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God bless the Olu for doing the right thing. May `Ogiame’, kingdom last forever. God will keep blessing our great state of Delta.

Delta - After four days of protest over his decision to renounce the title `Ogiame’, The Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwase II, has bowed to the wishes of his subjects.

The Itsekiri monarch on Tuesday succumbed to the wishes of his subjects not to renounce the title when tension heightened around his palace.


Olu of Warri
Atuwase II had allegedly planned to relinquish the traditional title of “Ogiame’’ for a yet to be disclosed title, but the decision did not go down well with the entire Itsekiri people.

The Olu of Warri, who claimed the title Ogiame is associated with “Sea goddess’’, said he had nothing to do with the deity.

The Itsekiri people began the protest on Sept. 7 by besieging the Atuwase II’s palace to press home their demand that their monarch should rescind his decision.

Some Itsekiri women had planned to stage a protest on Tuesday afternoon at the king’s palace, but Atuwase II rescinded his decision before the commencement of the protest.

A statement issued by 22 Palace Chiefs at the height of the protest, criticised the decision of the monarch to renounce the title of Ogiame.

The statement, read by one of the chiefs, Mrs Rita Lori-Ogbebor, noted that Ogiame had nothing to do with the worship of any deity.

“In Warri Kingdom, there are Christians, Muslims and Pagans, she said.

Meanwhile, the Itsekiri people and the aggrieved chiefs had pledged their unalloyed loyalty to their king for `toeing the part of honour and withdrawing the decision to renounce his title. (NAN

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/09/olu-of-warri-bows-to-the-wishes-of-subjects-rescinds-decision-to-renounce-title

Is this the same Frisky Larr, the paid OBJ apologist or a different one

nkem Kalu: ......ONE OF THOSE POLITICALLY IDIOTIC STATEMENTS. IGBOS WILL RISE AGAINST WHO? WE HEARD SO MUCH ABOUT THIS KIND OF NOISE DURING THE JUNE 12 SAGA AND EVEN MUCH MORE THAN THIS NONESENCE U ARE TALKING AND TILL TODAY NOTHING HAS HAPPENED. SOME BLIND IGBO PEOPLE LIKE U SCREAMED BLUE MURDER AND THREATENED TO DO THIS AND THAT YET, JUNE 12 DIED AND WAS BURRIED, JUST LIKE GEJ AMBITION FOR 2015 WILL SOON BE ANOTHER JUNE 12. YET...NOTHING WILL COME OUT OF IT. TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT GEJ AND THE ENTIRE IJAW KINGDOM ARE ON THEIR OWN IF WAR BREAKS OUT. THE SIMPLE TRUTH IS THAT, GEJ IS THE BIGGEST FOOL OF A PRESIDENT NIGERIA HAS EVER PRODUCED AND IF U THINK HE LOVES U SO MUCH AS AN IGBO, HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN SCHEMING FOR AN IGBO MAN TO CONTEST THE 2015 PDP PRIMARIES AND WIN AND HE SHOULD BE PREPARED TO BURY HIS STUPID AMBITION FOR THE PEACE OF THIS COUNTRY AND GIVE HIS SUPPORT FOR AN IGBO MAN SO THAT POWER CAN GO ROUND THE ZONES, AFTER ALL OBASANJO DID IT FOR HIM AND GAVE HIM POWER ON A PLATTER OF GOLD WHICH HE HAS MESSED UP. HE ABOVE ALL MADE A COMMITMENT TO SERVE FOR ONLY ONE TERM. SO PLEASE PUT ON YOUR THINKING CAP IF U ARE A REAL IGBO MAN UNLESS U ARE ONE OF THOSE IJAW MEN THAT CAME TO PICK PALM FRUITS IN IGBO LAND.

Why are you shouting, you are irrelevant in the southsouth. Nobody is seeking your help or asking for it. Learn, when to keep your mouth shut. Worry about your own people in Nigeria, leave us alone to suffer.

alj harem: The same authorities that have the picture of GEJ behind them ? Or the same authority that is playing partisan politics by sealing off the NEW PDP fraction secretariat ? Or the same authority that has been sold to Tompolo who is meant to be interrogated by himself ?

brosi put it to you that YOUR GOVERNMENT IS NOT CHANGE, IT IS AS CORRUPT AS A SPOILT EGG.

Let's not derail this thread. There are several out there for tompolo.

alj harem: Ok I will tell you how they acquired theirs which I believe is illegal but why has GEJ not arrested THESE CABAL ? WHY HAS HE KEPT PROMOTING THEM ?

