I don't know why ibos are always in haste to claim ukwani land as theirs. As an ukwani man born and bread in ukwani land, I must say we know our root and nobody can force us be what we are not.

This thread was meant to unite ukwani people not to tell us we are ibos or not.

@ op. Ajeh nwenem. Anyi nde ukwani amaliwoli enwe enyi. Obushi yamali ukwani nasu, mbu oka ni imeye. Masu ukwani kpolu eja tiye. Desenim ekukwo ku mzhi okpunani ukwani. Eh ajeh.

Ukwani bu ani eze.
Ndokwa ba mma mma dike eleh smart williams buni nebu.

Nduson20: I don't know why ibos are always in haste to claim ukwani land as theirs. As an ukwani man born and bread in ukwani land, I must say we know our root and nobody can force us be what we are not.

This thread was meant to unite ukwani people not to tell us we are ibos or not.

@ op. Ajeh nwenem. Anyi nde ukwani amaliwoli enwe enyi. Obushi yamali ukwani nasu, mbu oka ni imeye. Masu ukwani kpolu eja tiye. Desenim ekukwo ku mzhi okpunani ukwani. Eh ajeh.

Ukwani bu ani eze.
Ndokwa ba mma mma dike eleh smart williams buni nebu.

your name is igbo..igbos are not claiming you cos your have nothing but we are telling you what you are.

I am pure Igbo my wife is igbo from ogume ukwuani and she has come to see her self as a pure igbo. knowing the relationship ukwuani has with uguta has opened her eyes...

I know your place well. apart from weed planting what else is good that is from there

ogo jiri nwayo

Bro you are pure igbo while your wife is ogume igbo, yes i know we plant and grow weed, i know we dont have higher institution, i know we dont have educated people, i know we live in old houses, no good road, but that doesnt make us less human, we are ukwuani not igbo and never will we be igbo, let us be as a separate ethnic gruop, the urhobos dont force isoko to claim urhobo, the yorubas doesnt force itsekiri to claim yoruba, so whats the problem with the igbos, let everyman be for himself, the diff btw an ukwuani man and an igbo man is bigger than the diff btw an isoko/urhobo and yoruba/itsekiri and this tribe dont force this you are yoruba/urhobo on eachother eshiegwali iyoo

Tony please, these people are not worth the stress. The real goldmine(human resources) of Delta Igbo, is in Aniocha/Oshimili bloc, and they are proud Igbos,with the Asagba of Ahaba leading the way.

Ignore this thread if you can.

Nduson20: I don't know why ibos are always in haste to claim ukwani land as theirs. As an ukwani man born and bread in ukwani land, I must say we know our root and nobody can force us be what we are not.

This thread was meant to unite ukwani people not to tell us we are ibos or not.

@ op. Ajeh nwenem. Anyi nde ukwani amaliwoli enwe enyi. Obushi yamali ukwani nasu, mbu oka ni imeye. Masu ukwani kpolu eja tiye. Desenim ekukwo ku mzhi okpunani ukwani. Eh ajeh.

Ukwani bu ani eze.
Ndokwa ba mma mma dike eleh smart williams buni nebu.

So,you are not Igbo and you despise and hate them and wish you can wipe them off the face of earth,yet you see no shame in writing and speaking Igbo language...lol
Or do you think we dont understand what you wrote up there in the name of Ukwuani.
Please,stop writing in Igbo. I use God beg you.

