Spiff20:
How many Rivers people venture out of Rivers, when the state is the third most viable economy in the country. Do you move to greener pastures or less green pastures. Why is this so difficult to understand about Rivers People? You expect a Rivers man to leave Port Harcourt for Akwa Ibom to go and hustle? or owerri, enugu, Kaduna, osogbo, Borno?

Are all Ikwerres in Rivers state employed? Can Rivers state offer employment opportunities to all persons from Rivers state?
All those your youths in Rumu villages doing "I dey bam" cult and Co, are their job opportunities for all of them?
An Ikwerre youth that learnt how to do ordinary mason job, tiling work, interlocking, etc, and is good at it, would ultimately get job referrals from all over the country and would have to leave Rivers state to make money as Rivers state alone would not guarantee him steady job flow. He would be found in other parts of Nigeria.

An Ikwerre hardworking lady who is good at cooking could discover that the area she stays in PH is already choked with persons that cook as good as she can, she can relocate to let's say Benin City, in a street where the other restaurants can't match her culinary skills, and establish her restaurant business. Before you know it, she is the biggest restaurant owner in the area and would soon start training her younger ones in Emohua village in schools. She might have a customer who has connections in University of Benin, she talks to him, and he helps her secure lucrative courses admission for her two brothers at home.
The brothers graduate, marry Edo women, gets job with a company in Benin.

This is an idea of how a hardworking people tend to spread moping up every single opportunities their surroundings can offer.

The very idea that all Rivers youth need is in Rivers state is a fallacy that encourages laziness and youthful restiveness.

Spiff20:
who told you Chinese expatriates are looking to eke a living in remote villages in Nigeria? They're either there as contractors with construction companies building roads and bridges and mapping out areas to set up military bases just like America. Don't you know China plans on buying Nigeria and other African countries through offering them astronomical loans they can't pay back in 10 decades. How chinese man go come hustle for remote village like bama or koma? think am na

So these ones too are expatriates working as contractors?
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/391246-17-chinese-men-arrested-for-illegal-mining-in-nigeria.html


Stop the joke already. Chinese are all over African villages doing illegal mining operations to make a living.
They are hustling all over Africa.

Igboid:


Are all Ikwerres in Rivers state employed? Can Rivers state offer employment opportunities to all persons in from Rivers state?
All those your youths in Rumu villages doing "I dey bam" cult and Co, are there job opportunities for all of them?
An Ikwerre youth that learn how to do ordinary mason job, tiling work, interlocking, etc, and is good at it, would ultimately get job referrals from all over the country and would have to leave Rivers state to make money as Rivers state alone would not guarantee him steady job flow.

The very idea that all Rivers youth need is in Rivers state is a fallacy that encourages laziness and youthful restiveness.

watch how you just deviated from venturing out to skills acquisition and travelling out for jobs.

Igboid:



So these ones too are expatriates working as contractors?
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/391246-17-chinese-men-arrested-for-illegal-mining-in-nigeria.html


Stop the joke already. Chinese are all over African villages doing illegal mining operations to make a living.
They are hustling all over Africa.

Oga China is more than 1Billion people what do you expect?

Spiff20:
Oga China is more than 1Billion people what do you expect?

Still running in circles.

Bottom line is that people leaving their environment to other environment to exploit available opportunities does not always mean that the new environment is more developed than theirs.
It can just mean that there is less competition in their area of specialization in the new area than in their own homelands.

Spiff20:
Not that I'm disputing this fact but I'm yet to see a Mayor or Chairman of Port Harcourt local government from okrika. Even deputy sef or a member of House of Assembly. Doesn't that tell you the Ikwerres hold the majority in the shared local government of how many villages sef
Elekahia
Ogbunuabali
Nkpogu
Oroworukwo
Diobu
Abuloma
Town
Okujagu

It only means you are marginalizing the Okrikas.
You should not cry when and if they regain power in Rivers state and decide to do same to you.

