₦airaland Forum

PDJT:
So you be Isoko?
I have not met an Isoko person, from your estimate what could be the total population of Isoko people?

Justdulla:
please don't be a prophet of doom.
please project glad tidings as well.
Thank you

AnambraDota:
Isoko of 2 local government stretching from Ofagbe to Iyede and Oleh with a population of less than 10000 people, 2 bank branches, no industry.
[b]
Urhobo of 4 local government [/b]with a population of less than 50000 with Ughelli as the biggest city, skeletal economic activity, army of jobless youth boozing, gambling and cult activities.

What are u smoking?

LordAdam7:
We don't need more states in the SS. We don't even need more states in Nigeria.

We need to restructure this country to get six geopolitical regions, not have more states.

Urhobos cannot always have their way in Delta State. Urhobos have had 8 years with Ibori. Itshekiris have had 8 years with Uduaghan. It's now the turn of the Aniomas to have 8 years with Okowa. The governorship should then rotate to the Ijaws and Isokos before the Urhobos get it back.

Deltans can use the diversity in the state to create a model state in Nigeria. But everyone is still playing tribal politics. If them one share Delta, e go reach like 5 places. Anioma go dey one side, Ijaws go dey one side, Itshekiris go dey one side, Isoko go dey one side, because I sure say them no go join Urhobos them. Even the minority groups like the Kwale them go dey grumble if them attach them to any of the split states.

-Lord

bolaino:
I want to use this medium to appeal to the Federal Government Of Nigeria to please consider the creation of an Indigenous state comprising solely of both the Urhobo and Isoko States Respectively. as Bayelsa was created. I believe it is within our constitutional rights as Ethnic nationalities with distinct cultural and social roots in this country. to call on the FG to recognize our uniqueness and create a separate state from Delta state compromising of Urhobo and Isoko.

trendingsleek:
i never saw the news but after all the suffer that guy self.

TonyeBarcanista:
Sometimes you don't need to trade words with such show of ignorance. How can a man wake up to say Itsekiri is more than Ijaw in Delta state? How can a man foolishly believe that[b] Urjobo [/b]enjoys Overwhelming majority in Delta state? I guess he doesn't know the ethnic representation of Delta or he is being mischievous.

See IPOD Yoots and their usual envy on Ijaw... I wonder when they will grow up!

Sydney22:
as an insider (urhorbo ) u should know better

babasolution:
these southerners are so weak,i think women will even do better defending their lands,the men are useless,foreigners will come to kill them in their lands and then they start crying wolf.idiots.....

Sydney22:
do we have igbos in delta ?

AmuDimpka:
"Baba Awolowo" needs to atone for his crimes even in death. As an untruthful pastor that you also are, you may begin by first asking for your own forgiveness for lying after which you may lead the FORGIVENESS TRAIN for Chief Obafemi Awolowo's forgiveness.

Awolowo did good for his Yoruba people but he was fundamental to the destruction of Nigeria.This is not an accusation, this is a statement of historical fact. The Igbo are diasporic by nature like the FULANI. So if their traveling feet make them beneficiaries of Awolowo's laudable free education program, so be it. Igbo taxes also entitled them to tax benefits which included Awoloso's great free education that was tax funded.

The Yoruba are not great tax, rent, or bill payers still mind you. Awolowo had to pay for it electorally for this when he enforced it against the people's will like Igbo women did against colonial taxation known as ABA WOMEN'S RIOT of 1929. This was long before active nationalist struggle championed by Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe even finished his education in America in the 1930s. And about 20 years before Awo earned his very belated degree in law in the 1940s. But the Yoruba were still resisting payment of tax well into independent Nigeria. If you must also know, Zik complained bitterly that the Igbo and other easterners always preferred to pay their taxes to Lagos because it was cheaper there and you could only pay once anywhere in Nigeria in those days.So Igbo money greatly funded Awolowo's Action Group's programmes..

