₦airaland Forum

AcuraZDX:
Anything else?

No.
Apart from Obi loosing the election, nothing else.

Bonesbreaker:
Today is no longer ijaw nation breaking out of Nigeria

Let's settle the Zombiedients issue first.

mrvitalis:
No wahala oya go and attack APC your opponent na

The truth is bitter to you shey?

Thortp:
Sorry oo, INEC chairman

Stop lying to yourselves.
This election is between PDP and APC.

Zionmdde:
Oga vote your tinubu or atiku and allow us to vote our obi. Truth is that if you vote atiku or tinubu and they win you won't be better than those that voted obi. I don't know if those who voted buhari are enjoying more than those who didn't

So.cast your one vote and move

And Obi will still lose.

South South PDP Governors Meet in Yenagoa, Restate Support to Atiku's Presidential bid

PDP Governors in the South South region have restated their support to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Presidential Candidate, of the party ahead of 2023 election.

The Governors who converged on Yenagoa for a meeting were Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State and PDP Vice Presidential candidate, Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom, Godwin Obaseki of Edo State and host, Senator Douye Diri, Governor of Bayelsa State.

Naira20:
Lol
I know that's your opinion but the truth is,
Many people have heard about Atiku+Tinubu's desperation and they need their money. Wait till Mid-february 2023, you'd understand why they say Nigerians are smart

This is payback time for those who have taken Nigerians for granted

You continue to lie to yourself.

Naira20:
Lol

It is the bitter truth for you guys.

Continue to lie to yourselves.

Stop lying to yourselves.
Don't come here and say why speak on it. Politics is discussion.

You are just lying to yourselves.

This election is between PDP and APC even Bayelsa Tinubu Rally was more than 8 times the population of Bayelsa Obi Rally.
I'm from Bayelsa.

Juniorpope123:
Welcome to Eko. But still Peter Obi will be your Boss come 2023

Stop lying to yourself.
This election is between PDP and APC even Bayelsa Tinubu Rally was more than 8 times the population of Bayelsa Obi Rally.
I'm from Bayelsa.

666Advocate:
After Bonny we take it to Opobo.

Opobo have decided to start their own too.

May God bless my Ijaw Nation.

Map of Ijaw land.

Only Egbema Clan have over 350 villages and settlements under it and Ijaw have 86 Clans.


@General Ditari.

Ekpeitit:
Bayelsa wy be village want challenge big developed state like Rivers?
Wike go show una pepper.

Bayelsa people developed Rivers State.
Rivers State is not bigger than Bayelsa State neither more developed because you will never see an Ijaw person beg with plate on the streets.
Even over half of Rivers State is Ijaw.


13 LGAs are Ijaws.

wordbank:

Atiku don rub hand for diri head, him brain don shift
Bayelsa wey dey on life support
Small yansh dey shake oo

Bayelsa na your mate abi na even Wike mate?

Bayelsa have over 600 villages and settlements.
Bayelsa is the centre of Ijaw land.
PDP is Ijaw Party.
It gave us President.


They always count us by proxy. They refuse to cross creeks an count us in our many hundreds of villages.


Ijaws were unjusly balkanized into Ondo, Edo, Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers and Akwa-Ibom States when all Ijaws are fully together and share perfect boundaries with each other
with only Bayelsa as the only homogeneous Ijaw State.

After Wike say thunder fire INC for Church shey?

INC is Ijaw Ohanaeze Ndigbo and Afenifere equal.

Confused Wike.

Egbema Youth Council Lashes Bini Group Over Incendiary Comment On King Agadagba
November 30, 2022 Liberator News


Press Statement
28 November, 2022

Coalition of Bini Socio-Cultural Group’s Press Conference of November 22, 2022 On The Coronation of The AGADAGBA of Egbema Kingdom, His Royal Majesty Meshach E. Ubabiri: The Position Of Egbema Youth Council


The attention of the Egbema Youth Council (EYC) has been drawn to an online publication by a group of apparently disgruntled, self-seeking persons under the name ‘Coalition of Benin Socio- Cultural Organization’ headed by one Osazee Amas Edobor, a group earlier denounced by the Governor of Edo State. The group who are more like young school leavers practicing the art of writing, sacrilegiously referred to The Agadagba of Egbema Kingdom, Bini Pere IV, His Royal Majesty Amb Meshach E. Ubabiri as “one Meshach Ubabiri”

The Egbema Kingdom cuts across Delta and Edo states with one ancestry, an indivisible kingdom in Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State and Ovia South-West and Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Areas of Edo State. Specifically, we are indigenous to Delta and Edo states. Before the amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Protectorates of Nigeria in 1914, we were in this land and also, when the Mid-West was recreated into Bendel State, till 1991 when Delta was created out of the defunct Bendel State. However, to subjugate and dominate our people, the neocolonialists balkanized us by using the river-line delineation in what they called political and administrative convenience to put us in two states.


