Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo, on Friday, said without the rule of law, peace and order, there would be no progress and the realisation of individual and collective ambition in any society.

Obaseki made this disclosure at the Government House when he met with the elders and leaders of thought and the leadership of the Ijaw National Congress, Edo chapter in Benin.

The governor said that the meeting, which held at his instance, was to interact with the Ijaw leaders on their basic needs in their communities.


Obaseki said that the State Government had not marginalised any group in the state.

He said the government was ready to provide the needed amenities but he would not embark on a project that would be hindered by any crisis.

Obaseki tasked the leaders to shun unnecessary sentiments, which was capable of hindering the development of the marine area of the state.

He enjoined the leaders to sheath their swords and assured them that his administration would attend to their needs.

Mr Edmond Doyah-Tiemo, who read an address on behalf of the Ijaw leaders, complained of alleged marginalisation, oppression and balkanisation of the Ijaw people, which he said, had hampered their existence as a people.

He lauded Obaseki for his efforts to open up the area, especially through the proposed Gelegele Seaport and assured him of their support.

https://m.guardian.ng/news/obaseki-meets-ijaw-leaders-preaches-peace/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC7Q_0I3-yw

Cc lalasticlala mynd44

Sincere Peace is needed for development, government shouldn't be a tool to exert ethnic dominance or an extension of obas palace, God bless the great Ijaw nation, Alua, nua , A doo

A POSITION PAPER PRESENTED TO HIS EXCELLENCY MR. GODWIN N. OBASEKI, GOVERNOR OF EDO STATE BY THE ELDERS AND LEADERS OF THOUGHT FROM THE FIVE IJAW KINGDOMS OF EDO STATE AND THE LEADERSHIP OF THE IJAW NATIONAL CONGRESS, EDO STATE CHAPTER ON FRIDAY, 5 JANUARY, 2018.
We, the elders and leaders from the five IJAW kingdoms of Edo state, namely; Egbema, Olodiama, Furupagha, Okomu, and Gbaran, have come in response to the Governor's gracious invitation for dialogue concerning the crisis generated by the derogatory press statement made by the Edo State Government and the Bini Traditional Council on the coronation of the Pere of Olodiama Kingdom.
Before, we begin, we want to make it bundantly clear that we adopt in their entirety all the publications made by various IJAW groups and the entire IJAW Nation as representing our position on the plight of the Ijaws of Edo State.[/b]
Firstly, we would like to thank your EXCELLENCY for the invitation and wish your EXCELLENCY and your Government Happy, peaceful and prosperous 2018.
Secondly, we "appreciate" your Excellency for the statements on the coronation of the Pere of Olodiama Kingdom, because those statements have brought to the limelight the injustice, marginalization and oppression the Ijaws of Edo State have suffered over the years in the hands of successive Government of Edo State and the Bini Monarch.
As a matter of principle, we desire to live and co-exist with our neighbors peacefully based on love and mutual respect for one another.
However, in Edo State we the Ijaws have been balkanized into three (3) Local Government Areas with the intention of making us politically irrelevant as we find ourselves as insignificant minorities in each of the three (3) Local Government Areas namely; Ovia South West, Ovia North East and Ikpoba Okha Local Government Areas into which we have been balkanized.
Beyond that, we have been derogatorily and variously referred to as migrants, settlers, strangers and tenants in our God given ancestral lands.
Attempts are being made to deny and deprived us of our inalienable right to choose and install our traditional rulers in our ancestral lands.Successive Governments acting on the prompting of the Bini Traditional Council have deliberately denied the Ijaw kingdoms in Edo State their right to development.We are therefore not surprised that Barr. Osarodion Ogie the current Secretary to the Edo State Government became the mouth piece of the Bini Traditional Council on the issue of the Coronation of the Pere of Olodiama Kingdom.
OUR POSITION:
The position of the five IJAW kingdoms of Edo State is as follows-:
1. We have been living in our ancestral lands centuries before the amalgamation of Northern and Southern Nigeria in 1914. We are the aborigines of Edo State; we are no slaves to anyone; we not migrants neither are we settlers nor tenants to anybody. WE LIVE ON OUR ANCESTRAL AND GOD GIVEN LAND.
2. We are linguistically, culturally and geographical distinct from the Binis. We have our own traditional rulers to whom we owe allegiance and loyalty. Our communities and kingdoms had no links whatsoever to the Benin Kingdom until recently.
OUR DEMANDS
[b]1. We demand for the Edo State Government recognition of the traditional institutions of the Five IJAW kingdoms of Edo State such that the traditional rulers be recognized and given staff of office.
2. We demand in the interim for the immediate creation of three (3) Community Development Areas respectively as it is in Lagos and Bayelsa States.
3. We demand that these three community Development Areas once created should be made a house of Assembly Constituency in Edo State.
4. We demand for the creation of a separate Local Government Council Area and amalgamation of all the five IJAW kingdoms to be administered by the Local Government Area instead of the present three Local Government Areas into which they have been balkanized. After all, these kingdoms are all contiguous one to another especially by river transportation.
These demands are in line with the Federal Government Constituent Assembly report of 1988-1989, vol 2 page 492, where it was recommended that the Ijaw people in Ovia Local Government Area deserve a Local Government Area based on the criteria of (I) Riverine location (ii) Inaccessibility (iii) Not truly assimilated by the Bini (iv) Denied development ( inland based government) (v) Very rich in natural resources (vi) High Population.[/b]
The issue of non assimilation which was identified in the Constituent Assembly report of 1988-1989 is still the same reoccurring factor responsible for the friction between the Ijaws of Edo State and the Binis up till now and the only solution still remains the creation of separate administrative units for the Ijaws of Edo State.
We are Ijaw people and we detest and firmly reject any attempt by the Oba of Benin to appoint and / or impose persons with alien or strange tittles such as Odionwere, Enogie and Okao etcetera, as representatives of the Oba of Benin in our communities.
The Oba of Benin cannot appoint any person to represent his interest and the Bini Traditional institutions in any of the Five IJAW Kingdoms in Edo State.
We must put on record that the Ijaw nation has hierarchy in leadership. Therefore, we are surprised that your Excellency decided to invite your political appointees as representing the Ijaws of Edo State in a matter as serious as this.
For the avoidance of doubt, the Ijaw National Congress and IJAW Council of Traditional Rulers, Chiefs and Elders are the highest level of leadership and Youth Council as the youth mouth piece.Be that as it may, we the Ijaws of Edo State are law abiding citizens and will continue to maintain that status.
Long live the Ijaws of Edo State
Long live the Ijaw Nation
Long live Edo State
Signed:
Rev. Prof. C.A. Dime
Mr. Edmund Doyah-Tiemo
Rev. Dr. (Col.Rtd) Joel G. Jibor
Chief Macaulay Ayiwe
Hon. Godwin Wuluku
Chief Sunny Ajele
Hon. A. P. Ebello
Chief Gaius Uruopa
Barr. Chief Robinson Esite
Chief Robinson Ogunkoru
Engr. Pius Donyegha
Hon. Engr. Donben Donyegha
Dcn Ebifagha Kiyah