Ojiofor:


After asking all this questions you will still turn around and call yourself a Jew/Hebrew even though you have nothing in comon with them not even color of skin.Anyway and Ikwerre man have something to tell you here.,


#PROF.SC ACHINEWHU RESPONDED TO THE CRA'S ASSERTION THAT IKWERE IS IGBO WHICH HAS BEEN GENERATING WIDE FURORE AFTER I SYNDICATED IN ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS

Proff Simeon Achinewhu just wrote on Akalaka/Ochichi Platform:

"I am responding to this statement of :"Ikwerre is Igbo" I am very sorry for the ignorant Ikwerre man or woman who does not know the History of his/her ethnic group. I have stated before that when I was a boy in the 40s we here the exclamation Ikwerre Ochichi.It was later in life that attempts were made by ethnic groups to research and compile their Histories independently.When these Histories were published, there was serious similarity in the History of Ekpeye, Ogba and Ikwerre.They all had the same Hostory of two brothers Akalaka and Ochichi who left Bini Kingdom in the 13th century because of disturbance and eventually settled after several trips through thick forest and water ie Niger River,Orashi and Sombreiro Rivers and settled in their present abodes.Akalaka the senior was father to Ekpeye and Ogba while Ochichi was father to Ikwerre.I connected this to the Ikwerre Ochichi I heard in the 40s as a village boy. The first neighbours Ikwerre man encountered was the Riverine people of Kalabari and Okrika.Ikwerre man had no contact with an Igbo man until the 19th century only after the advent of the white man when roads were opened.The climax was in I913 on the acquisition of Port Harcourt from the Rebisi people.The white man was looking for labourers and the Ikwerre and the surrounding neighbours ie Kalabari, Okrika and Eleme refused to be labourers.The white man therefore had to penetrate the Igbo hinterland and recruited very willing labourers.That was the beginning of Igbo man's adventure into Ikwerre.The administrative arrangement of the white man wrongly posited Ikwerre and other people of Southern Nigeria into Eastern region dominated by the Igbos.The 4 cardinal points are East West North and South. Nigeria was wrongly divided into North East and West. The area called the Niger Delta is the geographical South. The Ikwerre man would have clearly been a Southerner and not an Easterner.Ojukwu followed that mistake and included the Niger Delta people in his Biafra and that was why Biafra failed.The people of Niger Delta escorted the Nigerian through local bush paths to cut off or ambush the Biafran soldiers which led their defeat.This happened through out what is now Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwalbom and Cross River State. Ikwerre is intimately associated with the Niger.Ikwerre has distinct culture, tradition, dressing, dancing including masquerade, topography etc quite different from the Ibos.Name does not make an Ikwerre man an Ibo. A person answering a name similar to Igbo name does not make a man an Igbo. There are so many Nigerians answering English names or shall we report Goodiuck Jonathan to Uk"

You have time for that man.

We will use him to sacrifice to angry IkwerreBinis looking for Isomas to blame for all their life difficulties.
Him, Nnamdi Kanu and hordes of confused Igbos will be used as sacrificial lamb by Igbo nationalists.
They are going to be useful on the long run.

Spiff20:
Akwa Ibom man we know Ibibio is 5th largest ethinicity in Nigeria would your people be ready to be absorbed into Biafra when it happens and become a minute minority? Remember your brother Effiong was a warlord and Biafra covers you.

No reasonable Igbo man want any heterogeneous Biafra.
All we want is Homogeneous Igbo republic consisting of only Igbo speaking and non Bini claiming Igbo tribes.

The same IPOB who want Urhobo,Ikwerre Esan, Ijaw, Igala, Idoma, etc in their Babel Biafra are same ones that want Ibibio in Biafra.

Don't get it twisted.

Igboid:


You have time for that man.

We will use him to sacrifice to angry IkwerreBinis looking for Isomas to blame for all their life difficulties.
Him, Nnamdi Kanu and hordes of confused Igbos will be used as sacrificial lamb by Igbo nationalists.
They are going to be useful on the long run.

Igbos are irredeemable.I don't even know if the gods will accept them as a sacrificial lamb

Igboid:


It only means you are marginalizing the Okrikas.
You should not cry when and if they regain power in Rivers state and decide to do same to you.

I think it's time Igbos in River state stop voting for those ungrateful and cunniving Ikwerre people.

