BaaleOko:

This useless Benin product of witchcraft, international ashawo business and cultism if you like impersonate fake accounts but we can see through the smokescreen of your badly played deceit. I'm a proud Anioma man from Enunai Ibusa to be precise, what part of "Anioma" are you from? Your people have been seriously warned to know where you want to encroach on with this your useless Benin expansionist scam... but it seems you guys have decided not to listen, it's when we decide to get very violent with your parasites that you will realize not to toy with a man's land and identity. Once again on behalf of the Enuani nation which I proudly represent, we are proudly Igbos and have at NO POINT traced our roots to some Benin empire rubbish, we know our history and the etymology of our linguistics are all of thr central Igbo origin. So it's wisely advised you make a U-turn and focus your imaginary Benin/Anioma rubbish to the Ika people who share borders with you, the Ika can decide to come from Benin since they share so much in common with you lots... but any attempt to encroach on Enuani territory will be met with brutal and savage resistance, lots of our people have been sensitized to this Benin threat and are strongly rejecting that abominable Benin tag all over social media with one voice. The Enunai people are unapologetically Igbos and no minority witch with delusions of grandeur from Edo will change that overnight. Needless to mention we still have scores to settle with you scums for how you collaborated with the Nigerian soldiers to kill our people during the civil war... we shall never forget and in due time we shall even the scores of retribution.

BaaleOko:

Thankfully your madness ends online, I can also claim that Russia is part of Igboland in the comfort of my room and a phone, Edo minority thief with inordinate madness.

BastardWike:


You're not making sense. Why are you mixing up emotions in issues when you should apply logic?

Nigeria is operating on a six regional structure i.e. NE, NW, NC and SE, SW, SS. The argument all these while is that SE has been marginalized in the grand scheme of things and particularly the presidency. Now, you want someone from South South to take the slot that is meant for South East just because they share affinity in language, culture and tradition? When they draw a map of the 6 geopolitical zones that have been given the opportunity to rule Nigeria won't the South East still be missing? Would you then say that justice have been served? Can you give an olokumi man from Delta State who shares language, cultural and tradition affinity with Yorubas the slot of the South West? Would it make sense to you?

Qelvin:

So the likes of Obi Edozien, Ned Nwoko, Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, Ralph Uweche, Jay Jay Okocha, late Joe Achuzie and lots of other celebrated figures from Anioma who have proudly all embraced their Igboness are now suddenly Edo cause a riff-raff like you with no pedigree or known worth said so? sometimes I wonder if most of you kids here smoke a special brand of Marijuana or something

Nyanabo:
Fools.... hypocrites. But when you want to boost your numbers you count them amongst you. But now they are you among you.

Anioma161616:
Why are the igbo contradicting themselves about General Leo Irabor:

1) Some igbo want to keep claiming buhari is anti-igbo, so they claim that Leo Irabor is not igbo and no igbo was appointed by buhari into the head of defence. So these igbo would accept the fact that Anioma are not igbo (which is true, but irrelevant for this discussion)

2) Some igbo want to keep claiming Anioma in order to claim the land on which the Anioma live in the event of a break up of nigeria (to those guys, anioma are not igbo, but they should be convinced of being igbo because "their land is good" and it would be good to grab that land)

haffaze777:
Ok I heard you,but how many Yoruba,hausa,kanuri and fulani people can differentiate between ijaw and Igbo?

Anioma161616:

[s]Stop lying to yourself, your lost igbo tribesmen are in cameroon, Anioma are not igbo. Just face reality. Your delusion is such that you don't even see how that saying a person named Edozien is Edo wouldn't shock any reasonable hulan being.

ThatFairGuy1:

So ChoCho54 Also join
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Qelvin:
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Go and eat, hunger dey make your brain cells work in reverse. Edo state is a minority one state with parts of it under Igbo and Yoruba cultural influence, deal with your minority status in peace cause its just as your fate wills it.

PHijo:


If you don't want to learn more about your country then there is no need for it to exist because your refusal to learn more about it is behind all of her problems.

Qelvin:
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Mumu... so Sunday Igboho is Igbo because he has Igbo in his last name? bros g o and eat, hunger dey make your brain cells work in reverse. Edo state is a minority one state with parts of it under Igbo and Yoruba cultural influence, deal with your minority status in peace cause its just as your fate wills it.