I guess it is the same reason for not arresting Tompolo a militant turned billionaire over 3 years. Nigerians can be very very very surprising at times with the way they reason

Arrest them for what? What cabal are you talking about. Yes Tompolo was a militant 3 years ago so what The man operates a security company just like any other Nigerian. If you have any evidence of a crime committed by him, Please talk to the authorities.

alj harem: Question for GEJ internet supports

HOW DID TOMPOLO ACQUIRE A PRIVATE JET ? What investment or business or job does he do that could generate such wealth

The same way Otedola, Emir of Kano, Danjuma etc acquired theirs, by paying in cash. He runs a security company. Any more questions let me know.

berem: I will rather vote for a no-nonsense and incorruptible Buhari than an ethnic bigoted,clueless and visionless,corruption personified Jonathan!

SAI BUHARI

SAI APC

You can vote for him a millions times, but Asorock will be a trillion kilometers away from him. A destination he will never reach.

The failure of our education system, in this country. Makes an article like this, a must read, for SS1,SS2 and SS3 students. We cannot wish the past away. No matter how hard we try. Buhari was bad news in 1985 and remains bad news in 2015

Op talk to the bank of industry. http://www.boinigeria.com/

LBT: What is the population of the entire ijaws or even south south that they keep threatening other with war? If real war starts God forbid the whole south south and their supporters lands will be on serious fire because they will be hit from different angles big time: don't they know that the north and south west are also heavily armed because of people like him who talk rubbish? Some region in Nigeria won't need to buy arm or trade oil for arms because they will get it free in abundance while the oil they really on would be the first casualty. I love Niger delta because I am from Niger delta but the truth must be told because they can never win any real war even with the allies they have right now. Any real war started by them will be over in few months and all their gragra will be over if any of them is still alive. Why don't they start it now if they can? Look at those boko haram nuisance who were getting arms from libya, algeria,mali and chad, they are heavily armed but look at how they have been dealt with!

You will have your chance to deal with us. Hopefully, you will be on ground too.

Abagworo: Theodore Orji is indeed a performer. These Nigerian Governors are wicked to the common man.

What has orji and this thread in common.

Orlando Owoh: He is a "general" in the Niger Delta.

What is the difference between him and your Nigerian generals Tomopolo has actually seen combat against your Nigerian armed forces. Bombed by your Alpha jets, shelled by your navy gunships, ambushed by your army machine guns, what makes your political generals in the Nigerian armed forces any better?? How many of your generals can claim the same

Orlando Owoh: How many people in the Niger Delta still fish? I served in an Ijaw speaking area, I can say, few. While here, I saw jobless men in their 40s with three wives.

Jobless men in their 40s with three wives That is a low count. I hope they have 50 wives like your Aboki bothers. The ones that spend their days under trees playing cards. Only to have their children beg for food at night. That is the big differences.

Orlando Owoh: When you're able to put your thought in writing, quote me again, I'll reply you.

I don't need to quote liars like you.

simpleseyi: You have forgotten the civil war so soon where/when Hausa/Fulani reduced your population to just one tenth of theirs. You militants in the South-South and have bought some AK-47 that is making you think you have have weapons, don't worry the Hausa/Fulani soldiers are preparing to deal with you as they did in 1967-1970 civil war when Odumegwu Ojukwu used South-South as guineas pigs to test the Hausa/Fulani weapons. We the South West are watching and we shall not not intervene this time around because the other time that Awolowo begged the Hausa/Fulani not to wipe you all away from Nigerian map but to stop giving your ill-equipped soldiers food so that you will stop fighting, you all started cursing Awolowo despite the fact that the main man concerned Odumegwu Ojukwu never said Awo betrayed or back-stabbed him in the book that Ojukwu himself wrote. Some nonentities who never threw a stone not to talk of carrying a knife or local gun during the civil war have however been writing rubbishes about the great Awo.

We, the South-West will help you video and document your destruction and annihilation by the Hausa/Fulani soldiers so that you would not later be telling fake stories that you have been telling your children about the last humiliation of 1967-1970.

This is the problem of poor education in this country. Take your time and review other information about the Nigerian civil war. You might learn something

[quote author=soludo@kay]Listening to empty threats like this makes me believe unequivocally that Nigeria is sick. What audacity does this lunatic have to be making this kind of statements publicly.[/quote]Did you call Buhari a lunatic, when he made his

Orlando Owoh: If the oil wells are blown today, the Niger Delta will suffer most, because most of them know no other resources but oil. Other geo-political zones including the SE that is forcing a marriage with the SS, will fall back to agriculture and tourism which they have already started developing.