Ceenelly: Bro you are pure igbo while your wife is ogume igbo, yes i know we plant and grow weed, i know we dont have higher institution, i know we dont have educated people, i know we live in old houses, no good road, but that doesnt make us less human, we are ukwuani not igbo and never will we be igbo, let us be as a separate ethnic gruop, the urhobos dont force isoko to claim urhobo, the yorubas doesnt force itsekiri to claim yoruba, so whats the problem with the igbos, let everyman be for himself, the diff btw an ukwuani man and an igbo man is bigger than the diff btw an isoko/urhobo and yoruba/itsekiri and this tribe dont force this you are yoruba/urhobo on eachother eshiegwali iyoo

it will be nice if you can speak for yourself not the whole ukwuani ...do you know that obiakruku came from awkuzu do you also know that there are villages in anambra that came from ukwuani so will they say they are not Igbo .do you know that oguta and ukwuani are related ..
Oga I will never stop you from been ukwuani same I will not stop Obioma man from been ngwa but all are igboid

same thing with Londoner and Surrey man all are English

can't you just separate dialect from language

pazienza: Tony please, these people are not worth the stress. The real goldmine(human resources) of Delta Igbo, is in Aniocha/Oshimili bloc, and they are proud Igbos,with the Asagba of Ahaba leading the way.

Ignore this thread if you can.

I have done the needful ...they can die in delusion

Nduson20: I don't know why ibos are always in haste to claim ukwani land as theirs. As an ukwani man born and bread in ukwani land, I must say we know our root and nobody can force us be what we are not.

This thread was meant to unite ukwani people not to tell us we are ibos or not.

@ op. Ajeh nwenem. Anyi nde ukwani amaliwoli enwe enyi. Obushi yamali ukwani nasu, mbu oka ni imeye. Masu ukwani kpolu eja tiye. Desenim ekukwo ku mzhi okpunani ukwani. Eh ajeh.

Ukwani bu ani eze.
Ndokwa ba mma mma dike eleh smart williams buni nebu.

This is just Igbo language. You can keep looking for affliation with Bini or whatever. Igbo is igbo,period.

Ceenelly: Bro you are pure igbo while your wife is ogume igbo, yes i know we plant and grow weed, i know we dont have higher institution, i know we dont have educated people, i know we live in old houses, no good road, but that doesnt make us less human, we are ukwuani not igbo and never will we be igbo, let us be as a separate ethnic gruop, the urhobos dont force isoko to claim urhobo, the yorubas doesnt force itsekiri to claim yoruba, so whats the problem with the igbos, let everyman be for himself, the diff btw an ukwuani man and an igbo man is bigger than the diff btw an isoko/urhobo and yoruba/itsekiri and this tribe dont force this you are yoruba/urhobo on eachother eshiegwali iyoo

My Brother Leave This People Alone!It Is This Same Attitude Dat Makes Them Complain Of Other Nigerians Hating On Them.I Was Fortunate To Meet My Great Grand Parents Alive And Never For Once Did They Claim To Be Igbos.Thes People Derail Any Thread Dat Has Any Thing To Do With The Ukwuani People.Ishiegwali!

Archildao:
My Brother Leave This People Alone!It Is This Same Attitude Dat Makes Them Complain Of Other Nigerians Hating On Them.I Was Fortunate To Meet My Great Grand Parents Alive And Never For Once Did They Claim To Be Igbos.Thes People Derail Any Thread Dat Has Any Thing To Do With The Ukwuani People.Ishiegwali!

Yes your folks might be Benin refugees that are in ukwuani...that's not debatable. So your might not be a pure blood.
Yes we have Benin migrant that took refugee in there. So your grand parents are just one of them.


I won't doubt that.

Nwanne m that is if your one

tonychristopher:

Yes your folks might be Benin refugees that are in ukwuani...that's not debatable. So your might not be a pure blood.
Yes we have Benin migrant that took refugee in there. So your grand parents are just one of them.


I won't doubt that.

Nwanne m that is if your one

Lol. Refugees indeed. Igbos have enough issues already,dealing with these identity crises/confused people is a waste of time.