PHijo:


If you don't want to learn more about your country then there is no need for it to exist because your refusal to learn more about it is behind all of her problems.

Anioma161616:

It is clear you don't actually undertsnad anything which you are talking about.

[s]1) there is no people called Edo-state.
2) Edo state is piece of land which was named as such in the 1990's, it is part of a land which the british colonial admisinistration anmed "Benin province"
3) Edo state is a part of Benin empire, just like Delta-state, Lagos and many other parts of nigeria
4) The name of the people of Benin empire is "Edo", and the state got its name from that already existing name of the people of Benin empire.
I hope you understand now.
5) All you talk of yoruba or igbo influence is nonsensical.

privaldo:


There's no problem though, whenever you've the time I will be ready just quote me in a dead thread. We are not at war with each other.

Anioma161616:


I don't know if sunday igboho is a confused igbo who thinks he is yoruba, it could very much be the case, it could also be the case that he is a yoruba and not an igbo. I think you need to reread my comment and understand it. Because your reply is not very logical.

Qelvin:


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I'm not interested in your face saving rants, according to the structure of states in Nigeria you are only found in your tiny one state, your hogwash claims of been an empire just to usurp other people into your dead and expired empire can never work cause the average Afemai, Urhobo, Itshekiri, Anioma people etc have never claimed to be Benin except having some ancestral links to the old Benin kingdom. Right now it's a known fact that parts of Edo are under Igbo and Yoruba cultural influence, you appropriated the Oba title and the Yoruba deities from the Yorubas and then shamelessly turned history on its head and claimed Yorubas stole it from you... Oduduwa was a Yoruba prince not Edo... Benin people never had a history of their own so they had to steal from others and then distort history ingratuituously.

Qelvin:

No you are evidently the slow one here so I'm using your warped logic against you. I've clearly stated that prominent Anioma figures have already established they are Igbos and I provided you the names... you're too inconsequential a tribe to tell them what they are or are not. Edo is a minority tribe not even up to the population of a local government in Imo state, so it's an insult for an Igbo person to debase him/herself into any Benin affiliation.

Anioma161616:


I think you don't even know what the word history stands for.

1) odudwa is a fairytale, his story is fictional, not historical.
2) Actually the history of Benin is recorded by people who saw precolonial Benin and recorded it with pen and paper. There is no possible logical way to claim Benin people are turning history upside down in this case, unless you also want to claim some Benin people have time machines.

Sammy07:


Actually as a Yoruba man, the guy is telling you some truth.
Nah because I schooled in the east and I have been to some places in SS.
An average Yoruba man calls anywhere after Edo state as Igbo land.

Most Yoruba cannot differentiate between An Igbo man from Ibiobio man or calabar man.

But Ijaws are a bit different some Yorubas will differentiate you in your dresses while some won't.
That's why I always laugh at some Igbo's rejecting ikwerrwe or aniomas.

An average Yoruba man knows these tribes in the south, Edo/Benin, Igbo and Ijaw (that's because of GEJ influence)

And an average Yoruba man can't differentiate an Urhobo guy from IJaw or isoko (me self I'm yet to differentiate between the two (isoko and urhobo) )

Anioma161616:

Several logical problems in your comment:

1) You haven't provided any proof of Anioma traditional rulers claiming to be igbo
2) You have ignored proof of Anioma traditional rulers claiming to be Edo
3) You have ignored proof of Anioma rulers showing artifacts which establish them as Edo
4) You have ignored precolonial maps showing Anioma as being Edo

nasoeb:
But the ikwerres have always stated that they aren't igbos.

MightySparrow:
Kaduna Ezeogu, Ebele Jonathan, Matthew Obasanjo, Rotimi Amaech are Igbo.

Tinubu Tochi, Igbo man, 2023!

Anioma161616:
Igbo is a subgroup of Bantu.
It is only in Nigeria that a sub group of Bantu can call itself a tribe and start claiming other people who have no business with them, while their Bantu brothers whom are beyond the borders are completely ignored.

BaaleOko:

Don't mind the thief, the fool posted a video of the Obi of Iselle-Uku paying homage to the Oba of Benin and then automatically according to daft Benin logic that makes the whole of the Iselle-Uku people Benin, imagine the guts to decide the ethnicity of a whole people without their mandate.