But by the way, who ever stopped the Yoruba from coming to Igbo land to benefit from their business wizardry. Come if you can compete with the masters of the trade. Are the Igbo to blame for your ever insulated traditional nature that makes you to always betray your history of a people who had a very long journey from the near East through northern Nigeria through the Middle belt till you finally settled in Ile Ife through the assistance of a Benin stranger, Oduduwa that had you settled you at Ife by your dubious claim. IFE was the aboriginal land of the Igbo that your ancestors came to share with when they came and became one community until treachery led to its hijack through the instrumentality of Oduduwa who caused a rift between communal brethren under the leadership of Obatala and many more known kings before him and before the arrival of Oduduwa. The present Ooni of IFE at the event remembrance statue erected for Moremi confirmed on national television that Igbo family lines and houses still stand in IFE.

A GREAT HISTORY BETRAYED

But unfortunately, the Yoruba that have the rare privilege of having interactive history across Nigeria's ethnic groups and two global religions of Christianity and Islam, have tragically become insular and too self-focused. They have been further spoilt by nature-assisted closeness to the Atlantic ocean that gave them early access to the White men that made early slaves and also early beneficiaries of educated slaves and also a British decision to make Lagos the capital of British created Nigeria. A decision that further drove the Yoruba into deeper insularity contrary to their long migratory history that had them settling Ife among the original Igbo aborigines with whom they co-habited and became one until the oracle rejected stranger from Benin, Oduduwa hijacked power and leadership that made most of the aboriginal Igbos of Ife to relocate away to found a new town across the Niger rather than stay under a traitorous leadership hijacked from aboriginal Obatala leadership by stranger-dweller of Ife, Oduduwa. This Igbo aboriginals who stayed back continued the fight against the power usurpers and their supporters till they became worshippers of Obatala that have continued that fight of classic betrayal in ritual forms enacted in dramatic forms during their Obatala festivals.

To cover up the lies of their history, those who stayed back in IFE invented a lie that Oduduwa came from heaven to found Ile Ife, just as you Pastor Isaac Awotanmi and the likes of you and your historians have continued to lie in order to alter the truth of Nigerian history as you have just done here. You have not offered any historical fact other than to request that I forgive Awolowo for the crime of providing education and welfare that the Igbo benefitted from as though those were the issues of his many crimes during the civil war that were the chief concern of my piece of writing.

HISTORY AND JOUuRNALISM MANGLED BY THE YORUBA

You want to typically subvert the truth as you people have always done across time in Nigeria from your early access to Western education and from controlling the media that is much like education which the British also gave you through Henry Townsend in Abeokuta. With journalism you have been peddling untrue histories which the just departed Oba of Benin made a palace duty of constantly refuting till he and your also departed Oni of Ife, Oba Sijuwade clashed in a national counter alternative versions of the same history which included Benin swallowing its crime against his son who became great in another land, Ife, requesting his intervention when Benin came to their political and constitutional crisis. The outcome was the offer of Oduduwa's son to Benin that could not integrate well in Benin but put a princess in a family way that led to a child that was never fathered, Eweka, that began a new dynasty in Benin.

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Obafemi Awolowo who has become the modern day Oduduwa of Yoruba land has no doubt done selfishly well for his people. But you can never stop me from completing the story. That the same Awolowo was very central to the tragedy that Nigeria is still entrapped in ad a result of his deadly ambitions to govern like Oduduwa. He not only ran down the leading Yoruba leaders of his time in order to better them all evidence contain in his autobiographical book, AWO (1960). This included the dominant politician of the time, the leading Yoruba politician including his political elders and mentors whose names escape me now that were all founders and members of one of Nigeria's earliest political parties, Nigerian Youth Movement, NYM. When that largely southern Nigerian party was killed due to election between an Ijaw man Ernest Ikoli, Awolowo's political mentor and beneficiary, and an Ijebu-Yoruba man supported by Azikiwe was ruined by the intra-ethnic Yoruba politics that had Awolowo disregarding Azikiwe his self-confessed inspirer whom he used to go cover as a journalist when Azikiwe was a national platform speaker with a PhD from America and a honoured and respected member of the leadership of NYM. It was at the NYM that the Igbo-Yoruba relation was ruined because Zik supported a Yoruba candidate while Awolowo supported the candidate of his mentors who was a newspaper business rival of Zik.

