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Re: I Am Not Igbo - Wike Clarifies Confusion About His Name And Link To Igbo by okpukpu(m): 1:47pm On Nov 12, 2020 |
Its okay Wike off your mic we don here you... Ikweres are not Igbo but you must not intimidate other groups to denounce their Igboship simply because you are the governor. 19 Likes |
Re: I Am Not Igbo - Wike Clarifies Confusion About His Name And Link To Igbo by XANDERO85: 1:50pm On Nov 12, 2020 |
iddonla: Hehehehehe ![]() ![]() ![]() Second paragraph cracked me up! ![]() 5 Likes 1 Share |
Re: I Am Not Igbo - Wike Clarifies Confusion About His Name And Link To Igbo by XANDERO85: 1:55pm On Nov 12, 2020 |
mbaise1000: 2 Likes |
Re: I Am Not Igbo - Wike Clarifies Confusion About His Name And Link To Igbo by HAccord: 1:56pm On Nov 12, 2020 |
NaijirianKing: 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' not knowing he is an Ikwerreman with Bini heritage and Igbo name. 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 and even possibly with some traces of yoruba genes, yet they are keen on bearing Igboid names. The solution- Relinguinization of Ikwerre ethnocultural system. It can be done. Even Rotimi Ramaechi have shown them how to start renaming themselves to do away the vestigates of the Igbo toga little by little. Wike can start by budgeting like N200 billion for the project and incentivizing his Ikwerre people. He can say, any father who renames his child with a Bini name gets 1 million naira. If you are Ikwerre and has a child bearing Emeka and rename 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. Political 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. 36 Likes 5 Shares |
Re: I Am Not Igbo - Wike Clarifies Confusion About His Name And Link To Igbo by AlfaSeltzer(m): 1:59pm On Nov 12, 2020 |
Even Judas said he was not a disciple. People denying their identity because of fear is not a new thing. 10 Likes |
Re: I Am Not Igbo - Wike Clarifies Confusion About His Name And Link To Igbo by Pecuman: 2:00pm On Nov 12, 2020 |
osarog: I get that Ikwerre don't want to be called Igbo but Ikwerre doesn't sound like Igbo, it is Igbo. There is more difference between Orlu and Umuahia Igbo than between Orlu and Ikwerre. Ikwerre language is Igbo but you can always be different ethnicity. 7 Likes |
Re: I Am Not Igbo - Wike Clarifies Confusion About His Name And Link To Igbo by Pecuman: 2:02pm On Nov 12, 2020 |
HAccord: 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. 6 Likes 1 Share |
Re: I Am Not Igbo - Wike Clarifies Confusion About His Name And Link To Igbo by iddonla: 2:04pm On Nov 12, 2020 |
Afamed: i am yoruba like you..lets preach love always and not hate 4 Likes |
Re: I Am Not Igbo - Wike Clarifies Confusion About His Name And Link To Igbo by JonDon12: 2:09pm On Nov 12, 2020 |
Languages borrow from each other. But sometimes a language is completely derivative of another. Ikwerre is one. Ikwerrre is a dialect of ibo. End of story. I won't tell the Ikwerrre they are ibo. If they want to deny their own kin, that's on them 6 Likes 1 Share |
Re: I Am Not Igbo - Wike Clarifies Confusion About His Name And Link To Igbo by HAccord: 2:21pm On Nov 12, 2020 |
Pecuman: Oga let's forget all these patronizing gesture. 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. Why didn't he publicly condemn those calling him an Igbo man pre-2019? ![]() 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. 34 Likes 8 Shares |
Re: I Am Not Igbo - Wike Clarifies Confusion About His Name And Link To Igbo by kollinzgee(m): 2:27pm On Nov 12, 2020 |
Ikwerres will continue to be ikwerres not igbos until the day Nigeria splits,everybody go dey find big brother to attach himself to avoid being assimilated into the wrong nation I pray they get rejected by the larger igbo nation because they are bini.. 16 Likes |
Re: I Am Not Igbo - Wike Clarifies Confusion About His Name And Link To Igbo by MusaChukwudi: 2:28pm On Nov 12, 2020 |
iddonla: There is no US! Stay in your own lane, your land, your state! Igbo land is your homeland 7 Likes |