What I see on this forum,is that many of you are blinded by sentiment rather than facts or research.Only one person alluded to the proper channel to look at.when you talk about the ibo's ohaneze is the source of various myths about their history likewise the yoruba's the afenifere etc. You all should try reading about the ikwerre's from oguakor ikwerre.please stop all this stupidity on what you know nothing about.
https://ogbakorikwerreworldwide.org/history-of-ikwerre
Ameachi was just searching for political sympathy.

Manuelmarvyy:


Thank you. We are all Igbos!!!!

Thank you for what reason? You must be from either Imo state or Abia because these are the only two set of people always shouting Ikwerres are Igbos....all the time.

Talking from experience.

Notasyouthink:
If IPOB is useless then I don't know what to qualify the zoo with.

All Ipob members are Irredeemably useless.

Ojiofor:


Which year was this ethnic group manufactured?
Only in Nigeria

Igodomigodo is what is known today as Edo State.

Benin is inside Igodomigodo

Ojiofor:


But Ikwerre are the one saying loudly they are not Igbo must you get attached to them before you can get your Biafra?
Anyway if your supreme leader can add Edo tribes and some Northern minority tribes into his utopia country then trying to convince about Ikwerre is a waste of time.

Lolzzz

Atigba:

Ikwerres has no business with Yoruba or bini
They are indegenous people of Igodomigodo

pls stop disturbing me with that igodomigodo nonsense.

Everything now na talk.

Not only igodomigodo but ogodomigodo..Lol
ndi ala

Ojiofor:


After asking all this questions you will still turn around and call yourself a Jew/Hebrew even though you have nothing in comon with them not even color of skin.Anyway and Ikwerre man have something to tell you here.,


#PROF.SC ACHINEWHU RESPONDED TO THE CRA'S ASSERTION THAT IKWERE IS IGBO WHICH HAS BEEN GENERATING WIDE FURORE AFTER I SYNDICATED IN ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS

Proff Simeon Achinewhu just wrote on Akalaka/Ochichi Platform:

"I am responding to this statement of :"Ikwerre is Igbo" I am very sorry for the ignorant Ikwerre man or woman who does not know the History of his/her ethnic group. I have stated before that when I was a boy in the 40s we here the exclamation Ikwerre Ochichi.It was later in life that attempts were made by ethnic groups to research and compile their Histories independently.When these Histories were published, there was serious similarity in the History of Ekpeye, Ogba and Ikwerre.They all had the same Hostory of two brothers Akalaka and Ochichi who left Bini Kingdom in the 13th century because of disturbance and eventually settled after several trips through thick forest and water ie Niger River,Orashi and Sombreiro Rivers and settled in their present abodes.Akalaka the senior was father to Ekpeye and Ogba while Ochichi was father to Ikwerre.I connected this to the Ikwerre Ochichi I heard in the 40s as a village boy. The first neighbours Ikwerre man encountered was the Riverine people of Kalabari and Okrika.Ikwerre man had no contact with an Igbo man until the 19th century only after the advent of the white man when roads were opened.The climax was in I913 on the acquisition of Port Harcourt from the Rebisi people.The white man was looking for labourers and the Ikwerre and the surrounding neighbours ie Kalabari, Okrika and Eleme refused to be labourers.The white man therefore had to penetrate the Igbo hinterland and recruited very willing labourers.That was the beginning of Igbo man's adventure into Ikwerre.The administrative arrangement of the white man wrongly posited Ikwerre and other people of Southern Nigeria into Eastern region dominated by the Igbos.The 4 cardinal points are East West North and South. Nigeria was wrongly divided into North East and West. The area called the Niger Delta is the geographical South. The Ikwerre man would have clearly been a Southerner and not an Easterner.Ojukwu followed that mistake and included the Niger Delta people in his Biafra and that was why Biafra failed.The people of Niger Delta escorted the Nigerian through local bush paths to cut off or ambush the Biafran soldiers which led their defeat.This happened through out what is now Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwalbom and Cross River State. Ikwerre is intimately associated with the Niger.Ikwerre has distinct culture, tradition, dressing, dancing including masquerade, topography etc quite different from the Ibos.Name does not make an Ikwerre man an Ibo. A person answering a name similar to Igbo name does not make a man an Igbo. There are so many Nigerians answering English names or shall we report Goodiuck Jonathan to Uk"

The silly professor avoided to comment on what would have nullified his feverish rambling. He didn't say how come their language is similar to Igbo than anything originating from Edo/Bini.