Ok

Blessed are the peacemaker.

Fuuccck APC though

Ugly mumu governor..
This is what he should have done as a governor ad a leader of all instead of issuing empty threats on media..Putting the horse behind the cart

Who are the unity beggars now

nice one ur excellency

ZorGBUooeh:
Ugly mumu governor..
This is what he should have done as a governor ad a leader of all instead of issuing empty threats on media..Putting the horse behind the cart

God bless you sir, he became an extension of the bini palace forgetting he swore an oat to govern all indegenous ethnicities in fairness, and this is someone who studied abroad, he's truly a disappointment

AdaFonju:

God bless you sir, he became an extension of the bini palace forgetting he swore an oat to govern all indegenous ethnicities in fairness, and this is someone who studied abroad, he's truly a disappointment

it takes only a mature, stable and progressive mind to sue for peace..

stop the unnecessary victory lap. binis are peace loving ppl

mightyhaze:
it takes only a mature, stable and progressive mind to sue for peace..

stop the unnecessary victory lap. binis are peace loving ppl

Peace loving people? Iin okor?
Cc Afriifa EternalTruth Tonyebarcanista jesse01

AdaFonju:

God bless you sir, he became an extension of the bini palace forgetting he swore an oat to govern all indegenous ethnicities in fairness, and this is someone who studied abroad, he's truly a disappointment

Ijaws are indeed great..I feel the peace talk has sumting to do with the ijaw attack on one community days back..Violence is truly the only language an oppressive black man understands.

ZorGBUooeh:

Ijaws are indeed great..I feel the peace talk has sumting to do with the ijaw attack on one community days back..Violence is truly the only language an oppressive black man understands.

Sadly that's true, gone are the days were you can oppress an Ijaw man, the governor and bini people thought it was only Olodiama people he was dealing with not knowing the entire Ijaw nation was behind their cause

AdaFonju:

Peace loving people? Iin okor?
Cc Afriifa EternalTruth Tonyebarcanista jesse01

everybody losses in a conflict. it takes gifted leaders to avoid one.


stop being childish

mightyhaze:
everybody losses in a conflict. ut takes gifted leaders to avoid one.


stop being childish

Oh i'm being childish now , what happened to the countless thread bini people opened? The protests? The threats ? The insults? E don clear una eye now athink

AdaFonju:

Sadly that's true, gone are the days were you can oppress an Ijaw man, the governor and bini people thought it was only Olodiama people he was dealing with not knowing the entire Ijaw nation was behind their cause

The fear of Tamunos RPG ad ROCKET LAUNCHER is the beginning of wisdom.

Anyways thank God they asked for peace because if there is war pipu will suffer even the great obas safety won't be guaranteed.

AdaFonju:

Oh i'm being childish now , what happened to the countless thread bini people opened? The protests? The threats ? The insults? E don clear una eye now athink

so what is the gloating about now? would u prefer the governor doesn't sue for peace? fight na food?

by the furkn way, i aint even south south

mightyhaze:
nice one ur excellency

hahaha haha, God is truly wonderful

ZorGBUooeh:

The fear of Tamunos RPG ad ROCKET LAUNCHER is the beginning of wisdom.