Ihuomadinihu:
Lol. Refugees indeed. Igbos have enough issues already,dealing with these identity crises/confused people is a waste of time.

those guys can be so dangerously annoying, how i wish they can stob bearing our igbo names and stop calling their kings eze etc...they can go and be benin...is it the benin that biafrans captured in less that 48 hours and their oba surrendered or what


bunch of confused lost souls

Ndigbo! Ndigbo!! Ndigbo!!! Kwusinu I ne anya ebe nsogbu adiro. Rapu nu ndi ukwuani bu ndibeanyi aka. Unu kwesiri i ma etu ndibeanyi si eche echiche- anyi bu ekweghiekwe! Unu were aka di-ike soro ha, unu agaghi e nweta ha. Nani etu anyi ga eji kpokue umunne anyi bu mgbe anyi chikotara onwe anyi ma dozie ala anyi ofuma. Onye obuna na-aga n'iru adighi acho umunne ya m'obu ndi oyi- ha ga-abiakute ya.
Umuigbo, udo diri unu.

Yujin: Ndigbo! Ndigbo!! Ndigbo!!! Kwusinu I ne anya ebe nsogbu adiro. Rapu nu ndi ukwuani bu ndibeanyi aka. Unu kwesiri i ma etu ndibeanyi si eche echiche- anyi bu ekweghiekwe! Unu were aka di-ike soro ha, unu agaghi e nweta ha. Nani etu anyi ga eji kpokue umunne anyi bu mgbe anyi chikotara onwe anyi ma dozie ala anyi ofuma. Onye obuna na-aga n'iru adighi acho umunne ya m'obu ndi oyi- ha ga-abiakute ya.
Umuigbo, udo diri unu.

otua ka odi..ka anyi hapu ofeke ka ha febe isi na ohia


ndi ara

Stop stayin wat u dont know..im an ukwuani/ndokwa boy..our tribe is not igbo.igboid group of ethnic groups in nigeria r igbo,ikwere,ika,ogba,& ukwuani, while d edoid groups r bini,esan,etsako,owan,urobo,isoko,while d yoruboids include d yoruba,itsekiri,&igala..hence u cannot say dat an isan man is a bini man,or an etsako man is a bini man..they r different tribes wit liguitstical similarities...this also applies to many other languages in d nigeria and d world.eg,french and enlgish.chinese&japanese language,etc.if u want to know more about UKWUANI PEOPLE and their language,com find out directly 4rm us.a real ukwuani man will simply tell u he's ukwuani/ndokwa and not igbo.The word ANIOMA is just a political name which was concievd som yrs ago...its a socio-cultural and political movement which tend to bring 2geda all d similar ethnic group in Delta north senatorial distric...A-aniocha(igbo speakers),N-ndokwa,I-ika,O-Oshimili(igbo speakers),then MA is just an attachment which makes it meaninful called ANIOMA(good land).....Ndokwa was d 3rd largest ethnic group in d defunct Bendel state.Ndokwa is the 2nd largest tribe in delta state after d uhrobos,and its also d Largest in Anioma(delta north region) tnks ..its just like,for example,in EDO state,the bini,esan,etsako,and owan(ethnic similarities comin 2geda to achieve a political goal)

IGBO AND IGBOID I WILL WANT TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE

I WILL BE INTERESTED TO ALSO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN UKWUANI AND MAINLAND IGBO

BE IT CULUTURE,RELIGION, NUANCES AND IDIOSYNCRASY

I AM ASKING THIS NOT THAT UKWUANI IS IMPORTANT TO MAINLAND IGBO, BUT AS MY IN KLAWS COS MY WIFE IS OGUME, I KNOW HOW SHE IS CONSTANTLY BEEN REGARDED AND REFERRED AS IGBO IN LAGOS HERE, JUST THIS MORNING MY FRIEND UCHE, IS FROM OBIARUKU AND WAS CALLED OMO IGBO BY YORUBA


CAN YOU PLEASE LECTURE ME ON WHY UKWUANI IS NOT AN IGBO ,FIRST START BY TELLING US THE FULL MEANING OF UKWUANI,THEN TELL US THE MEANING OF ANI EZE, THEN PROCEED TO ALSO TELL US THE CUILTURAL DIFFERENCES AND THAT OF LINGUISTIC


