size40:
We the south- south know about this already. That's why the Igbos want the south- south to be part of their "Yeye Yeye" Biafran struggle by fire, by force. We rejected them in d sixties. And we are more than ready to do again. The two reasons why the Igbos want us the south south to be part of them is not for d sake of d Igbos liking or loving us more than the Hausa's or the Yoruba's. It is purely for economic reasons. The Igbos have little or no Oil resources. Again the Igbos have no assess to the seas and waterways to advance their commercial and importation business. Just check from Calabar straight to Edo and down to Ondo and Lagos States are all on the mouth of d Atlantic ocean which very good for Cargo business through d sea. But the Igbos have no such advantage here.

Aufbauh:


Is like you're the one that is shallow in understanding what he meant by recolonize.
He is definitely referring to how Ojukwu led biafra tried to annex the SS into his phantom dream before the civil war.

Rose2014:


There is an Igbo speaking community in Jigawa

TonyeBarcanista:
Any attempt by any group or groups to "colonise" the South South will be met with brute force and resisted with all of our might






@OP: There is nothing to fear! We are able

Achuwa1:
So a shallow minded fellow like dis worked under the intelligence unit of the nigerian army,,,na wa for na recruitment personnels tht interviewed & recruited him into the force then..

MrAnalyst:


Catch my drift. The notion of colonizing SS is utterly ridiculous and baseless. Most regrettably,it is divisive.

Aufbauh:


Is like you're the one that is shallow in understanding what he meant by recolonize.
He is definitely referring to how Ojukwu led biafra tried to annex the SS into his phantom dream before the civil war.

opiaoku:


the likes of TonyeBarcanista

MrAnalyst:


Catch my drift. The notion of colonizing SS is utterly ridiculous and baseless. Most regrettably,it is divisive.

MrAnalyst:
I don't know where to start from. How can this man be this myopic in reasoning. How can he say Igbos can't make a country? The man even said it is only coal that is in the SE? How stu.pidd? For him to say Igbos want to "colonize" SS is a very daft summation and shouldn't be coming from a leader. This divide and rule can't work forever,people are getting smarter!

TonyeBarcanista:

This is a very simple case. Everybody should mind their business... IPOB should mind their business in their land and not trespass on our behalf

opiaoku:


bro i must say that you fall hand for replying that battered seeking for self redemption called TonyeBarcanista who's as inconsequential in even his family as "p" in psychology.

look around nowadays nobody takes him serious anymore thus seeking attention and relevance on nairaland.

size40:

What Mr Waziri Ringim said is nothing new to us the south-south people. Stories and evidences abound about how the Igbos treated the south-south peoples b4, during and after d civil war. The problem of d Igbos is not different from d general problems of Nigeria. Keep doing d same thing over and over and expecting a good result. The never consulted us to seat and reach agreement b4 engaging in a war of secession against Nigeria. The same thing repeating itself like in d sixties. I have listened to Nnamdi Kanu on Radio Biafra here in port Harcourt some couple of times. I just looked at him like somebody who is living an elusive life. The Igbos should go ahead with Biafra and allow us be.

MrAnalyst:
Leader of the now rested Arewa Peoples
Congress (APC), Alhaji Sagir Ringim has said
that the ongoing clamour for the creation of
the Independent State of Biafra was a ploy to
colonize the South-South.
The Waziri Ringim told Vanguard that
agitation by the Nnamdi Kanu led IPOB was a
calculated effort to capture the economic
prospects of the minority ethnic nationality in
the oil rich region.
He said, “Those Indigenous People of Biafra
have a hidden agenda to recolonize the South-
south, capture the region, colonize the oil field
for the betterment of the Igbos.”
Speaking further, the northern leader said
that Biafra is not blessed with solid minerals
apart from coal, saying that the geology of
the region can’t support an independent
country.
The former Intelligent officer of the Nigerian
Army explained that “because of these natural
shortcomings Igbos survived as a diaspora race
than any dominant group in Nigeria”.
Ringim opined that “if the Indigenous People
of Biafra are now saying that yes, we want to
have Biafra, what are you going to do with
more than three quarter of the Igbos who are
outside the East, those in Kano, those in Lagos
what are you going to do with then? You take
all those people then go back to Biafra? They
have no houses to live, they have no means of
livelihood.”
Waziri Ringim dismissed IPOB activities as
orchestrated blackmail to arm-twist other
stakeholders in the polity for more economic
advantage.

