iddonla:
This guy no like igbos at all


even yoruba politicians no dislike igbos like this cos they are very warm and good people..

mbaise1000:


ikwere language? what's the meaning of that name in igbo language and what is the meaning of ikwere in ikwere language and in igbo language? people will not seize to amaze, anyways I don't see what is important in wike being igbo or not, people like JONATHAN who is more important and more intelligent and more matured and more recognized all over the world and more valuable is not igbo but identified with the igbo to the extent of adopting an an igbo name for himself, compare him to some igbos that are denying their identity for pots of porridge like one thing in abuja and another thing in lagos and the difference is very clear.
you won't see people like okonja iweala do that. that wike is being applauded by a particular set of people who are insulting him a few weeks ago but see him as their hero today, because he is killing igbos in obigbo will tell any sane person why IPOB seen to be the best option now

NaijirianKing:
A very confused tribe... at a local level they are their own tribe, but nationally they magically become more Igbo than Igbo people. If Igbo were smart, they would permanently close this revolving door since it doesn't benefit Igbo.

Igbo should force this minority group to compete among the big three as a super minority at all times.

osarog:
For the fact that my language sounds like Igbo language doesn't mean I'm Igbo. People should understand this.

Ikwerres are not Igbo.

HAccord:


Igbos are not forcing ikwerre minorities into any alliance. They are the ones stealing Igbo language, names and identity. When they commit crimes at the national or international level, people will say 'omo Ibo don commit another one'. The whole of the Igbo race bears the brunt. So Igbos need to be very concerned. These Ikwerres are descendants of Bini people who migrated during the slavery era from the Bini empire or even possibly with some traces of yoruba genes, yet they are keen bearing Igboid names.

The solution- Relinguinization of Ikwerre ethnocultural system. It can be done. Even Rotimi Ramaechi have shown them they can start renaming themselves to do away the vestigates of Igbo toga little by little.

Wike can start by budgeting like 200 billion for the project and incentivizing his Ikwerre people. He can say, any father renames his child with a Bini name gets 1 million naira. If you are Ikwerre and has a child bearing Emeka and renames him Osahon, you get 1 million naira, if you have 5 kids, that's 5 million naira. This would do a lot of magic. Even N100,000 per child will help the re-bininization revolution in a massive way.

Incentivization worked during the civil war when Gowon and Fulanis allowed them to keep their lives for denying to be Igbos, it would still work today and will help stop all these confusion and put to rest the quagmire and everyone will be happy.

Afamed:

Ask those who after accommodating them for years, the next you begin to hear is that ,your land is no-man's-land

Pecuman:


By every metric applied universally to all Igbo peoples but personal identification, Ikwerre are Igbo. Anioma and Onitsha probably have more Bini admixture than them, pre-colonial documents call people of those region Igbo.

But if they don't want to be Igbo again, fine, their choice.

iddonla:


where will all this take us to?

Racoon:
Governor Wike have a right to his ethnic identity but must never forget that hating on the Igbo tribe does not in any way make us less Igbos.Ken Saro-Wiwa & the Ogonis made the same mistake but till today they are regretting it.

We must not agree in all things but there are some things that intersect all of us-oppression & marginalization by a common enemy

iddonla:


i am yoruba like you..lets preach love always and not hate

HAccord:


Igbos are not forcing ikwerre minorities into any alliance. They are the ones stealing Igbo language, names and identity. When they commit crimes at the national or international level, people will say 'omo Ibo don commit another one'. The whole of the Igbo race bears the brunt. So Igbos need to be very concerned. These Ikwerres are descendants of Bini people who migrated during the slavery era from the Bini empire or even possibly with some traces of yoruba genes, yet they are keen bearing Igboid names.

The solution- Relinguinization of Ikwerre ethnocultural system. It can be done. Even Rotimi Ramaechi have shown them they can start renaming themselves to do away the vestigates of Igbo toga little by little.

Wike can start by budgeting like 200 billion for the project and incentivizing his Ikwerre people. He can say, any father renames his child with a Bini name gets 1 million naira. If you are Ikwerre and has a child bearing Emeka and renames him Osahon, you get 1 million naira, if you have 5 kids, that's 5 million naira. This would do a lot of magic. Even N100,000 per child will help the re-bininization revolution in a massive way.

Incentivization worked during the civil war when Gowon and Fulanis allowed them to keep their lives for denying to be Igbos, it would still work today and will help stop all these confusion and put to rest the quagmire and everyone will be happy.

Afamed:

That's what they know how to do best. They never stay peacefully with their hosts.

Afamed:
Wike the Slayer of terrorist IPoB group

HAccord:


Oga let's forget all these patronizing gesture. Ikwerre (Iwhuruoha/ Iwhuruosa) are not Igbo, we know it, they know it. The only problem is that took our names without our permission. That's why we have this quagmire.
An Ikwerre man who came to seek a job in my company identified himself as Arochukwu man because he grew up in Abia. He knew he wouldn't get the job if he identified as an Ikwerreman because Ikwerre youths are known to have very bad work ethics and temperament. He ended up stealing from the company, we only got to know when the police traced him to his village in Ikwerre LGA.

The fact they can easily switch their identity whenever they like in order to profit from it is what they seem to be enjoying like chameleons.

Wike himself cannot claim not to have heard people call him an Igbo man before 2019 elections but he kept quiet because Igbo identity was beneficial for him to win 2019 elections.
Elections are gone now and he is back to being a non-Igbo man. If he were that confident, he should have made all these anti-Igbo comments and behaviour before 2019, let's see how far he would have gone. Very dubious thug.

Let him use Rivers billions to import Bini teachers to teach Ikwere people their forgotten forefathers' language, he has only 3 more years to do this. E nor suppose hard na.

gidgiddy:
Ikwerre not being Igbo all depends on the Ikwerre you meet. An Ikwerre man and former Governor, Chibuike Amaechi, will tell the whole world that he is an Igbo man. Another Ikwerre Governor like Wike will say he is not Igbo


Meanwhile, an Ikwerre man called Uche Okwukwu is Ohanaeze Secretary general while another Ikwerre man called Elechi Amadi wrote a book to say Ikwerres are not Igbos

Its for Ikwerres to go and sort out whatever ethnic crisis that has engulfed them

tartar9:
The land grabbers,the culture/tribe grabbers. They have nothing to be proud of hence they keep grabbing others as theirs.

MJluv:
You don't cure a headache by cutting of the head. That the majority of Ikwerres now say they are not Igbos does not nullify the igboness in them and neither will it validate an ostracization from the Igbo mother tongue.


Of course we all know that their(Ikwerres) stance now was preconceived and propagated by partisan politics and the need to stay relevant in this ever evolving multi ethno/religious nay political enclave called Nigeria.


A Fulani man, whether in Nigeria, Niger, Sudan or where have you is still a Fulani. Even if dialectal variances may have arisen due to their diverse locations and the influence of the sociocultural groups surrounding them.

Numismatic:


If indeed ikweres are not igbos, how come the bear igbo names, speak a dialect of igbo?have same market days with ibos! In the North, there are alot of tribes who speak same language, Hausa, even bear Hausa names yet their traditions are distinct and different from the Hausas. It's not the same with Ikweres. What happened to their bini heritage? All these boils down to the Civil War which the igbos lost, making alot of people refuse to identify themselves as ibos because of the stigma the igbos have been enduring in this shithole called Nigeria. If the igbos won the war, idiots like wike would have been amongst those screaming they are igbos. And for the other fools like Afamded, they should get a life. Whether Ikweres agree the are ibos or not, that's their bloody business.

YoonSung59:
Wicked man