The press conference of the Coalition of Bini group is the the hand of Esau and the voice of Jacob. We are not surprised. When HRM Godwin Ogunoyibo, Alagbabunafa III, the Agadagba of Olodiama Kingdom was crowned, the Bini Traditional Council forced the Government of Edo State to issue a similar statement to take position against its own citizen of Ijaw ethnic nationality in Edo State. The Ijaws and Nigerians condemned the government position on the matter. It was rightly regarded as outrageous that government could take side and exhibit such unwholesome conduct in the 21st Century and in a democracy.

Realizing the security implications of the incongruous statement, the government of Governor Godwin Obaseki opted for dialogue with Ijaw leaders. The meeting finally took place in the Edo state Government House on 19th December, 2017. When asked by the press what his thoughts were on the demands of the Ijaws for recognition of their five kingdoms, their kings and the creation of an homogeneous local government council, he acknowledged that Ijaws are part of Edo State People. By implication, they’re citizens of Edo State who can have their kings including a local council of their own. Therefore, we referred these misguided group to Galaxy Television, Nation Newspaper and Vanguard Newspaper of December 20, 2017 to get the full statement of Godwin Obaseki, Governor of Edo State.


A kingdom is territorial and everyone is governed by their king except where it is not in practice and for the conquered. We have never been conquered, not even by the British, unlike the Binis. This imperialist attitude contributed to the downfall of the kingdom in 1897, a lesson they are yet to learn from. Having been profiled by their imperialist and domineering activities, they have been unable to realise their occupation agenda of Ijaw territories so far. This is not me age of imperialism and cannibalism.

For the purposes of further enlightenment of the self-acclaimed group, and for the undiscerning public not to be left with a false impression of the overlordship of the Oba of Benin and the status of the Ijaws of Edo State, we wish to state as follows:-

That the Ijaws are Aborigines of Edo State. The great Bini historian, Chief Dr. Jacob Uwagboe Egharevba of blessed memory (1893-1981) in his book, A Short History of Benin Kingdom, made it crystal and emphatically clear that the Binis met human inhabitants in the places now called Ijaw Ancestral Lands when they escaped from Oduduwa Kingdom in Ile-Ife.
Chief Dr. Jacob U. Egharevba demonstrably pontificated that the Binis came across several rivers and streams and met people whose daily livelihood was tied to these rivers and streams. These people are the Ijaws and, according to Chief Dr. Egharevba, these people helped the hordes of warriors from Ile-Ife to cross over the areas in the present Benin Kingdom.

Chief Dr. Egarevba of blessed memory was a Bini man, a member of the Iwebo society, a custodian of the Bini tradition, a highly celebrated historian of his time, the first and the best Curator of the Benin Museum told the truth. It is possible that most of these Binis leaving Ile-Ife were coming in contact with streams and rivers for the first time in their lives. The Binis are a very aquaphobic people while the Ijaws live nearby or on rivers and streams where they conduct fishing and other activities connected to their livelihood.

The Ijaws have a distinct culture and tradition that is diametrically opposed to that of the Binis. There are five Ijaw kingdoms in Edo state namely Egbema, Okomu, Furupagha, Gbarain, and Olodiama. The Ijaws are the aborigines and original owners of the lands where they are domiciled in Edo state. The Ijaws are the indigenous owners of their ancentral land and rivers of Ofunama, Ajakurama, Gbeoba, Bolou-Jamagie, Jamagie, Abere, Ugboama, Safarogbo, Gelegele, Inikorogha, Okomu, Gbelebu, etc with a population of approximately one million five hundred thousand people. Unfortunately, they are balkanized into three local government areas of Ovia South-West, Ovia North-East and Ikpoba Okha Local Government Areas.

The Kingdom of Egbema, under the leadership of Agadagba, is gazetted by the government of the defunct Bendel State with reference Section 8 of the Bendel State Traditional Rulers and Chief Edict 1979. This gazette gave legal backing to the status of the Agadagba of Egbema Kingdom. Before the formal recognition of the government, we have had several kings spanning over 400 years. We have lived in our present location for over 1000 years (since about 1170AD) and no force on earth will change it or relocate us.
Nevertheless, at the core of the inordinate ambition of the Bini people is the desire to control the oil and gas resources in the form of rent, royalties and tributes, which heightens the oppression and marginalisation and intimidation of the Ijaws of Edo State by the state government. The obsolete idea of subjugation is long gone. All over the world, regardless of social and cultural differences, small and big nations co-exist side by side. But Bini imperialism will not accept that reality.
Peace is crucial to the success of every government and the prosperity of her people. Government both at the state and the Federal and indeed all security agencies are therefore, enjoined to call these recalcitrants Bini group to order. We have endured the yoke of Bini imperialsm by denying us our rightful place in EDOSOPADEC representation in NDDC and in the state Executive Council. We would conclude by alluding to the famous quote by J.F Kennedy, the former president of United States of America,

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” A word is enough for the wise.