I don't blame him though. I blame Nnamdi Kanu and his IPOB minions, who keep courting these confused and useless group that have nothing but hatred fuelled by envy for the majority Igbos.

Notasyouthink:
What are you insinuating?? Are you trying to tell me that, Ikweres are not in IPOB and ohaneze ndi Igbo?? Have you ask yourself, why ikwerres are in these groups if they don't see themselves as Igbo.

Stop being clever by half it is not every Igbo that is into buying and selling.
If radio Biafra is deluded, tell us what adjective we are to use in qualifying NTA and channels tv.

Saying that Ikwerre is not Igbo portrays you as agent of division and am sure that is what you came here to do.
You must be very slow to think that if you say Ikwerre is not Igbo somehow their Igbo identity will no longer exist.

A few numbers of Ikwerre folks can be found in IPOB, no doubt.
But that doesn't make the larger Ikwerre clan Igbos.
Most Igbos used to think so. Used to believe that Ikwerres are Igbos with their slightly different dialects. But it is the Ikwerres themselves who voiced it out publicly, especially in their socio-political group, ogbako Ikwerre, that they are not Igbos.
Gradually, we began to make sense of their actions during and after the war, when they seized houses belonging to Igbos in PH (a wicked action that no other ethnicity in Nigeria considered)
They changed the names of towns and villages from their wholesome Igbo names by prefixing letter "R" to them. Thus "Ụmụ" became "Rumu".
Their igbo-phobic outbursts became more strident. I have Elechi Amadi's comments on the issue. Several prominent Ikwerre sons lend their voice to it, that Ikwerres are not Igbos. That Ikwerres migrated from Bini. Why should we accept otherwise?
Governor Wike made a subtle, yet a very loud move, by renaming a state structure after Yakubu Gowon, something an Igbo man living or dead, would never contemplate.
He couldn't name it after Ken Saro Wiwa, Isaac Adaka Boro, or even if he has a hard on for ex military generals, why not guys like TY Danjuma, David Marks, or people like Lawrence Onoja?

No, he had to send a message to Igbos: your enemy is my friend. Amen
You know what? Most Igbos were not surprised by that move. We already knew. We just moved on. Another day in the jungle.

No, Ikwerres aren't Igbos. No amount of self immolation you perform can change that fact. Ikwerres met Igbos for a few decades and "lost their Bini tongue", right? but other ethic groups like Ibibios, Idomas, Anangs, who have mixed with Igbos for thousands of years still retain their language and cultural identities. Why is that? Are the Ikwerres the most confused subhuman specie on planet earth?
We've separated too far to ever come back together. Ever.

Parisian:
You have lots of Germans, Spanish, British, African Americans etc who have been in America from anywhere between 400 - 700 years yet these people know their history.

They know from whence they came. Their culture, language, traditions may have been completely eroded but they still know and can trace the origin of their ancestors.

This is the same with the ikwerres. You can't say "oh they have a similar culture and language to the igbos and hence must be igbos".... that is a primitive way of reasoning.

What matters and will always matter is where the ikwerres migrated from. If they migrated from the Bini kingdom like they say then they are rightly descendants of the Binis.

It is foolish to think you can know more about a people than the people themselves.

However, i think what can finally lay this issue to rest is an ancestry DNA test but even at that the igbos will say the test has been compromised by igbo haters that is if the test results show that the ikwerres are Binis by extension.

Hehehehe. Silly talk.
Truth is, Igbos once believed that Ikwerres were a part of us.
Events during and after the civil war cured many of us of that craze. The horrible thing the whole of Nigerians are still suffering from is ignorance about the events leading up to the war, largely because caliphate backed government has tried to remove it from being studied in history lessons.
If all those events were objectively recorded and secondary schools are mandated to make them part of the curriculum, any Ikwerre who claimed to be Igbo would get lynched on the spot.
Ikwerres in PH with support from FG, confiscated properties belonging to Igbos. Yet, you think a right thinking Igbo would see an Ikwerre as kin after that?

