Since leader of the Oodua Peoples’ Congress (OPC), Mr Gani Adams, was announced by the Alaafin of Oyo as the new Generalissimo of Yoruba, the Aare Ona Kakanfo, his Lagos home has been thronged by guests, who come to pledge their support for him.
The brave Yoruba ‘warrior’ has received several visitors and groups and one of such groups comprises the Igbos in Lagos, who visited him on Monday, November 20, 2017.
Business Post reports that the Eze Ndigbos in Lagos, during their visit, declared their support for the choice of Mr Adams as the Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yoruba land just as they declared that they were happy that the “title came to our own person.”
According to a statement released by the media team of Mr Adams, the leaders of Igbos in the local governments in the state, who paid the Aare designate a congratulatory visit in his Lagos home, promised to work with him politically and culturally.
Among the visiting Ezes were the Eze Ndigbo of Ikeja, Mr Uche Dimgba; the Eze Ndigbo of Gbogbo, Mr Livinus Chimezie; Eze of Coker/Aguda, Mr Jude Ezego; Eze of Ojodu, Mr Augustine Ebisi; Eze Peter Umeh of Mushin, Odiolowo, Iganmu land, Ejigbo, Agbado Oke odo and the Eze of Iba among others.
Speaking on behalf of the Ezes, the Eze of Ojodu, Mr Ibisi, said the Igbos were in solidarity with the Aare designate, stressing that they will work with him politically and culturally.
The Ezes, who brought drinks, kolanuts and alligator pepper with them, which they used for an extensive prayer at the meeting, said the onus rests on the Aare to give them the direction that pleases him for them to follow.
Pledging that the Igbos would always work with the Aare, the Eze of Ojodu said “we will continue to be with you, we only pray that God will continue to give us life to continue to be part of you.
“We are delighted about your belief in culture and tradition. Our culture is who we are. But people now mix it with religion. Culture is older than religion. We are what we are already before religion.
“The time is gone when the impression people have about the Aare is to fight war. The Kakanfo of today is for progress not war and we are here to declare to you that we are partners in progress.”
Thanking the Ezes for their visit which he described as historic, the Aare Ona Kakanfo said he was not surprised because the Igbo community had always associated with him and his group.
The Aare Ona kakanfo said the title was the most prestigious in Yoruba land, adding that the title was not without history.
According to him, he is mandated as the Yoruba Generalissimo to defend the interest of the Yoruba and ensure unity of the race.
He added that, like the Igbos, the Yorubas crave their identity, even as he pledged that he would love to maintain the cordial relationship that had existed between him and the Easterners, submitting that Igbos never constituted any threat to Yoruba land.
Mallamkay001: Tinubu has finally buried his pride in shame and cooperated with Bukola Saraki,someone who understands d game better. GBA fun oga e!
if you can recall your memory tinubu attended akeredolu of ondo inauguration unlike Igbos with eibos politics of bitterness remember azikuwe and ojuiku did not talk till both flnally die
Perfect response. SW betrayed the unity for a plat of power.
bro forget about regions sw did not have any thing common with se .70per of Yoruba's are Muslim, norms,culture, values,orientation are not same so what is your affiliates all about
victorDanladi: This urine drinking igbo Christians self.The same set of people will open a thread tomorrow to bash pastor Adeboye and the entire redeem church!
victorDanladi: This urine drinking igbo Christians self.The same set of people will open a thread tomorrow to bash pastor Adeboye and the entire redeem church!
Ignorants...keep on disgracing urselves. small time u guys will say u are graduates.. PLS HAVE U ALL ASKED URSELF WHAT IS SOUTH-SOUTH.?. Olodos. Untill u all come up with a good explanation on this.. else u ar not worth my argument
keep on wasting and dreaming the government of river state direct the security agent to arrest any Igbo confession or meeting organization
xana101: * in church 2day I see people no longer give the way they used to. * Families don't visit each others as they used to. * To borrow money now is very hard * helping hands has reduced * job lost in increase * most people has relocated back to d village * more graduates now take anyhow jobs. * girls now becomes very cheap than before * guys don't drink bear like before * parent had to take their children to cheaper schools * u can't go to people houses anyhow to eat. So many more.... All this started since 2015 buhari came into power. however, things are getting better gradually. I pray it gets better than this. Amen
GoldAlpha12: Rabbi Bernis states in the video that 124 igbo's that tested had E1A as their haplogroup, which is the reason why they were not considered Jewish. He later goes on to list the Jewish Haplogroups, he lists E1b (E1b1a, E1b1b) as a Jewish Haplogroup, a lot of igbo's have E1b as a their YDNA haplogroup. We need to do Jewish DNA testing on igbo's with E1b.
BlackPikiN: Nobel Laurite, Prof. Wole Soyinka also showered praises on the late Ikemba Nnewi whom he described as his childhood friend and urged Nigerians particularly Ndigbo to emulate his leadership qualities.
He stated that Nigeria’s history would not be complete without the role of Ojukwu, saying rather than mourning his exit, Nigerians should celebrate the fact that in his life, bitterness gave way to reconciliation.
joshkiddies: Bianca Ojukwu, Widow of late Biafran warlord, Odumegwu Ojukwu and Nigeria's former Ambassador to Spain, celebrated her birthday on Saturday, August 5th, and here's a photo of the former beauty queen with her three kids.
dumebiifeanyi: The All Progressives Congress Youth Vanguard has advised Musician and top socialite, Charlyboy to desist from calling for the resignation of President Buhari.
In a statement made available to PoliticsNGR, signed by its leader, Collins Edwin, the group disclosed that president Buhari will not resign from being president and cautioned Charly boy to stop making 'senseless noise'.
Below is the Full statement;
The planned protest against President Muhammadu Buhari by a coalition of civil society groups led by Charly Boy has come to the notice of the national leadership of APC Youths Renaissance.
Ordinarily, we would have dismissed the move knowing that Charly Boy is an incurable attention-seeker, but because he cleverly laced his mercantile show-business in President Buhari's health challenge, we have decided to educate the political dissident that governance is not entertainment.
President Buhari has just spent few days receiving medical attention and Charly Boy and his dubious sponsors are making senseless noise about it, what about a former American President who ruled America in the midst of greater health challenge yet Americans never gave a hoot about it.
In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson suffered a severe stroke that left him incapacitated until the end of his presidency, yet Americans did not call for his resignation or impeachment, but here in Nigeria, we have a President who is only on a medical check-up and some group of attention-seekers are making it to look as if it is anathema.
For Charly Boy and his sponsors to organise such protest against our darling President, we have resolved and are going to stage a counter protest that will show the world that President Muhammadu Buhari is truly loved by Nigerians despite the media gang up against him.
We have also collected the comprehensive list of politicians within and outside the APC who are sponsoring the protest and negative publicity against Buhari and will make it public for Nigerians to see who and who is actually preventing good governance from happening in the country.
justineu: always same shit! Yorubas has been agitating for oodudua republic long b4 Biafra came to light but why are you guys trying to stop the igbos frm gain their Biafra. So because yours wasn't successful you trying to stop others to again their independence. Backstabbers!
nkemjacob2: It has been long biafrans want their own sovereign state but it looks as if Nigeria governance is slow and have a problem of listening. Is it until it result to another blood sheed or civil war part 2 that the people voice will be heard?.
Politics / Re: How Igbos Developed Lagos by disumusa: 10:20pm On Nov 25, 2017 
