EzeUche_:

They wont succeed. I refuse to have Port Harcourt fall into Ijaw hands. The Ikwerre better see the writing on the wall. These Ijaws have always coveted Port Harcourt. That is why many Ijaw businessmen have invested in Port Harcourt instead of Yenagoa. I refuse to have Port Harcourt fall in Ijaw hands. We Igbos will resist it.

I support the Ijaws having their own states, but expanding into Igboland will be resisted with extreme prejudice.

jason123:

@ chyz

Can you see why I say I would prefer to stick to the yorubas than join the ijaws in a so called utopian oil rich Niger-delta country? Do you see the way they kill itsekiris in delta state? That is why I laugh when someone tells me about ND republic. 

P.S:CAN YOU REMEMBER WHEN I WAS TALKING ABOUT THIS IJAW EXANSIONIST AGENDA? Now, you see?

Chyz*:

Jason, if you can spread the news to some itsekiri groups then do so.With GJ as president, they might just get what they want.One thing that the Itsekiri do not want to do is be trapped in the same country with the people. We don't want those those people with us either,they are better off by themselves.

jason123:

Btw Chyz,

read these articles. My people already know about this.

The meeting also acknowledged the historical, social and political ties over the years of the two groups and expressed joy at the renewal of these old ties.While resolving to strengthen the bond and age-long ties between their various groups and to have the Itsekiri people represented at all future meetings of Afenifere, Afenifere said it was in recognition of the fact that the "Itsekiri are a sub-set of the Yoruba ethnic stock, like the Akure, the Ijebu, etc, and that whatever fate befalls the Itsekiri affects all Yoruba."The meeting further acknowledged the need for unity of all the Progressives in Nigeria and believes that the unity of the Western Progressives is a prerequisite for the larger unity. We resolved that Afenifere members will also attend future meetings of the Itsekiri Leaders of Thought," Afenifere said.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200908240622.html

another https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-312145.0.html

Lagos — Against the continued mayhem being unleashed by the warring factions of the Ijaws and Itsekiris in the Niger Delta area of Delta State, the Yoruba group, Afenifere has strongly condemned the Ijaw youths' alleged unprovoked attacks against the Itsekiris.

The group, in a statement made available to THISDAY by Mr. Yinka Odumakin, the group's National Administrative Secretary, further warned that any future attack on the Itsekiris would be regarded as an attack on the Yoruba nation, which would in turn attract the full wrath and fury of the Yoruba.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200303240440.html

and it continues . . .

Do you now see why I say I am more inclined to the yorubas than NDelta?

Chyz*:

I feel you.I hope Afenifere will resist there attempt of domination through state creation. The really pushed the envelope thinking that Amaechi and Ohanaeze are going to allow them take Port Harcourt a.k.a Igwe Ocha. So area names such as Umu and Rumu are all ijaw now? B@stards indeed.

SapeleGuy:

Jason123 Olucumi Bokor?

Shebi you know that all the Olus have been direct descendants of the Oba of Benin.
And you also know that the level of inter marriage between Urhobo, Ijaw and Itsekiri is so high that it makes what you have written look like fiction.

asha 80:

can someone clarify this for me.who are indegenes or aborigines of warri?itsekiri or urhobo or ijaw?

PhysicsMHD:


Anyways, without the Itsekiri, Warri could never have been a big city like it is today because it is a historical fact that they were the ones who made it into a commerce center in earlier times. So regardless of claims of some Ijaws and regardless of Olu of Warri or only Olu of Itsekiri, they have an unshakable stake in that city.

EzeUche_:

If I remember correctly, the Itsekiri were given preferential treatment by British middlemen to spite the Ijaws, who had allied themselves with the Portuguese. Maybe that was the beginning of the neglect of the Ijaws by different administration. Even during colonial times, the Ijaws who feared Igbo domination, asked to have a separate region created out of the Eastern region, but the British did not want to hear anything about it. They said their rights will be protected in the Constitution.

Any people who want a country with the Ijaws should be care. These people are warlike. That cannot be denied. Their belief in Egbesu has foolishly allowed some of these people to believe they are invincible when they are on the warpath. But one thing they must realize, that the wider Igbo will not allow them to control Iguocha. We will stop them with or without the Ikwerre blessing who don't know any better.

jason123:

@ Ezeuche

Why do you keep mentioning Port-harcourt if the ikwerris say they are not igbo (No offence pls)?

PhysicsMHD:


Doubtful. The Ijaw have a legitimate claim to original ownership of large percentage of Port Harcourt.

