CSTRR:

Nigeria has never been this bad since abacha.

Don't let wike the crook gaslight you.

hevlinotito:
No but Wike said things are not hard Nigerians just like complaining.

A raving lunatic politician

Yujin:

An association has already been formed known as 'Ndi Na Asu Bia Socio-cultural Group. It is led by an intelligent man from Akumazi-Umuocha in Ika North East LGA, Delta state. Many people from his side also object to the name Igbo because to them, the word means something else in their local parlance. Though there's a community among them that bears the name 'Igbodo'. Talking about communities with the word 'Igbo' attached to them, they are scattered all over Igboland including Ikwerre territory. I'll like to know the meaning of the name 'Rumuigbo' in Ikwerre dialect. Below are communities with such names in different states across Igboland.
Igbo Ukwu.... Anambra state
Igboeze.... Enugu state
Akwukwu Igbo.... Anioma, Delta state
Ama Igbo.... Imo state
Igbo Etche.... Etche, Rivers state
Igbo-ere.... Abia state
Obi Igbo.... Rivers state

As you can see, the word Igbo is well spread across despite some Igbo clans objecting to identify with it. Even Onitsha people before call other Igbos 'nwa onye Igbo'. One will think they themselves weren't Igbo but when you go to their larger clan in Enuani, that is where you'll find the community called Akwukwu Igbo. I believe that absence of a central leadership helped to make us very clannish which is no longer necessary today. Synergy is the key thing today and we shouldn't miss.
Lastly, you can research about that association I told you about in the first paragraph. They have videos on YouTube and are growing gradually. The earlier we realize the enormous benefit in synergizing, the better for us all. You can contribute your opinion there.
Hopefully, we shall get it right.

Yujin:

Ubo and Oboh is the same thing.
I see what you're saying and honestly, it hurts to see brothers apart over a minute misunderstanding. In all these, both of us are suffering however one is suffering it most. Ikwerres by virtue of this denial has boxed themselves into a smaller area compared to the vast opportunities they stand to benefit by joining their brothers. I went to school with some of them most of who ended up going back home to Rivers state after youth service. The unemployment rate is very high whereas there are many opportunities which they ignore because they choose to wallow in the falsehood taught against Igbos from the SE. I believe that with greater awareness, many will see that we are the same and team up with their brothers to reap the benefit.
If Rivers state will develop and create bigger opportunities for the indigenes, Igbos from the SE will play a bigger role in it. Of course there are hundreds of thousands of SE Igbos in PH and other parts of the state but their commitment is only half hearted. You can't blame us because of the history of abandon property and this denials you see. Amaechi said he built a large market in Eleme and invited Igbo traders from the SE to come there and make things happen so everyone can benefit. When Wike came, he started destruction. No one can invest heavily in an area where he can sense a negative energy brother or not. In all of this, time is going and so is the young generation being misled.
They shouldn't choose extinction over negotiation.
Either way, the passage of time will ensure smaller and weaker groups are swallowed up. The choice is theirs to make.
Thanks for your time wene. Kaanka o.

AmalaAtiEwedu:
Labour Party is the only reason why PDP lost the governorship election in Edo State.
Thank you labour party for this.

APC for all Nigeria

AmalaAtiEwedu:
Labour Party is the only reason why PDP lost the governorship election in Edo State.
Thank you labour party for this.

APC for all Nigeria

Yujin:

Thanks for your responses. I'm usually friendly until (mostly through insults) the other person triggers me.

