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Abohboy:
So me trying to unite the Igbos with their brethren in the delta areas and showing the true history is now a problem

Nope.
You are not uniting anything.
You are seeking for cheap popularity for your minority Bini slavic group, by hiding behind Ndiigbo.
Bkkay got you figured out just right.
Let me tell you.
Modern Igbo generation are nothing like our forerunners that let you energy drainers get away with sinking your proboscis into Igbo.

BKayy:
Know that your plan will never work.
We use the same strategy in Business where we sell the first for far below the price so as to get the customers to come back where we will finish him.
So you can't beat us in the game we invented.
Your plan is to praise or fake brotherhood with Ndigbo after which you will deal the finishing blow, catching us off guard.
You want your Aboh to enter limelight like the Ikwerre and Ika people did with Ndigbo being the Firewood for it but you will fail.

We don't know you, your Aboh, Ukwuani or Udoka or whatever your call it, Ndoka or Udoka. Try something else
Go back to your fellow Bini people

You really understand this their game very well.
You are good.

gidgiddy:
Yoruba is not Igbo, what obtains in Yoruba land is not always in Igbo land. In Igbo land, your first and second name can be anything, but your surname must be Igbo. Irabor is not an Igbo surname, it is an Edo surname and Lucky Irabor is from Agbor that has border with Edo

His first and second names comes from the fact that he was born in an Igbo speaking area, but his last name shows that his ancestors are Edo people. No Igbo man can bear an Edo surname "Irabor". So please stop calling Lucky Irabor an Igbo just because he has two middle names that are Igbo. I have two middle English names but Im not English. My surname tells everyone I am Igbo

While I agree that Irabor is not Igbo because he himself has never identified as Igbo for once , likewise his king the Dein of Agbor and many other Agbor people, they all live in nostalgia of their Bini (slavery) days.

However, your view that to be Igbo is totally dependent on having an Igbo last name is totally false.
First of all, you have to know that the idea of bearing a paternal surname is alien to ancient Igbos.
Because Igboland was a mainly polygamous patriarchal society, children were often identified by their mother's name and not their father's name.
You hear things like, "is that not chike, "Agbonma's son? Nope that is Onyeka Ugochi's son.
So in gatherings, Chike would be called Chike Agbonma, while Onyeka would be called Onyeka Ugochi.
This is because in a single big polygamous compound, the wives can have children bearing similar names. As they all belonged to the same man, the names of their mothers becomes a better way to distinguish them.

Furthermore, most surnames are usually first names of an ancestor in the past.
If an Ika man marries an Edo woman who bears him a son and names the Son Irabor in her native language.
Irabor will speak IKa(an Igboid language) and his descendants might adopt Irabor as their surname.
You see lots of these non Igbo names in borderline Igbo clans.
For example,in Nsukka, it's common to see many Igala surnames borne by the people, likewise Idoma sounding names in Ebonyi and parts of Enugu sharing boundaries with Idomas.
I have met an Aro man with the surname Ekong. Lol!
These are usually names acquired through non Igbo mothers that survives as surnames down the line and should not be a factor to determine ones ethnicity.

Additionally, in olden days, people give their children names of their good friend.
An Aro man with an Efik man as best friend could have easily given his Igbo son an Efik name in honour of the friend.

People also arbitrary name their children after powerful public persons. Many Anioma people were giving their kids names of powerful Bini princes and Obas.
Imagine that GEJ parents named him Azikwe because they admired Zik. How many Nigerians gave their children the name Clinton during the his reign as USA president?
Hundreds!

htdot:
According to wordometer, the reserve will last for atleast 237years... thats a long way to go.

I hope you know there is still coal in Enugu as we speak?
But guess what? No one cares anymore. The world has moved on from coal as it's Major energy source.
Same fate awaits crude oil. You will soon drink it for wine.

Abohboy:
Opportunist? NO


They were skilled fighters and warriors any war within that area in fact any war in south eastern Nigeria even as far as cameroon they called on Aro warriors to fight it because they were the most fierce which was why they were able to conquer so much land and raid so many villages and areas for slaves

Aros themselves were not fighters.
They had an alliance with fighting Igbo clans like Ohafia,Edda and Abam.
They were blood brothers to Aros and did the slave raiding and fighting for Aro people.

