The umbrella body of Ijaw youths, the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Worldwide, has sounded a note of warning to Simon Ekpa and his group of Biafra agitators to steer clear of the Niger Delta, saying that the Ijaw people are not part of Biafra and will never be.
The IYC made the assertion in response to an online video on X (Twitter) by Simon Ekpa, a Biafran crusader in exile claiming that Ijaws are part of Biafran state.

In a statement on Friday by the national spokesman for IYC, Amb. Binebai Yerin Princewill, the foremost Ijaw group said the Ijaw people would not tolerate any other reckless comment about their people and territories belonging to the Biafra.

Princewill said: “The attention of Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Worldwide has been drawn to a strange video by one Simon Ekpa, who is from the eastern part of Nigeria, now masquerading as the leader of Biafra in exile. “In the said video posted on X, he tried to establish Ijaw territories as part of his imaginary Biafra state.

“In the said video, Ekpa expressed the point that Nigerian soldiers attacked his Biafra people and Biafra republic. He was simply referring to the Okuama attack in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State on March 14, 2024 wherein 17 soldiers were killed and the subsequent onslaught carried out by the military on Igbomotoru and Peremabiri, Ijaw communities in Bayelsa State.

“The fundamental claim the renegade Biafra nationalist is making is that both Okuama community in Delta and Igbomotoru in Bayelsa state are part of his purported Biafran State. He thus threatened to unleash mayhem on Nigerian soldiers to avenge the death of civilians who had lost their lives in the military onslaught.”

However, the IYC spokesman said the Council was already dealing with a lot of issues regarding the attack on the soldiers and the subsequent invasion of Ijaw communities by the military, resulting in the loss of many lives.

He noted that the Ijaw people had never at any point in time been part of Biafra and can never be part of Biafra.

Princewill reiterated: “The attack on the soldiers has been condemned and it remains condemned just as the IYC has also charged the military to go after only the criminals and not killing of innocent people which we have also condemned in Igbomotoru and Peremabiri.

“For the purpose of clarity, the IYC is putting the records straight that the Ijaw struggle for a better living condition in Nigeria is older than the so-called Biafra agitation.

“Our late Ijaw hero and foremost nationalist, late Major Isaac Adaka Boro, who is regarded as a champion of minority rights movement in Nigeria, declared the ‘Niger Delta Republic’ on February 23, 1966 a year before late Chief Odumegwu Ojukwu who was the then Governor of the Eastern Region declared the Biafra Republic on May 30, 1967.

“As Ijaw people, we are Nigerians, original occupants, and dwellers of the Niger Delta region. We reiterate that no part of Niger Delta belongs to their so-called imaginary Biafra.

“The struggle of the Ijaw people is majorly in resource control and not a secessionist movement. We have our own struggles, and the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) also has their own separate struggle. The Ijaws are not part of their Biafran struggle and ideology.”

He said while the IYC was not opposed to the IPOB agitation, the Ijaws remain law-abiding people in the Nigerian State.

Princewill warned that going forward, the Ijaws would not tolerate watching Biafrans laying claims to their territories.

The spokesman insisted: “We are Ijaw people. We are Nigerians in the Niger Delta. We don’t have any ties or whatever with the Biafran people and their agitation.

“Finally, the IYC is using this medium to inform the Federal Government of Nigeria and the Nigerian military that all the areas mentioned are not part of Biafra and can never be part of Biafra. IYC will not allow any purported attack on the military in our territories.”


https://thenationonlineng.net/ijaws-not-part-of-biafra-iyc-warns-simon-ekpa/

Ekpa should have a bounty on his head.

😂😂😂 Ndi ala Biafra,Ijaws have warned you idiots yet again about excluding them from the delusional Biafra.
Like Cownu, like Ekpa,two deranged animals claiming Igbos are being forced against their will to be part of Nigeria,yet trying to force ethnic minorities in the South to be part of the delusional Biafra.
Lol!.

Fareke:
The umbrella body of Ijaw youths, the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Worldwide, has sounded a note of warning to Simon Ekpa and his group of Biafra agitators to steer clear of the Niger Delta, saying that the Ijaw people are not part of Biafra and will never be.
The IYC made the assertion in response to an online video on X (Twitter) by Simon Ekpa, a Biafran crusader in exile claiming that Ijaws are part of Biafran state.

In a statement on Friday by the national spokesman for IYC, Amb. Binebai Yerin Princewill, the foremost Ijaw group said the Ijaw people would not tolerate any other reckless comment about their people and territories belonging to the Biafra.

Princewill said: “The attention of Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Worldwide has been drawn to a strange video by one Simon Ekpa, who is from the eastern part of Nigeria, now masquerading as the leader of Biafra in exile. “In the said video posted on X, he tried to establish Ijaw territories as part of his imaginary Biafra state.

“In the said video, Ekpa expressed the point that Nigerian soldiers attacked his Biafra people and Biafra republic. He was simply referring to the Okuama attack in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State on March 14, 2024 wherein 17 soldiers were killed and the subsequent onslaught carried out by the military on Igbomotoru and Peremabiri, Ijaw communities in Bayelsa State.