Let us suffer. Leave us alone in our suffering. 98% of the people in southsouth don't see anything from this oil. We are still rubber tappers, Palm oil producers, fishermen and farmers. The ones that even seek Jobs in the oil sectors have to fight like hell to be hired. While people sit kilometers away and play lord of the Delta. MY FRIEND LET US SUFFER.

nkem Kalu: ................JONATHAN GAVE U AN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT ABI? THEREFORE HE HAS BRIBED U TO GO TO WAR FOR HIM ABI? JUST WAIT AND SEE. THE WAY THE SOUTH SOUTH BETRAYED THE IGBOS DURING THE BIAFRAN TIME, THEY WILL SURELY GET IT 100 (ONE HUNDRED FOLD). Anyway, I don't even think u are an Igbo man...otherwise, u are just one of those igbos who are content with playing the second fiddle in the scheme of things. Why can't that your Jonathan give up his ambition in 2015 and prompt an Igbo man to take over from him if he so LOVED u as an Igbo man?

Stop pretending, you will have your chance to pay us back 100%. We shall be waiting across the Niger River. After the yorubas send you back to Aba with your one plastic bag.

Orlando Owoh: Asari Dokubo may not know, he should find out whether or not "our son" entered an agreement with the north not to contest in 2015. Northern politicians were not fools to have voted "our son" over Atiku Abubakar and Nuhu Ribadu in 2011.

Your sons lost Buhari got your mallam votes, stop lying.

Lordskenn: am tired o. I don't knw wot they turn dis Nigeria in2. Anyway it's nt his fault. If nt baba Obasanjo, who knw them.

Any there lies your problem. The single reason why this country will finally go to hell.

nkem Kalu: No single region in the Federation or individual/ group of persons has the monopoly of violence. NIGER DELTA OR WHATEVER U CALL URSELVES PLEASE TAKE NOTE. MORE SO, U ARE IN THE MINORITY AND I CAN BET U NO SENSIBLE IGBO MAN WILL FIGHT FOR U WHEN THE CHIPS ARE DOWN AND U WILL SIMPLY BE OVER RUN.

Did somebody call for your help You were in the majority, how you did fare in your war My friend shut your silly mouth there.

That is too cheap, why not buy one like otedola for almost $50M. Tomopolo, please return this jet and buy a more befitting one. Carry go my brother.

bloggernaija: Do not mind the creek rats.
When the time comes ,they and their leaders will be reporting for stolen crude escort duty for the same northerners they love abusing.
When you talk about the Niger delta,
You are talking about the more serious nationalities
ITSHEKIRIS
URHOBOS
ANNANGS
IBIOBIOS.
OGONIS
IKWERRES
Some of whom even have more oil than the IJAWS

It is not an accident that these peaceful people are more educated,generally more civilised and do deserve a lot better than they are getting from the state and federal government.
But the IJAWS seem to have arrogated to themselves the term Niger delta and there is this perception amongst them that anywhere there is a oil rig is IJAWLAND
The actual truth is that they are only responsible for a fraction of the country's oil and right now,Ijaw elites are sucking more money through corruption,than they are contributing to the national kitty.
I think it is high time these militants are put in their place since it seems that there is a total societal breakdown in bayelsa.
You cannot expect their elders to do anything about this since they are the problems

I have to laugh, when pretenders like you post your rubbish. As, if you have any love for the Urhobos, Ananngs, Efik, Ibiobios, Ikwerres etc. If Jonah came from any of these tribes, you will have the same hate flowing out of most yorubas on this forum.

emmatok: The way SS people are behaving, a disaster is going to happen and they will be at the receiving end.
Their people are still poor yet some militants threatening to kill everybody cos of oil.
All this gra gra about oil is foolish, other regions are watching.

Thanks for having pity on us. Take it from me, your Nigeria cannot do anything, that we have not seen before. Just bring it on.

Abagworo: Atiku is one of the few Nigerians that invested in the Niger Delta especially Rivers State. Intels is located in Rumuokwurusi and Onne, hence the militants don't have the ability to do anything in those area without causing internal war in Niger Delta. Rumuokwurusi is in Ikwerreland while Onne is in Elemeland a sub-group of Ogoni and they are not in good terms with Okrika. His American university is however located in disputable Okrikaland.

You might the Ikwerre man, that will come and defend Intels, when boys take it over. Shell, total, schlumberger etc are located in Ikwerreland. How many Ikwerres came to their defense between 2007--2009. Stick with issues you really understand.

berem: They are busy having dinner while ASUU is still on strike! All jonathan and his cohorts do is to wine and dine,spending millions of naira on food and drinks.Bunch of shameless deluded fools! twaaa!

Ask your haters in ASUU to take the N130B on the table and allow us hear word. They are also free to resign and seek employment elsewhere.

awodman: I just like the way GEJ goes about his activities like nothing is happening...God pls let me have this kind of disposition even in the height of provocation...

My brother, you said something I have been thinking about for days. I have been praying for this kind of level headedness in my life too. I just don't know how this man does it.