Abohboy:
You're right I checked again but the Ukwuani count as Igbos

Ukwuani people I know claim they are Bini people abi na slaves.
I don't care anymore.

Abohboy:
Why are you acting as if the Jukuns and Igala didn't occupy majority of the middle belt even south of the confluence where igbos and yorubas lived they conquered those areas they may have not paid tribute but they lost in war to the Jukun and Igala

Ndiigbo have no history of fighting wars with Junkuns.
None whatever.
The Izzi and Ezza Igbo clans in Benue live at the boundary of Ebonyi and Benue and their land is contiguous with the rest of Ezza and Izzi clans in Ebonyi states.
They have always been in their ancestral lands.
Its is not their fault that Nigerian Government carved their lands into Benue state. They were never conquered.
As for Igala, their push towards Nsukka and Northern Anambra were halted by the Igbos there and the Igalas that stayed behind were acculturated or at different stages of acculturation into Igbo as we type.

Abohboy:
FALSE AGAIN


The Itsekiri were those who sold them at the cost it was the Aro Igbos that controlled the inland capture of slaves they used the slave trade to gsin more advanced weapons to be abke to increase their influence and geographical spread

Itsekiris sold no Igbo at the coast. Unless you mean Ukwuani and Ndokwa slaves.
Igbo slaves were sold at Bight of Biafra ( Bonny and Calabar) slave markets.

Abohboy:
What of the Igbos in Benue and Kogi state who were conquered by the Igala and Jukun nobody mocks you for that I see no reason for the continued violence and tension between the yoruba and igbos what's all the name calling for

Which Igbos in Kogi and Benue were conquered by Jukuns and Igalas?

Do you drink Omo?

The Umuezekhoha Izzi and Ezza clans in Benue have nothing to do with Junkuns, their lands were simply carved into Benue state.
They have their own Ezes and pay no tribute to any other kingdom.
Better guard your utterances here.

obehi247:
if you call what ipob is doing unity, then your brain is leaking out stupidity.

our oil, our money for the entire Nigeria, we should be the once crying and complaining and not ipob.

go and achieve your biafra nation without SS and ND people. stop including us in your stupidity


i rather prefer the SS and ND people align with the SW than the SE

Which Igbo man from SE is crying over PIB?
Nnaa, we no send una.
Tell Clarke to stop talking about imaginary Southern Nigeria. No Southern Nigeria was cheated in the PIB deal as there is nothing like Southern Nigeria.
The Yorubas have Dahomey basin covered, Ndiigbo have Anambra basin covered. You are the ones with short end of the stick whining like babies looking for who to rope into your juvenile fight using sentiments.

It will not work bro. The PIB bill serves the interest of the Tripod. If you make too much noise, we will join you to shout, but only so that we can use you to bargain for bigger slice of the cake from the North. We will not join you to fight the North on this,as our interest is fully aligned with those of the North on this issue.

See! You are dealing with a new brand of Igbo with different mindset here. You should better tell old man Clarke to go home and enjoy his Ghana must go they delivered to him and the militants in peace, let him water it down with Ogogoro and stop polluting the political space with empty noise.

PIB as it is currently pinned, serves the interest of NIGERIA that's why it was approved by the majority of the NASS. No SW is going to align with you on this, they have always been good at playing interest based politics.

proeast:
Honestly, we have played enough big brother role to an undeserving group. The pattern of wicked politics you outlined is what they've been playing since against Igbos right from independence! How and why they see Igbos as their adversary whom they must should be at loggerheads with is what baffles me.

They see us challenging the status quo in Nigeria and feel it's because Igbos are suffering while they have it better. If they are reasonable enough, they would know that Niger Delta people are the ones suffering the most under "one Nigeria". They've been losing a lot without gaining anything in return!

To me, if not for the threats of islamization/fulanization and the killings it is causing as well as how it is regarding our collective growth, I would have preferred that Nigeria remains together! At least, we will be free to have access to a market of 200 million people and leveraging our comparative advantage, most of the proceeds will still be sent to our region!