DONT RUSH TO ANSWER THIS, TAKE YOUR TIME DO RESEARCH AND COME BACK


THEN TELL ME THE RELATIONSHIP UKWUANI HAS WITH OGUTA


FOR POSTERITY REASONS, TONYCHRISTOPHER HAS SPOKEN

victor1464: Stop stayin wat u dont know..im an ukwuani/ndokwa boy..our tribe is not igbo..but its an igboid group of language(laguage with ancestral similarities)..igboid group of ethnic groups r igbo,ikwere,ika,andoni,ukwuani,etc...d edoid groups r bini,esan,etsako,owan,urobo,isoke,etc..hence u cannot say dat an isan man is a bini man,or an etsako man is a bini man..they r different tribes wit similarities...this also applies to other languages too..we have yoruboid group,d yoruba and itsekiri...an itsekiri man is not a yoruba man...in Nigeria so many tribes r interelated...an isoko man is also not an urobo man despite d similarities...4rm dis prove ukwuani tribe is not igbo.it is a different tribe entirely......if u want to know more about UKWUANI PEOPLE..just Google "Ukwuani" then u will know wat im sayin......... The word ANIOMA is just a political name which was concievd som yrs ago...its a socio-cultural and political movement which tend to bring 2geda all d similar ethnic group in Delta north senatorial distric...A-aniocha(igbo speakers),N-ndokwa,I-ika,O-Oshimili(igbo speakers),then MA is just an attachment which makes it meaninful called ANIOMA(good land).....Ndokwa was d 3rd largest ethnic group in d defunct Bendel state.Ndokwa is the 2nd largest tribe in delta state after d uhrobos,and its also d Largest in Anioma(delta north region) tnks ..its just like,for example,in EDO state,the bini,esan,etsako,and owan(ethnic similarities comin 2geda to achieve a political goal)

yes ukwuani is a language dat is spoken in delta state..it is considered liguistically similar to edo and igbo language.it is falls under d igboid language class..the language is usually spoken in ndokwa,east,west,ukwuani(delta)and d ogba/ndoni l.g.a(rivers)..it is an ethnic group in nigeria found in d anioma region of delta state(delta north senatorial district).99% of d ukwuani people believe dat they came 4rm d Bini Empire while only 1%(those in river niger boundry) believes dat dey migrated 4rm d igbo region..Their cultural affinity is with dat of d ijaws,isoko n urobo and smaller part of igbo

D ukwuani empire came 4rm d bini empire 1300bc and settled in d upland area which is blessed with natural resources and fertile 4 agrculture...while d igbos because of their greedy behaviour left 4rm ukwuani empire to settle in d less fertile land filled with much red sand and poverty...but because dey we much cluster a land werent enof 4 dem.dats y u find igbos killin themselves 4 land...d were very hungry because d land didnt produce crop hence dey decided 2 engage in trade by selling demselvs 4 slavery to d white people...dats y u find dat igbo man is too money cousious and can kill his brother 4 money...u people r wicked...u igbos left D GREATER UKWUANI EMPIRE which were a team both d Bini n Ukwuani warriors , and moved across d river niger to 4m ur dirty and dry igbo soil. Dis was because igbos re stingy...i wondered how many igbos dat might hav died in dat river and those eatin by animals in d large water...it makes me laf wen u igbos r claim grounds..d truth is dat igbo people dont know their ORIGIN &history but we UKWUANIS do...Where r d igbos 4rm? I will tell u its 4rm d UkWUANI EMPIRE....its in d real bini and ukwuani historICAL TALES...I know dat d truth is very bitter dats y u Igbos hate d Bins 4 sayin d truth..hahahahahahaha...BIG IGBO MONKEYS

Nduson20: I don't know why ibos are always in haste to claim ukwani land as theirs. As an ukwani man born and bread in ukwani land, I must say we know our root and nobody can force us be what we are not.

This thread was meant to unite ukwani people not to tell us we are ibos or not.