[quote author=Adm. Yamamoto]Hahaha, how you dey??

First, let us shut off the food indeed! Let them go and eat fish only from their oil sea. Rather than for people to use superior intellectual arguments, they resort to threats which they cannot carry out. What will an ordinary Asari with the help of all his militants do to a sovereign country if it decides to flush out these urchins? I hope after the blockade and carper bombing for like 6 months, they will be ready to face the contingent of 100,000 boots on the ground who will arrive in midday?? I hope Nigeria first gives the options of the sensible ones to be airlifted out of the theater of wars though before the offensive and the empty chest beaters like Asari who want to fight can be shipped in and await "JUDGEMENT DAY"??[/quote]Carpet bombing, why not a nuclear bomb. Just 100,000 bring 1,000000000. Ask Yaradua how well his air force, Navy and army performed in 2009.You Yorubas are amazing. You hate the people of southsouth so much yet, you are prepared to die, for them to remain in this borrow pit call Nigeria. As we say in delta who no go no know.

Northern Nigeria’s highest socio-political group, the Arewa Consultative Forum, on Sunday rose to the defence of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, after some Niger Delta ex-militants declared Mr. Atiku unwanted in the region.
The ACF asked the former fighters to withdraw the declaration of Mr. Abubakar a “persona non grata”, over his role in the crisis currently rocking the Peoples Democratic Party. The group warned that the decision was “misguided” and “counterproductive”.
“Threats such as the one from the Niger Delta ex-militants are a negation of dialogue and the political process playing itself out on account of the breakup of the PDP into factions,” the forum said in statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Anthony Sani.
“…the ex-militants are by their misguided action crossing the fiducial mark that is alien to democratic tenets,” the statement by the northern body said Sunday.
The crisis rocking the ruling party in the past week assumed an ethnic and a regional tinge on Saturday after groups identified as former militants, who fought the government for years asking for greater share of the region’s oil wealth, declared Mr. Abubakar unwelcome in the region over his role in the PDP row.
The crisis began after Mr. Abubakar, supported by seven governors and other top members of the ruling party walked out of the party’s special convention on Saturday, August 31, and later announced a new leadership for the party, triggering a highly explosive, weeklong crisis.
Rising from a meeting in Yenogoa, Bayelsa state on Saturday, some leaders of former militant groups, under the aegis of the Leadership, Peace and Cultural Development Initiative, declared Mr. Abubakar unwanted in the Niger Delta, accusing him of using the region’s oil wealth to fight against its interest-which is President Goodluck Jonathan.
“It is unfortunate that Atiku who has benefitted so much from the Niger Delta oil is leading dissidents in a political coup against the first southerner to ever ascend the seat of president of Nigeria,” the group’s president, Reuben Wilson, said.
“We are aware of his vast business interest in the Niger Delta and we are warning him in his own interest to stay off the region. He cannot be enjoying our oil money and at the same time use the same money to fight the owners of the oil.
“What we thought we would be hearing from the north was how the federal government will implement the spirit and letters of the amnesty programme.”
Mr. Wilson said the former vice president’s decision to split the party demonstrated the north’s agenda of discrediting the president to reclaim power in 2015.
“We dare say that they have misfired. What we expect Atiku to do in the next seven days is for him to apologize to the president for the public embarrassment. He has misled so many people, including the Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi, who has abandoned governance in his state to follow the anti Jonathan apostles,” Mr. Wilson said on behalf of the group.
They also warned Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Amaechi, to change his anti-Jonathan stance or face the wrath of the people.
A youth leader in the region, Timi Frank, on Sunday, dismissed the threat against Mr. Abubakar as “empty and falling flat of common sense.”
“It is on record that the Niger Delta region and it’s youths have benefited immensely from the vast business interests of the former Vice President even as till date it remains to be challenged that Atiku remains the single highest employer of labour in the Niger Delta region and has empowered both investors and politicians from the region like no other Nigerian has, making him the bridge builder between the North and the South South region,” Mr. Frank said.
The Arewa Consultative Forum urged the ex-militants to withdraw the threat in the interest of peace, national cohesion and stability of Nigeria.
“This is because democracy is not matter of threats and intimidation, but contest of ideas and reasons,” the group said.


http://premiumtimesng.com/news/144351-northern-elders-defend-atiku-asks-niger-delta-ex-militants-withdraw-threat.html

Nothing but trash.

ballabriggs: Blaaa the influence those guys have even after leaving office is still very strong. IBB still has a strong influence in every region of Nigeria.

Jona's influence is limited to his creek in Otuoke. So they are quite different people and that is where you all and Jona miss it.

Another 18 years nairalander, I am going to pass.