Afam4eva:

Nobody is saying you insulted anyone. What i'm saying is that there's no need of you to say IPOB said this and that when you can confirm that it's one person's opinion. IPOB is made up of human beings who despite the fact that they have one target reason differently. I've told you about how different people draw the Biafran map but you won't have none of it. There's no such thing as an official IPOB group.

fratermathy:
I came across this laughable plea from IPOB online and as an Urhobo, I found it laughable and delusional. I'll express my sentiments under the post.




My issues with this delusional plea include:

1. The writer couldn't even spell Urhobo well. What he spelt was Uhrobo, not Urhobo. I have met several Igbos lash on others who dared to omit the "g" in Igbo and spelt as Ibo. The fact that someone or a group that supposedly means us well do not even know how to spell the name of our ethnicity is definitely laughable.

2. Urhobos/Isokos HAVE NEVER been a part of Biafra at any point. In 1967, Urhobo/Isokoland was in Nigeria's Mid-West State (previously in the Western Region) and anyone who knows the history of the war well enough knows that the Mid-West was never part of Ojukwu's short-lived Biafra. In fact, the Biafran troops massacred a lot of Mid-Westerners, including Urhobo/Isokos, when they invaded Benin (only Igbos were spared).

3. In the current resurgence for Biafra, Urhobo/Isokos have always maintained their stand. Our apex socio-cultural unions, UPU and IDU, have stated emphatically that we do not want Biafra. We are not Biafrans. We do not want to be Biafrans! This cannot be overemphasised. Apart from our apex groups, many of us have rejected the Biafran cause in the numerous Urhobo-Isoko groups on the social media.

4. Urhobo/Isokos have never been sympathetic to the Igbo cause in any way. In fact, quite the opposite, we have maintained our independence and tilted more towards the West. The average Urhobo man is more at home with a Yoruba than with an Igbo. This doesn't mean we hate Igbos but we simply have more sympathy with our Edoid/Yoruboid kins. This explains the presence of many itinerant and settler Urhobos in Yorubaland, as opposed to Igboland where Urhobo/Isokos hardly venture to. How then can we share a country with people we have no historical, political or cultural ties with? Any Urhobo/Isoko that may be sympathetic to the Biafran cause does so at the personal level and represents his own interest. The voice of Urhobo/Isoko collective interest has been made known already.

5. Urhobos WILL NOT sit at home and do nothing because IPOB asked us to or because Igbos are doing so. It will NEVER happen, today or anytime soon. Such a plea is useless and antithetical to the Biafran cause. Biafrans should aim for an Igboid country and leave Edoid/Yoruboid groups out of it. Urhobo/Isoko is Edoid. Itsekiri is Yoruboid. Even the Western Ijaws which have always been with us tilt more towards the West than anywhere else. How can you want so many dissimilar groups in your "utopia"? Won't it amount to creating another Nigeria when you "drag" uninterested groups to your cause?

I need not tell the writer, IPOB and any Igbo who cares to hear what the answer to this plea would be. The response is not farfetched. Ihwo r'Urhobo guoni Biafra a! Urhobo people are not Biafrans! We may be fed up with Nigeria but we can never leave the devil for the deep blue sea. Igbo is a majority ethnic group in Nigeria and as such contributes to the plights faced by minorities such as Urhobo/Isoko. The Igbo should not absolve itself from the "parasite" status! As far as minorities are concerned, all majority ethnic groups are a threat. Some are much more than some. In this case, Igbos have never done anything for Urhobo/Isokos to trust its motives. IPOB should stop adding us to its agenda or else it'll attract more insults to itself and the Igbo ethnicity. A word is enough for the wise!