The same old man without sense called Clark was recently attacking IPOB for no good reason. They always find it fashionable in using anti Igbo rhetorics to measure up and show the North how loyal they are. Now same unreasonable Clark is calling for Southern solidarity but he forgot that Igbos and Yorubas were actually carried along through Dahomey and Anambra basins. These people will cry blood someday, their future generations will curse on their graves in anguish. Aside Akwa Ibom that is seeing some development, the rest are stagnated at best or even retrogressing! P.H and Warri today are not significantly better today than years ago! It used to be Lagos, P.H, and Warri in terms of economic development but today it is now Lagos, Abuja, Kano, Kaduna etc while only oil exploration/exploitation activities that makes P.H to be heard.

In the coming years, they will look back at how Nigeria used and abused them, and cry bitterly but it would be too late then.

I don't think the progress, marginalization or lack of it , about minorities should be part of Igbo problem or discussions.
All we should care about is how to get the est we can from Nigeria irrespective of who is getting burnt for us to get it.

I personally think NIGERIA has been magnanimous to Southern minorities. 13% derivation, scholarship programs, NDDC projects, etc.

Clark asking for southern solidarity so that minorities can corner "Away Oyel" to themselves is funny and ridiculous. He of all people should know that such a thing as Southern Solidarity doesn't exist.
He should fight for his Niger Delta interests and let others be.

If the 13% derivation is being debated today, I'm sure 90% of Igbos would back the North and squash it, and it would not be because we hate Niger Delta, but because we have learnt from the past and also have our own interests to protect . Having more allocation to our non oil producing states ranks higher for us than whatever Niger Deltans are fighting for.

We should learn to play interest based politics more. It would serve us better than sentimental ones.

SE has only Imo and Abia as oil producing states both of who have been rendered almost non oil producing by wicked boundary adjustment program in 1975 that ceded the oil producing Igbo communities at the boundary between Abia/Imo to Rivers State. And guess who pushed for these oil producing lands to be ceded to Rivers State? Minorities!
Looking at the Dynamics, the current PIB would serve SE better as a zone if we can use the threat of supporting Niger Deltans against the PIB, to get the North to assign enough funds for the Anambra basin.
Additionally, the pipelines pass through all SE states and we have 5 States. Putting two and two together, other than senseless sentiment driven politics, there is no reason whatsoever why an Igbo should be against current PIB bill, it is actually to our favor.

Clarke is on his own and should count us out of his useless Southern Nigeria mantra . We feel sorry for his problems. But we have our own needs , problems and interests which is more important to us than his.

proeast:
You're obviously not just a semi iliterate, but also lacking in natural wisdom.

You're against IPOB that is trying to unite SE and SS while extending an olive branch to SW all in an effort to confront the North, yet at the same time asking for southern unity. What sort of confusion and foolishness is that? Some of you minorities find it fashionable to condemn IPOB and antagonize Igbos while giving the North the impression that you're with them. Yet they keep abusing and exploiting you guys. At least, Igbos have movements that are actively working to break up Nigeria, where are the movements from your own region fighting for your own rights? Your militants are nothing but a band of selfish men seeking to enrich their own pockets and that's why individuals like Tompolo or Asari will go to sleep each time they're giving some Ghana-must-go bags of money or some ridiculous pipeline protection contract.

Even if you don't like Igbos or don't want to share an independent country with them (I also personally want an only Igbo nation), the wise thing to do is it not to align with them, get what you want and be on your own? Smart people all over the world are known to unite with those they're not even friends with if it will help them to conquer a common enemy.

Look around you today in Niger Delta, does that region appear like one of the world's major oil regions? The ND has pumping out crude oil in excess of 2 million barrels per day for decades now yet all around you is poverty, decay, pollution and hopelessness! You watch helplessly as the proceeds of what is gotten from your backyard is taken away to benefit others in the North and even foreigners in Niger rep while you're stuck in terrible conditions.

FYI, Niger Delta people are the biggest losers in this "one Nigeria" but you guys don't even know it but I will explain to you. The glass ceiling placed on Igbos are also placed on you guys! However, while Yorubas are gaining from Nigeria through Lagos, Igbos are also gaining from Nigeria by having our people in every nook and cranny providing goods and services, and the bulk of the proceeds remmitted to our region. It has also helped us to have the highest concentration of middle class to rich people in Nigeria. But can you tell me exactly what you Niger Deltans are gaining from Nigeria? 87% of your wealth is taken away while you're given a miserable 13%! Now, they've taken another 30% while given you 3%! As if that wasn't enough insult, they also smuggled Kano and Kaduna to be part of oil producing states even when they don't produce a drop of oil Noe juju be that

In your myopic reasoning, you all assumed that Igbos are the ones suffering most in Nigeria because we are the ones challenging the status quo. However, that's fallacy! Igbos are not happy because they know that things can and should be better than what we have in Nigeria.

