cluster are the Ijaws, made up of the Kalabaris, the Obolo and Ibani people, the Wakrike; Okirika is just one town in Wakrike, Ukoro and others. These people have produced a governor. In terms of local government spread, they are in 11 local government areas out of the 23 local government areas; the Igbos are spread in eight and the Ogonis in four local government areas.

“In terms of population, when you remove the cosmopolitan population of Port Harcourt and Obiakpor, which is about 80 per cent of the population, is non-indigenous of those local governments. That is old non-Rivers indigenes and Rivers indigenes, who are not indigenes of Port Harcourt and Obiakpor local governments. If you remove those populations, the Ijaws are the majority as a single block.

“When you look at that, for somebody to say another Ikwerre man should become governor is wrong. Yes, constitutionally, he has a right to aspire, everybody is free to aspire, but it is not moral, it is not right. Something can be legally right but it might not be morally right.”

Making a case for the Ogoni, Dokubo said the age-long domination and oppression of the Ogoni people must end in 2015.

According to him, it would be unjust and unfair to continue to exclude the Ogoni in the scheming for the highest political office in the state. The Ogonis are the only people who have never produced governor because the whole Bayelsa that left were Ijaw people, he stated.

“So if we are saying there should be justice in Rivers State… if we are crying against domination by others, we should not also oppress other people. The people that morally should be allowed to produce the next governor of Rivers State is the Ogoni cluster made up of the Ogonis proper and the Eleme people.”

Dokubo expressed surprise that Patience Jonathan feigned ignorance of the homogenous nature and political reality in the state by openly identifying with the minister to clinch the top job in the state in 2015.

“The first lady need not to be told that it is morally and politically wrong for her to support another Ikwerre man by 2015, after the Igbo bloc would have spent over 16 years. She has every right to support who she wants but that must be done in a morally and politically correct direction and manner.”

Debunking the claim of his Ijaw kinsmen to the coveted seat in 2015, he said: “The arguments of the Ijaws are weaker. That an Ijaw governor should come in 2015 is weaker because Ada George and Melford Okilo have been elected governor; they can say it was old Rivers State — even in old Rivers State, the Ogonis should be in the right position to contest for the governorship. Yes, I will prefer an Ijaw man to become governor any day, anytime but when you are fighting oppression, you should fight it anywhere you see it. When you fight discrimination, you should fight it anywhere you see it.

“And in Rivers State, I believe the people who have the moral authority to produce the next governor of Rivers State are the Ogonis.”

Dokubo, however, expressed optimism that the contentious issue would be amicably resolved by the relevant stakeholders at the appropriate time and “wiser counsel will prevail”.

Some elders of the PDP in Rivers State had, last week, warned against ethnicising the party’s governorship ticket.

In a release, signed by Chief Ferdinand Alabraba and Chief Maxwell Tasie Amadi on behalf of the group, the elders frowned at a situation where people were fanning the embers of ethnicity in their jostling for the gubernatorial slot in the state, adding that it could become divisive and detrimental to the unity of the party in the state.

http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/exclusive/asari-dokubo-dares-patience-jonathan-you-cant-make-wike-rivers-governor/

Truckpusher:

Lol, you came and settled in another man's land and all of a sudden you want to be united to your kith and kin in Abia State ?
Do you know how many miles exist between the next Abia village and Oyibo? Is that why they changed the name to Obigbo too ?
They are clowns - if they want to unite with their folks in Abia state they should pay their transport and go nau. Abi dem wan carry the land ?

Truckpusher:

Lol, you came and settled in another man's land and all of a sudden you want to be united to your kith and kin in Abia State ?
Do you know how many miles exist between the next Abia village and Oyibo? Is that why they changed the name to Obigbo too ?
They are clowns - if they want to unite with their folks in Abia state they should pay their transport and go nau. Abi dem wan carry the land ?

Eastlink:
... So my community that form part of Rivers state is inconsequential right?... The same way you want a united Ijawland is the exact way Ndigbo want an indivisible Igboland with all Igbo sub-groups carved inside. The day we are detach from there is the day they (Igbos) will bury the thought of your existence.

Eastlink:
Park well. Chibudom Nwuche despite being Ekpeye has always identifies with Ohaneze Ndigbo.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chibudom_Nwuche
www.osondu.com/igbosummit/guestlist.htm
As for Peter Odili he knows where he belongs now than ever before. Mr Rivers man has been put in his place and his Presidential ambition dashed by Ijaw led Edwin Clark. In quote ' Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark openly declared Odili an Igbo man, arguing that the South-South president that the minorities have been agitating for was not meant to go to “an Igboman from Ndoni”

Truckpusher:
Everyone can do that but what I've given you is what is needed to wake you up from your dreamland.

Good morning

HopeAtHand:



I have had this argument with Abagworo and some other Igbos. Ive told them that within the Rivers circle, there is a general consensus that Oyigbo land belongs to Ogoni people, especially Eleme. That anyday they said they want out, they will have to pack their bags and ferry across the Imo river back to Abia.