The Nigerian project has made many not to have a rational mind anymore. Failed country, failed people with an even worse sense of history.

Ikwerres are Binis, are Yorubas, are Igalas or even Kanuris. But not, and will never be, Igbos.

MelesZenawi:



All Ipob members are Irredeemably useless.

All nigger-arean are Irredeemably useless and foolish.

Ojiofor:


After asking all this questions you will still turn around and call yourself a Jew/Hebrew even though you have nothing in comon with them not even color of skin.Anyway and Ikwerre man have something to tell you here.,


#PROF.SC ACHINEWHU RESPONDED TO THE CRA'S ASSERTION THAT IKWERE IS IGBO WHICH HAS BEEN GENERATING WIDE FURORE AFTER I SYNDICATED IN ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS

Proff Simeon Achinewhu just wrote on Akalaka/Ochichi Platform:

"I am responding to this statement of :"Ikwerre is Igbo" I am very sorry for the ignorant Ikwerre man or woman who does not know the History of his/her ethnic group. I have stated before that when I was a boy in the 40s we here the exclamation Ikwerre Ochichi.It was later in life that attempts were made by ethnic groups to research and compile their Histories independently.When these Histories were published, there was serious similarity in the History of Ekpeye, Ogba and Ikwerre.They all had the same Hostory of two brothers Akalaka and Ochichi who left Bini Kingdom in the 13th century because of disturbance and eventually settled after several trips through thick forest and water ie Niger River,Orashi and Sombreiro Rivers and settled in their present abodes.Akalaka the senior was father to Ekpeye and Ogba while Ochichi was father to Ikwerre.I connected this to the Ikwerre Ochichi I heard in the 40s as a village boy. The first neighbours Ikwerre man encountered was the Riverine people of Kalabari and Okrika.Ikwerre man had no contact with an Igbo man until the 19th century only after the advent of the white man when roads were opened.The climax was in I913 on the acquisition of Port Harcourt from the Rebisi people.The white man was looking for labourers and the Ikwerre and the surrounding neighbours ie Kalabari, Okrika and Eleme refused to be labourers.The white man therefore had to penetrate the Igbo hinterland and recruited very willing labourers.That was the beginning of Igbo man's adventure into Ikwerre.The administrative arrangement of the white man wrongly posited Ikwerre and other people of Southern Nigeria into Eastern region dominated by the Igbos.The 4 cardinal points are East West North and South. Nigeria was wrongly divided into North East and West. The area called the Niger Delta is the geographical South. The Ikwerre man would have clearly been a Southerner and not an Easterner.Ojukwu followed that mistake and included the Niger Delta people in his Biafra and that was why Biafra failed.The people of Niger Delta escorted the Nigerian through local bush paths to cut off or ambush the Biafran soldiers which led their defeat.This happened through out what is now Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwalbom and Cross River State. Ikwerre is intimately associated with the Niger.Ikwerre has distinct culture, tradition, dressing, dancing including masquerade, topography etc quite different from the Ibos.Name does not make an Ikwerre man an Ibo. A person answering a name similar to Igbo name does not make a man an Igbo. There are so many Nigerians answering English names or shall we report Goodiuck Jonathan to Uk"

As far as am concerned, you're simply beating about the bush. The above piece of thrash does not in any way answered my questions.

Nigger-areans answer English names yes that's true but not English in tradition, dialect or food.

Show me Bini in anything that has to do with ikwerre simple.

Spiff20:
Akwa Ibom man we know Ibibio is 5th largest ethinicity in Nigeria would your people be ready to be absorbed into Biafra when it happens and become a minute minority? Remember your brother Effiong was a warlord and Biafra covers you.

I didn't mention Biafra so take a chill pill
We're large enough to stay on our own and even throw banters at other big tribes. Same can't be said for ikwerres who on one hand insult igbos and the other hand insult ibibio/Efik with their meager population and 3.5LGA and think they can get away with it .
Talk about ethnicity and leave BIAFRA, you already know we can't join so your plan to trigger my emotions have failed
Tell your ikwerre brothers they should behave like the extremely tiny minorities they are and stop crying after ethnic groups bigger than them start taking their pound of flesh.

