chrisxxx:

Bros the problem was there before the war. But by then Ikwerre land was occupied by the Igbos. If you say anything you could be a target for assassination. You can imagine when someone starts to change your community name! Look! the mistake of Igbos going for war and losing was a mistake they can never recover from. It was not just the IKwerres but the whole of the minorities of the Niger Delta. Why do you think Isaac Boro took up arms against the government? Why do you think the Igbo leaders the of Ironsi and Ojukwu took it personal to hunt him down by all means?
Elechi Amadi wrote what he saw and other Ikwerres saw. No Ikwerre man has ever disputed him.

maestroferddi:
The way Rivers politics plays out holds a frightening future for the Ikwerres.

They have been feeling fly with the subjugation of the Ijaws and other riverine people in Rivers.

Amaechi did 8 years and Wike is rounding off another 8 years.

I daresay that the Ikwerres will be in political wilderness for a very long time as soon as Wike vacates office next year.

The Ijaws, Kalabaris and Ogonis are about to let off years of pent-up anger.

The Ikwerres will become the common enemy...The fact that they unwisely chose to antagonize the Igbos will not bode well for them in the future...

nathyx:
Which is better to Igbos ? For a south south person to become president or another northern or youruba choose wisely

chrisxxx:

Bros the problem was there before the war. But by then Ikwerre land was occupied by the Igbos. If you say anything you could be a target for assassination. You can imagine when someone starts to change your community name! Look! the mistake of Igbos going for war and losing was a mistake they can never recover from. It was not just the IKwerres but the whole of the minorities of the Niger Delta. Why do you think Isaac Boro took up arms against the government? Why do you think the Igbo leaders the of Ironsi and Ojukwu took it personal to hunt him down by all means?
Elechi Amadi wrote what he saw and other Ikwerres saw. No Ikwerre man has ever disputed him.

CeoMYN:


Lol

VPN11:


Resistance to a system that have successfully functiioned over a hundred years is the hardest job to do;reason why nairaland keep banning me;I was banned for 3 months ;I just came back two days ago;ive missed all my friends here;I love all indigenous Nigerians that are not afraid to push back againts all odds;they are killing us;our future ;and the future of our unborn children depends on it;

The symbol of the resistance of Fulani enslavement of the South is Biafra. Biafra has continued to be the beacon to which every intelligent person residing in Southern Kaduna, Jos, Pankshin, Jalingo, through Wukari, Makurdi, Otukpo, Ankpa, Nsukka, Enugu, Onitsha, Owerri, Umuahia, Katsina-Ala, Obudu, Ikom, Abakaliki, Calabar, Port Harcourt, Opobo, Warri, Agbor, Asaba, and Uromi in the East to Ilorin, Okene, Ogbomosho, Ibadan, Abeokuta, Lagos, Ado Ekiti, Akure, Okitipupa, Benin City, and Sapele in the west must look to for freedom, self-determination and defeat of the Fulani scheme to conquer and enslave the South. We are not suggesting that every nation encompassing these cities should become Biafra. Far from it. Each nation in the geographical area called Nigeria must decide for itself whether it wants to continue to stay in Nigeria and become enslaved or get out of Nigeria and assume its own identity, freedom and nationality. Biafra has made its choice – Biafra will get out of Nigeria and will not be conquered, Islamized and enslaved. It will not matter how difficult it is; it will not matter how long it takes and it will not matter whether Nigeria likes it or not. This is Biafra’s destiny and we will take our destiny in our hands. When God created human beings, He bestowed on them certain inalienable rights – the right to life [right to live your life and not have someone else snuff it out]; freedom of speech [the right to speak your mind]; freedom of association [the right to decide for yourself who you want to associate or be with]; freedom of religion [the right to choose how to worship God]; freedom of assembly [the right to assemble and meet with other people of your choice for purposes other than committing a crime].There are other natural rights.

These rights are enshrined in the United Nations Charter and have been recognized and enforced in most parts of the world in recent times. It is as a result of these inalienable rights that the following new countries were created since 1990. They are: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, and Russia, (all of which were forcibly conscripted into the former Soviet Union or USSR); Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, Serbia, Macedonia (all of which were formerly cobbled together and held by force as Yugoslavia by Marshall Tito until 1990-1992); Slovakia and Czech Republic (both of which were in a forced relationship formerly called Czechoslovakia); East Timor which was formerly occupied by Indonesia and South Sudan which was separated from Sudan and gained its independence in July 2011. These 26 countries all became independent between 1990 and 2011 as a result of the enforcement of the principle of self-determination by the United Nations.

