₦airaland Forum

the yorubas have been humbled

by Nafata Bamaguje


It is disheartening that supposedly educated Nigerians who should know better resort to petty ethnic jingoism in the discourse of pressing national issues. The latest is Sabella Abidde’s harangue - Nigeria’s policy towards the Ijaw published on Nigeria Village Square.

His asinine tirade outrageously misrepresented the Niger Delta conflict, falsely portraying Ijaws as hapless innocent victims of a rapacious malevolent Nigerian nation. It was all premised on a disingenuous mix of misinformation and half-truths.

Hear him: “…Ijaw are the largest: with a population of more than 25 million, are indigenous to seven federating states…Offshore or onshore, more than 70 percent of all oil reservoirs are located on/inside the Ijaw territory. On account of this, the Ijaw own the most lucrative and the most coveted land and waterways in Nigeria.”
“…there is no social, political and economic development. Nothing good is being done for the Ijaw.”

I don’t know where he got the inflated figure of 25 million Ijaw people, as it certainly doesn’t tally with our census figures. If Ijaws - Nigeria’s fifth largest ethnic group are more than 25 million, and there are four much larger ethnic groups ahead. Then the remaining 300 or so ethnic nationalities total no more than 10 million given Nigeria’s estimated population of 150 million.

By the way, the Efik-Ibibios in Cross River & Akwa Ibom are the largest ethnic group in the south-south, not Ijaws as erroneously parroted. Ijaws may be more widely dispersed, that doesn’t make them the most populous.
Abidde’s bogus claim of Ijaws being indigenous to seven states is equally fallacious. Outside Bayelsa (and possibly parts of Rivers), Ijaws are settlers in the territories of other Niger Deltans.

Ordinarily this shouldn’t matter since we are supposed to be citizens of one nation. But as Ijaw irredentists like Abidde have decided to make it an issue, it becomes necessary to set the records straight as these bogus claims have at various times pitted Ijaws in territorial disputes against other Nigerians along our Atlantic coast from Akwa Ibom to Ondo and even Lagos.

Since Ijaws are not indigenous to the seven states Abidde and his irredentist cohorts claim, then his spurious assertion of Ijaws harbouring 70% of our crude oil reservoirs is a blatant lie.

These false territorial claims betray the hegemonic ambitions of the Ijaw secessionists masquerading as Niger Delta militants. Their agenda is to corner all the oil wealth and lord it over non-Ijaw Niger Deltans. Hence Edwin Clark calls for an Ijaw super-state to encompass all Ijaws regardless of the aspirations of non-Ijaw Niger Deltans among whom Ijaws have settled.

Abidde alluded to the anti-Nigerian disposition of Ijaws when he stated: “The Ijaw ethnic nationality never wanted to be part of post-colonial Nigeria”. So the present contrived Niger Delta crisis is just a convenient ruse to prosecute their long simmering secessionist agenda. Little wonder Asari Dokubo wants a Sovereign National Conference to oversee the dismemberment of this potentially great nation.

Hearing Abidde tell it, Ijaws are targeted victims of oppression and deprivation: “there is no social, political and economic development. Nothing good is being done for the Ijaw”.

Yet Bayelsa, the only Ijaw state has the nation’s highest standard of living as evidenced by a recent CBN report on poverty in Nigeria. In other words Ijaws are better off than other Nigerians, but one wouldn’t know that from the vicious lies peddled by Abidde and his self-serving rabble-rousing kinsmen in the creeks.

Stupendous derivation revenues and investments by NDDC, Niger Delta ministry and oil companies all count for nothing. Not to forget that an Ijaw man is the second most powerful Nigerian. Given UMYA’s failing health we may soon have an Ijaw president…Further rubbishing the misleading canard that Ijaws are oppressed in Naija.

In any case, who is the “Nigeria” that is against our saintly Ijaw compatriots, when some of the biggest thieves that ruined the Niger Delta are Ijaws and other Niger Deltans?
Is it we the “parasitic North” who are much worse off than Ijaws, yet are the favorite bogeyman of unintelligent southern ethnic jingoists? Or the Yorubas who rallied to protect their Ilaje cousins from aggressive Ijaw expansionism and repulsed Ijaw aggression in Lagos several years ago?