You condemn Igbos and condemn IPOB for using the wrong strategy, yet you don't even have a single movement working to save your asses talk more of having a strategy.

I bet you, you guys have 600 years of sufferness to pass through if you continue like this.

The guy you are replying is lacking in sense like most of them from those clime.
Their Igbophobia always make them talk without their brains.

The funny lots have not understood that Anambra basin and Dahomey basin are among the beneficiaries of this new PIB and that's the North strategically carrying the two legs of the tripod along .

The funny Clarke is calling for southern unity so that his Niger Delta can corner "Awa Oyel" . He is a joker.

The only unity that will happen will be Ndiigbo ensuring Anambra basin got enough allocation, while Yorubas ensure Dahomey basin gets enough allocation.

These lots don't seem to understand that the era Ndiigbo played the senseless "Our brother" politics is gone.
Charles Ogbu wrote an article condemning this PIB the other day on his Facebook page, you need to see how many Igbos descended on him, reminding him that it's none of our business, and that even though Abia and Imo will lose a bit, we will gain it all back through Anambra basin.
What happens to the Niger Deltans should be none of the Igbo man concern, if anything we should be using them to blackmail the North into assigning enough allocation to Anambra basin.
We should be like: Assign Enough allocation to Anambra basin or we join Niger Deltans to cry injustice over the PIB. Then we follow it up by joining Clarke and other clowns from those Region to condemn the bill and shout as loud as possible, and once the North feel the heat, they would come to us to negotiate, and on the negotiation table, our demand would be for them to increase our Anambra basin allocation in exchange to us leaving the Niger Deltans to carry their own cross. And once this is met, we leave Clarke and his clowns in the lurch and even ridicule their condemnation of the PIB as act of greediness from them , while praising the bill as best for one NIGERIA Unity.
These people never see anything.

It's about time Ndiigbo learn how to start playing ruthless politics in this country. About time we use the miseries of other groups to negotiate for our betterment like they have all done to us.
It's time emotional politics give way for ruthless pragmatic politics geared towards protecting and pursuing Igbo interests, even if it means other non Igbo groups bleed to death.
We are a majority and must start acting like one.

Ndiigbo, Taa bu kwa gbo!

Takeproft:
So this bill will stand just like that? Niger Delta has actually been conquered. This is shameful

Niger Delta is not a people or a region.
It's an interest group. And those who control those interests in their midst( the elites led by Clark Edwin and the militants in the creek) have all been settled with Ghana must bags full of money.

proeast:
I just hope people with such timid and coward mindset are in the minority in your zone or else it is finished for you guys. How you wrote this self deprecating and cowardly drivel with confidence is what baffles me more.

If your almighty Northern Nigeria was formidable, why did it have to rely on foreign powers to fight a Biafra that was blockaded and had no weapons yet the Nigerian side lost more combatants at the war front than Biafra did. Nigeria had to resort to bombing soft targets like schools, hospitals, markets and homes to get even! Why not pick history books about the civil war and read, black man?!

Right now, the Tigray region of Ethiopia that is actually a minority in that country just like Tiv, Ijaw or Ibibio are in Nigeria are currently pummeling Ethiopian federal army, with thousands of Ethiopian soldiers already held hostage by the Tigrayans!!

If the Tigrayans have your type of timid and cowardly mindset, they won't even imagine going into war against Ethiopia when they're just a minority. It is your type of mindset that will ensure you guys remain in slavery till thy kingdom come.


FYI, Yorubas and Igbos were tactically included through Dahomey and Anambra basins respectively, so it is the Niger Delta that are 100% losers here!

You're still fixated with Biafra and Oduduwa wanting you to be with them whether real or imagined yet you can't fight for yourself and worse still don't even believe in yourself while elevating your enemy as indomitable.

What a shame, tufiakwa!!!

Very good observation there.

mrvitalis:
U learned the wrong lesson ...it shows u can't fight the people's will

Biafra is here to stay

Gbam!
You only delay it by exhausting your resources.
Eventually your resources will run dry and the will of the people will stand.Biafra is the will of Igbo commoners. Anyone fighting it is wasting their time. Both Nigerians and willing Igbo fifth columnists will eventually lose and free from the new nation.