Re: I Am Not Igbo - Wike Clarifies Confusion About His Name And Link To Igbo by MusaChukwudi: 2:29pm On Nov 12, 2020 |
Racoon: Wike is not Igbo, na by force? 2 Likes |
Re: I Am Not Igbo - Wike Clarifies Confusion About His Name And Link To Igbo by Anyiamaka: 2:30pm On Nov 12, 2020 |
This is the man they said pulls all the shots in PDP....I am not impressed. He doesn't sound very intelligent and in 7minutes he said the same thing over 4 times. Is he that poor in knowledge? Give me Amaechi! The guy is smart n knowledgeable. 28 Likes 1 Share |
Re: I Am Not Igbo - Wike Clarifies Confusion About His Name And Link To Igbo by MusaChukwudi: 2:37pm On Nov 12, 2020 |
iddonla: Ffk off 1 Like |
Re: I Am Not Igbo - Wike Clarifies Confusion About His Name And Link To Igbo by JAMO84: 2:38pm On Nov 12, 2020 |
Igbo already has enough population, adding one Nyesom Wike would not make any difference. 10 Likes |
Re: I Am Not Igbo - Wike Clarifies Confusion About His Name And Link To Igbo by Numismatic(m): 2:57pm On Nov 12, 2020 |
HAccord: 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. 25 Likes 1 Share |
Re: I Am Not Igbo - Wike Clarifies Confusion About His Name And Link To Igbo by Golan007: 2:57pm On Nov 12, 2020 |
Wike isn't Igbo. 3 Likes |
Re: I Am Not Igbo - Wike Clarifies Confusion About His Name And Link To Igbo by Numismatic(m): 2:57pm On Nov 12, 2020 |
Afamed: Dont be stupid 5 Likes |
Re: I Am Not Igbo - Wike Clarifies Confusion About His Name And Link To Igbo by TruthHurts1(m): 3:00pm On Nov 12, 2020 |
Whether you like it or not, Nigeria will still dissolve with or without IPOB and you wretched aboki beggars will really suffer Afamed: 2 Likes |
Re: I Am Not Igbo - Wike Clarifies Confusion About His Name And Link To Igbo by Pecuman: 3:00pm On Nov 12, 2020 |
HAccord: Any historical document that identifie all the other people today called Igbo as one group will also include Ikwerre as Igbo. They only really started not liking the name Igbo after civil war. Maybe it is because of their "bad work ethics and temperament" maybe it is because of they are in another state (on this front I have seen people try to say Anioma are not Igbo but Anioma always say they are Igbo), but before 1969 anybody that will identify Igbo as an ethnic group will include Ikwerre there. Maybe as you said they just said they were Igbo for politics but similar things have happened like in Yorubaland, Egba didn't used to be called Yoruba but now are. Maybe the reverse happened with Ikwerre. However, as I said before, if they don't want to be Igbo nobody will force them, we have said this before and if other Igbos too agree that Ikwerre are no longer Igbo, they should be permanently booted out. 21 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: I Am Not Igbo - Wike Clarifies Confusion About His Name And Link To Igbo by Odingo1: 3:31pm On Nov 12, 2020 |
MAD Ikwere man |
Re: I Am Not Igbo - Wike Clarifies Confusion About His Name And Link To Igbo by Nobody: 3:43pm On Nov 12, 2020 |
gidgiddy: Okwukwu is just feeding fat on una lean purse. No wonder obiano always boycotts such useless gathering. 7 Likes |
Re: I Am Not Igbo - Wike Clarifies Confusion About His Name And Link To Igbo by charsola: 3:47pm On Nov 12, 2020 |
But former governor Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi said he is Igbo, so who is fooling who? uote author=seunmsg post=95956898]Very interesting interview. Apart from emphatically declaring that he’s not Igbo, I like the part where he claimed that the head of ipob is one small boy whose name he can’t remember ![]() ![]() ![]() At least, those always doing attache by force can now give it a rest. Ikwerres are not Igbos and so be it. They are a distinct ethnic group in Nigeria. We should all respect who they are instead of forcing another identity on them. [/quote] 1 Like |
Re: I Am Not Igbo - Wike Clarifies Confusion About His Name And Link To Igbo by orisa37: 3:51pm On Nov 12, 2020 |
WIKE IS RIGHT. 3 Likes |
Re: I Am Not Igbo - Wike Clarifies Confusion About His Name And Link To Igbo by ZKOSOSO(m): 3:52pm On Nov 12, 2020 |
