The ancient kingdom of Opobo in Rivers State was thrown into jubilation on Monday after Governor Nyesom Wike announced that the Opobo axis of the Ogoni-Andoni-Opobo Unity Road would be completed in January 2021.

He said the road would attract development to the kingdom, even as he donated N50m for a befitting palace for King Jaja of Opobo.

Wike spoke at a ceremony to mark the 150 years anniversary of the establishment of Opobo Kingdom in Opobo town.

The governor, who expressed delight that Opobo people, said their friends and visitors could now drive by road to participate in the 150 years anniversary of the kingdom, assured that the road would be inaugurated in January 2021.

“As you’re coming from the Ogoni area, you’ll see that we have finished the first phase of Sakpenwa-Bori road; full dualisation. Now, we believe that the second phase will take it to Kono with streetlights installed.

“That will ease movement and reduce the level of crime in that place. We are happy that you can drive from Bori and within five minutes, you’re heading for Opobo.

“When that road is completed, it will bring development. I am glad that I made a promise to the people of Opobo. We believe that by the ending of January 2021 that we will come back to commission the road,” he stated.

The governor said his administration would continue to support developmental plans of the kingdom that would make life easy for them.

Amayanabo of Opobo Kingdom, King Dandeson Jaja, said the sitting of Opobo on the banks of the Imo River was a well calculated plan in 1870, because the kingdom strategically became an important commercial settlement to compete with Lagos in volume of Nigerian international trade.

He said the Nigerian government had since failed to acknowledge the subsisting commercial potential of Opobo.

Source: https://punchng.com/150-years-after-wike-links-ancient-opobo-by-road/

brainpulse:
Where is the road? Audio road that construction will last until he leaves government.

He has used all Rivers money to gift judges and lawyers cars in the state.

Joevics:

When they say Rivers State. It means Rivers State. Most of these communities are surrounded by water. So they are accessed by boat.

Xucxex1997:
Na only by air or by boat people dey use go there before?
Fantabolous

Xucxex1997:
Na only by air or by boat people dey use go there before?
Fantabolous

DuBLINGreenb:
Wait so 150 years ago it was linked by road?

Wike too dey lie and him no Sabi talk at all at all

Bonesking:
King Dandeson was even saying that the siting of Opobo by Jaja on the banks of the Imo river was visionary. That if the potentials of Opobo is looked into, it can rival the Lagos port.

Well, he is actually right. And if there’s any group in Rivers coastal that still share a form of kinship with the Igbos, its the Opobo man. The federal government had already approved the establishment of a sea port in Bonny Island. Opobo came late to the party, unless they would be an extension of the port facility in Opobo which might still be a win-win situation.

Golan007:
Since Wike pummeled Ipob the hate of easterners on him has grown exponentially.

Bonesking:
Continuing cancelling my post this frustrated Ijaw clown.

DuBLINGreenb:
Wait so 150 years ago it was linked by road?

Wike too dey lie and him no Sabi talk at all at all

I sure say all these Wike touts and cultists wey dey quote me no even see the original headline. Wike don promise Una say Una go guard government House and Una believe person wey be miscreant go allow miscreants guard him and him family? 3 years remaining him go commot Shi Shi Una no go see.

PHijo:


None of us share kinship with you Igbos! Why can't you be on your own?

Focus on your five landlocked Igbo states.

bigfish3k:

Hmnm
You are here already fighting igbos
You can't change that history of Jaja being an igbo man

PHijo:


Who cares if Jaja was an ex slave of Igbo descent or an Ijaw who left the Imo area due to Igbo incursion?

If 400 years later the Igbo decide to identify as Ijaw slaves I have no problem with that!

Selling your young men and women for snuff and mirrors. Why should I be bothered?

The value for your kinfolk was snuff, mirrors second clothes from Ijawland. You got paid for the value you placed on your people. We treated them so well that even when they had the option to return they refused to return to Igboland and 400 years later you are ranting because people were treated way better than NdiIgbo could treat them.

There is no history of Jaja being an Igbo man except the fictitious history in the minds of Igbos. The evidence we have was that Jaja migrated from Bonny to present day Opobo which was an island owned by an Ijaw clan.

His migrated with other Ijaw chiefs. At the time migration Jaja was a chief like the others.

bigfish3k:

You mean British fictitious history of Jaja being an igbo man?
Anything you like call it. The whole world except you knows that Jaja was an Igbo Man.
Thank God you can't recreate the world.
Jaja descendants knows their origin.

That guys comment that Opobo is aligned to the igbos really pained you. It rubbishes your earlier claim that Opobo has no igbo linkage.
Thank God you are not from opobo

ikorodureporta:


Source: https://punchng.com/150-years-after-wike-links-ancient-opobo-by-road/

PHijo:


None of us share kinship with you Igbos! Why can't you be on your own?

Focus on your five landlocked Igbo states.

PHijo:


It is obvious you have comprehension issues!
The Imo river was an Ijaw enclave till the British imported you(Igbo) in to do their menial jobs.

Like I have always told you guys, Igbos in Nigeria are a creation of the British colonial system.

Bonesking:

[s]I’m not talking to you Bayelsa man. You share kinship with Delta and Ondo Izons.

I’m talking to Opobo people who call me nwanne. And when I speak my language to them, they reply in the same language to me. Even when I tell them we don’t relate, they still find means to say “Dede hapu okwu”. Only an Opobo and Bonny man can understand what I wrote not you.[/s]

Golan007:
Since Wike pummeled Ipob the hate of easterners on him has grown exponentially.

OkoroPeugeot:
I went to Opobo by road a few years back.

Na spirit road?

Bonesking:
I’m not talking to you Bayelsa man. You share kinship with Delta and Ondo Izons.

I’m talking to Opobo people who call me nwanne. And when I speak my language to them, they reply in the same language to me. Even when I tell them we don’t relate, they still find means to say “Dede hapu okwu”. Only an Opobo and Bonny man can understand what I wrote not you.

PHijo:


It is obvious you have comprehension issues!
The Imo river was an Ijaw enclave till the British imported you(Igbo) in to do their menial jobs.

Like I have always told you guys, Igbos in Nigeria are a creation of the British colonial system.