omonnakoda:
With regards to the Rumu -Umu matter
There is just one question. Is it true ,as Ikwerre claim,that their towns and villages were named Rumu e.g Rumuokuta and the Igbos changed it to Umuokuta. I am not here to talk about whether Ikwerre are Igbo or not .Simple question yes or no?
Or are we to believe that Ikwerre people just manufactured the RUMU thing out of nowhere to spite Igbos? How believable is that? Why are people so deceitful

omonnakoda:



With regards to the Rumu -Umu matter
There is just one question. Is it true ,as Ikwerre
claim,that their towns and villages were named Rumu
e.g Rumuokuta and the Igbos changed it to Umuokuta.
I am not here to talk about whether Ikwerre are Igbo or
not .Simple question yes or no?
Or are we to believe that Ikwerre people just
manufactured the RUMU thing out of nowhere to spite
Igbos? How believable is that? Why are people so
deceitful

ezeagu:


Is that so? Then why do Rivers men still trek to Imo and Abia for wives, abi these states are now also "south south"?

Abagworo:


The truth is that those places bore those names earlier as a result of the fact that then Diobu Ikwerres embraced those Umu prefix for children despite Rumu being their dialectal version. It is common accross Igboland as many written names do not reflect the immediate dialect. An example is Ehugbo written and pronounced as Afikpo, Ugwuta written and pronounced Oguta, Owereh written and pronounced as Owerri etc. The Diobu Ikwerres felt dominated by non native Igbos from Southeast because of the usual Igbo attitude which has always led to a dichotomy in their host Igbo cities like Ngwa vs others in Aba, Onitsha vs others, Abakaliki vs others etc. mainly because non natives win most electoral offices making the natives allege a conspiracy which is unproven.

The change of name from Umu to Rumu was simply to declare liberation from inland Igbo dominance after Biafra was defeated in Port Harcourt. It was a political manipulation to give the Diobu a sense of belonging among tribes hitherto different from them and then prove that they are different from Igbo proper.

omonnakoda:
Leave long story ,are you saying that previously there was never anything like RUMU that some people just conjured it up from nowhere after the war. Yes or no?

omonnakoda:
Leave long story ,are you saying that previously there was never anything like RUMU that some people just conjured it up from nowhere after the war. Yes or no?

blues20:

Comprehension problem every fuvcking where. Did you not read in his comments where he mentioned that Rumu is the dialect of Diobu Ikwerre, but used the general Umu before the war?.

Abagworo:


Rumu is umu in Diobu dialect but it was not adopted in written form.

herbie27:
Sorry bro!, Rivers men don't trek to those States you mentioned, an average Rivers man will want to marry from Rivers State but an Average Ikwerre man will marry an Igbo woman, they're already in the State.

AjiereTuwo:

Lol, ijaws marry lots of women especially igbo women because of cheap bride price, heck u can even get dem on credit, go and try and marry an Ibani or Kalabari girl and see the value of real women

mrvitalis:

Ikwerre is even more igbo than the likes of nsukka, ohuofia, and abakalaka that's the truth, but who needs to force them to be igbos

First of all who named us igbos?? . .. let them be.. . If and when they realise themselves they claim their origin

omonnakoda:


Both of you are confused. I suggest you get married and then you can call your offspring mumurumu

AjiereTuwo:

I never claimed them, we are not landgrabbers like Igbos,

PRXPERT:
check out Duncan mighty comments! lol!b honestly I have never met anyone from ikwere aside on social media! there is this guy called Emeka ihuoha on facebook he hates igbo with every thing in his blood, I careless about him, but I'm very surprised to know that people with similar culture like ikwere can be very scornful of igbo people. please leave them to their misery! they are looking for an attention! we can never be together again. they have crossed the line!

blues20:

Wouldn't mind if you give me your sister for my second wife... free though.

omonnakoda:
They are married but I have some dogs which I am sure you will enjoy.........

Yyeske:
I've said it several times on this forum that Ndigbo should forget anything Ikwerre, how many LGs do they control in Rivers state and can the whole Ikwerre land compete with Abia state alone not including the whole Igbo nation? Let them fight with their identify crisis, make una allow them be abeg

Igbos are noted for being uncontrollably greedy, aggressive and assimilative!
They wont let them be until they can swallow them by force!

Even if you hand over the whole world to them, they will still fight over the Moon!
Like Oliver Twist, greedy people are NEVER contented.

Sydney22:
the man with unstable character have spoken ....

ONE RIVERS AS IN ONE NIGERIA ?

We're not one with you bro ... U're Ijaw and that's all

lastpage:


Igbos are noted for being uncontrollably greedy, aggressive and assimilative!
They wont let them be until they can swallow them by force!

Even if you hand over the whole world to them, they will still fight over the Moon!
Like Oliver Twist, greedy people are NEVER contented.



Lastpage!

MXrep:

Keep quiet, Ikot Ekpene is closer to Aba than PH, how many times has there been a debate over their ethnicity??/ Do you create an ethnic group by writing Umu as Rumu or Nwakamma as Wakamma just because it is pronouce like that in you dialect?? while you are free to write in your dialect, it does not confer a seperate ethnic group. Imo bears Ihedioha, anambra version is Ifediora so i do not see how Rumu vs Umu makes a distinct ethnic group

Udmaster:
when Azikiwe was President, No ijaw man have gotten B.degree..
When Emeka Anyaogu was common wealth sec.gen, No ijaw man had a phd.
And what did ur GEJ do? Do that pit toilet called bayelsa have an airport or seaport?
What did he do 4 u people.
Yeye

Henry240:


Exactly, it is also because of this overbearing influence many in the South-South joined the Nigerian army against Biafra in the civil war.


This is also the reason why up to 85% of Rivers people are Anti-IPOB.

Its not just the history of the Ikwerre they are rewriting but basically every tribe in the Niger delta in other to annex us into their phantom biafra

Paretomaster:


That is their modus operandi, exactly why they staged the first coup.. .

MayorofLagos:
Rename Umuahia to Rumuahia.

Let omo Ibo understand how Ikwerre feels.

Lajet:


Afonja but the Coup leader is not an Igbo man his name is Chukwuma Nzogwu from Delta state . I thought that Afonjas said Igbo land starts and ends in South East. How come whenever the Coup issues arises Afonja will call it an Igbo coup even when majority of the Coup leaders are from Delta state. Why are Afonjas not blaming Delta state and South South for the Coup.

Paretomaster:


Mr, their is no Delta state as at the time of the war, and Nzeogwu represented the Igbo at that time. What about Ifeajuna?

Why are Igbos jubilating , and releasing album to celebrate the success of the coup.. .? Gerraheremehn

MXrep:
what is the different between Umu and Rumu?? can't these ignorant afonja OP see that Rumu is just a dialect just as Umu is the standardized version as Abagworo said?? Its just like writing Nwachukwu as Wachukwu, does that change anything, don't you know that other igbo clans in the SE pronouce it as Wachukwu but write in standardized version as Nwachukwu??