President Buhari knows this and agrees with the United Nations principles of PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE, and SELF-DETERMINATION for all people. This is why in his address to the United Nations General Assembly on September 28th, 2015, General Muhammadu Buhari, the president of Nigeria stated, “Mr. President, (referring to the UN General Assembly President) As we engage in these annual debates, we need remind ourselves of the principles that led to the founding of the United Nations. Among those are and . In this context, Mr. President, the unresolved question of self-determination for the Palestinian people and those of Western Sahara, both nations having been adjusted [adjudged] by the United Nations as qualifying for this inalienable right must now be assured and fulfilled without any further delay or obstacle. The international community has come to pin its hopes on resolving the Palestinian issue through the two-state solution which recognizes the legitimate right of each state to exist in peace and security. The world has no more excuses or reasons to delay the implementation of the long list of Security Council resolutions on this question. Neither do we have the moral right to deny any people their freedom or condemn them indefinitely to occupation and blockade.” President Buhari himself (not a surrogate, not a representative) made these statements in front of Heads of State of countries of the world, members of the United Nations, gathered in the hallowed halls of the United Nations in New York. If you remove the word(s) “Palestine” and “Western Sahara”, and substitute the word “Biafra” in their place, it becomes obvious to all right thinking people that President Muhammadu Buhari supports the right of Biafra to become a sovereign, independent nation. To say or think otherwise would amount to exercise in cognitive dissonance, and outright dishonesty. The people of Biafra therefore hold President Buhari to his words spoken in front of heads of state of the countries of the world at the General Assembly of the United Nations, in New York, on December 28, 2015.

Assetinvestor:


They think they're smart but on the contrary, they're digging their own grave. Kalabaris, Okrikas and other ijaw speaking tribes are promoting a united ijaw front while the Ikwerres keep antagonizing Igbos. They keep influencing other Igbo speaking indigenes to take up independent ethnic nationality. That balkanization they promoted is about to take root. Last I checked, they have just a couple of local governments, so I wonder how they hope to dominate Rivers State politics with that.

Peter Odili is an Igbo man from Ndoni, he ruled for 8 years and Amaechi took over, despite the fact he is Ikwerre man, another Ikwerre man in the person of Wike succeeded him. There is insinuation that another Ikwerre man is hoping to succeed Wike too.

Now compare to Delta State, another heterogeneous state that has ensured peace by rotating its governorship.

Aside that, nobody knows what will happen in Nigeria going forward. The country may eventually collapse and fall into the hands of tribal warlords as once predicted by CIA. What will become of Ikwerre now they've made enemies on their North and South?

Waneri:


It all started immediately the europeans created Nigeria..
The Ibo political class who are mostly from the present day Anambra and Enugu decided to make the old eastern region a one ethnic region.
The western region tried the same.. but it failed too resulting to the creation of Midwest region..

In the eastern region .. when they asked the groups who the were the refused to identify as Igbo.. they rather identify as Ndoki (Ukwa), Izon(Ijo), Etche, Ngwa, Ibibio, iwhnuruoha, Efik etc.
But this did not go down well with the Igbo leaders, who actually new if the don't stop them, the east will disintegrate.

There was a new agenda to send some of their kinsmen to igbonize this groups..
The made it possible for them to get jobs at the detriment of the indigenes.
The aim was for the indigenes to become poor as sees the igbos as a group the should imitate.
It worked for a while. But suddenly attracted envy when some of this minority became educated and civilized and attempted to change the status quo which also failed.

This caused the domination of Aba, and Port Harcourt (which was the only Important province and sub province then) by foreigners.
The foreigners also changed some names that did not suit well with them.
Aba being an important city was changed from Abah Ngwa to Abah alone, Ugwulagbo was changed to Ugwunagbo etc
Same thing was done to the Ikwere people.

The civil war served as an avenue for the indigenes that rejected the igbo identity to distanced them selves from igbo.
The Ikwere people decided to return their town names to the original names.
But they unfortunately went as far as creating new names that were neither Ikwere nor igbo in their bid to distanced them selves from igbo.

Igbos should understand that igboid language does not belong to them only..
The Ikwere should also understand that they have been speaking igboid language before the igbos came. Even though they igbos tried to force their own dialect of Igbo on them.

I believe that we are all from the same origin and we are all related.
But we don't share a general name.
Just like Ibibio, Efik, Annang etc the are the same people but they don't have a general name .. same with all igboid groups..