PhysicsMHD:

I don't need a specific figure do I?

I'm not the one that's going to be taking this to court, after all.

I should have been clearer. I don't mean the present, full Port Harcourt.

The original Port Harcourt, not the expanded, growing Port Harcourt, was situated largely in Okrika land and in Ikwerre land, and the Okrika supplied a disproportionately (relative to their size) large part of the land that was sold.

Chyz*:

Can anybody confirm that there are indigenous ijaws in Lagos?

PhysicsMHD:

Ok, then.


But do elaborate on Lugard's objection to the Okrika claims (what claims were these, anyways?).

killayut:

This ezeagu who might be an OSU is a complete ignorant slowpoke. Diobu is not Port Harcourt and Diobu is a Rumuwoji land . The road AZIKIWE street was the link road between Diobu amd Port Harcourt city Just as Nyannya in FCT where Nyanyan and KARU out the out skirt of ABUJA was developed to shelter low income workers as satelite town to Abuja. In between Diobu and Port Harcourt was the European Quaters which is now OLD GRA . Even as at today the two towns are still distance apart although the linking road of AZIKIWE street is now having industral structures. AMADI -AMA is not even disputed by The Ikweres as an OKRIKA town, LOL Do not mistake AMADI ( Igbo name) to be an Igbo person, In Ijaw land many Ijaw figures of Okrika , Kalabari and Bonny were adopted Igbo people. The King Jaja that became king of the Ijaw town of Opobo was an Igbo man, AMADI-AMA is a pure Okrika town and that lobe has the Okrika cluster towns of RAINBOW, OKUJAGU, OKURU, ABULOMA et al. Port Harcourt city itself with streets like Free town, Ports johnson, Harbour road, aggrey road, victoria street and so on is the Port Harcourt and the aborigines are the Ogbogbo Okrika Ijaws of Borikiri, Ikpukulu and ISAKA, That piece of land was given to the white men for the building of the harbour by the AMAYANABO ( KING ) OF OKRIKA when it was moved from ABONNEMA and witnessed by Chief Yellow of Bakana ( Kalabari ) which was also a closed by community. There were no known Ikwere traditional rulers involveded and no known Ikwere village nearby, Dispute about ownership of those areas including ISAKA was between Okrika and KALABARIS and bitter wars fought. The aspect of conflict between Ikweres and Okrikas are land areas of NKPOGU which extends to AMADI AMA that are claimed by the ORO Ikweres. And those places are not Part of the Port Harcourt city as built by Europeans. So when Ijaw people say Port Harcourt they do not refer to AMADI AMA, Diobu, or any Rumu village but just Port Harcourt city which is what we call TOWN, There was never a farmng activity of any Ikwere group there if not Europeans would not make deals with the Okrikas and KALABARIS over the land, CASE closed because as at right now the places have already been demarcated to various Okrika chiefs and are confirmed Okrika settlements with recognized Traditional rulers.

Iguocha or Igweocha are just names used by Igbo workers who lived there as lay man names they used to refer to Port Harcourt . The most annoying thing is these idiots who always say trash about Port Harcourt are not even from Rivers State and never even lived in PH. A typical Igbo man who lives in PH knows what's up and will never even write any rubbish about PH because the truth is there and obvious,

killayut:

Igbo people  have started  spreading another  Lies    about Port  Harcourt ? That Lord  Lugard called it UGUOCHA,  . They are so silly. They are not even from there and do not even have any ancestral link to that area and yet they waste their time making up stories as  if  they will any day  take over the land from the Okrikas,  Ikwere people  are good neighbours and no one has any problem with them but these  Igbos will not stop trying to cause trouble where there is  non,

KILLA.

killayut:

Igbo people have started spreading another Lies about Port Harcourt ? That Lord Lugard called it UGUOCHA, . They are so silly. They are not even from there and do not even have any ancestral link to that area and yet they waste their time making up stories as if they will any day take over the land from the Okrikas, Ikwere people are good neighbours and no one has any problem with them but these Igbos will not stop trying to cause trouble where there is non,

KILLA.

ezeagu:

If you have a problem with it, go and fight Lugard in his grave. Port Harcourt was never fully yours so back off.

alj_harem:

are u minding the buffon

port harcourt was never fulling an ijaw land and it was never fully an igbo land as well

this killuyat aka tom believe ijaw fully own port harcourt

but that a side, i want him to tell us about ijaws in lagos and ogun

and about apoi ijaw and how an apoi ijaw loves the yoruba more than ijaw itself

don't forget he claims aworis are ijaw as well comical