“The fundamental claim the renegade Biafra nationalist is making is that both Okuama community in Delta and Igbomotoru in Bayelsa state are part of his purported Biafran State. He thus threatened to unleash mayhem on Nigerian soldiers to avenge the death of civilians who had lost their lives in the military onslaught.”

However, the IYC spokesman said the Council was already dealing with a lot of issues regarding the attack on the soldiers and the subsequent invasion of Ijaw communities by the military, resulting in the loss of many lives.

He noted that the Ijaw people had never at any point in time been part of Biafra and can never be part of Biafra.

Princewill reiterated: “The attack on the soldiers has been condemned and it remains condemned just as the IYC has also charged the military to go after only the criminals and not killing of innocent people which we have also condemned in Igbomotoru and Peremabiri.

“For the purpose of clarity, the IYC is putting the records straight that the Ijaw struggle for a better living condition in Nigeria is older than the so-called Biafra agitation.

“Our late Ijaw hero and foremost nationalist, late Major Isaac Adaka Boro, who is regarded as a champion of minority rights movement in Nigeria, declared the ‘Niger Delta Republic’ on February 23, 1966 a year before late Chief Odumegwu Ojukwu who was the then Governor of the Eastern Region declared the Biafra Republic on May 30, 1967.

“As Ijaw people, we are Nigerians, original occupants, and dwellers of the Niger Delta region. We reiterate that no part of Niger Delta belongs to their so-called imaginary Biafra.

“The struggle of the Ijaw people is majorly in resource control and not a secessionist movement. We have our own struggles, and the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) also has their own separate struggle. The Ijaws are not part of their Biafran struggle and ideology.”

He said while the IYC was not opposed to the IPOB agitation, the Ijaws remain law-abiding people in the Nigerian State.

Princewill warned that going forward, the Ijaws would not tolerate watching Biafrans laying claims to their territories.

The spokesman insisted: “We are Ijaw people. We are Nigerians in the Niger Delta. We don’t have any ties or whatever with the Biafran people and their agitation.

“Finally, the IYC is using this medium to inform the Federal Government of Nigeria and the Nigerian military that all the areas mentioned are not part of Biafra and can never be part of Biafra. IYC will not allow any purported attack on the military in our territories.”


https://thenationonlineng.net/ijaws-not-part-of-biafra-iyc-warns-simon-ekpa/

I think igbo are listening.

Some Ijaws don't know that the man who came up with the name "Biafra", which Ojukwu adopted, was an Ijaw man called Frank Opigo

STOP the bigotry.

Ijaws and Ibos are one.

Ijaw MUST join Biafra.

Chukwuka319:
😂😂😂 Ndi ala Biafra,Ijaws have warned you idiots yet again about excluding them from the delusional Biafra.
Like Cownu, like Ekpa,two deranged animals claiming Igbos are being forced against their will to be part of Nigeria,yet trying to force ethnic minorities in the South to be part of the delusional Biafra.
Lol!.

you need to travel to Finland and tell Simon Ekpa that, so making noise on Nairaland and faceless forum will change nofin

Simon have already replied, anyway na peace we want

Attache by force
Make Una stop to attack with everything and anything

Dem no want u
What's that hard to understand

gidgiddy:
Some Ijaws don't know that the man who came up with the name "Biafra", which Ojukwu adopted, was an Ijaw man called Frank Opigo

That aside, i wouldn’t even support Ijaw being part of any new country that includes Ndigbo! No offence, but they generally have a retrogressive mindset that inhibits development! Of course there are Igbo with this kind of attitude….which arose from decades of being part of Nigeria, but at least in a new country, they would be put in check and wouldn’t see outsiders to enable and protect them so their idiocy and efulefu inclinations are supported and emboldened!

Simon Ekpa himself is a dolt on a renegade mission! The idiot should be ignored!

We south east and south south in the mud

The ijaw group are fuuls,they think dragging ipob will make those south west and north that are asking soldiers to level their communities to now love them.

We know the only thing that unites Nigeria is hatred for Igbos,this group think it will work this time by dragging ipob to what Tinubu Yoruba government is doing to them


As for Simon ekperima,he's speaking for himself and APC government he's working for.





Biafrans don't need ijaw,they should remain in one Nigeria with people that want their villages leveled because some soldiers were killed by criminals.

Minorities feeling funky
If I'm in Biafran government, I won't add any region outside our Eastern region

LOL TODAY IJAW IS BIAFRA, TOMORROW THEY ARE STOMACH INFRASTRUCTURE AND PIPELINE SECURITY GUARDS.


BIAFRA IS THE ONLY HOPE OF THE IJAW NATION.


FAILURE TO JOIN BIAFRA, SORRY, U WILL BE CUT OUT TO THE WEST AND IN THAT WEST, U ARE THEIR NUMBER 1 ENEMY OVER THERE.


NOBODY LIKES YOU, NOT YORUBA, ITSEKIRI, BINI OR URHOBO.