Is it the Ibibios in Akwa Ibom who just a few months ago battled its minority Ijaws in another territorial dispute? Or the Igbos whom Abidde accused of being domineering oppressors in the first republic?

Never mind that the Eastern region was at a time led by an Eastern minority non-Igbo, and that as part of the old Eastern region, Ijaws benefitted from Igbo oil palm and coal revenues long before crude oil was discovered. In times past, slaves from Igbo hinterland also boosted Niger Delta economy. The best known of them was the famed Jaja of Opobo who became a naturalized Ijaw.
But today some ungrateful Ijaws selfishly want to keep all the crude oil for themselves as they agitate for secession.

For some inexplicable reason, Nigerians hate Ijaws. It used to be Igbos who whined ad nauseum about being hapless persecuted victims of the Nigerian state. It would appear that Ijaw propagandists like the pseudo-intellectual called Sabella Abide, have taken up this invidious pastime in order to justify their insurrectionist guerilla war against Nigeria.
And this misguided ethnic chauvinist is being touted as one of “eminent Nigerians” to negotiate an end to the Niger Delta crisis…I sorry for Naija.

The truth is that the major Southern ethnic groups - Igbos and Yorubas - are formidable obstacles to Ijaw hegemonic machinations in the Niger Delta, as they cannot be ridden over roughshod like smaller ethnic groups…hence the need to demonize these larger ethnic nationalities. In Rivers state for instance where Igbos are the largest ethnic group, much of the onshore oil is in Igbo areas. Despite Abidde’s misinformation, Ijaws in Ondo cannot honestly claim Ilaje oil.

The Niger Delta problem is basically the same as that of the rest of Nigeria, namely corrupt inept leadership that has been unable to translate our nation’s abundant endowments into meaningful development with enhanced living standards for the citizenry. It is only more poignant in the Niger Delta because our oil wealth flows from there.

Nothing underscores this crass ineptitude of our idiotic leaders as the fact that we import petrol, even though we are Africa’s largest producer of crude oil; that our industrial and economic growth is crippled by epileptic power supply, while we wastefully flare natural gas that could have been used to generate abundant cheap electricity.

We must resist any attempt by pea-brained short-sighted ethnic jingoists to tribalize this fundamental issue of mal-governance that is the root of Nigeria’s underdevelopment. The Niger Delta crisis is not an Ijaw issue anymore than June 12 was about Yorubas.

http://www.gamji.com/article8000/NEWS8832.htm

ThiefOfHearts:
I see alagolo has taken my spot in dealing with these idiots.

Carry On.

Notice how there were the first ones to reply this thread. They are literally ecstatic., Lunatics

thief of the hearts, please who are you refering to

Andre Uweh:
@Alh Harem: Ndigbo and ijaws have been living together as neigbours for over 1000 years without wars. There is no need for Ndigbo hating the Ijaws. Remember that the Scots and English do not like each other so much, but if Norway, Denmark, Finland or any country invades Scotland, England will go to war for Scotland.

so andre you what us to go to war with the ijaw if asked,

if scotland bombs france and france invades scotland, would the british people fight along side with scotland or would they beg for scotland on there behalf

Andre Uweh:
'@Alh Harem. Why do you hate the Ijaws so much?. Ndigbo do not hate Ijaws as you may think. Any problem between Ijaw and Igbo will be seen as a family affair.

it might seem like ijaws and us are close but that is far from the case

ijaws do not like us, they call us names etc properties and co are not yet release by them

ever since the civil war, ijaws have been using use and dumping us,.,. it annoys me at the very least

i love igbo so much it hurts me when ijaws and some of my igbo brothers act silly

what i am doing right now to make bonds with those that love us as igbo

which are the yorubas (do not mind NL) ibibio tiv and co not ijaw

andre when i say kill igbos this and that, i do not mean it. it is just a way of calling extreme igbos to order

you how our brothers can be at times.

lets be quite and be watch how things will turn to our favour. when we try to explain to groups that they are igbo and they say no, just leave them and laugh, when yorubas start insulting, just leave and laugh because i know they do not mean a word.

andre go to ondo, lagos and oyo. see the way yorubas and igbos love each other even to a fault

go to benin republic see how igbos and yorubas are making up. we igbos better be careful to know who our real enemies are

do you see where i am coming from brother.