Anyways thank God they asked for peace because if there is war pipu will suffer even the great obas safety won't be guaranteed.

Hahahaaha, Opu Tamuno, Opu Ayiba, Ata Awaji, Nanaowei kuro nni nengim, the bini e warriors have suddenly gone quiet after their countless keyboard firing

AdaFonju:

hahaha haha, God is truly wonderful

Wot a 30 feet container load of raw undiluted UGLEEE.
Na person governor be that?
The guy be like stubborn 1 week old unflushed Abokii black shiit

Wonderful development, "Everybody is a loser in war"
Impediments to developments should be discarded with all fortnightness.

Words and discourses have symbolic capacities - they are instruments in demarcating boundaries, reinforcing hierarchies, and shaping norms and expectations.

But words also derive a large part of their power and implications from their contexts, media and surrounding words. The reason why a few sentences with strategically deployed line breaks can end up being sold in millions as poetry - is because their meanings are given by the context of social media and the connotations of frankness and forthcoming fortitude associated with the platform of purveyors of social media.

Contexts can render words damaging. But they can also render words denoting different things to when they are taken in isolation and on literal, ostensible face value. A word could be itself, or a metonymy, or a synecdoche, or an allusion, or a euphemism. To assert that one word necessarily means or stands for one thing is to commit a form of injustice against the initial author. The liberty of interpretation does not entail the liberty to commit definitional and hermeneutical violence.

We must be wary of putting words in others' mouths.We must respect the boundaries they keep.Expansionary inferences are unintelligent.

AdaFonju:

hahaha haha, God is truly wonderful

lol




i like the way u viciously defended ur group on previous threads...



but this here is v commendable. peace is commendable. embrace it wholeheartedly

mightyhaze:
so what is the gloating about now? would u prefer the governor doesn't sue for peace? fight na food?

by the furkn way, i aint even south south

you might be ignorant to the fact that this whole incident was started by the governor, when he threatened to arrest an indegenous king because of tribalism and general insensitivity the to plight of Ijaws in the state, and you are saying i'm gloating? if fight no be food, why did he go to Ijaw mr biggs

SHAKABOOM:

Wot a 30 feet container load of raw undiluted UGLEEE.
Na person governor be that?
The guy be like stubborn 1 week old unflushed Abokii black shiit

Lol, guy you wicked oh...Hahahaaha

I am happy that Governor Obaseki is returning to his senses. I hope the Oba of Bini also allow sense of reasoning prevail (though he has no choice).

The people of Olodiama Ijaw clan in Edo state are 101% aborigines in Edo state. Nobody, irrespective of how highly or lowly placed can bully or silence them.

The entire Ijaw nation, with population of over 15 million people, spanning across 6 States of the Niger Delta, including Delta, Bayelsa, Ondo, Akwa Ibom, Rivers and Edo states and constituting over 10% of the Nigeria population, are firmly resolved to remain firm in advancing the noble agenda of Ijaw nation without fear or favor to anyone within or outside the Niger Delta and SouthSouth.


Once again, kudos to Governor Obaseki, peace is all we want in Edo and Nigeria!!!

mightyhaze:
everybody losses in a conflict. ut takes gifted leaders to avoid one.


stop being childish

Ijaws will never keep quiet again. never.

AdaFonju:

Peace loving people? Iin okor?
Cc Afriifa EternalTruth Tonyebarcanista jesse01

don't mind him.
I love the Ijaws and how firmly they stood up to challenge the Oba of Bini and his egocentric claims. making a governor voted by even the Ijaws to be his servant... thanks to thr Gov for following the path of peace.
ijaws I know have tasted their bitter days and hence will never keep quiet to be marginalized and assaulted like slaves....
long Live the Niger Delta and all the tribes that makes up the region.
long live the people that always fought for the recognition of the Niger Delta.
Long live to all those who fought for peace in the Niger Delta.
Long Live to anyone who has the best interest of the Niger Delta at heart.
long Live Warri City
Long Live Bini City
Long Live PH CIty
Long Live Uyo City
Long Live Calabar City
Long Live Yanagoa City.
Long live to all those who love truth on Nairaland.
long Live to those realers who are factual in their arguments and not blinded by tribal sentiments..
God punish all those who claim to be who they are not on nairaland in other to cause trouble.

AdaFonju:
Peace loving people? Iin okor? Cc Afriifa EternalTruth Tonyebarcanista jesse01

don't mind him

Edo people na so una govnor worwor reach.... Though oshiomole is tactically fugly...


Wedo.

Let there be peac

The governor should have done this since instead of using his office to promote the bini ethnic agenda, its quite a shame that the governor is a lap boy to the oba of Benin, he doesn't have a mind of his own, he's just a puppet, so this thread should be titled "oba of benin begs for peace"

lalasticlala take this thread to the promise land

mightyhaze:
it takes only a mature, stable and progressive mind to sue for peace..

stop the unnecessary victory lap. binis are peace loving ppl

see u.