seanet02:

Illogical Ranting. Ibos will never be allowed to Join ODUA PEOPLES CONGRESS. We are not interested in selling our Heritage like Massob did by dropping their Agitation because of GEJ hard currency. Thank you, go and join Bakassi Peoples Congress or Bakassi Boys!!! Whichever your destiny picks.

afam4eva:

The MUMU don come again.  Na lie go kill you. Why will an Igbo person want to join OPC.

alj harem:



and why can't an igbo man join OPC, if he has lived there all his life and he his now an indigene like you aways claim, why can't he join OPC

just like the head of awera was a yoruba man at once

seanet02:

Illogical Ranting. Ibos will never be allowed to Join ODUA PEOPLES CONGRESS. We are not interested in selling our Heritage like Massob did by dropping their Agitation because of GEJ hard currency. Thank you, go and join Bakassi Peoples Congress or Bakassi Boys!!! Whichever your destiny picks.

Abagworo:

Alj Harem is very right.I know some Igbos in OPC.The truth is that people refer to Vigilante groups in Lagos as OPC which is quite different from the real OPC.It is more appropriate to claim that there are some Igbo members in the Lagos Vigilante.

Abagworo:

Alj Harem is very right.I know some Igbos in OPC.The truth is that people refer to Vigilante groups in Lagos as OPC which is quite different from the real OPC.It is more appropriate to claim that there are some Igbo members in the Lagos Vigilante.

afam4eva:

Lagos vigilante is different from OPC.

afam4eva:

Lagos vigilante is different from OPC.

Abagworo:

Alj Harem is very right.I know some Igbos in OPC.The truth is that people refer to Vigilante groups in Lagos as OPC which is quite different from the real OPC.It is more appropriate to claim that there are some Igbo members in the Lagos Vigilante.

afam4eva:

Lagos vigilante is different from OPC.

jason123:

http://allafrica.com/stories/199912010226.html

OPC, Igbos Form Alliance
Lagos — The Oodua People's Congress (OPC) and the Igbo residents in Lagos have formed an alliance.

The alliance which was brokered between the Dr. Frederick Fasehun- led OPC and the Igbo People's Congress (IPC) headed by Mr. Nwankwo Nwaezigwe is meant to cement unity, mutual co-operation and understanding between the Yoruba and Igbo residents of Lagos.

jason123:

http://thenationonlineng.net/web2/articles/13335/1/History-is-not-the-study-of-the-past/Page1.html


Dr. Nwankwo Tony Nwaezeigwe, a Senior Rersearch Fellow and Lecturer at the Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria Nsukka founded the Igbo Peoples Congress in 1998. In this interview with Edozie Udeze and Joe Agbro Jr., he reiterated amongst other issues a need for  forging better relationship between Igbos and Yorubas

by Edozie Udeze
You are for the integration of Yoruba/Igbo relationship. What informed that?

During 1999 and 2001, I brokered confrontations between the Igbos and the Yorubas in Lagos. I signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Oduduwa Peoples Congress (OPC) and throughout the crisis between the OPC and Ijaws, the OPC and Hausas here in Lagos and the nation at large, we co-operated fervently. And I can say that I am an associate member of Odududwa Peoples Congress, OPC. They have taken me as a good friend, as a representative of the good rapport between the Igbos and the Yorubas. And through me, the OPC intervened in Yoruba/Igbo fracas in Lagos. We settled the matter at Apapa Wharf, Alaba Market, and other places. And since then, I found that the Igbos and Yorubas have been co-operating. We did it because we felt that we are under siege by the north, both politically, economically, and otherwise. If Yorubas and Igbos continue to divide themselves out of petty rivalry, then we are nowhere. It was my own move with OPC that prompted Ohaneze to go and make a move to Afenifere. But when I started, my Igbo brothers were accusing me as a sell-out, a saboteur. I said, look, you cannot tell me that it is fruitless to dialogue with Yoruba people. Eighty percent of the Igbo man’s business worldwide is situated in Yorubaland, especially Lagos. So, economic-wise, you have advantage of being at peace with them. If you go to Niger Bridge, go to Ninth Mile - the two gateways of the East to outer worlds, look at the vehicles that leave Niger Bridge to West and compare to the vehicles that leave Obulafor to the North. Nnamdi Azikiwe developed his political life here in Yorubaland before he moved to the east. So, you find out that we have every reason to work together.

~Bluetooth:

Only good ibos should be allowed,frustrated ones should not be admitted.

~Bluetooth:

Only good ibos should be allowed,frustrated ones should not be admitted.

seanet02:

@jason, you dey kolo, na by force? They can be part of the Vigilante groups but as OPC! Capital No.

seanet02:

If you allow them, one day you will wake up and see them agitating to be the new Oni of Ife.

seanet02:

@almajrem, you are not serious. Ibos speaks YORUBA better than me. Odengozi

seanet02:

Na suprisesurprise jare Mr. Odechukwu

seanet02:

If you allow them, one day you will wake up and see them agitating to be the new Oni of Ife.

~Bluetooth:

honestly,i doubt the possibility of this assumption.the best thing is to show them that they are admitted by privilege and not a right.

olabukola:

I sound silly to most of you when i opened a thread that this people will have advantage on the long run if Nigeria did not divide. Many even claimed that am not Yoruba. I projected in the next 20 to 30 yrs but its happening now. Their numbers are growing each day in yoruba land while we think they don't know what they are doing. Until then become the Gov of Lagos then we will wake up.

Yoruba ranu!!!!!!

udezue:

LOL!!! Igbos in OPC? Bullocks. IPC is clearly not OPC and being an associate member does not make u a member or atleast full member. U can't vote, u can't hold a position neither can u lead the group. U are only there to lend them support and deal with them. A Yoruba chick is an associate member of our group in Houston. She is a good friend. IPC is a good friend OPC but no Igbos are not members of OPC. Even if they were to be a member of such a ragtag charm carrying group are we supposed to cry, or get happy? I am not against both groups cooperating with eachother for the betterment of both communities. The British and Russians had to defeat Nazi Germany so no biggie.

dem_people:

Any Onyeigbo found in OPC must be an efulefu. I said it,[size=14pt] EFULEFU!!![/size]