Notasyouthink:
As far as am concerned, you're simply beating about the bush. The above piece of thrash does not in any way answered my questions.

Nigger-areans answer English names yes that's true but not English in tradition, dialect or food.

Show me Bini in anything that has to do with ikwerre simple.

You are free to go to Ogbakor Ikwerre meeting and ask them those question since you can't see,read all the anti Igbo actiivities both in action and in words.

chrisblack:
What I see on this forum,is that many of you are blinded by sentiment rather than facts or research.Only one person alluded to the proper channel to look at.when you talk about the ibo's ohaneze is the source of various myths about their history likewise the yoruba's the afenifere etc. You all should try reading about the ikwerre's from oguakor ikwerre.please stop all this stupidity on what you know nothing about.
https://ogbakorikwerreworldwide.org/history-of-ikwerre
Ameachi was just searching for political sympathy.

Only a gullible person or a child will call Ikwerre Igbo. We Igbos have nothing in common with Ikwerre. Yes, they can use our language and tradition, but that doesn't mean sh!t. They're a minute minority and maybe that's why they lost all their Bini identity and started using that of Igbos even when other minorities that have interacted more with Igbos all retained theirs.

The Ikwerres are too insignificant for Igbos to bother themselves over. The same way I see Fulanis is the same way I see them. I even regard the Yorubas or Ijaws or Ibibios or Hausa as more friendly than the Ikwerre, at least non of them were as wicked and evil as these guys who decided to seize Igbo properties in P.H at a period Igbos were totally down due to the civil war.

Any Igbo person that sees Ikwerre as a brother is totally insane!!!

Notasyouthink:
One thing in me is that I hate division especially when it is the enemy that is trying so hard to bring the division.

I will only believe that Ikwerre is from Bini if you can show me;
1) Bini tradition in Ikwerre tradition.
2)bini food in their food.
3)bini dressing in their dressing
4)bini kingdom in their kingdom.
5)bini names in their names.

Lastly, tell me the meaning of Ikwerre and iwuruoha which happens to be the ancestors of Ikwerre.

I hope you will not runaway

I don't know why they will show you light only for you to leave it and be groping in darkness.
Now, let me break it down for you so you can get it clearly.

Let's even assume or agree with you that Ikwerre is Igbo. Now, draw a parallel to this. You're a father who has many sons. All of them respect you and do things that bring honour to the family except one who has brought nothing but disgrace and dishonour to the entire family. The more you try to discipline that particular child, the worse they become and even now see you as an enemy. He now celebrates all those that did you wrong and even shoves it in your face. The child wouldn't mind to join your enemies to destroy you once he gets the slightest opportunity.

As a wise father, what will you do? Even considering that you have many other sons that have brought glory to you in many ways while this particular one has never contributed anything positive to the family?

Will you treat such evil child with kid gloves or as an enemy that must be tackled by all means necessary??

proeast:


I don't know why they will show you light only for you to leave it and be groping in darkness.
Now, let me break it down for you so you can get it clearly.

Let's even assume or agree with you that Ikwerre is Igbo. Now, draw a parallel to this. You're a father who has many sons. All of them respect you and do things that bring honour to the family except one who has brought nothing but disgrace and dishonour to the entire family. The more you try to discipline that particular child, the worse they become and even now see you as an enemy. He now celebrates all those that did you wrong and even shoves it in your face. The child wouldn't mind to join your enemies to destroy you once he gets the slightest opportunity.

As a wise father, what will you do? Even considering that you have many other sons that have brought glory to you in many ways while this particular one has never contributed anything positive to the family?

Will you treat such evil child with kid gloves or as an enemy that must be tackled by all means necessary??

I think you made a lot of sense but, remember the prodigal son in the Bible.

Ojiofor:


You are free to go to Ogbakor Ikwerre meeting and ask them those question since you can't see,read all the anti Igbo actiivities both in action and in words.