[size=18pt]I have gon to opc website and i have reported onlytruth, andre uweh , obiagu1 and others to them

you na go hear wennn [/size]

Obiagu1:
alhaji, a beg, you dey disturb our peace with this your big font. Are you going blind or what

abeg brother no mind me, na old age

do not worry i will let you people contiune

Obiagu1:
Of course, after all said and done, they will release their Igbo names and remind us they are our brothers, we have no option. Moreover, we treat visitors and strangers right, it's our culture.

By the way, the question should be, will Benin Republic shelter their brothers from Nigeria when sacked by the Ijaws?

[size=18pt] you people are not serious ijaws have not yet release your houses and properties from port harcount and now nairaland igbos will join ijaws very funny indeed

look igbos on nairaland i have to tell you the truth you people are a bad representation on us the real igbos obiagu and co you people are disgrace our igbo hertage by displaying you stu.dity here

i mean ika and ikwerri ijaw all hate igbo and yet because of yourubas you want the igbo nation to die

where were ijaws when we were asking for our properties back in port harcount and co

where were ijaws when edwin clark said he hates igbos

you people are very very very veery stup.id to the very least

i mean how da.ft can someone be and yet you people claim to be smarter than us northerners i laugh in igbo nna na na na nnna men [/size]

[size=18pt]where is sangothor you why southern nigeri can not work

look yorubas do not like igbos and igbos do not like yorubas,.,. remember ijaws hate both the igbos and yorubas

southern nigeria will sure be a hellish place to live in

NOW MY YORUBA BROTHERS AND SISTERS, IGBOS DO NOT LIKE YOU PEOPLE. SO I SAY KILL THEM IN LAGOS,.,. IT ABOUT TIME YOU START KILLING THEM AND IJAWS HABA

IGBOS HATE YORUBA SIMPLE,.,.,., that is not difficult to see [/size]

[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=607950.msg7763915#msg7763915 date=1298157539]@Obiagu1, I wouldn't rush to condemn people who do not respond to violence with prompt violence.  

When the bororos(fulani herdsmen) attacked residents of North Oyo, the complaint was that the bororos are so wicked to the extent that they are in the habit of "r.aping our girls or women anytime they are met on the farm. We have several cases of that and their activities are now becoming uncontrollable. Not only that, they rob with knives, cutlass, and other dangerous weapons and in most cases, motorcycle riders/owners are often their targets,” one Chief Oguntade explained.  Chief Oguntade said people of Oyo north have been patient enough as they are law abiding and peace-loving people who do not want to take laws into their hands.[/quote]brother i really do not think we should make fun of them, just because they did not kill like the fulani did does not mean they are cowards

remember how hausa people where complaining about beroms, that we do not want

lets behave ourselves and condemn violence

[quote author=[WilyWily link=topic=607950.msg7759906#msg7759906 date=1298105367]Ijaws are the strongest tribe in Southern Nigeria,
If Fraudulent Yorubas mess up, Ijaws will deal with them.
UP Ijaw.[/quote]

Onlytruth:
I'm rollin' on the floor @ kidnapping of a so called monarch. That is the height of insult. LOL.

Apparently the response by nearby towns was the flee!  dem never hear bomb or ogbunigwe and dem dey flee.
lmao.

Foreigners can never know Nigeria from comments here. They'd think the loudest ones are the bravest.

Like I keep saying, Nigeria's history is still playing out. Every group will get a chance to prove itself.

still rolling on the floor sha.

yes you 2 are right but you have to know the act of planning before attack

killayut:
At the gulf of Guinea the first Europeans to come were the Portuguese. Then Came the French, The pidgin english we speak is a mixture of French and english vocabulary , Food boku was actually food beaucoup= YANCH WAS actually hanch in french, you no gree so tey so tey was actually the french word SOTEZ, una no gree una was actually unu from the french word NOUS OR UNU meaning You ( plural )