When some members of the Yoruba political elites reconciled with Zik at the founding of the NCNC where even Awolowo's respected Yoruba mentor, became a part of. But Awolowo would not be reconciled. After NCNC was founded in 1944, he went ahead to pursue ethnic agenda of turning Egbe Omo Oduduwa, a Yoruba cultural group into a Yoruba only political party with an initial slogan of THE WEST FOR WESTERNER; even when the old western Nigeria include Benin's, Ishans, Igbos, Ijaws, Isokos, Itsekiri, Urhobo s etc. They were defined out Awolowo's conception and execution of the West that is an all Yoruba party, for the Yoruba that introduced tribalism and negative ethnicism into politics in Nigeria. Forca better understanding of this, go an read Zik's profound concern of Awolowo's poisonous politics in his book, ZIK, A SELECTION OF SPEECHES, 1961. You may also read Awolowo's own account in his 1960 autobiography where he confessed to forming Action Group secretly and away from Zik's knowledge when he was away in 1951. He wrote about the tribalistic beginning of AG even with self limp locator pride the same way he wrote his Yoruba political elders and mentors.

It was because that orientation and party could not give him a national lift beyond western Nigeria after he had been its Premier that the expansion of the party beyond Yoruba land commenced. Other ethnic groups in the then West were never made comfortable nor ever felt comfortable as part owners of a region the Yoruba were dominant in population and politics.

Awolowo's desperation to rise above his own self-limiting ethnic creation got him into by first wanting to resurrect a quasi national party, NYM after Zik and its followers its soul by funding and by Zik's popular Pilot newspaper projection, which he failed at. Not even with the repeated effort in partnership with his mentor who returned to Nigeria from abroad after he tratoriously left the NYM and the national struggle, the man to whom Awo ascribe the writing of the NYM constitution to take up a corporate job and later moved abroad.

Awo later joined another national party, National Emergency Movement, NEM which was formed as a national reaction to the colonial killing of the Enugu coal workers where he took up a leading position and function which he betrayed in an anti-party activities. It was while he was in NEM as a top official that Awolowo was simultenously and clandestinely forming his all-Yoruba Action Group party. So it was Awolowo's inability to play nationally that he went ahead to poison Nigeria with ethnic politics in the only party he succeeded with, his ethnic Action Group. To his credit , he grew it sizeable to the point of challenging the other ethnic and regionally and Islamically inspired party on the same evil year if Nigerian politics, 1951, the Northern Peoples'Congress, NPC; AG's twin partner in tribalising, ethnicising, regionalising and even religionising Nigeria by its Fulani trado-religious leader Ahmadu Bello.

The combination of these two ideological twins born in different regions but bound by the same me, myself and I politics of my people first before Nigeria, overthrew the nationalist and pan African politics by which Zik of Igbo extraction had galvanised Nigeria to independence. The TWO OF THREE IDEOLOGICAL TRIUMPH of these Zik inspirer and standard bearer by their own written confessions in their autobiographies, plunged Nigeria on a poisonous foundation of ethnic politics from which Nigeria is still suffering from. An evil performance that repeated itself in the Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu driven, but Awolowo inspired APC political formation and electoral victory that was a schemed along the Islamic belt Nigeria from the west to the North held by a political marriage. A repeat of history in sectional politics that had a conspiratorial connivance of a FOUR TO TWO regional defeat of Zik's old Eastern region of the two new regions of the South East and the Niger delta's South-South by the marriage of the two old twin ideological sectionalists now four new political regions. The mess that Bola Tinubu's jagaban violent politics of forceful must-win
has plunged the nation into, is the only way to understand what Awolowo's cantercerous do or die politics was about. It was this type of politics that Zik so warned Nigeria and Awolowo about, and the danger it portended for a young country before and after independence that neither Awolowo nor the nation would harken to that led to the termination of the
FIRST REPUBLIC by military men who planned another coup to secure power for Awolowo by arms and bullets that Awolowo and his Action Group party failed to secure by armed struggle to overthrow the same Tafawa Balewa's government that they were planning from Ghana. For this they went to jail from around 1963 before the younger group of socialist military boys beat their conservative military boys to the coup gambit in January 1966. led largely by Igbo soldiers for Awolowo according to their confessions who was already serving a jail sentence in Calabar.