Fiscus105:
Ogunlewe's opinion is nothing but truth, thou truth is bitter.


.....you are clamoring for Igbo presidency even if it's, Benue, Kogi or S.South.

But you guys are bitter for Igbo man who is a "chief of army staff" that hailed from Delta.

Has Irabor and his Agbor king ever identified as Igbo?

Sufferingboy:
Biafra carry your chestbeating go front.I don't have your time....

Bini slaves according to Reno, park one side and stop pokenosing into your superiors issues.
Next time restrict your minorities talk among yourselves and never you bring Ndiigbo in.

Sufferingboy:
Keep your mouth shut.

The term Enu-ani is a geopraphical term used to describe the Oshimili and Aniocha people because of their location.Enuani=Uplanders.

Ika and Ndokwa and the lowlanders.Igbo man try to know the origins of certain terms before you disgrace yourself.....

Okowa made Nwaoboshi a senator,the betrayer betrayed okowa.Perhaps the guy will regret his action later and he will go to beg Okowa..

Omo-agege is deceiving the man.Apc na time waster for delta.

Your socalled enuani will continue to be under the Ika people politically.We are destine to rule over them.......

Of course many countries, cities, towns and villages in the world are named after geographical features. Enugu city, the political capital of Igboland for instance.
But Enuani is more than just a geographical feature. It is an Igbo dialect, it is a name of a people and it's a culture.
By the way,Ika is not part of lowland. Lowland is Ukwuani and Ndokwa.
If anything, Ika is more upland than Enuani.

Okowa is an Ibori "boyi boyi", he has no power to make anyone anything when he is but a stooge himself.
He wants to return to Senate after his governor tenure and Nwoboshi doesn't want to step down for him, which is alright and his right.
Okowa has been in the Senate before and should retire from active politics come 2023, but greed will not allow him.

Ika can never measure up to Enuani in any sphere of human development.
Dennis Osadebey an Enu-ani man ruled the entire Midwest region. Ika could never match that.
Only Okonjo-iweala dwarfes all Ika has to offer.
If at all Nwoboshi should be stepping down for anyone, it should be for someone from Ukwuani/Ndokwa zone, as they have not tested the Senate in Delta North since 1999.

Sufferingboy:
Wrong Igbenedion is not the richest south south man.Only richest in Edo state.

Briggs was not loud or a media person unlike Igbinedion that like media publicity too much............

Chief Igbinedion nor Even get money reach Peter Odili of River state or James Ibori of delta.

Odili remains the richest man in south south.

Incase I forget there is this Ijaw man called henry Okah,a militant and Arm dealer.He is very rich too.Oboy IJaw get men,but they lack just one thing "business acumen".


You say airpeace airline own by Kingsley Kuku who is just using allen Onyema to front.



Ijaws elites get properties abroad too and they use their diaspora Ijaws to launder their dark wealth abroad.

We are not even talking of oil bunkering,guy Ijaw pass benins now.Before una get upper hand but Ijaw done overtake una.

You are not okay.
Who the hell is Kingsley Kuku? You just peddling your beer parlour gists and passing them off as facts?
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/09/kingsley-kuku-never-purchased-airplanes-for-us-%E2%80%95-air-peace/amp/

Sufferingboy:
Pease we need friendly tribal war between Ika and Oshimili people.Oshimili people need to be taught a bitter lesson.

After an Ika man(Ifeanyi Okowa) help an oshimili man(Peter Nwaoboshi) to become a senator.He betrayed Okowa.

Okowa even fought Ned Nwoko(Aniocha man) for the sake of an Oshimili man(Peter Nwaoboshi)

Oshimili people,once again done show their betrayal trait.....

There is nothing like Oshimili and Anioch, as both if them are one and same. They are called Enu-ani, and they are the proud Igbos of Delta State.
Keep your Biniphilic Ika madness to yourselves.
Nwoboshi don't owe Okowa any loyalty.

oyatz:
You are still making the same mistake; trying to define a people based on what outside perceive them to be, instead of what the people themselves call themselves.

No Ikwerre or any other Igbo subgroup rep in COR territory, told the Willink commission that they were not Igbos.
If you have any such document to prove otherwise, present it or forever remain silent.
Here is not your local beer parlour joint where you make unsubstantiated claims.

oyatz:
Stop misleading people here.