Ihwo r'Urhobo v'Isoko, ke mavor owa mlo ota na vwa? Oshe phiyor? Biko vwa me ji tota kparemu me tare na!

vayne:

It clearly stated by "Sunday Okafor",how does that translate to ipob?

vayne:

He agreed with the "official source" today because he saw something he likes!
Those people are just bunch of ....

fratermathy:


1. Okafor is NOT an Urhobo/Isoko name
2. The Biafra Herald has always maintained that it is a mouthpiece for IPOB (check its info very well).

fratermathy:


I have never agreed with whatever The Biafra Herald has written. It is a pro-Biafra medium and I am absolutely 100% against a Biafra where Urhobos are included under any guise.

fratermathy:


1. Okafor is NOT an Urhobo/Isoko name
2. The Biafra Herald has always maintained that it is a mouthpiece for IPOB (check its info very well).

fratermathy:




I guess, it was "afonjas" that hacked BiafranHerald website and posted this:

http://www.thebiafraherald.co/2017/05/appeal-to-isokouhrobo-to-observe.html

fratermathy:
I came across this laughable plea from IPOB online and as an Urhobo, I found it laughable and delusional. I'll express my sentiments under the post.




My issues with this delusional plea include:

1. The writer couldn't even spell Urhobo well. What he spelt was Uhrobo, not Urhobo. I have met several Igbos lash on others who dared to omit the "g" in Igbo and spelt as Ibo. The fact that someone or a group that supposedly means us well do not even know how to spell the name of our ethnicity is definitely laughable.

2. Urhobos/Isokos HAVE NEVER been a part of Biafra at any point. In 1967, Urhobo/Isokoland was in Nigeria's Mid-West State (previously in the Western Region) and anyone who knows the history of the war well enough knows that the Mid-West was never part of Ojukwu's short-lived Biafra. In fact, the Biafran troops massacred a lot of Mid-Westerners, including Urhobo/Isokos, when they invaded Benin (only Igbos were spared).

3. In the current resurgence for Biafra, Urhobo/Isokos have always maintained their stand. Our apex socio-cultural unions, UPU and IDU, have stated emphatically that we do not want Biafra. We are not Biafrans. We do not want to be Biafrans! This cannot be overemphasised. Apart from our apex groups, many of us have rejected the Biafran cause in the numerous Urhobo-Isoko groups on the social media.

4. Urhobo/Isokos have never been sympathetic to the Igbo cause in any way. In fact, quite the opposite, we have maintained our independence and tilted more towards the West. The average Urhobo man is more at home with a Yoruba than with an Igbo. This doesn't mean we hate Igbos but we simply have more sympathy with our Edoid/Yoruboid kins. This explains the presence of many itinerant and settler Urhobos in Yorubaland, as opposed to Igboland where Urhobo/Isokos hardly venture to. How then can we share a country with people we have no historical, political or cultural ties with? Any Urhobo/Isoko that may be sympathetic to the Biafran cause does so at the personal level and represents his own interest. The voice of Urhobo/Isoko collective interest has been made known already.

5. Urhobos WILL NOT sit at home and do nothing because IPOB asked us to or because Igbos are doing so. It will NEVER happen, today or anytime soon. Such a plea is useless and antithetical to the Biafran cause. Biafrans should aim for an Igboid country and leave Edoid/Yoruboid groups out of it. Urhobo/Isoko is Edoid. Itsekiri is Yoruboid. Even the Western Ijaws which have always been with us tilt more towards the West than anywhere else. How can you want so many dissimilar groups in your "utopia"? Won't it amount to creating another Nigeria when you "drag" uninterested groups to your cause?

I need not tell the writer, IPOB and any Igbo who cares to hear what the answer to this plea would be. The response is not farfetched. Ihwo r'Urhobo guoni Biafra a! Urhobo people are not Biafrans! We may be fed up with Nigeria but we can never leave the devil for the deep blue sea. Igbo is a majority ethnic group in Nigeria and as such contributes to the plights faced by minorities such as Urhobo/Isoko. The Igbo should not absolve itself from the "parasite" status! As far as minorities are concerned, all majority ethnic groups are a threat. Some are much more than some. In this case, Igbos have never done anything for Urhobo/Isokos to trust its motives. IPOB should stop adding us to its agenda or else it'll attract more insults to itself and the Igbo ethnicity. A word is enough for the wise!


