Ellyptical:

After Awolowo' policy that every biafran be left with 20 naira irrespective of how much you had in the bank before the war, the Ikwerres vehemently denounced being igbo and went as far as renaming towns like umuigbo, umuola, umukurushi to Rumuigbo, Rumuola, Rumukurushi.
However, the delta-igbos did not. Probably in a honour of Kaduna Nzeogwu who was from the Igbo part of delta state.
Go and tell an Asaba man today that he is not Igbo. If he is phlegmatic, he will only leave you with a slap. There was a campaign last time by the delta-igbos that they should not be called the 'delta-igbos' while others are called the core Igbos. Their argument is that they are equally as Igbo as the SE states. . . .an argument which ought not to be an argument because it is the plain truth - THEY ARE IGBO AND THEY DO NOT DENY IT!

It's a shame that after they denied being Igbos, the Igbos who were left to become paupers are today the richest people around

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-371485.0.html

It shocks them till date.
I am still waiting for the day the Ikwerres will come back to claim Igboness.

Go to facebook and search for the group 'YOU FLY AND DELTA-IGBO' and you will see people proudly telling you that they are Igbos from Delta state.

zebra:

why do igbos like claiming that other people are igbos. if they say they are not igbos why not leave them alone? i just heard them claiming that[b] Goodluck Jonathan is an igbo man. na wa o.[/b]

zebra:

Thank you, i have heard you. But ikwerre and ika are not igbos, sorry.

zebra:

Thank you, i have heard you. But ikwerre and ika are not igbos, sorry.

zebra:

@ashawo
or was your name sef, no ikwerre man in his right senses will ever call himself igbo.

Andre Uweh:

I am a member of the Igbo Youths UK (www.icsn.co.uk), and the president of this famous body is an Ika son and a proud Igbo.
One of the girls in the executive body of this organisation and the largest Nigerian socio/cultural organisation is from Rebisi. Wherei s Rebisi?.
You do not have the right insight to speak for those Igbo groups as your arguments here baseless and unfounded.
Why are they heading Igbo organisations if they are not Igbo?.
We mark Iri ji festival in the UK and a well established Ika monarch flows in from Nigeria as the Royal father of the day. What does that tell you?.
Common boy, grow up.

zebra:

@ashawo
or was your name sef, no ikwerre man in his right senses will ever call himself igbo.

abadaba:

This Zebra of a girl must be the biggest fool on political section. She does not know the Igbo groups in Nigeria. She is not an Igboman and knows nothing about Igbo culture. The young man is making a mockery of himself here.
The worst is that he fails to comprehend what authorities in Igbo culture have written here. Perhaps, he is partially sighted that he can not read what intelligent people have written.
Zebra, just quit contributing here because you are a laughing stock here.

abadaba:

@Zebra: I have always said that you lack comprehension. Show me where any of the posters have claimed that the[b] entire Rivers is Igbo[/b]. Why not accept your imbecility and ask for help here.
Once again, your write ups is not insightful for you to be here. Just go and play with your fellow kids, you beast of no specific gender.

Kay 17:

he was a bloody thirsty autocrat, with a tribal agenda. he should burn in his grave! his irrational actions set 30 yrs back.

asha 80:

Do you even know that nzeogwu was more fluent in hausa than igbo

Kay 17:

he was a bloody thirsty autocrat, with a tribal agenda. he should burn in his grave! his irrational actions set 30 yrs back.

zebra:

but you are trying to claim that ikwerre and etche people are igbos, right? why not include ogoni in you list since you have added okrika to it. mumu









Get this in your plague-filled skull. Ogonis, Okrikans are not Igbo. The Igbo groups in Rivers state are the Etches, Ikwerres, Ekpeyes, Ndonis, Ogbas, Egbemas and Asas( Obigbo).
It is certain that you can not read, but consult someone to check this out in your Rivers state govt website.
You and your group are not Igbo, hence keep your oil.

zebra:

Have you ever wondered why someone called Danjuma or Yakubu cannot be hausa? A lot of people in the middle belt (northern minorities) bear names like Usman, Bala, Ibrahim, Abdul, etc, and yet they are not hausas. please stop living in the past when northerners believed that everybody from the east was igbo and everybody from the north was hausa. Nzeogwu is an igbo name, but his people today refuse to be called igbos. Igbo speaking part of Delta state are not igbos they have their own identity, like Ika and ukwani. Open your brain man and stop living in Nigeria of 1960.

zebra: One of the finest and brave Army officers Nigeria has ever produced.