The ethnic groups attended the Willinks Commission as ethnic groups and NOT as provinces.

If the Ikwerres had considered THEMSELVES (not what Igbos , the colonial Masters and other tribes considered them to be) as a subset/ part of one of the three major tribes, they won't be attending meetings meant for the minorities.

All ethnic groups within the COR province attended the Willink commission.
The Willink commission report is all over the internet and it noted that Ikwerre, Ekpeye, Ikwo, Ezza,Izzi, though in COR region, were subsets of the Larger Igbo group.

oyatz:
The Ikwerres have been saying that they are not Igbo before 1960.
They were strong participants in Calabar-Ogoja-Rivers (COR) Movement in the 1950s that was agitating for the creation of a separate Region for the Minorities in Eastern Region, attended the Willinks Commission to look into the fears of the Minorities in 1959 and the Ogbakwo Ikwerre Conversation of 1963 declared the Ikwerres as a disintinct ethnic group.
All these happened before the politics of oil and the civil war.

Lies.
Ikwerres were not counted as Minorities during Willink commission, but as a subset of Igbo who were in a province containing other minorities.
Since their province like those of Izzi/Ezza/Ikwo who were in Ogoja province then, fell under the COR zone, they had to be present in the commission deliberations likewise Ikwo/Izzi and Ezza people.
It doesn't in any way mean they were considered non Igbos then.

lexy2014:
Don't mind him. Bayelsa doesn't have urhobo as one it's ethnic groups

They do.
The Ofonis in Sagbama LGA have Urhobo heritage somehow.

https://www.nairaland.com/2289624/meet-ofoni-people-bayelsa-only

SweetiliciousD:
Fact mis-presentation spotted.

Here are the various local governments in Ngwá land
Isiala Ngwá South LGA
Isiala Ngwá North LGA
Obi Ngwá LGA
Osisioma Ngwá LGA
Aba North LGA
Aba South LGA
Ukwa East LGA
Ukwa West LGA

Ukwa East is Ndokiland while Ukwa West is Asaland.
The rest on your list is Ngwaland.
And yes! Ngwa is the largest single IGBO clan.

IPOB are mad people.
I thought they are fighting for multi ethnic BIAFRA with SS minorities inclusive.
Why are they declaring lockdown on just SE.
You see the lack of sincerity I'm talking about.
This is why they will never achieve alot.

Juliusmalema:
Good he used the word minority and spread thinly in other states

Because of recent the ignorant youths there are busy dashing themselves so much population....15 million...17 million

4th largest ethnic group...when and how did Ijaw acquire such population to even become 4th with just one state and spread thinly over the other.


The 4th fourth largest ethnic group should be between Kanuri and Ibibios.....

Ijaw is 7th largest if we count Hausa and Fulani as 1.
Otherwise, Ijaw will be 8th.

4. Tiv
5.Ibibio
6. Kanuri
7. Ijaw

Captain8:
can you now go to Ijaw language clinic facebook..?

Why do I have to go to anywhere?
Ogbia language wordlist is online.There are studies on Central Delta languages including Ogba language online too.

Captain8:
but we all speak the Ijaw language

Speak fire.

Captain8:
dont talk ignorants talk here..... only a children may not understand ogbia dialect...... go to Ijaw clinic language in facebook and get well.... i understand ogbia that is farther from me.... matured people from ogbia also understand my egbema dialect...

You are a bloody liar.
No Izon man can understand Ogbia language.
Stop with the cheap lies.

tutudesz:
Why don't you find out from an Ogbia person 1st

Lol!
I have been there before bro.
Some of us Know all these places like the back of our hands.
You can't come online and start lying to us. I don't know what you intend to achieve with that. It's not like it will change the reality on ground.
Any body can simply download a dictionary of Ogbia language and words and compare with those of Ijaw and see how totally world apart both are.
It doesn't make sense.
Linguists had all studied every single language in the Niger Delta, and it's not a rocket science that Andoni, Ogbia, Odual, Abua, Degema, Epie, Attissa, Engenni, are all independent Languages of their own, totally unrelated to Izon language. These languages have all been classified, some into Edoid and others into "lower cross River" languages.
They are by no means Ijoid, let alone Ijaw.