Like I wrote before, it is wrong to call all Igbos Isuoma because we all aren't Isuoma. I did explain to you about the different Igbo clans and I hope you get it. Collectively, we are all Igbos. In my clan, we have communities with Isuama origin but we are not Isuama. The same way you have Aro communities in Ikwerre, we also have Aro communities within my larger clan. We know the Aro communities and how they came about. We know the Isu ones and how they came about. Like I said, the Isu community closest to my town was formed by an Isu man who came and settled closer to us. After sometime, he came to ask to marry our only daughter(she was the last child) and he was accepted. We all have our different dialects yet knew we were the same. The community is smaller than my community. As for the Aro, they came to raid and take slaves. We resisted them by organizing other communities around us and uniting to fight them off. My local government have no single Aro community but our neighbours on both sides have Aro communities. We knew Aros came to take slaves which is why we fought them back.
As you can see, I know about our different clans yet know we are off the same nation. All large nations are like that. They are naturally made up of many clans include the English, French, Spanish, Germans, Chinese, Japanese. They know their different clans but know they're of one nation.
Do you see that 'ubo' (stringed calabash) used by Eze Promo to sing Ikwerre folklore songs, my grandfather had it. My grandmother told me he used to bring it when he was courting her. Whenever she had that sound around their family compound, she will know he was around. What do you call it in your dialect?

I've read a lot about Ikwerres and I know a lot about Igbo history. I haven't seen any single article that suggested Ikwerres to be different from other Igbos. The only thing highlighted is that Ikwerre dialect diverges a bit more than the other dialects around them. From my research, the two most divergent dialects are Ekpeye and Izzi. Ikwerre is more understandable than both of them. Ikwerre itself doesn't speak one dialect. Some dialects are clearer than others. Amaechi's dialect is easily understood because of it's proximity compared to those farther down toward the Atlantic estuary.
I know that some other non-Igbo people settled among the Ikwerres especially towards waterside. This affected their dialect but doesn't change their identity.
Whatever most Ikwerres chose today won't change the reality about the pressure coming in the nearest future. As resources become scarce, smaller and weaker groups will be swallowed eventually. If you reject your Igbo brothers, others stronger than you will come and take over unless Ikwerres are given a separate country of their own. Think of 40yrs from now. Ikwerreland won't remain the same as it is today. Hopefully, oil will still remain because if not, I wonder how the land will be taken care of. A bigger and stronger unit can stand to protect their land but a weak and smaller one won't. Think about it.

oluwaahmed:

But my GDI friends said amechi said the same story about amechi & justified it by pointing out d underdevelopment in his place. So it's the same narrative you guys like to peddle then

Yujin:

Let me address that of the DNA result. If it shows that Ikwerres are predominantly the same stock as other Igbos, you said a search will be done for who is 'senior' or came first. Ok, if it shows Ikwerres are predominantly not of the same DNA as other Igbos, you won't see any Igbo calling you an Igbo brother because you're simply not Igbo. However, if it shows you're Igbo, I wonder which Igbo group you're going to be dragging that first position with. This is because most Ikwerres don't travel out of Rivers State to understand that Igbo is a nation made up of many clans and dialects each with their own form of uniqueness.
You Ikwerres call other Igbos 'Isoma' which is actually 'Isuama'. This Isuama are just one ancient group of Igbos that are neighbours to Ikwerres. Where I come from, my ancestors know them as 'Isu'. In fact, a nearby community was formed by an 'Isu' man marrying our only daughter. The name of the community bears 'Isu...' till date. We see them as in-laws till date and even have a folklore song about it. The 'Isu' clan of Igboland are the closest in terms of migration to the 'Aros' There are 'Isus' all over Igboland including Anioma. The point is 'Isu' is just one group among the Igbo people. We have many other groups like the Orus, Abams, Ngwas, Ndokis, Nri, Awkas, Nkanus, Nsukkas, Ikas, Enuanis, Ukwuanis, Ezzas, Ezzamgbos, Ehugbos, Ikwos, Idemilis, Eris, Aros, Izzis, Mbaise, Urattas etc... Too many many which is why Igbo as a people is big. We all have our peculiarities but can see the similarities we share with the other groups which is why we all decided to stick together as a people. So, when Ikwerres call all Igbos 'Isomas', they are wrong. However, we don't fight them about it. 'Isu' as a group today has been so splitted that I don't think all 'Isu' named communities see themselves as the same clan. Examples of Isu named communities around different states are;
Isu.... Imo state
Isu-Njaba.... Imo state
Isuofia..... Anambra state
Isuikwuato.... Abia state
Isuochi.... Abia state.
Isu-Owu.... Etche, Rivers state
Isu-Awa.... Agwu, Enugu state
Isu-Agbabor.... Onicha, Ebonyi state
Isu-Achara.... Onicha, Ebonyi state
Isu-Ulo.... Anambra state
Ibusa.... Anioma, Delta state (An Isu chief was said to be among the founder of the town)
The Isu are very large in number and more than these communities I listed. They were mostly traders just like Aros but weren't much involved in slave trade like them. Isu is far older than the Aro.

