The founder of Igbo Youth Movement, IYM, and Secretary-General of the Eastern Consultative Assembly, Evangelist Elliot Ugochukwu-Uko, has faulted the claim by the Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, that the Yoruba and Igbo share a common ancestry.

Speaking with DAILY POST, Ugochukwu-Uko claimed that the Ooni was sent by a “political lion” from Lagos State to insult the people of the South-East by stating that Yoruba and Igbo share the same ancestry.

He lamented that after Igbo were humiliated during the just-concluded elections in Lagos State, the political lion sent the monarch to woo and deceive people of the South-East ahead of the 2023 elections.

Recall that the Ooni of Ife had recently said the ancestors of the Igbos were buried in Ile-Ife, Osun State.

He had said: “We have to say the truth and the truth must set us all free, we are blood brothers. We should be inseparable. Please feel at home in Yorubaland and respect your Yoruba brothers and sisters too.

“We still have House of Igbo right in this palace till date. We call it Ile Igbo up till now. Our ancestors are buried and transfigured there. That is where kolanut was first discovered and nurtured.

“The Igbos are still the biggest consumers and users of Kolanut which is only planted in Yorubaland till date. Can the Igbos do without kolanut?

“The ancient Igbo house is one of the most sacred places in this palace till date. One of my brother kings – Aka Arogundabi from Iremo quarters saw the mysteries of house of Igbo(Aka-ri-Igbo). Till date, Akarigbo of Remoland still sees house of Igbo as a common heritage of his forebears.”

However, Ugochukwu-Uko dismissed the monarch’s claim, which he described as deception.

He also disclosed that the South-East was an independent and hardworking region.

According to the IYM founder: “The mighty Igbo nation does not depend on anybody to make progress. Ndigbo are sweet people, hardworking people, confident people, dynamic people, gifted people, talented people, and very intelligent people. Our progress on this earth is the hands of God, not any man. Anybody who thinks he can halt or stifle the progress of the Igbo race is wasting his time.

“We shine all over the world, we dominated trade and commerce in the entire West Africa, we engage in business from China, Russia, the whole of Europe, Canada and the United States, South America and Australia. We love education, we love hard work. We also love justice and equity. Those who tried to hold us down in the past, know that God is with us. I can assure you, my dear brother, it is well with Ndigbo.

“Our only problem now is the offensive manner the great Igbo race is been insulted brazenly by two individuals. Ndigbo are pained by this grave unprovoked insult. One of them is the political overlord of a certain region of this country, who through amassing stupendous wealth and the use of strong-arm tactics, decides the political fate of his region. The other is a traditional ruler he anointed not long ago unto a revered traditional stool. Both are taking Ndigbo for a ride, offending and abusing our people, while they both assume they are the smartest people in the universe. Their drama is both funny and sad.

“While the political lion made sure Ndigbo were humiliated in Lagos by making sure Ndigbo were denied the right to vote, the Kabiyesi is going round humouring our people, telling us that we are twin brothers born on the same day and that our love in Tokyo was ordained in Heaven and consummated in the eleventh century. So funny, he just discovered that we are blood relatives, just for the 2023 presidential ambition of the political overlord. Funny he truly thinks our people are fooled.

“Four (4) years ago, another Kabiyesi threatened to drown all our people in lagoon. Now that they are afraid that their unprovoked hostility towards Ndigbo will certainly hurt the 2023 presidential ambition of this overlord, he now sends out the Kabiyesi on assignment to woo and deceive the foolish Igbos. Tell them we are twin brothers, tell them we love them so much, tell them our umbilical cords are tied together and buried at Ile Ife. After that, tell them that we must work together in 2023 because we have a brotherly and joint destiny.

“Their drama is so cheap, so unintelligent, but also offensive. My teenage son asked me: Daddy why didn’t this Oba embark on his fake brotherly sermon and visit before now. Why did he discover we were twin brothers only immediately after the elections? My answer to him was simple: because they think we are fools.”

https://dailypost.ng/2019/05/14/lagos-political-lion-sent-ooni-deceive-igbo-ahead-2023-presidency-ugochukwu-uko/

it seems we are merely living in this country just for the purpose of elections.

2019 elections just got concluded a few weeks ago and now the talk of 2023 and 2027 are already making waves... with the way things are going, it will take a special kind of "miracle" for nigeria to make any progress.

Okoro youth Movement... movement to where abeg.. Asian prison for narcotics? or Oshodi through ifesinachi night busses to come and hawk Gala and lacasera

Smh. They must always find a way to rope Tinubu into the narrative.