It is the same Awolowo for whom this was done, for whom Igbo soldiers in a a bid to save a collapsing nation arising largely from the rivalry between Awolowo and his former political lieutenant who had jumped ship to the rival side, Chief Ladoke Akintola. Their rivalry led to the burning of the Yoruba land in their deadly "wetie operations" that involved the burning of the houses of political rivals till it became a wildfire that gave the Yoruba the nickname "the wild, wild west"; for their politics of violence that was another Awolowo legacy that his over promoters always love to be silent about. But about which Zik used every platform to warn about before it went out of hand.

This was the new Nigeria of great hopes and expectations of a newly birthed Nigeria that Awolowo's political war with the North via the agency of his former ethnic-politics deputy, Akintola in a partnership with Ahmadu Bello of the northern NPC to takeover the West of Yoruba land. This was the situation the socialist military sought to save in favour of their supported socialist party, Awolowo's Action Group for which many idealist Igbo socialist middle level soldiers, Majors in the Nigerian army led by Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu and Ifeajuna sought to stop and save.

The bigger tragedy of it all was that this socialist group of soldiers that only happen to be bearing Igbo names carried out a socialist or nationalist action based on their ideological persuasion and military defence training and not on their cultural breeding for which they were called IGBO COUP and coupists. The larger tragedy was that a bigger tragedy followed their own killings of the leadership of the leadership of the day which comprised largely of the North, which led to the ethnic genocide of largely Igbo in a pogrom, counter coup and a civil war. The worst of all the tragedies was that the same Awolowo for whom Igbo soldiers sacrificed their lives and not for their own, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe whose government by partnership with the North is being overthrown, were the ones that the same Awolowo recommended extended genocide by hunger throw his proposed policy of STARVATION AS A WEAPON OF WAR for which many Igbos died without sparing the future, the Igbo children killed by malnourishment leading to quashiokor.

So Pastor Isaac Awotanmi, this is the other untold truth of your cultural hero of free education, your "Baba Awolowo" that you cynically asked me to forgive giving Igbos who lived in Yoruba land free education. SO WHO NOW NEEDS FORGIVING from these litany of crimes from an over ambitious desperado of power and violent politics? I dare to rest my pen as I await another attempt to falsify Nigerian history as always.

Mr. C . Ofilli


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Sydney22:
but Yorubas said there is no Igbo in Delta state

trendingsleek:
ogboru and ibori were never a joint party. they were enemies and ibori was the one who placed uduanghan there before okowa entered. that was why ogboru never saw the lime light.

Ioannes:
His legacy is the reason the western part of this country is way ahead other regions.

Blaming him for the misappropriation of funds being carried out by South-south leaders decades after his death is not fair.

Alexxgold:
and who are you to recommend that?

I'm 100% sure you're igbo looking for ways to lay claim to oil rich PH.
get off it cos it won't work

no be only igwe ocha, na ezendigbo ocha you go see #yeye

farokkunle:
dem get' rope shop' in different sizes .


frustration paramount . your night mares are too many over igwe ocha .

Alexxgold:
goan delete it if you can

PH belongs to SS so Ipob has no right to hold rally there.. kapish?

explorer250:
OGA it is under debate. that the federal government balkanised delta Igbo's into different local governments does not mean they are Igbo's. your majority only holds sway when ika ukwuani and anioma assume different ethnic nationality but we both know that the three are one including their voting pattern! urhobo alone cannot make any effective change in delta state ! instead we will allign with ijaws to maintain power

Alexxgold:
Those[b] land grabbers[/b] won't ever learn
Thank God nothing of such can happen in Lagos or SW.. na shoot at sight straight

TonyeBarcanista:
Mr Man, quit envy! Whom God has elevated no man can pull down.


As for 2019, I am not a Deltan neither am I an electorate in Delta state nor do I have ANY special interest save partisan interest.

explorer250:
OGA mi park well. una majority na phantom majority so you don't know that ika, anioma and ukwuani are all Igbo's? both land mass and population Igbo's na majority for delta state.