IF WAR SET TOMORROW, U CANNOT DEFEAT BIAFRA OR THE IGBO NATION.


BETTER RECOGNISE 4 REAL.


UNA NO GO FIT CROSS FROM BAYELSA ENTER RIVERS.


BIAFRA IS YOUR ONLY HOPE AND THE NAME BIAFRA CAME FROM THE MOUTH OF AN IJAW MAN.

gidgiddy:
Some Ijaws don't know that the man who came up with the name "Biafra", which Ojukwu adopted, was an Ijaw man called Frank Opigo

You go explain tire

waternogetememy:
LOL TODAY IJAW IS BIAFRA, TOMORROW THEY ARE STOMACH INFRASTRUCTURE AND PIPELINE SECURITY GUARDS.


BIAFRA IS THE ONLY HOPE OF THE IJAW NATION.


FAILURE TO JOIN BIAFRA, SORRY, U WILL BE CUT OUT TO THE WEST AND IN THAT WEST, U ARE THEIR NUMBER 1 ENEMY OVER THERE.


NOBODY LIKES YOU, NOT YORUBA, ITSEKIRI, BINI OR URHOBO.


IF WAR SET TOMORROW, U CANNOT DEFEAT BIAFRA OR THE IGBO NATION.


BETTER RECOGNISE 4 REAL.


UNA NO GO FIT CROSS FROM BAYELSA ENTER RIVERS.


BIAFRA IS YOUR ONLY HOPE AND THE NAME BIAFRA CAME FROM THE MOUTH OF AN IJAW MAN.

you're shedding lots of tears, calm down

Biafra is for the Igbo-speaking communities all over Nigeria from SE,SS,and NC.
From Bonny and Opobo up to Igbanke

Paraman:
you're shedding lots of tears, calm down

AT LEAST LET THE IJAW REPLY.

saintfieldcastro:
Biafra is for the Igbo-speaking communities all over Nigeria from SE,SS,and NC.
From Bonny and Opobo up to Igbanke

Biafra is only for the south east. No other part of Nigeria join the sit at home madness that happened in the south east

waternogetememy:



AT LEAST LET THE IJAW REPLY.

This is Nairaland, not ijawland or biafraland

saintfieldcastro:
Biafra is for the Igbo-speaking communities all over Nigeria from SE,SS,and NC.
From Bonny and Opobo up to Igbanke

NO IN THEIR DREAM, THEY THINK WE WILL LEAVE PORT HARCOURT, BONNY OR OPOBO FOR THEM AND BE LAND LOCKED.

WE ARE NOT BEGGING IJAW TO BE BIAFRA.

THEY WILL LEARN THAT BIAFRA IS THE ONLY NATION THEY HAVE WHEN E-SET.


FROM BAYELSA, THEY WILL FACE WEST.

ALL THAT NONSENSE THEY PUT ON OUR COASTLINE, WILL BE WASHED AWAY.

If that is what they want; they are free.

Every man to his faith.

But let this sound as a warning. Our lands are non-negotiable. Ijaw starts from Bayelsa and end in Bayelsa.

Take Note.

"We SE and SS" in the mud.

Dafresh:
you need to travel to Finland and tell Simon Ekpa that, so making noise on Nairaland and faceless forum will change nofin

And why are you WAILING like a frustrated banshee?
Why are you so pained by my comment?
Noise making vessel.

Chukwuka319:

And why are you WAILING like a frustrated banshee?
Why are you so pained by my comment?
Noise making vessel.

You made a noise and I don't like noise.

That's just common sense, but IPOB people nor dey hear word. They are busty distributing some clownish map of Kogi, Benue, rivers, Edo, delta, Akwa Ibom being in biafria

saintfieldcastro:
Biafra is for the Igbo-speaking communities all over Nigeria from SE,SS,and NC.
From Bonny and Opobo up to Igbanke

waternogetememy:



NO IN THEIR DREAM, THEY THINK WE WILL LEAVE PORT HARCOURT, BONNY OR OPOBO FOR THEM AND BE LAND LOCKED.

WE ARE NOT BEGGING IJAW TO BE BIAFRA.

THEY WILL LEARN THAT BIAFRA IS THE ONLY NATION THEY HAVE WHEN E-SET.


FROM BAYELSA, THEY WILL FACE WEST.

ALL THAT NONSENSE THEY PUT ON OUR COASTLINE, WILL BE WASHED AWAY.

Unity beggers. Ijaws are a big tribe and Niger Delta itself want to be left alone.

Slytiger:

Unity beggers. Ijaws are a big tribe and want to be left alone.

idiot don go change moniker come back.



Ofonja

i 100% agree. Ijaw is not a part of Biafra at all and can never be whatsoever

Absuchat:
Minorities feeling funky
If I'm in Biafran government, I won't add any region outside our Eastern region

Minorities feeding Majorities in one Nigeria yet una still get mouth to spew rubbish. Agbaya Majorities.

Dafresh:
You made a noise and I don't like noise.

And you are still making noise.