Leader of Movement For Emancipation of Niger Delta, MEND Asari Dokubo has faulted the Nnamdi Kanu's method of agitation, warming him not to include Ijaw land in his Biafra.

While accusing Nnamdi Kanu, leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB who was recently arrested by the federal government of not respecting all Biafrans in the fight for secession on an equal basis, he insisted that Nnamdi Kanu does not have the power to forcefully include Ijaw and other parts of the country as Igbo, accusing him of fighting for Igbo Biafra, adding that it is an attempt to subject all Biafrans to be Igbo.

In a viral video message obtained by ABN TV, the activist however admitted that he is Igbo from Abam and has Igbo blood in his system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsROTmLIRG0
According to Asari Dokubo, his great ancestor Ediabali a fighter is from Abam and later acquired by King Amachree to fight for him.

He said his great ancestor later settled in Ijaw land, insisting that his Igbo lineage is not in doubt.

"I have never denied my Igboness but when con men like you spoil the name of Igbos, I should come out. My father Ediabali became the richest man in this part of the world" he said.

He added, "Ijaw is not Igbo. Ijaw is far older than Igbo in this part of the world. Prof. Dike, an Igbo man was one of the first persons to make research and stated this fact very clearly.

"If you're fighting for Biafra, which you are not, you are dividing Biafra, what you should do is to call, respect all Biafrans on an equal basis. You cannot come and say Ibibio is Igbo, Ijaw is Igbo, that means you are fighting for Igbo Biafra, you want to subject all Biafrans to become Igbos which will fail" he said.

He revealed that his other ancestors are from Uzuakoli, maintaining that his name Uzodinma, was given to his father by his great grandmother, Oyiridiya which he (Dokubo) later acquired.

He also revealed that he has given his fifth son Mujahid the name Uzodinma while his little niece bears Oyiridiya, maintaining that he is proud of his Igbo ancestry.

He called Nnamdi Kanu a con man who runs away when he sees battle, saying him as Dokubo will stay in his ancestral land to fight.

Source: https://abntv.com.ng/2021/07/dont-include-ijaw-in-your-biafra-ijaw-far-older-than-igbo-asari-dokubo-tells-nnamdi-kanu-video/

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Unknown insignificant abntv using Nnamdi Kanu to gain relevance

Who cares what the pipe contractor says



Igbos would do better minusing ijawin this biafra thing and any other tribe that route with them

Shameless fat fool, you want to blow with kanus name, federal government won't give you Kobo again, you are deceiving yourself.

Ijaws will decide their fate by themselves! Not you deciding it for them!.

The era of one man chop all AKA we the south is gone!
In a referendum, it is one man one vote..
Joe ibekwe has one, Wike has 1, kanu has 1, and you have 1..
You dont even have the power to decide where your children will belong.

Hope BMCs have now been educated!

De only language Ipobian terrorists understand very well is ##Pythonese language
Sai baba 4 + 4 = 2023
PMB = Next Level

He said Kanu called him a 'Pipeline Protector'.

People are commenting without reading.
There is nowhere in the text that Asari said don't include Ijaw in Biafra.
What he said is that Kanu should respect other components of Biafra.
But the op first posted his own view just to skew opinion.
Nevertheless,an only igbo Biafra is what we want.

All this unnecessary drama is what caused insult to ndigbo and biafra struggle.
Kanu no de hear English
Dem talk say them no de do again na by force

Who takes a bloated pig serious? See ds caricature dat has lost his relevance nd is using ipob matter to try to make headlines.

I blame d yeye media houses dat do not have good contents anymore. No professional journalism whatsoever. Any bl00dy f00l can just open his mouth waaa.. nd make d news.

How IPOB dey ignore this man na him dey pain am!

IPOB is showing him class and he’s just being classless and rabble rousing.

Fat pig!

Ijaw Leaders Meet British Govt, Seeks Support To Leave Nigeria

The leadership of Ijaw nation has met with the British government seeking support to leave Nigeria and end the suffering of the people.

A delegation of the Ijaw leadership led by the President of the Ijaw National Congress (INC), Prof Benjamin Okaba made this known during a meeting with representatives of the British High Commission led by Mr John Kekeh, at the Ijaw House in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.

Okaba who presented a seven-page address on behalf of the Ijaw nation to the British High Commission delegation lamented that the British government abandoned the Ijaw people after deceiving them to join Nigeria with the assurance that they would be well taken care of.

The Ijaws in their summation said the people are no longer at ease with the contraption called Nigeria.

“Again in the light of truth, good conscience, fairness, equity and justice would the British people and her government be perpetually silent and feign ignorance to the excruciating plight of the Ijaw people.

“Furthermore, perhaps the once colonial masters would with all intent and purpose act to rescue the ugly situation- may we ask if not now then when?

“We are indeed eager and anxious to know: is your intervention coming when we are completely ripped off our God given Oil and Gas natural resources and abandoned to our fate in a wallowing and criminally degraded environment without remediation.

“In all honesty, would that not be a crime against humanity where the British government would be seen as accomplices,” he said.

Okaba while reiterating that the Ijaw people would leave Nigeria peacefully and legally called on the British government to come and undo what they did decades ago by forcing them into Nigeria.

“The visitation is about us telling them that you (British) brought us into Nigeria and they should play their role to take us out of this country. The British have the moral duty to take us out. We were deceived to join Nigeria; they abandoned us and deceived us. Let them do the needful. As Ijaw people we are tired of this country. We have suffered in this country; we have carried the burden of this nation on our shoulders for too long. We have placed minimum conditions. The first condition is the restoration of true federalism. Number two, we have to be placed not as balkanised people. We cannot be scattered into different states and make us minorities and slaves. We cannot be slaves in a place where our resources are used to sustain the people. It is unacceptable. So Ijaw people are saying to the Federal Government that if this minimum requirement is not met, we are no longer committed to the Nigerian project. And that if we are leaving as Ijaw republic, we shall do it peacefully and legally. This is the message we are sending to the British High Commission and to the British Government to come and undo what they did.”

Kekeh in his response promised to deliver the message back to the leadership of the British High Commission

https://www.sunnewsonline.com/ijaw-leaders-meet-british-govt-seeks-support