VPN11:


Resistance to a system that have successfully functiioned over a hundred years is the hardest job to do;reason why nairaland keep banning me;I was banned for 3 months ;I just came back two days ago;ive missed all my friends here;I love all indigenous Nigerians that are not afraid to push back againts all odds;they are killing us;our future ;and the future of our unborn children depends on it;

The symbol of the resistance of Fulani enslavement of the South is Biafra. Biafra has continued to be the beacon to which every intelligent person residing in Southern Kaduna, Jos, Pankshin, Jalingo, through Wukari, Makurdi, Otukpo, Ankpa, Nsukka, Enugu, Onitsha, Owerri, Umuahia, Katsina-Ala, Obudu, Ikom, Abakaliki, Calabar, Port Harcourt, Opobo, Warri, Agbor, Asaba, and Uromi in the East to Ilorin, Okene, Ogbomosho, Ibadan, Abeokuta, Lagos, Ado Ekiti, Akure, Okitipupa, Benin City, and Sapele in the west must look to for freedom, self-determination and defeat of the Fulani scheme to conquer and enslave the South. We are not suggesting that every nation encompassing these cities should become Biafra. Far from it. Each nation in the geographical area called Nigeria must decide for itself whether it wants to continue to stay in Nigeria and become enslaved or get out of Nigeria and assume its own identity, freedom and nationality. Biafra has made its choice – Biafra will get out of Nigeria and will not be conquered, Islamized and enslaved. It will not matter how difficult it is; it will not matter how long it takes and it will not matter whether Nigeria likes it or not. This is Biafra’s destiny and we will take our destiny in our hands. When God created human beings, He bestowed on them certain inalienable rights – the right to life [right to live your life and not have someone else snuff it out]; freedom of speech [the right to speak your mind]; freedom of association [the right to decide for yourself who you want to associate or be with]; freedom of religion [the right to choose how to worship God]; freedom of assembly [the right to assemble and meet with other people of your choice for purposes other than committing a crime].There are other natural rights.

These rights are enshrined in the United Nations Charter and have been recognized and enforced in most parts of the world in recent times. It is as a result of these inalienable rights that the following new countries were created since 1990. They are: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, and Russia, (all of which were forcibly conscripted into the former Soviet Union or USSR); Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, Serbia, Macedonia (all of which were formerly cobbled together and held by force as Yugoslavia by Marshall Tito until 1990-1992); Slovakia and Czech Republic (both of which were in a forced relationship formerly called Czechoslovakia); East Timor which was formerly occupied by Indonesia and South Sudan which was separated from Sudan and gained its independence in July 2011. These 26 countries all became independent between 1990 and 2011 as a result of the enforcement of the principle of self-determination by the United Nations.

President Buhari knows this and agrees with the United Nations principles of PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE, and SELF-DETERMINATION for all people. This is why in his address to the United Nations General Assembly on September 28th, 2015, General Muhammadu Buhari, the president of Nigeria stated, “Mr. President, (referring to the UN General Assembly President) As we engage in these annual debates, we need remind ourselves of the principles that led to the founding of the United Nations. Among those are and . In this context, Mr. President, the unresolved question of self-determination for the Palestinian people and those of Western Sahara, both nations having been adjusted [adjudged] by the United Nations as qualifying for this inalienable right must now be assured and fulfilled without any further delay or obstacle. The international community has come to pin its hopes on resolving the Palestinian issue through the two-state solution which recognizes the legitimate right of each state to exist in peace and security. The world has no more excuses or reasons to delay the implementation of the long list of Security Council resolutions on this question. Neither do we have the moral right to deny any people their freedom or condemn them indefinitely to occupation and blockade.” President Buhari himself (not a surrogate, not a representative) made these statements in front of Heads of State of countries of the world, members of the United Nations, gathered in the hallowed halls of the United Nations in New York. If you remove the word(s) “Palestine” and “Western Sahara”, and substitute the word “Biafra” in their place, it becomes obvious to all right thinking people that President Muhammadu Buhari supports the right of Biafra to become a sovereign, independent nation. To say or think otherwise would amount to exercise in cognitive dissonance, and outright dishonesty. The people of Biafra therefore hold President Buhari to his words spoken in front of heads of state of the countries of the world at the General Assembly of the United Nations, in New York, on December 28, 2015.

Waneri:
..

To liberate our self from this unfortunate condition we find our self we have we have to work with whole southern Nigeria, we need the support for middle belt too..
After that everyone will go separate ways.
But Ngwa nation will prefer to join the Ikweres and other Niger Deltas. .. than Biafra..
Because this are the people we share same culture with.
Until you guys realize that the united nations does not support secession.
Look at what happened in Tigra in Ethiopia.
Look at what is happening in Donbass in Ukraine..
If you can't do it alone or with allies don't attempt it..(it will be suicidal)..

maestroferddi:
Which crap are you talking about?