tartar9:Ikwerre and Igbos are same and one. Just like YorubaFulani of Ilorin and Afonjas of Ilorin. Simple 4 Likes |
Re: I Am Not Igbo - Wike Clarifies Confusion About His Name And Link To Igbo by gidgiddy: 3:55pm On Nov 12, 2020 |
The way I see it is that there is serious identity crisis amongst the Ikwerre people. You an Ikwerre man, he says he is Igbo. You meet another Ikwerre man, he says he is Bini. You meet the third Ikwerre man, he says he is neither Igbo nor Bini, he is just Ikwerre. The Ikwerre people need to do soul searching and sort out this identity crisis that has engulfed them 20 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: I Am Not Igbo - Wike Clarifies Confusion About His Name And Link To Igbo by iboboyswag(m): 3:57pm On Nov 12, 2020 |
MJluv: Thank you for this submission. You just took the words out of my mouth. Whether they choose to agree or not, their linguistic and cultural heritage speaks otherwise. No matter how fast and far you run, you can't run past your shadow. Ikwerre's Igbo heritage and the ikewerre man are inseparable irrespective of his present political stance fuel by his desire for relevance in the Nigerian chessboard. Ikwerre is Igbo! Anybody who chooses to disagree is only playing to the political gallery and it is OK. 7 Likes 1 Share |
Re: I Am Not Igbo - Wike Clarifies Confusion About His Name And Link To Igbo by Nobody: 4:04pm On Nov 12, 2020 |
Wike just earned our respect. Stand on what you believe in and stick to it. Ikwerres are not igbos and so be it. Case closed 10 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: I Am Not Igbo - Wike Clarifies Confusion About His Name And Link To Igbo by mightyhazel: 4:06pm On Nov 12, 2020 |
Thats his opinion and must be respected |
Re: I Am Not Igbo - Wike Clarifies Confusion About His Name And Link To Igbo by HAccord: 4:36pm On Nov 12, 2020 |
Numismatic: Oga I have previously argued the same way as you have. But look at this way, if a son says his biological father is not his real father but points to another man as his father because of certain pecuniary benefits, then his biological father has every right to disown that bastard son. Who sabi Ikwerre? how many exploits have they done to bring pride to the Great Igbo nation apart from cultism, political killings and drinking tombo. Name 5 internationally acclaimed Ikwerre person of repute in any field? They should be begging to identify as Igbos not the other way round. Study them properly, they have nothing to offer the Igbo nation apart from creating confusion everywhere. For public information, Ikwerre are not Igbo, they are the descendants of Iwhuruosa a Bini slave who escaped his captors via the tributaries of River Niger and landed in ancient Igboland. They later would modify the name to 'Iwhuruoha' as the Igbos they met would pronounce the name of their progenitor. Later they came to be known as Ikwerre and I will tell you how. In Igbo the word Ikwerre means 'I agree/accept', the Igbo gave them that name because when they were looking for land to settle after escaping from Bini, anywhere the Igbo gave them to settle, they thank their Igbo hosts by saying 'I kwerre', a corruption of the phrase the phrase 'Ayi kwerre' which means 'We agree/accept' in Igbo. That's the true hidden story of how Ndi Ikwerre came to be where they are today. Go and ask any honest old man around Imo/river axis. I'm from that area myself, they'll tell you- Ndi Ikwerre abughi Ndigbo, ha biara-abia. They are not Igbos, they are escapee slaves from ancient Bini kingdom. They are just not keen in making their Bini heritage public because it undermines them as descendants of Bini slaves but prefer to align with Igbo identity only when it suits them because of the majority status that Ndigbo enjoy. 31 Likes 4 Shares |
Re: I Am Not Igbo - Wike Clarifies Confusion About His Name And Link To Igbo by chrisblack: 4:43pm On Nov 12, 2020 |
YoonSung59:says you. All because he did not deny is root |
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