@ op. Ajeh nwenem. Anyi nde ukwani amaliwoli enwe enyi. Obushi yamali ukwani nasu, mbu oka ni imeye. Masu ukwani kpolu eja tiye. Desenim ekukwo ku mzhi okpunani ukwani. Eh ajeh.

Ukwani bu ani eze.
Ndokwa ba mma mma dike eleh smart williams buni nebu.

its tru my Bro...d igbos r UKWUANI people who came 4rm d BENIN Empire around 1300bc,they moved across d river to settle and trade because their land wasnt fit 4 agriculture..cursed land.....D fact is dat we d UkwuanIS know Our route Which is d Bini EmpIRE...D Igbo man will deny it just now..hahahahahaha.d truth sounds bitter...dats y d igbo man hates d Bini man

The igbos r UKWUANI people who migrated 4rm d BENIN Empire around 1300bc, because of greed they decided 2 move across d river niger to get thier own land to farm but d land not fertile enof and cursed.this is y de kill their broders 4 little plot of land... So dey decided 2 trade but didnt hav money.de later decided to 2 trade demselves as slaves to d europeans.this is y d igbos r money consious.....D fact is dat we d UkwuanIS know Our route Which is d Bini EmpIRE...D Igbo man will deny it just now.iv said it time without numba dat d igbos dont know thier history.hahahahahaha.d truth sounds bitter dats y d igbo man hates d Bini man 4 tellin dem d truth

Yujin: Ndigbo! Ndigbo!! Ndigbo!!! Kwusinu I ne anya ebe nsogbu adiro. Rapu nu ndi ukwuani bu ndibeanyi aka. Unu kwesiri i ma etu ndibeanyi si eche echiche- anyi bu ekweghiekwe! Unu were aka di-ike soro ha, unu agaghi e nweta ha. Nani etu anyi ga eji kpokue umunne anyi bu mgbe anyi chikotara onwe anyi ma dozie ala anyi ofuma. Onye obuna na-aga n'iru adighi acho umunne ya m'obu ndi oyi- ha ga-abiakute ya.
Umuigbo, udo diri unu.

my friend wat r u speaking?? Speak english so dat i will understand ur igbo write up...MBENENI ogenesu,ESHIEGWARI Yo!!

OdenigboAroli:

So,you are not Igbo and you despise and hate them and wish you can wipe them off the face of earth,yet you see no shame in writing and speaking Igbo language...lol
Or do you think we dont understand what you wrote up there in the name of Ukwuani.
Please,stop writing in Igbo. I use God beg you.

shut up my friend u cannot interpret wat he wrote..we ukwuanis r deltans...dont 4get dis slogan "DELTANS NO DEY CARRY LAST" na una go taya 4us hahahahahahahahaha

pazienza: Tony please, these people are not worth the stress. The real goldmine(human resources) of Delta Igbo, is in Aniocha/Oshimili bloc, and they are proud Igbos,with the Asagba of Ahaba leading the way.

Ignore this thread if you can.

ehen na now i know say ur sense d work well...d delta igbo speakers ar d aniocha/oshimili people..now u understand ba??...u 4 taya if to say u wan argue wit delta people.rememba say "DELTA NO DEY CARRY LAST" hav u eva listend to d old nigerian reggae song 4rm EDNA OGHOLI tittled "OnE kilometer" Try and listen to dat song ok??

tonychristopher:

your name is igbo..igbos are not claiming you cos your have nothing but we are telling you what you are.

I am pure Igbo my wife is igbo from ogume ukwuani and she has come to see her self as a pure igbo. knowing the relationship ukwuani has with uguta has opened her eyes...

I know your place well. apart from weed planting what else is good that is from there

ogo jiri nwayo

keep quiet!!! we r richer people,proud niger deltans bless with d black crude gold ...mumu like u!! Even d weed planters here hv made billions of niara nd dollars because even d foriegner com to buy all d weeds in Abbi.d weeds n our land is money.if u igbos com n pluck a leaf here we will arrest u...Delta no de carry last 4 dis country

tonychristopher:

your name is igbo..igbos are not claiming you cos your have nothing but we are telling you what you are.