Qelvin:


1) You haven't provided any proof of Anioma traditional rulers claiming to be

Well here you go


2) You have ignored proof of Anioma traditional rulers claiming to be Edo

Please provide the verifiable source to prove that all these Anioma traditional leaders said with their own mouths that they are Edos.


3) You have ignored proof of Anioma rulers showing artifacts which establish them as Edo
Dude I'm tired of repeating myself... Lots of Western Igbos were under the influence of the old Benin kingdom, so having artifacts from Benin shouldn't be a big deal, before the establishment of the Benin kingdom, what language did these people in Anioma speak before they came under the reign of the Benin kingdom? what cultures did this aborigines practice before they were influenced by the Benin culture? how come they were able to retain their language, names, ways of life etc even decades after the end of the Benin kingdom? use your brain dude... having Benin artifacts was simply because the Benin sphere of influence which is still noticeable in various traditional cultures in Anioma lasted for many generations... that doesn't make those people less Igbos.

4) You have ignored precolonial maps showing Anioma as being Edo
Colonial maps showed what they met on ground which was the Benin kingdom and the people under it, many of whom were not Benin. BEFORE this colonial maps showed Anioma as been Edo as you stupidly claim, what were the original people in Anioma called before they came under the Benin influence? what language did they speak? how come they still retained their names, languages, cultures etc with only little hints of Benin influence till date?

Use your brains, I hate going in circles.

justosee:
the Hebrew language is one and unique, or you are trying to tell me Igbo is somehow related to the Hebrew language? you can't even tell your own history yet you want to tell us the history of other people.

Anioma161616:

1)Claim: Asaba people are edo.
Proof: Picture of the King of asaba below. (1st picture)

2) Claim: traditional rulers are edo
Proof: picture of the dein of Agbor below (2nd picture) and video below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXZ9rJVIMh4

3) don't ask me what language Anioma spoke before Benin empire was established, t$it is possible that there was no such thing as Anioma people before Benin Kingdom was establihed, anyway I don't have a time machine so I can't answer that silly question.

4) You can't prove something while you take that thing as an assumption. And you are taking your claim of anioma being igbo as an assumption to prove that same claim. Therefor you are not reasoning properly.

5) The fact Anioma traditional rulers practice Benin tradition is actually very significant since the palace is the place in which the tradition of the people lasts the longest. And this clearly shows that Anioma are Edo. It is a very big deal.

bigfish3k:

I am not telling you your history. We are just relating with common sense.
How can Benin of 4 LGA spread leaving their language behind while igbos that did not spread but where confined to only the SE have their languages being spoken by the Benin immigrants as a mother tongue.
Explain to me how the Benin immigrants learnt igbo and from whom did they learn it if they did not meet the indigenous igbos in their new abode

Anioma161616:


1) What we call Benin today is different from what we called Benin in precolonial days, precolonial map of Benin below:
2) Language similarities exist between Edo and Igbo languages. Also, it is self serving to claim some languages which have some similarities with igbo are actually igbo. No they are languages in their own right, they also have similarities with many other languages.
3) You gues tend to use population effectifs as justification for everything and that is wrong, there are several reasons why there would be similarities between different languages of different people today. For example english borrowed many words from the languages of the nordic tribes.
English borrowed words from french and even german...
4) the last time anybody with half a brain tool the language=family theory seriously in europe was in ww2 when ignorant hitler was claiming poland based on the fact some polish people spoke german. The world has grown wiser since, apparently nigerians didn't.

Qelvin:


The highlighted has killed off the rest of your pointless rants already, so you can't tell me what language those Anioma people were speaking before they came under the influence of the Benin kingdom? don't you see how stupid the whole discourse and argument is then?

Qelvin:


For the sake of clarity, common sense and simplification of facts... You still haven't told us how these so called Edos from Anioma answer Igbo names, speak a clear and undiluted Igbo variance but intelligible dialect of Igbo, dress like Igbos, practice the traditional Igbo 4 market days etc... is that the Igbo genes they "inherited" were far too superior to their original Edo genes that they suddenly woke up one morning and couldn't speak a word of Edo or bear Edo surnames? When I ask Edo delinquents this simple question, they revert to changing the topic or cooking up fallacies just to further exacerbate the crookedness of their bare faced lies.