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Chineye, Finima and Tombia people are not related to Andoni in any way.

During the course of their migration form the Central Delta Ijaw, Tombia and Finima people met at Iyankpo before a devastating landslide they later divided, Finima people went Eastward while Tombia people went further Westward. No meeting between the Tombia and Finima people on their migrations.

Yujin you are right about the igbo infiltration in Bonny as far back as it's early kings, but wrong about them being Igbo from inception.

During the migration of the brothers, namely Alagbariya, Opuamakuba, Asimini & co, from the Central Delta "Ijaw" they took the hinterland root, through this journey, they stopped at these areas azuogu, azumini and finally settled at Ndoki, they must have spent years there, during that time they inter married, mixing both the ibani culture and the igbo. After some years they decided to find a land suitable for their occupation as they were fishermen in nature, on leaving Ndoki they needed a leader for the expedition, according to oral history during these era leadership was based on age, that was how Okpara Ndoli, the only Ibo name that appeared in the Bonny early kings emerged. It was by his age that he became the first ruler of the group. He died at Orupiri not too far from Bonny. Opuamakuba was made the next leader as the oldest among the brothers, later Alagbariya as the one who sited the town Bonny. It was this migration mix that brought about the Igbo speaking in Bonny as a lot of Igbos migrated with them.

The truth is the Ibani was what they held as their original language and kept to it in their Culture, customs and tradition.

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