I am pure Igbo my wife is igbo from ogume ukwuani and she has come to see her self as a pure igbo. knowing the relationship ukwuani has with uguta has opened her eyes...

I know your place well. apart from weed planting what else is good that is from there

ogo jiri nwayo

keep quiet!!! we r richer people,proud niger deltans bless with d black crude gold.mumu like u!! Even d weed planters here hv made billions of niara nd dollars because even d foriegner com to buy all d weeds in Abbi.d weeds n our land is money.if u igbos com n pluck a leaf here we will arrest u.Delta no de carry last 4 dis country

keep quiet!!! we r richer people,proud niger deltans bless with d black crude gold.mumu like u!! Even d weed planters here hv made billions of niara nd dollars because even d foriegner com to buy all d weeds in Abbi.d weeds n our land is money.if u igbos com n pluck a leaf here we will arrest u.Delta no de carry last 4 dis country

victor1464: keep quiet!!! we r richer people,proud niger deltans bless with d black crude gold.mumu like u!! Even d weed planters here hv made billions of niara nd dollars because even d foriegner com to buy all d weeds in Abbi.d weeds n our land is money.if u igbos com n pluck a leaf here we will arrest u.Delta no de carry last 4 dis country

drink your crude oil. i have been to ukwuani and having married there i have seen poverty there...so much, i am a
from anambra, we still have oil but we do not depend on it stupidly like you. imo and abia still got oils


now even in my village we have peoplev that owns oil reilling firms like welltech drilling etc. tell me one ukwuani man that own an oil drilling firms not to talk of oil marketing firms like capital oil, chrome, ibeto etc, all from nnewi my place, just tell me one


CONFUSED FACKE IGBOS LIKE YOU



LOOK AT WHAT THE DELTAL STATE GOVERNMENT SAID ABOUT YOU PEOPLE


Ukwuani Local Government
Obiaruku is the headquarters of Ukwuani LGA which was carved out of the then Ndokwa West LGA on the 4th of December, 1996 and has an area of 2,016 square kilometres. Nine clans make up the LGA namely; Akoku, Amai, Ebedei, Eziokpor, Ezionum, Obiaruku, Umuebu, Umukwata and Umutu. Together they make up the ten wards of the LGA with a population of about 103,000 going by the 1991 census. The people practice gerontocracy, were the oldest man is installed the traditional ruler, designated Okpala-Uku. The people are a mono linguistic group-the Ukwuanis (an Igbo dialect).


http://www.deltastate.com.ng/Local-Government/ukwuani-local-government.html

In 1992, in the heat of Gen.Ibrahim Babangida’s convoluted transition programme, a friend from Delta State with whom, in the 70s, we formed the addicted patrons of Fela’s Shrine, from Kakadu to Surulere Night Club, came to see me in my office at Bishop Oluwole Street, Victoria Island. Because of Mallam Abba Dabo, publisher of the Insider Confidential Newsletter, which I edited, our Bishop Oluwole office was one of the hubs of politics then. In fact, the Liberal Convention, with my friend Chief Ojo

Maduekwe as Gen. Secretary, was formed in our Insider office. And so we got into political discussion, which sometimes strayed into disputation settled over bottles of beer. My friend from the Igbo-speaking area of Delta (then Bendel) confided to me, what he called his political strategy. He said to me, look, there is no doubt that I am Igbo. I know that, and every Nigerian knows me as such. But as a political strategy, it suits me to identify with the minorities. As a minority, I have a better chance politically, than to identify with the majority Igbo and get swamped by their number. As a minority, I can contest any post and maybe win. But among my brothers, I cannot even emerge at a local government level. And true, my friend was one of the “political champions” in Bendel then! I understood him perfectly.

A cursory study will show that many Nigerians have benefited from this politics of identity. Study the career history of people like Chief Sunday Awoniyi, and I don’t mean this in a derogatory sense, and you understand why he is more a Northerner than a Yoruba.