HopeAtHand:

I have had this argument with Abagworo and some other Igbos. Ive told them that within the Rivers circle, there is a general consensus that Oyigbo land belongs to Ogoni people, especially Eleme. That anyday they said they want out, they will have to pack their bags and ferry across the Imo river back to Abia.

EzePromoe:
[b]Be careful of the nonsense you post... You've not made any port yet that would convince right thinking persons that you're an Ikwerreman. It's not about accepting or not accepting to be Igbo. The manner at which you're hell bent on planting a seed of discord between the Ikwerres and other Rivers men leave much to be desired. You make it look like the Ikwerre people shared no history or have nothing to do with the Igbos from yonder which is false in its entirety. Let me give you an example of my community. The grandfather of our former Royal Highness, Eze Horney Orlu (Eze Gbaka Gbaka) was from Imo state. His father lived and blended with the culture of Igwuruta people. Until his death in 2007, he was adjudged to be one of the best among the kings that had ruled Igwuruta. If the Ikwerres hated the Igbos that much like you're making it to look like, do you think it's possible for the stranger to come and be king in another man's land? There is also this man from Awo Omamma who is married to my cousin. He was born and bred in Igwuruta but in the last general elections, he vied for councillorship. How is that possible if Igbos and Ikwerres hate each other that much? Have you ever seen an Ijaw man or someone from any other ethnicity (let me not go far by mentioning Yoruba or Hausa) achieve that feat in Ikwerre land? What does that tell you about the Igbo/Ikwerre relationship. I'm not always keen to argue anything with you because to me, you're not an Ikwerre man. I'm just concerned because it's my ethnicity that you're dragging to the mud, and many people on this forum are so daft that they fall for it and return the gesture in kind. I know that you're feeling happy with yourself that you're achieving your aims and all I can say to you is 'Well done.'[/b]

Truckpusher:

Lol, you came and settled in another man's land and all of a sudden you want to be united to your kith and kin in Abia State ?
Do you know how many miles exist between the next Abia village and Oyibo? Is that why they changed the name to Obigbo too ?
They are clowns - if they want to unite with their folks in Abia state they should pay their transport and go nau. Abi dem wan carry the land ?

Truckpusher:

Lol, you came and settled in another man's land and all of a sudden you want to be united to your kith and kin in Abia State ?
Do you know how many miles exist between the next Abia village and Oyibo? Is that why they changed the name to Obigbo too ?
They are clowns - if they want to unite with their folks in Abia state they should pay their transport and go nau. Abi dem wan carry the land ?

Truckpusher:
Of course I am aware that they weren't winning after all people resort to bullying if they are finding the truth very bitter to bear.
Good morning bro .
Nda izi?

Rose2014:
Na me greet you pass oga m
That your post funny die. Just quoted the guy's long epistle just to say that. Can't stop chuckling

Happy new year boss

Udmaster:
shut ur dirty mouth up, you dustbin product..
Ndoki land of Oyigbo lga was carved out of Old Aba.
Their fellow ndoki kith and kin are in Abia state.
- one thing about you is that you are not shy to display your inherited mumulity.

HopeAtHand:


@bolded is what you believe. The consensus among Riverians is that Ojukwu used his influence to settle Igbos on thag land. General Rivers Consensus.

Candyrain:


I'll take the words of Asari Dokubo over yours anytime any day bro

With the bolded, where does your Etche , Ogba , Ekpeye, Bonny , Opobo , Omuma, Ikwerre fall? Maybe Ijaw or Ogoni

xtropy:


 

Truckpusher:
@ Candy.rain... The problem with you and your folks in this forum is that you don't know how to separate politics from regional identity and interest

HopeAthand is pro APC while I'm pro PDP but we agree on the same issue of where Igbo territories ends when it comes to defining the Niger Delta.

Wike or no Wike Rivers State is our own and whoever wins we will support for the greater good of all.

HopeAtHand:


Ezepromoe has said it severally that his mom is from Nnewi in Anambra. And he has been living in Nnewi from childhood.

His years of living in Igboland has probably skewed his senses. He is now a brainwashed Igbotic element.

That is if he is truly a Dieli Ikwerre in the first instance.

EzePromoe:
I'm from Omueke Igwuruta in Ikwerre L.G.A. You shouldn't be surprise to see so many proud Igbos because we understand history better. Now imagine how ironic it is for somebody from Ogbakiri, whose ancestor might have been amongst some Kalabari men who came and settled amongst the locals, to tell an Igwuruta man, a direct descendant of Iwhoruoha, that he is not Ikwerre simply because he refused being naive. Some people are not worth replying by the way.

Udmaster:
dust bin product is talking.. Go and read up on ur geography.
Ndoki land of Oyigbo lga was carved out of Old Aba..
Their fellow ndoki kith and kin are in Abia state and they are all part of Ukwa Ngwa.

DiademSh07:

LOL! You would take the word of an illiterate tout! Shows a kindred soul!

DiademSh07:

LOL!
Having Ndoki kith in Abia doesn't change the fact that these people invaded Rivers' land under Eastern region!
Note that there were no State by then!