Yoruba man masqueradimg as an Ngwa man .

The last time I checked, the most prominent politician from Ngwa land viz Enyinnaya Abaribe is an Igbo son of global acclaim

You are not important so keep mum.

Waneri:

So anyone that don't share your opinion is Yoruba.
Yet you are wondering why Ikpeazu is supporting Wike.
As for Abaribe, he just wants to get vote from non Ngwa in Abia state com 2023 governorship election.. he is just playing politics

maestroferddi:
You cannot mislead me.

Ngwa people are among the most active on the Biafra agitation so shove your stupid tricks into your mouth.

Ikpeazu is a bad example of an Igbo man.

We donate him to the Ikwerres.

CeoMYN:


These guys are not Igbo, abeg. The Igbos were majority in the Eastern region and they influenced the culture and language of other ethnic groups. It doesn't make the other ethnic groups Igbo.

My language has lots of similarity with the Igbo language, but thanks to our history, we know we are not Igbos.

Waneri:
.
Lol how many protest have you seen in Abia state.
That does not mean we love Nigeria ..
If what is happening in imo state happens in Ngwa land and we realize that it's done by non indigenes.. my brothers a lot will happen..

Ikpeazu might not be a cents. But have it at the back of your mind that it's his kinsmen that put him There.
I doubt you are from Abia state..
I won't respond you. If you keep thinking I'm Yoruba.

ifiokjohn:
but how come they couldn't influence AKwa IBOM to start speaking Igbo? They couldn't influence bcross River. They couldn't influence Benin. They couldn't influence ijaw etc..
Bros reason na abeg.

See the Ikwerres are igbos...infact, Ikwerres men those days love marrying igbo women. How then won't the language rub off on you guys since those Igbo women will teach their Ikwerre children the language?

If AKwa IBOM men married Igbo women at the rate Ikwerre men did, I'm pretty sure bunch of us would have had Igbo has a primary or second language

CeoMYN:


Are we talking about marriage? Ikwerre people na Ikwerre people, Bros. Leave my Rivers State alone, nah. Na by force? Una no dey tire?

Waneri:


It all started immediately the europeans created Nigeria..
The Ibo political class who are mostly from the present day Anambra and Enugu decided to make the old eastern region a one ethnic region.
The western region tried the same.. but it failed too resulting to the creation of Midwest region..

In the eastern region .. when they asked the groups who the were the refused to identify as Igbo.. they rather identify as Ndoki (Ukwa), Izon(Ijo), Etche, Ngwa, Ibibio, iwhnuruoha, Efik etc.
But this did not go down well with the Igbo leaders, who actually new if the don't stop them, the east will disintegrate.

There was a new agenda to send some of their kinsmen to igbonize this groups..
The made it possible for them to get jobs at the detriment of the indigenes.
The aim was for the indigenes to become poor as sees the igbos as a group the should imitate.
It worked for a while. But suddenly attracted envy when some of this minority became educated and civilized and attempted to change the status quo which also failed.

This caused the domination of Aba, and Port Harcourt (which was the only Important province and sub province then) by foreigners.
The foreigners also changed some names that did not suit well with them.
Aba being an important city was changed from Abah Ngwa to Abah alone, Ugwulagbo was changed to Ugwunagbo etc
Same thing was done to the Ikwere people.

The civil war served as an avenue for the indigenes that rejected the igbo identity to distanced them selves from igbo.
The Ikwere people decided to return their town names to the original names.
But they unfortunately went as far as creating new names that were neither Ikwere nor igbo in their bid to distanced them selves from igbo.

Igbos should understand that igboid language does not belong to them only..
The Ikwere should also understand that they have been speaking igboid language before the igbos came. Even though they igbos tried to force their own dialect of Igbo on them.

I believe that we are all from the same origin and we are all related.
But we don't share a general name.
Just like Ibibio, Efik, Annang etc the are the same people but they don't have a general name .. same with all igboid groups..

CeoMYN:


Are we talking about marriage? Ikwerre people na Ikwerre people, Bros. Leave my Rivers State alone, nah. Na by force? Una no dey tire?

ifiokjohn:
oga calm down. I'm AKwa ibomites. I'm only asking how come AKwa ibom that is close to Igbos didn't get their language influence by igbo...we still beating our own names and speak our own language. So what's the matter?.
Note: we traded with the Igbos to as much

ZIAZI:


Oga, do not twist history! Do you know what Biafran soldiers did to minority groups in the then Eastern Region? We the Ikwerres were killed because we were labelled "saboteurs" in our own land. The same treatment was meted out on other minority groups as well.