Your ogbako Ikwerre is politically motivated you and I know that.

Notasyouthink:
Your ogbako Ikwerre is politically motivated you and I know that.

Even your IPOB is politically motivated,there is politics even in the Church.
Nothing anybody will say can convince you otherwise against the position of your supreme leader whom you are under oat to defend even if he is dead wrong.I pity you.

kingzizzy:


This a very simple to understand. We are all in a Nigeria that nobody agitated for, nobody consented to join and nobody was asked through plebiscite or referendum if they wanted to be part of in the first place. So anyone coming from the point of Nigeria is coming a point of inferiority. The Biafrans(IPOB), on the other hand, are coming from a position of superiority because they are agitating for Biafra, both in the SE and SS, and they want that Biafra to be created for only those who give their consent via a referendum.

So as a Nigerian who is coming from a position of inferiority of an imposed country, you have no basis to argue with IPOB who are coming from the superior position of a Biafra created by democratic referendum

If Nigerians feel that IPOB is dragging some areas into a referendum they never asked for, then Nigerians should agree to immediate dissolution of Nigeria that we were all dragged into with anyones consent. If Nigeria is dissolved, then we can start talking about who wants to drag who into what

But to come from the position of an imposed country to question those who want a country created democratically is a non-starter.

The only post I have read so far that makes sense

whirlwind7:


A few numbers of Ikwerre folks can be found in IPOB, no doubt.
But that doesn't make the larger Ikwerre clan Igbos.
Most Igbos used to think so. Used to believe that Ikwerres are Igbos with their slightly different dialects. But it is the Ikwerres themselves who voiced it out publicly, especially in their socio-political group, ogbako Ikwerre, that they are not Igbos.
Gradually, we began to make sense of their actions during and after the war, when they seized houses belonging to Igbos in PH (a wicked action that no other ethnicity in Nigeria considered)
They changed the names of towns and villages from their wholesome Igbo names by prefixing letter "R" to them. Thus "Ụmụ" became "Rumu".
Their igbo-phobic outbursts became more strident. I have Elechi Amadi's comments on the issue. Several prominent Ikwerre sons lend their voice to it, that Ikwerres are not Igbos. That Ikwerres migrated from Bini. Why should we accept otherwise?
Governor Wike made a subtle, yet a very loud move, by renaming a state structure after Yakubu Gowon, something an Igbo man living or dead, would never contemplate.
He couldn't name it after Ken Saro Wiwa, Isaac Adaka Boro, or even if he has a hard on for ex military generals, why not guys like TY Danjuma, David Marks, or people like Lawrence Onoja?

No, he had to send a message to Igbos: your enemy is my friend. Amen
You know what? Most Igbos were not surprised by that move. We already knew. We just moved on. Another day in the jungle.

No, Ikwerres aren't Igbos. No amount of self immolation you perform can change that fact. Ikwerres met Igbos for a few decades and "lost their Bini tongue", right? but other ethic groups like Ibibios, Idomas, Anangs, who have mixed with Igbos for thousands of years still retain their language and cultural identities. Why is that? Are the Ikwerres the most confused subhuman specie on planet earth?
We've separated too far to ever come back together. Ever.

Gowon isnt igbo's enemy

Ojiofor:


Even your IPOB is politically motivated,there is politics even in the Church.
Nothing anybody will say can convince you otherwise against the position of your supreme leader whom you are under oat to defend even if he is dead wrong.I pity you.

IPOB is not politically motivated stop lying and twisting facts. Show me any of the IPOB principle officers that is into nigger-arean politics or you shut up.

Don't pity me pity yourself for being a proud nigger-arean.

Notasyouthink:
IPOB is not politically motivated stop lying and twisting facts. Show me any of the IPOB principle officers that is into nigger-arean politics or you shut up.

Don't pity me pity yourself for being a proud nigger-arean.

See how naive you are,so you don't know that every freedom fighting is politically motivated,ithe reason for your agitation for Biafra is based on perceived Igbo marginalisation in Nigeria but you have now lost focus and delved into singing holy holy holy bullshit..... . Elohiiiiiiim bla bla bla bla.
IPOB is a waste of time and energy.