DiademSh07:

LOL!
Having Ndoki kith in Abia doesn't change the fact that these people invaded Rivers' land under Eastern region!
Note that there were no State by then!

Rose2014:


We're getting there small small
In Koredo Bello's voice "everything I do na God win o, na God win o, na God win o"

I think my job is done here

Cc Tonyebarcanista just for reference

Candyrain:


Asari, an illiterate tout?

I can bet that guy knows things that you can only wish you knew

Udmaster:
chai, chai, bunkoms like you is the reason why U.N says that 60% of Nigerians are illiterates.
- Ndoki people of Oyigbo lga were living on their land under the Old Aba until Oil politics made them to be carved into Rivers state.
They are a big part of Ukwa Ngwa Family.
Even in Anglican church, Oyigbo LGA is under Ukwa Diocese of Abia state.

THE BRIEF HISTORICAL ORIGIN OF NDOKI ETHNIC NATIONALITY AND THE CREATION OF UKWA EAST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA.

The origin of Ndoki in the 15th Centuries is traced to civil war that broke out in the then powerful Benin Kingdom.  This war caused total division of the old Benin Kingdom as series of migrants departed to the East.  One of the Migratory groups was the Ijo who settled around Akassa.  A part of these group left Akassa towards the Northwards along the Egenni and Orashi Rivers to Oguta.  Along the line, they came in contact with the Ibo town of Umunoha in Owerri and Ndizuorgu in the former Orlu Division.

The emigrants pushed southwards settling at Okolomakiri in Azumini creek.  They moved from there to a site, now, occupied by Umuagbayi.  It was here they broke into two groups.  One section to a placed called Okoloma (land of the curlew birds) that later became known as Obani or Bonny.  The other section remained behind on the site known as Umuagbayi, Azuogu, Ayama and Obunku.

Part of the emigrants who reached Bonny, retraced their steps back to Opobo along the Imo Rivers and settled or traded with earlier co-emigrants.
It is a truism that going by the migratory era in this context Ndoki people are ancestrally, biologically and anthropologically linked with the Ijos who migrated with them when the war broke out in Ancient Benin Kingdom. Our culture, tradition and practices are explicit and clear on our origin.

It was on the strength of this coupled with struggle for political space that the uncompromised quest to realize a separate or delineated environment where Ndoki and its traits will be noticed and respected propelled our founding fathers to opt for creation of a local government.  Thus Ukwa East Local Government Area came into being in 1992 from the defunct Ukwa Local Government Area. 

The initiators and proponents of its creation saw it as a meaningful objectives and welcome development hence it proffered diversified opportunities to complement the effort of our ancestors where distinct origin, ideas, values, knowledge, institution, belief, socio-economic and political environment would be homogenously provided to synthesize the practice of our common good which refers to as “a social state which guarantees each person his/her rightful place in a community in which he/she can freely develop his/her God-given talent to attain bodily, spiritual and moral perfection and become richer in internal and external goods through his/her services to the community”.  The geo-political formation of Ukwa East in particular meant to depend upon this was targeted at drawing the attention of National and state governments to the backwardness of Ndoki land primarily occasioned by marginalization coming only from their politically induced self-development.

This is why it is unacceptable and should be discouraged especially when often times, most of the projects the dominant people in the position of trust managed to site at Ndoki land in Ukwa East are subsumed under Ukwa West Local Government this anti-delineation practice orchestrated by NDDCs administrative Map has continued to attract criticism and condemnation by those who understand the classification.

DiademSh07:

LOL!
Which old Aba?
Invading peoples' land and inhabiting for years doesn't make it your land! Get that!

TonyeBarcanista:

If I talk una go say "Barcanista hate Igbo". I have said it and will repeat over again, stay put to your boundary. Ndoki are ancestrally Ijaws. That they mixed with Igbo migrants doesn't change the fact.

Ginoo:
The  He-goat  have no  reputation  before. the  fool  have  no  right  to  speak  for  South-South people honestly  i  don't  know  what  the  guy  is  feeling  like  nobody  know  him  in  South  South

Oildichotomy:
This Tonyebarcanista guy is just some chameleon of some sort.

Always changing colours to suit the derided environment it found itself. The whole epistle reeks more of some brainwashed sentiments of being Ijaw. My only concern is dragging the Niger Delta man to the scenerio. If we decide to play this divisiveness as he wants it played, Niger Delta as a whole will bé in particles of fluked ameoba.

I would rather prefer to bé jacked with some Igbo fellows after stating my case for the federation (if at all it comes to fruition) than the current lopsided Nigeria as it is.

Bé guided, I am proper blooded Niger Deltan and a patriotic Nigerian still 

Oildichotomy:
Very annoying i must say.. The likes of tonye, Truckpusher are just tilting the foolishness bermuda triangle to their direction.

When are we going to stand together against a common enemy is a fairy tale with no good ending!

I won't take them serious again from now on. Including the APC goons 

Udmaster:
the comment of a fool who just got flogged in an argument..