Do not get me wrong! I do not hate Igbos because I believe we are related. However, history must not be distorted. Biafran soldiers killed us in our own land. Not only that, we were dealt with decisively by the Nigerian troops because we were seen as co-conspirators.

We minorities suffered as well, we were killed in our thousands. How many of you today talk about the minorities killed? No! It is only the Igbo casualties that you talk about. Ojukwu declared a new republic after consulting with a committee mainly made up of Igbos, if not all. We were dragged into that civil war, we paid with out lives for it as well. I refer you to Chinua Achebe's ''There was a country.''

Why do you think most of us are against Biafra? We know the struggle of the Igbos is noble but most of us do not want to be part of it because of what we saw in the hands of Biafran soldiers and the civil war in general.

No true Ikwerre son will hate an Igbo man because some of our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers are Igbos. My beloved paternal grandma was Igbo, from Imo State. We are brothers, we inter marry and we do things in common. WE ARE ONE!

I have heard Igbos saying shitty things about Ikwerres and vice versa. Some persons are only bitter because of the civil war experience, not because the Igbo man is a curse, and as such must be exterminated.

Thank you, boss.

CeoMYN:


I don't know about Akwa Ibom. I only know about my place.

djon78:


If wike get PDP ticket, igbos won't vote him, North won't vote him, South West won't vote him even many South South won't vote him

It will be a walkover for anyone APC picks

The only South South person igbos will vote is Jonathan
But he is not coming out

Talk your mind APC fanatic

Assetinvestor:


I can't twist history, why should I when I have facts to present. Ordinarily, I have nothing against Ikwerres if not for the things they did and continue to do.

In a war, especially a bitter one like the Biafran civil war, nothing would be taken to chance and saboteurs/snitches are usually killed to serve as deterrent to others. It wasn't any form of targeted attack as you want to make it. That was why top Biafran military personnel like Ifeajuna and Banjo were killed.

What directly caused the declaration of Biafra and the war that followed was the genocide that happened to Easterners in Northern Nigeria. It was on record that both Igbos and minorities were killed which prompted the leaders in Eastern Nigeria to demand for breakup when it became evident that both federal government and Northern regional government refused to protect Easterners, minorities included. Ojukwu never declared Biafra unilaterally!

You said that Ikwerre suffered brutalities in the hands of Nigerian soldiers? Did it happen to them alone? Anioma Igbos suffered the worst pogrom ever recorded during the war in the hands of Nigerian soldiers! There were similar massacres in other places Nigerian army invaded including Calabar, Aba etc.

You said I should read about "There Was A Country" by Chinua Achebe. Lol, I bought the book the same year it was published and I have read it, likewise other historical books about post independent Nigeria. You can see the attached photos/excerpts for reference.

ifiokjohn:
You see. So stop lying abeg. If that really happened every part of the south would be speaking Igbo but that's not so.
You guys are clear igbos and no one in Nigeria will believe otherwise. Go to the north or to the west..every Chibuike is an Igbo boy. If you like claim ikwerre..they don't care.

Malory:
Ikpeazu endorsement of Wike is nothing. He is not in charge of his family talkless of pulling weight in Igbo land

Legendforte:

His support does not carry any weight.

CeoMYN:


Lol... I'm lying, keh? So you are the one to decide who my tribe is? Funny man... Come and force us to become Igbos.

ifiokjohn:
I'm not forcing you to go out there I'm just telling you the truth. If you go out there especially to places like AKwa ibom or Benin, and say your name is obinna or chiibuike or eze etc..they will classify you Igbo. If you like say you're ikweree or whatever...we will classify you Igbo and laugh at you for denying your identity

CeoMYN:


Come and force us to become Igbos. I hope you will call me British because I have their name too.

You don't choose who we are for us. We are never Igbo.

Keep lying, bro.

Waneri:

Ikpeazu simply sees Wike as his brother ..
the same way Anambra sees Enugu as their brother..
It only an Imo state candidate that will make Ikpeazu and his kinsmen to have a divided opinion on who to support..

MikeofAfrica:

I don't agree with you. If that is the case, why is Enugu Governor also supporting Wike? They are supporting Woke for two reasons. First is envy. Those two Governors knows that they are failures and no one in South east will take them serious if they run for President. Hence they are envious of someone like Peter Obi who did well as Governor. Secondly, Wike has given million of dollars to Ikpeazu, Ugwuanyi and Makinde. He even took them to Madrid. Hence it is time to reciprocate Wike's generosity.