This pidgin came to be after the people at the South eastern end of the gulf of guinea had met the Dutch ,French and Portuguese , In KALABARI oral tradition they know their neighbours as MBOKO people . ofcourse MBOKO include the Efiks, Ibibios and ANNANGS but the real Mbokos are in Western CAMEROUN, This means the KALABARI IJAWS had settled within that region before Europeans came hence MBOKOS were their neighbours, The Kalabari culture of today has a lot of french influence in it towns Kalabari towns like ABONNEMA were named after ABONNEMENT which sounded like OBONNOMA during that era. The french people went on to call it ABONNEMENT WHICH THE BRITISH spelt ABONNEMA ofcourse ABONNEMENT IN FRENCH IS PRONOUNCED ABONNEMO or ABONNEMA, and at that time ABONNEMA WAS THE MAJOR SEA PORT way back when PORT HARCOURT WAS YET to be created ( founded ).

bros what are you talking about

are you drunk or what

please can you stop being ridiclous here. thank you viva

Nchara:
Are the registered voters in SW and NW all Yoruba and Hausa? Are there Igbos and SS people among those? If so, whom will they vote for?
The SE number may be smaller due to Igbo migration, but 99% of the registered voters in the SE will be Igbos. I wager that 50% of the SW voters and 30% of the NW voters will be Igbos too.

and did anyone say anything about yoruba or hausa

moreover even if the igbos in SW and NW are 90% do you think they will vote like the ones in SE

i laugh at your stu.pidity at times

majority of them will vote according to their will or vote with the masses in their respective states or city not like the SE

ok, i hope you grow up, stop relating everything to igbo and learn politics

Onlytruth:
Posted by: PhysicsRND
Mr Physics, abeg speak for yourself o!

This talk is even tautology because nobody can claim to be an aborigine of any land. Everybody fell from heaven like Oduduwa. lmao.

What is relevant is that you can defend your current land.

oga onlytruth i have been keeping quite please respect other people's believe. daalu biko

Beaf:
When Delta state peeps capture Bornu state, we will sell alj harem to the lowest bidder!!!

you dey craze!!

Obiagu1:
Thank you. I dey fear those Fulani. We'll take on Hausa anytime, any day.

no problem

[quote author=eku_bear link=topic=607521.msg7758598#msg7758598 date=1298073992]Dan Fodio wasn't even your homeboy, he is a Fulani  

Or maybe we'll ally with the Fulani/Hausa to divide up Kanuriland   [/quote]nah, we kanuris give dan fodio the fight of his life

hausa was easier for him to conquer but borno empire was not easy at all

moreover the reason why he was on a jihad mission was to convert people to Islam which was already our religion anyway so it we allowed him

Obiagu1:
Sorry, it is too late. When SS was created that's when you lost Edo. Edo and Delta are firmly in Igboland. We'll leave Kogi for you (without the Igala) but we'll take Benue.
Abuja? Walahi, my eye dey there too  

abu waything abuja forget am

Obiagu1:

Sorry, you have no more leader  

no problem at all we are ready anytime anyday any venue

just chose who you dey face

kanuri vs ijaw

hausa vs igbo

fulani vs yoruba

tiv and others vs edo and others

igala vs anyother nonsense that come up

dey come we dey wait

jason123:
Yes ooo!!!

[quote author=eku_bear link=topic=607521.msg7758570#msg7758570 date=1298073531]Yes o!  

I just need an army, like my kinsman from the 1800s had. . .[/quote]ok ok we are ready for un na make you na come where is usman dan fodio when you need him

[quote author=eku_bear link=topic=607521.msg7758527#msg7758527 date=1298073208]Long live Yorubaland:

https://i56.tinypic.com/2u3zjnm.gif[/quote]chai, abuja, niger, nassa

invasion don begin already

[quote author=Kilode?! link=topic=607521.msg7758536#msg7758536 date=1298073248]Ok I dey comot, hopefully Alhaji harem will come to his senses before I return.

