Abagworo: If the population of Ijaw is 10% of Nigeria's overall, then they deserve nothing less than 2 States. If Igbos have 5 and Yorubas 6 then Ijaw should have 2 or 3. I've been trying to figure out the problems with creating an all Ijaw State because they are many. A State out of Rivers with Port Harcourt as capital is impossible. A State out of Delta with Warri as capital is impossible. They will also have to concede part of their ethnic groups as minorities in other States. Okrika for example should remain in Rivers with the Igbo and Ogoni groups because they all have indivisible stake in Rivers. The Kalabari area with some parts of Okrika, Opobo, Bonny and co should be given a State with capital at Bonny or Bakana. The other possible State should be very thin vertically and very wide horizontally covering up to 4 States. I doubt if those States will agree because it will block access to sea for States like Delta, Edo and Ondo. That should be the "Toru Ebe" State.

GARRI (x7):
... And ur point is

Abagworo:

Not so hard to figure out. You cannot scatter 14 million people everywhere while people of 30million have 6 States. Maybe the figures is wrong anyway. But since it is accepted at the moment that Ijaw is up to 14million, then Bayelsa should not be the only all-Ijaw State.

Better still we might just abolish States and use complete regionalism and creating homogenous districts instead of LGA's. The districts will receive the 13% derivation while the Regions receive the monthly allocations. That way the 13% will go directly to the Ijaws and the oil producing districts.

Paul John:

Questionable 14 million
If they(Ijaws) don't want to be scattered, the best option for them is to all move to their sparsely populated origin(Bayelsa) and divide it to whatever number of states(4,5,7...) they like. The main thing is to have more than a state so as to feel among abi
Stealing other people's land is not an option

Abagworo:

You missed the point. I'm not an Ijaw but my use of the word "scattered" was in reference to balkanization. They just occupy the coasts of the litoral States.

Abagworo:

You missed the point. I'm not an Ijaw but my use of the word "scattered" was in reference to balkanization. They just occupy the coasts of the litoral States.

Akanbi_edu:

Uh hun. Then may be carving out the coasts of litoral states will be a nice idea. Lagos and Ondo come to mind.

Abagworo: If the population of Ijaw is 10% of Nigeria's overall, then they deserve nothing less than 2 States. If Igbos have 5 and Yorubas 6 then Ijaw should have 2 or 3. I've been trying to figure out the problems with creating an all Ijaw State because they are many. A State out of Rivers with Port Harcourt as capital is impossible. A State out of Delta with Warri as capital is impossible. They will also have to concede part of their ethnic groups as minorities in other States. Okrika for example should remain in Rivers with the Igbo and Ogoni groups because they all have indivisible stake in Rivers. The Kalabari area with some parts of Okrika, Opobo, Bonny and co should be given a State with capital at Bonny or Bakana. The other possible State should be very thin vertically and very wide horizontally covering up to 4 States. I doubt if those States will agree because it will block access to sea for States like Delta, Edo and Ondo. That should be the "Toru Ebe" State.

Dede1:


The above conjectural crap is borne out of skewed figment of imagination. I wonder how anybody with stable mentality can adjudge that Opu Obu or Igwe Nga (Opobo) is Ijo. People should weigh the craps they post on Internet on intellectual balance before going public with them. It is a fact that such nonsensical write-up strokes the unfounded ego of ill-informed nitwits.

ijaw citizen: @MR ABAGWORO & AFAM FOREVER

AFTER A LONG REST FROM HOSTILITIES AGAINST IJAWS, HERE THEY RESURFACE AGAIN!

YOU GUYS KNOW NOTHING ABOUT IJAWS AND IJAWLAND SO PLEASE MIND YOUR BUSINESS. YOU HAVE NO RELATIONSHIP WITH IJAW WHATSOEVER & I'M VERY SURE YOU'VE NEVER BEEN TO IJAWLAND EXCEPT THE IJAW PARTS OF PORT HARCOURT PERHAPS. PLS DON'T LET IJAW BUSINESS OR ISSUES CONCERN YOU, THIS IS A NEW YEAR SO PLEASE FOCUS ON YOUR IGBO PEOPLE AND THEIR NUMEROUS PROBLEMS.

STAY CLEAR OF IJAW BUSINESS, YOU GUYS KNOW NOTHING ABOUT US!

Onlytruth: I will say some hurtful things now. I can afford to say that now.
It really baffles me how Abagworo finds time to suck Ijaw balls and always getting kicked in the teeth, and yet he never stops! It ANGERS the living daylight out of me and I suspect same for many Igbo. Notice that he never finds time to suggest solutions to Igbo problems inside Nigeria.

Abagworo once said that Northern Igbo and Southern Igbo are not the same. Maybe sucking Ijaw balls is what he had in mind when he made that statement, because since I came to this Nairaland, I have NEVER seen any "Northern Igbo" suck Ijaw balls; NEVER.
I am wondering whether Ijaw would be so brazen in their land grab and windy hubris if they shared borders with Anambra or Anioma or Enugu states. I wonder where Ijaw would have found the balls to intimidate and overawe the Onicha, or Aguleri, or Nnewi or Obosi, or Asaba or Ogashi -ukwu. If Ijaw had shared borders with these Igbo groups, the Ijaw would have found out that their only borders in Nigeria is waaaaay inside the sea. Nonsense.
I honestly wish that the Aros had dealt severely with the Ijaw back in the days before Nigeria was formed. It seems they only collaborated and sold slaves with them. Quite sad.

If not for the Dede1's, I would have started to agree with Abagworo that Igbo are not one.

Dudu_Negro: to the igbos, you all missed the point of abagworo's propaganda here. he is actually helping yhe igbo cause by attempting to distribute ijaws "14" million away from the perimeter of alaigbo and into the territories of non-igbo people, particularly trying by all means to make ijaw a sub group of yoruba.

this guy is a propagandist of a high caliber and i got my eyes fixated on his schemes. in fact everytime he types yoruba i get an alert. in a true regional turf battle he will be the last person to credit ijaw with 14 million people, but in a plot to flush them out of their home region , why not!

abagworo mechionu for trying to grab yorubaland for ijaw. their home region is east, partition whatever land you can for them over there. yeye person

alj harem: Any Ijaw ready to debate with me, feel free to do so with facts... After all we are brothers

Note it was also on Nairaland I heard I am an Ijaw man bacause I am awori ? It's madness to me but please prove with facts why I am Ijaw and not Yoruba.

alj harem: Any Ijaw ready to debate with me, feel free to do so with facts... After all we are brothers

Note it was also on Nairaland I heard I am an Ijaw man bacause I am awori ? It's madness to me but please prove with facts why I am Ijaw and not Yoruba.

Dudu_Negro: to the igbos, you all missed the point of abagworo's propaganda here. he is actually helping yhe igbo cause by attempting to distribute ijaws "14" million away from the perimeter of alaigbo and into the territories of non-igbo people, particularly trying by all means to make ijaw a sub group of yoruba.

this guy is a propagandist of a high caliber and i got my eyes fixated on his schemes. in fact everytime he types yoruba i get an alert. in a true regional turf battle he will be the last person to credit ijaw with 14 million people, but in a plot to flush them out of their home region , why not!

abagworo mechionu for trying to grab yorubaland for ijaw. their home region is east, partition whatever land you can for them over there. yeye person