Today he is the Chairman of the Arewa Consultative Forum. Why is Gen. Gowon first and foremost a Northerner than a Middle Belter? Senator Kennedy Waku cares more about the North than the Middle Belt. Lt.-Gen. T. Y. Danjuma was once, at least during the civil war, a Northerner. But today he is one of the foremost Middle Belters. In the midst of his June 12 troubles, Gen. Babangida called a meeting of Middle Belt who-is-who and tried the I-am-from-the-Middle-Belt ploy. Someone then asked him, are you a Middle Belter in spirit?

On the other hand, there are many whose career paths have been made easier by the Middle Belt identity. This is not about Middle Belt. But I use it because it presents a classical example of shifting identity. Middle Belt on religious ground is far larger than North-Central state, which is the political Middle Belt. Thus a Christian from Borno may identify with the Middle Belt.

I recall these because of a rather sterile debate that has been going on in the press whether Ndokwa is Igbo or not. This altercation has been going on between one Omenazu Ofili who bitterly disputes the Igboness of Ndokwa, and people like J. O. Ikebude who stridently wants to induct Ofili into Igbo. I think such a debate adds nothing to the Igbo nation and does not change who an Omenazu Ofili is anthropologically.

This debate is pure politics defined by opportunism than anything else. So I get angry with those Igbo who try to prove to the Ofilis of this world that they are Igbo. The problem facing the Igbo is to take care of those whose identity as Igbo is not in doubt, and not fishing for more people to identify with Igboland. I find that rather unnecessary. People will eventually be what they want to be, not what you insist they become. There are many Nigerians in London who masquerade as West Indians. And the reason is obvious. But does that change the fact that they are Nigerians? Or does assumed superiority of a house slave over the field slave change the fact that both are slaves? A Nigerian who is masquerading in UK as a West Indian is simply trying to improve his lot.

This debate of “are they Igbo?” and “we are not Igbo” and “don’t call me Igbo” has been going on between the South-East Igbo and some Igbo of Delta and Rivers states. This, to me, is a product of years of stunted and visionless Igbo leadership. And the Igbo must appreciate that nobody would chose a broken down vehicle if he has a choice of a functional vehicle. In recent years Ohaneze has been afflicted with fossilised and greedy leadership blinded by opportunism and therefore failed to engage itself in the upliftment of Igbo nation. And this has made people sit idle and lament the so-called effect of the civil war.

Who, in the midst of such Jeremiad will willingly identify with a people less prominent in the political affairs of the nation than they used to be? My problem really is not with the Ofilis and those who think like him, but with those Igbo young men and women who have resorted to groveling and assimilation of all those vices unknown in Igboland in order to survive, just because all that Igbo leadership can offer is a dark elegy about “the effect of the civil war.” It should be clear to all those who argue with the Ofilis that once the civil war has been declared as “a rebellion caused by the Igbo,” and once the Igbo unconsciously allowed themselves to assume this guilt, invoking it all the time, all those who can afford to mask their identity will do so in order to avoid being visited with the same punishment as the Igbo.

Many Igbo in Delta and Rivers states have made good being “minorities.” I don’t think it makes any sense to appear to wean them off their good fortune. It is even tactless. I am sure, like my friend, they know deep down who they are. But there are others from these places who are proud of their Igbo identity. With such people, it is infra diginitatem to argue with the likes of Ofili. So let every sensible Igbo avoid this debate with people from the Delta and Rivers. Let whosoever pleases choose what to call himself, even West Indian! The hood does not make the monk.




LET THE SONS OF BENIN MIGRANT AND REFUGEES IN UKWUANI KEEP DELUDING THEMSELVES, WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE REAL PURE BLOODS IN UKWUANI AND ALSO FAKE IGBOS WHO MIGRATED FROM BENIN


PLEASE GO REST IN PEACE ND OGO M

The greatest delusion is when u are from isreal today,tomorrow you are from Egypt,the next your are from Bantu