Ihwo r'Urhobo v'Isoko, ke mavor owa mlo ota na vwa? Oshe phiyor? Biko vwa me ji tota kparemu me tare na!

vayne:

Let a referendum decide or Speak for yourself,you are not the spokesman for the urhobos!

fratermathy:
Whatever makes you sleep at night man.

This post was written with clear intents:
1. To correct the wrong spelling of Urhobo as Uhrobo
2. To remind IPOB that Urhobo/Isoko was never part of Biafra
3. To call bluffs on the supposed "plea", as comments on this thread will rightly show

ProWalker:


Did Urhobo people ask for referendum? Igbo are the ones asking for referendum whether they should stay or leave Nigeria

OkoNDOoBo:
we know from onset that all these unity begging Igbos re attach by force.
because of oyel, delta and Edo states was never under eastern region so why disturbing them

vayne:

When the time is right,we will all know if they need it or not,until then,no one should act as a spokesman for them or any group unless appointed!

ProWalker:


Exactly! Igbo should restrict their secessionist agenda to those that clearly identify with them

LukmonSodiq:
Mathias, Mathias, Mathias!!!

How many times did I call you? Stop making a mountain out of a molehill. A semi-literate reporter mis-spelt Urhobo and you've decided to make an issue out of that You can't be so petty? Dude free yourself and your mind. Quit with the hate and bitterness. The world is moving on...

Personally I do not want Urhobo anywhere close to Biafra. Stop attaching so much importance to yourself and your Urhobo nation. 95% of the average Johnny in Igboland cannot tell the difference between Urhobo and Ijaw. Nobody really cares. Stop creating the unnecessary impression that the Urhobo nation is antagonistic towards the Igbo. My best friend is Urhobo and he's not anything like you.

vayne:

Let a referendum decide or Speak for yourself,you are not the spokesman for the urhobos!

LukmonSodiq:
Mathias, Mathias, Mathias!!!

How many times did I call you? Stop making a mountain out of a molehill. A semi-literate reporter mis-spelt Urhobo and you've decided to make an issue out of that You can't be so petty? Dude free yourself and your mind. Quit with the hate and bitterness. The world is moving on...

Personally I do not want Urhobo anywhere close to Biafra. Stop attaching so much importance to yourself and your Urhobo nation. 95% of the average Johnny in Igboland cannot tell the difference between Urhobo and Ijaw. Nobody really cares. Stop creating the unnecessary impression that the Urhobo nation is antagonistic towards the Igbo. My best friend is Urhobo and he's not anything like you.

fratermathy:


We have had our referendum via Urhobo Progress Union. Before stands on issues such as this are taken, there is a democratic process involved. I am party to that process and the Urhobo voice is final.

vayne:

and you are?
This internet sef.

vayne:

and you are?
This internet sef.

Nicho118:
wetin concern us with Biafra

fratermathy:


I am an Urhobo! That is all I need to be.

vayne:

A referendum decides who identifies and who doesn't,why so scared if you have nothing to loose!

ProWalker:


It's lose and not loose in this context !!
You don't force referendum on poeople!!! Only ipob is asking for a referendum and not Urhobo progressive union, Isoko Union or the Itshekiri council.
Why are you people behaving as if you can't do this alone without roping others ?

fratermathy:


Oniovo I tire o. I just needed to state this fact clearly!! Many of them are still under the illusion that we are all Biafrans. You need to see the comments one made on Facebook when he shared this post. The impression he tried to create was very bad. When posts like this are made, it clears the air for the sake of the future.

vayne:

you are the one feeling insecure,we have people who share our views,and they are the ones we will work with.most times the leaders and union who speak for us are because they benefit from the status quo!
So don't go about feeling all important because some useless union took a stand for your future.
If there is any presence of b1afra in your land,30th may will tell,not the internet!

vayne:

you are the one feeling insecure,we have people who share our views,and they are the ones we will work with.most times the leaders and union who speak for us are because they benefit from the status quo!
So don't go about feeling all important because some useless union took a stand for your future.
If there is any presence of b1afra in your land,30th may will tell,not the internet!