Fulani harsh o! Think about my offer. Ok?[/quote]ok lol

Obiagu1:
Alausa is Igbo. Ala Ausa/Awsa meaning Land of Hausas. That's what we call places the Hausa live mostly even the East.

also alausa means hausa owners, you see if kilode does not make a deal soon, me and you can talk on how to share lagos

what do you think

Obiagu1:
It's a lie! Igbo word for groundnut is Apapa/Opapa. How can it be named after a tiny group when a lot of Igbos were already in Lagos?

gbammmm

the smart one

[quote author=Chyz* link=topic=607521.msg7758502#msg7758502 date=1298072927]Apapa,Lagos is definitely Ijaw though, there is no doubt about that. It's even in the name.[/quote]you must be sick in the head, what does alausa mean ? even from the name

[quote author=Kilode?! link=topic=607521.msg7758478#msg7758478 date=1298072528]Oil go soon finish. Lol

Alhaji, why you dey bargain like this now?

Ok give us Kaduna, Everything from Kano South to Benue and we will help you get Sokoto and Katsina back. We will even let you have Bauchi and Borno.

You know you can't handle the Fulanis by yourselves. Think about it o![/quote]kai ! i no gree

i rather let the fulani rule me than yorubas that have learnt from fulani to rule me

i have a feeling that what fulanis did in kwara will be the same thing in borno if i gree, so i no gree yoruba man

ok, what about yobe and borno, then you go give us lagos alone.

very good deal

[quote author=Kilode?! link=topic=607521.msg7758445#msg7758445 date=1298072154]@Obiagu leave that side. Once they taste Yoruba it's over. Even Obi(Yoruba word) of Onitsha go dey dance to Sunny Ade at the handover Ceremony.

Ok, but Obi is Yoruba [/quote]what about [b]oba[/b]eze is that yoruba or igbo

or [b]obi[/b]muola yoruba or igbo

bashr4:
whether the yorubas support thsi movt or not na them know cus we are already gaining , we use assimilation too as our most deadly weapon see what we did to them , ijebu-ode(ijebuodera) ijebu-igbo ,ijebuora they didnt see that comin  

we are already bulldozing ijaws into the atlantic ocean cus we know its a yoruba trick to revenge for their lands we took theirs now tehy claimed to be a diffrent tribe and landlock us ,never gov amaechi will fight this war for us.

as for edo people we have use propaganda to consume iganke land benin is next


i love bieng part of  the majority tribe

i tell you nigeria is sweet if you a majority

but sucks if you are minority

bashr4:
which kin kanuri and tiv, all we have to do is line up igbos from cross river horizontally to agbor/ogwashiukwu then line up yoruba from that point (assumin they don consume urobo and itshekiri people by then)all the way to boundry of benin then stampede our way up to the north make i see whjo go block over 90 million people stampede

for where! e be like say you dey dream

kanuri wey dey from chad to niger

fulani wey day for even part of sudan

hausa wey they for every where, you won con use stampede

you no well

[quote author=Kilode?! link=topic=607521.msg7758376#msg7758376 date=1298071475]Forget that one Alhaji, we are coming for the North too. Ilorin people are ready with their cousins from Kogi and their Nupe brothers in Niger. Even Bachama people don gree. Yoruba will be the official language of the North, just like in Kwara.


If Kanuri people can sign treaty we wil help you chase Fulani back to Mali, we know them, we've been fighting them since 1700s.

Deal? [/quote]no deal

deliver us delta state or cross river state then we can give you borno state,.,. remember oil is just recently found there

what do you think?

bashr4:
yorubas are encroachin into the east but they are late wev already grabbed half of lagos and 3/4 of abuja plus rivers and 1/4 of delta, if not of religious crises i swear we for don own north by now .mscheeew

yorubas its too late theres no free land again in the south u will have to join the hursle in the north now its still open for grabs. we can use catlle/religious magomago to exterminate the fulanis the hausa will be a walk in the park

you no well at all

remember say kanuri still dey there, tiv etc

also fulani/ hausa/ kanuri still dey niger and chad way fit come do war ooooo

ezeagu:
They don't need to conquer anyone to prove their strength. Ndi Agbor have held off the Benin Empire before. For their size that is very good. Anyway, come and take it now.

Okay, Ijebu-Igbo, Igbo Ora and Igbominna are definitely Igbo. Lagos is even nothing.

ijo[/b]ra (ijaw) alausa (hausa) [b]victoria island ( madam victor in britain)