How can you claim that you are a Niger-Deltan and you proudly hate your fellow Niger-Delta man because he is an Igbo man? What type of communal relationship is that?
I am an Igbo man from River State also a Niger-Deltan and if you hate me you are not worthy to be a Niger Deltan.
As long as Ikwere people still speak Igbo, they are Igbos. Other towns in Port-Harcourt that bear the name "Rumu" are all Igbos because they have Igbo blood flowing in their body and you cannot flush out the Igbo blood in them no matter what declearation the Nigerian politics have selfishly made for their economic gain.
That is how Nigerian politics changed our indigenous name to Niger-Delta, up till now no body know our indigenous name and our history, they changed all the towns in P.H that bear the name "Umu" which is Igbo word to "Rumu" and we accepted. The word "Umu" is an Igbo name- meaning Children of..., e.g Umu-okoro- Children of Okoro. Is Umu or Okoro an Ijaw name or Itchekiri name? But it is an Igbo name, yet they said we are not Igbos.
They said we are no longer Igbos yet many of us speak and bear Igbo names, we still maintain our Igbo tradition and cultural heritage, what type of hypocricy is that one?
The Ibibios are even Igbos(Igbo Nta-meaning small Igbo), even when they don't speak Igbo(Trace back to the history), talkless of Ikwere people that naturally rattle Ikwere and Igbo altogether more than other Igbos.
The Igbos are Shit but we the Niger-Delta cannot do without them because they are everywhere in River State, Delta state, Bayelsa State, Igbanke in Edo state. 50% of Igbos made up the Niger Delta and we can't chase them away neither can we kill all of them.
Is better we LOVE the IGBOS today otherwise Niger delta will be another thing else in terms of hatred to each other. Now there are lots of killings in Ahoda, Cultists at Omoku due to power stroggle when we have not yet achieved anything.
The MEND have collected money from Fed. Govt waka comot, Asari Dakubo is now speaking with both sides of his mouth in favour of Biafra and tomorrow nah Tompolo will follow his gesture to shout "All hail Biafra" and we are busy here hating the Igbos.
My brothers and my sister abeg una, let's love ourselves and remember that our fore-fathers lived together with the Igbos, they all imbibed in the same and similar cultural heritage in love before the Oyibo people came and spoil our show. The Housa man(Gowon) came and sow seeds of hatred among us.
Instead of us to be dealing with the Housas who are still killing our people today, we are here hating the Igbos that did not hate us, as if the Housa people use Juju to charm us.
If we continue with all these hatred our name will be SORRY because we will not achieve anything.copied.

its the yolobas that will attack you first op, not even the ikwerres or niger deltans. watch and see.

Abeg who know where i fit buy cold pure water, heat wan kill person the sun today no be here

Behira:
Abeg who know where i fit buy cold pure water, heat wan kill person the sun today no be here

com ma aause for deidei i go gii u discount.

"Igbo are poo" yet u wish to be Igbo. For ur information ikwerre is not Igbo and can never be Igbo. U guys have been denying ur Igbo brothers for decades and even fought against them during the Civil War and seized their properties after the war. I can't afford sharing a nation with Dat bunch of lazy and good for nothing fellows.. If u need brother abeg face north.

jokinexcel:
"Igbo are poo" yet u wish to be Igbo. For ur information ikwerre is not Igbo and can never be Igbo. U guys have been denying ur Igbo brothers for decades and even fought against them during the Civil War and seized their properties after the war. I can't afford sharing a nation with Dat bunch of lazy and good for nothing fellows.. If u need brother abeg face north.

i must say u spoke my mind

I must say ....

I visited port recently I heard of placeses like rumola etc it didn't come to me DAT it was umu they were trying to say well if they are not Igbo's I don't really have a problem with DAT but they can do well to stop bearing our names and speaking our language so DAT wen a crime is committed and its and igboid name we can be sure DAT its actually an igbo who did such

PROVERBZ:
I must say ....

