asha 80:

look at the quote

he implies all igbos are within se.i guess then that nzeogwu,achuzia,ralph uwaechue are not igbos and asaba is not an igbo town.

ldpele: i had to read over n over,couldnt see any provokin statement,they only gave instance,,except am not seeing or reading wat my ndigbo bros n sisters are readn or seeing.

ldpele: i had to read over n over,couldnt see any provokin statement,they only gave instance,,except am not seeing or reading wat my ndigbo bros n sisters are readn or seeing.

pazienza: And will PH be part of this their new region?

bashr8: thats not what he means, you people shouldnt make it a big deal .

Torch1: nwanne! Dalu oo! They only want a region like South-East.

Ngodigha1: There are more Igbo in the south south than the Ijaws.

asha 80:

actually in the real sense of it they are wrong to use south east as an example because of the igala found in anambra. they did not mention southwest because they believe ijaws are in ondo state.

asha 80: Ijaw rejects six zonal structure
September 9, 2012 by Allwell Okpi 131 Comments

The Ijaw nation has proposed the restructuring of Nigeria along ethnic lines, rather than the current six geopolitical zonal structure.

The Chairman of the Ijaw National Congress, Joshua Benamaisia, told SUNDAY PUNCH that Ijaw people were spread across six states — Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Edo, Delta, and Ondo — in two geopolitical zones — South-South and South-West.

Benamaisia said the Igbo nation were entirely within the South-East geopolitical zone, there was need for the Ijaw nation to have its own separate territory.

Benamaisia said the prime aspiration of the Ijaw nation was the establishment of true federalism, where every ethnic group would control the resources in its area.

He said the Ijaw nation had suffered injustice under the current structure and would not drop its demand for the abrogation of the Land Use Act, and other laws that removed the rights of the people over their land and natural resources.

He said, “If not that our constitution does not recognise referendum, there would have been a referendum on how the country should be structured. Since that is not possible, a national conference should be convened so that people can decide how they can continue within sovereignty of Nigeria. But the issue is after the national conference, the resolution will still have to be ratified by the National Assembly; that is what the law says.

“If it is in places where the will of the people is respected, then we can be sure that the National Assembly will pass the resolution of the people. But here we cannot be sure of that.”

Benamaisia said the Ijaw nation would keep pushing the right to control their resource until they get it.

He said, ‘We are not interested in all these talk about revenue sharing formula. Our position is total resource control. It is only when people are allowed to control their resources that they would decide what to do with it.

“For instance, if you are driving on the East-West Road, the roads are so bad and we have resources here and it is used to develop other places. We don’t have infrastructure in our place; neither do we have federal presence in our area. So, we need to control our resource. It is our right.”

Supporting Benamaisia, the spokesperson of the Ijaw Republican Assembly, Ankio Briggs, said Nigeria’s federalism was faulty in not recognising the different ethnic nationalities as units.

“It is not that we do not accommodate other ethnic groups. The Ijaw people have suffered much injustice in this country that we are now looking at the country’s structure based on ethnic grouping. The Ijaw people in Ondo State, which is in the South-West, are not strangers. So there is need for them to be associated with Ijaw people in the other states in the South-South,” she said

http://www.punchng.com/news/ijaw-rejects-six-zonal-structure/

udezue: Can these foools do whatever they want without mentioning Igbo?

asha 80:

look at the quote

he implies all igbos are within se.i guess then that nzeogwu,achuzia,ralph uwaechue are not igbos and asaba is not an igbo town.

wellmax: Igbo people at their best. Always interested in tribal wars. OP only made a reference and here they go running their mouth. I hate your attitudes.

franchizy: The igbos are the problems we ijaws have cos they r too greedy even wen they don't ve enough mineral resources.I think the igbos r all ijaws too cos they migrated from ijaw land and settled down to form wat we call igbos today

franchizy: The igbos are the problems we ijaws have cos they r too greedy even wen they don't ve enough mineral resources.I think the igbos r all ijaws too cos they migrated from ijaw land and settled down to form wat we call igbos today

Rayhut: These stupid politicians dont even know the ethinic makeup of Nigeria,the Igbos are not found in SE only they are located in SS also Delta,Rivers and Edo,the Ohaneze ndigbo chairman is from Delta State

ACM10: By the way, Ijaws are not united as they claim in newspapers. The former vice chancellor of Niger-Delta University, Yenogoa was an Ijawman from Delta State. These people fought this man because he's not from Bayelsa state. The man has to vacate the post for them.
In Bayelsa state, politicians fights bitterly on where to site federal and state projects. Alams sited Niger-Delta University in his hometown. He even wanted to build an airport in his hometown. Not minding that his hometown does not have electricity and there is no access road to the town.
Bayelsa is one of the few states in Nigeria where nepotism trumps meritocracy. Those folks are stinking of corruption. I spit on their way of life.
Inc[i]e[/i]st is not an abomination to them. That's why a man wanted his nephew to sleep with him before he will give hwe money to pay her school fee.
They are very lazy folks that loves easy life. Hard work is lost in the dictionary of most of them. They sit back and wonder why Igbos succeed. None of them has ever bothered to learn the secrets of business success from Igbos. All they do is to envy Igbo success.
They claim that Igbos dominate them because Igbos occupy most of the retail shops on the streets of their capital. But they do not bother to find out the owners of the oil wells on their land. This is why I call them f00lish. For every N1 an Igboman makes in Ijawland, a northern politician makes N1million.
They choose Nigeria, yet they will always want Igboman to rescue them from their mess. All they do is to turn back to insult us. What an ungrateful bunch!

Torch1: Yeah! Their main aim is to have that particular Ijaw land in Ondo state just like we want Anioma state to be included in S.East instead of S.South.
May be the so-called Ijaw land in South West(Ondo) is reach in oil ang gas.

blaqoracle: mind you there is nothing like igbo in neither delta nor edo. go back and read your history very well. the Igbo said they are from jerusalem, these group of persons never claimed so. i Honestly pity the igbos; the civil war seems to have detached them from their true history. the Most Convenient Way To Refer To there same people(bendel) ibo is for then to be called igbo speaking deltan. for Example, we, nigerians, cannot be called english simply because we speak english, that is why we are called english speaking countries.

blaqoracle: mind you there is nothing like igbo in neither delta nor edo. go back and read your history very well. the Igbo said they are from jerusalem, these group of persons never claimed so. i Honestly pity the igbos; the civil war seems to have detached them from their true history. the Most Convenient Way To Refer To there same people(bendel) ibo is for then to be called igbo speaking deltan. for Example, we, nigerians, cannot be called english simply because we speak english, that is why we are called english speaking countries.

bashr8: can you shut up and stop derailing this thread olodo, everybody by now should support 1oo percent resource control , read the meassage ,we dont need history about ijaws .

ACM10:

Should I call this a friendly fire? By the way, do you pay for my bandwidth? Why should you control me here? Pls direct your comment to the right quarter. I will give u a pass now. But I will not be so gracious next time.