For the naysayers,here's the link-
www.dailypost.ng/2016/01/04/igbos-cant-make-up-a-country-their-land-is-poor-ringim/

Cc:Lalasticlala

ishiamu:


The protection seeker

wiseoneking:
Ndi igbo, lekwanu onye ara.

TonyeBarcanista:
Any attempt by any group or groups to "colonise" the South South will be met with brute force and resisted with all of our might






@OP: There is nothing to fear! We are able

shachris02:


what about the Yoruba speaking tribes of aniocha and other parts of Delta state. If you get your biafra, are you going to move them out of their indigenous homes?

dearpreye:


Bro, this your statement is very depressing to me. You're more enlightened than this. ...or are you just pandering to some people? Why should a Waziri be more concerned about us than we are about ourselves?

You and Truckpusher stance on this matter is really shocking to me........

size40:

What Mr Waziri Ringim said is nothing new to us the south-south people. Stories and evidences abound about how the Igbos treated the south-south peoples b4, during and after d civil war. The problem of d Igbos is not different from d general problems of Nigeria. Keep doing d same thing over and over and expecting a good result. The never consulted us to seat and reach agreement b4 engaging in a war of secession against Nigeria. The same thing repeating itself like in d sixties. I have listened to Nnamdi Kanu on Radio Biafra here in port Harcourt some couple of times. I just looked at him like somebody who is living an elusive life. The Igbos should go ahead with Biafra and allow us be.

MrAnalyst:


So Igbos want to annex SS. How ridiculous. There's Igbos in the SS,how do you reconcile that fact with your statement.

Rose2014:


And there are no Igbos in SS abi?
All because of oil, you guys keep trying to bully Igbos in SS to deny their existence. But one thing about truth is this; you can't hide it for too long

opiaoku:
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Shut up and mind you tiny tribe fortunate to be under ND

by now you bunch of inconsequential elements should have known that your opinion is 100% invalid offline.

MrAnalyst:


Talking about that. Tbh,I see more SS people lending their voice to the cause everyday both in reality and on other fora. Let's see how it shapes out tho'

wiseoneking:
Well, the yoruba there are no more yoruba since they have adopted igbo Culture, language, names and are not proud of their conoid heritage. I think they are not upto 2000 but they prefer their igbn adopted tribe.

dearpreye:


Bro, this your statement is very depressing to me. You're more enlightened than this. ...or are you just pandering to some people? Why should a Waziri be more concerned about us than we are about ourselves?

You and Truckpusher stance on this matter is really shocking to me........

Aufbauh:


It's not a new thing to have tribes in different locations, for instance you have yorubas in Togo, Cotonue and other West African countries, Hausa-fulani in Niger, Chad Cameroon etc.
The question is that does that make those aforementioned people Nigerians simply because we have more dense population of yorubas and Hausa-fulani in Nigeria?
Can these people accurately trace their origins in Nigeria?
Can there be a precise genealogical reference to any family in the dominant location?
The above questions are the main reasons you cannot conjure tribes in different locations simply because they speak the same language and bear similar names.
The Iyalas in Ogoja speak Idoma as a language, bear similar names and culture but the Idoma cannot outrightly lay claim to them because of the aforementioned questions.

opiaoku:


Typical example


https://www.nairaland.com/2842557/ex-ndelta-militants-vow-sustain-biafra#41657414


niggas thinks their opinion counts

TonyeBarcanista is irrelevant both here and mostly offline

size40:
We the south- south know about this already. That's why the Igbos want the south- south to be part of their "Yeye Yeye" Biafran struggle by fire, by force. We rejected them in d sixties. And we are more than ready to do again. The two reasons why the Igbos want us the south south to be part of them is not for d sake of d Igbos liking or loving us more than the Hausa's or the Yoruba's. It is purely for economic reasons. The Igbos have little or no Oil resources. Again the Igbos have no assess to the seas and waterways to advance their commercial and importation business. Just check from Calabar straight to Edo and down to Ondo and Lagos States are all on the mouth of d Atlantic ocean which very good for Cargo business through d sea. But the Igbos have no such advantage here.

TonyeBarcanista:

Oga, abeg no vex but you know fully well that our stance on this is strictly for the interest of our group. I understand your comradeship with the Igbo neighbours but that can't change the fact that our land, people and territories must be protected irrespective of our personal bias.