Oni was right but not entirely. Igbos did not originate from ife neither do we share common ancestry but igboland stretched to ife till 10th century. Igbos are the aboriginal ifes oduduwa met when he came up from Benin. The claim that oduduwa fell from the sky and fathered the whole yoruba nation at ife is pure comedy by ibadan revisionist. Oni has not been crowned when this was published. I am sure yorubas discredited it because its igbo newspaper

iammo:


Okoro youth Movement... movement to where abeg.. Asian prison for narcotics? or Oshodi through ifesinachi night busses to come and hawk Gala

Saudi prisons for we oduah Muslim. The Saudi royal sword is now solely for harvesting drug-trafficking Yoruba Muslim skulls.

MorufuAtanda:


Saudi prisons for we oduah Muslim. The Saudi royal sword is now solely for harvesting drug-trafficking Yoruba Muslim skulls.

my okoro friend too dey yab person with drugs oooo chimo!!! chineke!!! chai!!! ,

Usual yanmmmmiiriii narrative.

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We yoruba muslims are in trouble.
Who will vote for us come 2023,is south south we betrayed their son.is south east we hate so much and have show it by our action.

Will north leave their brother and vote for us.









Wahala dey.

goodnessme1:
We yoruba muslims are in trouble.
Who will vote for us come 2023,is south south we betrayed their son.is south east we hate so much and have show it by our action.

Will north leave their brother and vote for us.









Wahala dey.

Keep deceiving yourself
No amount of propaganda can divide Yorubas
Keep shouting Muslim Yoruba nd Christian Yoruba up nd down. We remain one and very very strong one Yoruba family

Yoruba Muslims are sole originators of hate. They hate Yoruba Christians, they hate Igbo's, they hate Hausa/Fulani. What is the problem with Yoruba Muslims?

The likes of Ooni & co can't deceive us because average Igbo man knows the truth.
Igbo's was threatened with lagoon by Oba of Lagos, another Oba thought we're fools .
We not but Igbo's.

9jabull:
The likes of Ooni & co can't deceive us because average Igbo man knows the truth.
Igbo's was threatened with lagoon by Oba of Lagos, another Oba thought we're fools .
We not but Igbo's.

We all know he is on a mission impossible but we thank him for confirming this

MXrep:
Oni was right but not entirely. Igbos did not originate from ife neither do we share common ancestry but igboland stretched to ife till 10th century. Igbos are the aboriginal ifes oduduwa met when he came up from Benin. The claim that oduduwa fell from the sky and fathered the whole yoruba nation at ife is pure comedy by ibadan revisionist. Oni has not been crowned when this was published. I am sure yorubas discredited it because its igbo newspaper

So yorubas chased una away from your land. What a shame for self acclaimed brave race

Strikethem:
So yorubas chased una away from your land. What a shame for self acclaimed brave race

Oduduwa from benin came and it started emerging as a centralized mega state. Igbos left since they naturally love decentralized mini states

Casptainspecial:

Keep deceiving yourself
No amount of propaganda can divide Yorubas
Keep shouting Muslim Yoruba nd Christian Yoruba up nd down. We remain one and very very strong one Yoruba family

Exactly my Yoruba Muslim brother...
Even Muric made it clear that Yoruba Muslims must be considered first for appointments into Key positions...
Nobody can divide us once we make sure all our children wears hijab in public schools...

Allah rewards his wards

MXrep:

Oduduwa from benin came and it started emerging as a centralized mega state. Igbos left since they naturally love decentralized mini states

Are you guys not aboriginal of israel too?

KidsNEXTdoor:



Exactly my Yoruba Muslim brother...
Even Muric made it clear that Yoruba Muslims must be considered first for appointments into Key positions...
Nobody can divide us once we make sure all our children wears hijab in public schools...

Allah rewards his wards

How are the Osus and wawas fairing in alaigbo

Strikethem:
Are you guy not aboriginal of israel too?

Be serious and we can talk

MXrep:

Be serious and we can talk

I am serious. So many of you have said that before. So I am asking you.

I hate Igbo.

Strikethem:
How are the Osus and wawas fairing in alaigbo

Reporting live from your oshogbo cave... I think they are doing better than our skull mining cone heads

Toosure70:
I hate Igbo.

We can't help it my cone headed brother..

Hate runs in our veins...

Another illiterate on the loose.
There are DNA and linguistic evidence for the claims made by Ooni
but this youth "leader" is too dumb to research.

Well from the look of things,the plans did not work cos Igbos are wayyyy smarter than that..

Sorry.

Eze Eri, a more paramount King in Iboland than Obi of Onitsha visited Ife recently to see the ancient house left behind by his ancestors and he did not say anything to the contrary after the visit.

If it worked on Eri I guess the deception is solid. . Why is Oku or Uko, whatever his name, bitter? Why this lamentation?