Now, if we want to check who came first between Isu and Ikwerre, it is undoubtedly the Isu. As you can see, the spread they have and the communities they formed is far bigger than Ikwerre. You can't compare Igbo and Ikwerre on this basis because Igbo a collection of all the people that speak our similar language. You can only compare one clan to another. Example Ikwerre and Ngwa, Ikwerre and Aro, Ikwerre and Mbaise, Ikwerre and Awka, Ikwerre and Nkanu, etc

It is very common for other Igbo clans to call other clans another name as though they are from a different nation. I can confidently say my great grandfather didn't call himself Igbo but our dialect shows clearly that we are Igbo by the virtue of our language, culture, tradition and customary similarities. I can't say because my grandfather didn't tell me he was Igbo, therefore I should just stick with the name of my town. It makes no sense. In my dialect of Igbo, we call stomach 'awhor' instead of 'afor'. We bear names like 'Amaewhule' instead of 'Amaefuna'. However, we mostly go by the popular one 'Amaefuna' when writing the name. If you go to our villages and ask of the names 'Amaewhule', they will think you're from my community. We use the 'wh' in many instances to replace the 'h'. We use it to tell who is from our locality and who isn't. There are many different dialects in Igbo.

Finally, if my clan was not carved into the SE, I'll still consider myself a brother to the people of the SE knowing what I know about our similarities. This in turn will make me identify myself with the larger people especially after knowing the history of Nigerian politics. If the larger SE is called Ikwerre and my clan carved into another region by enemy politicians goes by the name Igbo, I'll identify myself as Ikwerre as long as I can see the language, cultural and traditional similarity especially when our land is contiguous. Boundary can easily change tomorrow but all the other can't change so easily.

Note: Even if the DNA test confirms that most Ikwerres share the same DNA with other Igbos, they still have the right to stay alone. Association is not by force. However, they won't be able to deny that they aren't Igbos. They'll just say we are Igbos but want to remain outside the larger Igbo nation. If that will help them better, it is their decision to make.

VinnyBaba:
PDP should make sure they NEVER allow APC use Wuruwuru to take over Edo state.

Dat's how we Niger Deltans allowed APC to take over in 2015 and Nigerians are paying dearly for it today.

How can a party with such a USELESS candidate win the election

oluwaahmed:

But this is the same story you guys peddled against amechi only that his father is yoruba

Benbellamor:
Both Sokoto and Edo that wike helped out of APC to pdp in 2019 &2020 RESPECTIVELY has now returned back to APC...Both Tambuwal and Obaseki Betrayed wike, denying that it was not his help that gave them victory...Now we can see that they are Light-weight afterall

Benbellamor:
Both Sokoto and Edo that wike helped out of APC to pdp in 2019 &2020 RESPECTIVELY has now returned back to APC...Both Tambuwal and Obaseki Betrayed wike, denying that it was not his help that gave them victory...Now we can see that they are Light-weight afterall

MEEVEET:

Ikwerre are 5 million? Lmaooo I thought it's 50 million

Ikwerre are not even the largest Igbo group in rivers state

Etche is way bigger than ikwerre abeg shift

Yujin:

Have they also chased away former gov. Chibuike Amaechi from Ubima? What about Barrister Uche Okwukwu from Elele? Have they chased him away? As you can see, your stories don't add up.
Who killed Obi Wali? He was one of the greatest Ikwerre statesman. He identified as Igbo and worked to ensure Ikwerres were part of the larger Igbo nation. Till date, none of you can say who killed and desecrated his corpse. Your enemies have been trying to tie you down for long but you don't know. The few of your leaders who try to connect you back to your roots most of you back away from them. Look at Ikwerreland today. Are you proud of how it is? They have put you guys in fear and as long as you live in fear, you can't grow.
For a people whose land harbours a large and strategic city like PH, you should be heavy in international trade but you're not because you don't want to synergize with your brothers.
Ok, let's look at Rumuewhor-Odegu. Isn't it the same thing as Umuafor-Odoagu? Most Ikwerres use the alphabet 'e' in place of 'a' and 'wh' in place of 'h' or 'f' in other Igbo dialects. Other Igbo dialects say 'Ala, Ana, Ani, Ali' while Ikwerres say 'Eli'. Other Igbos say 'unu' for the plural pronoun 'you' while Ikwerres say 'anu'. These are just few examples that make Ikwerre just a dialect. In case you don't know, some other clans in the SE use similar words e.g 'wh' for 'h/f' and 'e' for 'a'. It's not exclusive to Ikwerre. If you doubt me, travel into the SE and ask questions. You'll see for yourself.
This Ikwerre denial of their Igboness is costing them too much. They're stuck in one place while those who want them to remain there are currying away the goodies that come to the region. It is you people losing out big time.

NwaIdeato:
I'm not a fan of Zik due to his one Nigeria nonsense ideology, but he was absolutely right on this stand about that war. I don't even know why Igbos celebrate Ojukwu as some hero, no thanks to him we didn't only lose millions of lives for a war we were absolutely not prepared for (which he was aware of from the start), but that war pretty much is why we are in the mess we are in today, we absolutely lost everything even though we recovered our pride and economic power- thanks to the Igbo man's natural residence.

Ojukwu should have waited, planned, made diplomatic overtures to major world powers before declaring that war, I understand emotions were high and Igbos wanted out after the pogroms in the North, but we needed time to lock our wounds, heal, and strategically make plans to leave Nigeria with enough military support and logistics...neither of which we accomplished simply because we failed to plan.

Princewill1:
While I refuse to take side in this Arab-Israeli conflict.

I have to point out that it's either Hezbollah is a clueless & dumb organization or Mossad has inflitrated the top ranks of the organization.

After the pager attack, it takes stupidity for Hezbollah to suffer welkie talkie attack next day.

It's commonsense that after a major attack that Hezbollah top brass will convene physically for an emergency meeting and Israel will rooting for such opportunity to strike again.

This people are dumb to this level and they are fighting Israel? They better give up before it's too late.

hotseat:
The earlier the Arab world learns to live in harmony with the Israelis the better for them.



Islamic fundamentalism pursued through sheer terrorism is anathema to the State of Israel.



The harder they come, the harder they fall!




@hotseat

Arobaga:
Truly truly Edo no be Lagos




Wike shame on you

Richtaiwo:
For this remark alone, I doubt Wike stands any chance of winning any office that is to be decided by votes of the masses. And indeed, this video is already on the Internet and will continue to be used as evidence against him either in the near or distant future.

Additionally, he can only say this in the midst of heavy security presence. If he is in doubt, he can just take a ride to the nearest market without his security details and repeat the remarks. He will get appropriate reaction in the appropriate language.

I used to like him, but on this, he goofed.

crestedaguiyi:


Thunder go fire your lineage, e be like them don give una phone for maximum prison again

crestedaguiyi:
Wike denied us this project in Rivers State because of his enemity with Amaechi.

He abandoned the project after amaechi started it.

TossTos:
This is good and interesting to ready untill she jam , where the man wrote he regretted impregnating a lady ...

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