I visited port recently I heard of placeses like rumola etc it didn't come to me DAT it was umu they were trying to say well if they are not Igbo's I don't really have a problem with DAT but they can do well to stop bearing our names and speaking our language so DAT wen a crime is committed and its and igboid name we can be sure DAT its actually an igbo who did such

I was born in PH too and was there last in 2013. I noticed the deliberate attempt to change the pronunciation of those places to sound non-Igbo. I heard Ikwerre taxi drivers pronouncing Rumuigbo, for example, with all rising tones instead of the native falling tones that mean 'Igbo descendants', thus giving off the wrong impression to people who are not used to the politics. Even when I approached some taxi drivers and told them I was going to Rumuigbo (pronouncing it the right way), some of them snubbed me and the one driver that agreed to lift me replied me, 'you mean rumuigbo?', pronouncing the 'rumuigbo' with rising intonations. On the streets of PH, you can hear Igbo spoken everywhere. When I visited in 2013, because my family had relocated out in 1997, I was surprised to hear Igbo being spoken everywhere like I was in Aba or Owerri, contrary to expectations and anti-Igbo themes about PH I heard online. Igbo songs were played everywhere, people communicated in different Igbo dialects such as Etche, Ikwerre etc., churches sang Igbo worship songs, some pastors even preached in Igbo etc.

However, another thing I noticed is that the people were not willing to reply you in Igbo if you spoke Igbo to them, but would instead reply in pidgin English as if they did not understand Igbo. One time I needed directions to buy something and I saw two women speaking central Igbo to themselves, I approached them and inquired in Igbo where to buy the item I wanted. These women just turned and looked at me like they did not understand what I said and one said to me in English, 'come again?' Giving them the benefit of doubt, I repeated myself in Igbo and one of them just pointed rather hurriedly to the place without saying a word to me. As soon as I left they resumed their conversation in Igbo. Another time, a woman who sells stuff, I think she is Etche from her dialect, I had heard shouting at her child in Igbo and telling him what to do. So I approached her shade and asked her in Igbo how much her stuffs were, she just turned and stared at me without saying anything. I repeated myself in Igbo and she just blurted out their prices in English, rather angry at me for speaking Igbo to her (or rather me assuming she was Igbo to have spoken Igbo to her in the first place).

Also one time I was at a buka eating and one Hausa guy seemingly playing with the daughter of the woman owner of the buka, the Hausa guy who probably knew she was Ikwerre, jokingly told her, 'Chioma you this Igbo girl'. This girl's reaction to being called Igbo was shocking. She denied being Igbo with all her blood. Surprisingly, she and her mother spoke fluent central Igbo and less of Ikwerre to themselves.

My brother told me one time of the attempts of Ikwerres in 2013/2014 to change the area name, Ogbunabali (which is Igbo) to something more vague, Ogbum nuabali. I'm not sure if this was later carried out.

Based on Igbo dialects, PH is at least 70% Igbo. Several non-Igbo areas also speak Igbo fluently such as Okirika, Kalabari, Abua-Odual, Engenni etc.

an ikwerre man or woman will tell you they are not igbo so why are you people insisting they are?what they speak is ikwerre and not igbo even though some words sounds alike but not exactly.I dont know the special interest igbos have over portharcourt,other states like delta and edo have tribes who also speak languages similar to ibo and not body goes about laying claims to owning such areas.Just saying what i observed though am not ikwerre but from the kalabari tribe of rivers state

If these people are Igbo and speak Igbo why are you always angry when they name their places in their native dialect, this kind of attitude is what made us chase you people after the civil war, so stop these your land grabbing lies and face what you travelled to the Port harcourt city Niger delta to do, BUSINESS

Rumu is Obio/Akpor version of Umu. It is their native tongue. Most of the variations of Ikwerre tongue is unique to them There is no deliberate attempt to change anything. There are some Ikwerre that will agree with you that they are Igbos, and some will vehemently reject being Igbo. Its all a matter of choice, which we must accept to live with.