COMR. CITY KELVIN EFERUSUOA.

PRESIDENT GENERAL, EGBEMA YOUTH COUNCIL (EYC)

COMR. GOVERNOR EKPOKEMI.

GENERAL SECRETARY, EGBEMA YOUTH COUNCIL (EYC)

Map of the Ijaw Nation.


Only Egbema Clan have over 350 villages and settlements and Ijaw have 86 Clans.

Stop marginalizing Ijaws in Edo state or else… – Okaba, INC president warns

…Says Ijaws are not strangers in Edo state

Professor Benjamin Okaba, the President, Ijaw National Congress, INC, has called on those marginalizing the Ijaw speaking people in Edo State to desist from such act or face the anger of over 15 million Ijaw people across the nation as Ijaw in Edo are not alone.

The INC president gave the warning in Ikoro, traditional headquarters of Olodiama kingdom in Edo State at the 5th coronation anniversary of the Pere of the kingdom, His Royal Majesty, Godwin Ogunoyibo, Alagbabunafa III.

Prof. Okaba who stated that the Ijaw nation is aware of efforts made to change names of Ijaw communities in Edo State and also stop development to Ijaw communities, warned that the Ijaw nation is keenly watching events as they unfold.

While noting that the Olodiama Ijaw and the entire Ijaw in Edo State are not alone, the INC President said: “Today, we want to make it clear that our people in Edo State are not alone. An injury to one Olodiama man, is an injury to over 15 million Ijaw people.

“The Ijaw people are the Aboriginal owners of this place, Ijaw man is not a stranger in Olodiama; the Ijaw man is not a tenant in Olodiama, this is our home – original home, and no body, I repeat, nobody can change that fact.

“We are not oblivious to various efforts made by the government and other kings not to recognise our kings, we don’t want their recognition. Kings are made by the people, not the government, government alone make the formality. So, when the people make their kings, the Ijaw nation will give the backing.

“We are aware of the various efforts made to change the names of our communities. We are also aware of the various efforts made to stop development to this place, we are watching,” he added.

The INC President who doubles as Chairman of the coronation anniversary, while expressing his joy for the anniversary and the unity exhibited among Ijaw people, said Olodiama kingdom is an ancient kingdom that was gazetted in the early 70s hence no one can change it.

He added: “Today is a day of joy because our king is five years old in the throne, and from the record, this particular throne was officially recognised in 1973, several years ago. It was gazetted, and recognised, so the recognition is from the beginning.

“So, it is not a kingdom of yesterday. It is a kingdom that has the recognition of government from Midwest, to Bendel then to Edo. So, the present Edo State Government does not have the capacity to do otherwise. This throne must be recognised.”

Present at the 5th coronation anniversary were Ijaw kings from Bayelsa, Delta, Edo and Ondo states, namely: the Pere of Gbaramatu kingdom, Aketekpe, Oboro Gbaraun II; His Royal Majesty, Roman Bohan, Atunkpokubu XIII, the Pere of Furupagha kingdom; His Royal Majesty, Joel Ekeni Ibani, the Ogiobo IX, the Pere of Iduwini kingdom.

Others include: His Royal Majesty, Egbesuwei Gbaraun X, the Pere of Gbaraun kingdom, Bayelsa State; His Royal Majesty, Gbebokedi Ajiri-Oba, the Pere of Tubutoru and their chiefs.

The Agadagba of Arogbo-Ijaw in Ondo state and other kings who were not present sent their high chiefs and highneses.

Ijaw musicians – Barrister Smooth and Abobra were also present at the anniversary to thrill dignitaries with melodious Ijaw music.

Makavelli001:
Ijaw is over rating their self.
Check the official statistic of major tribes in Nigeria below.

created by Igbos.
Igbos are not larger than Ijaws in population.

ucheheart:
When I was serving in bayelsa state, I participated in registering voters then in Aleibiri , Ekeremo LGA, this people were bringing pictures of dead people for corpers to register them as voters, just to increase their population so they can gain more allocation from federal government, we asked them why can't this people come here physically, they told us to just register them and stop asking questions. they will pay us handsomely. We refused and they recruited new personnels and siezed our money.

Ebi2233 don't come here and be claiming your population is higher than Igbos. The whole ijaw nation is not even up to one quarter of Igbo population.

Aleibiri where I served is a village surrounded by water with a population of not more than 5000 people. The same village is referred to as a community, the same village is referred to as a LGA designate by the state government all this was done so they can get allocation from federal and state government.

How can a village with 5000 maximum population be referred to as a local government area? This can only happen in bayelsa state. So don't come here and be telling us bull shit about how your population is higher than iigbo population.

We know the truth about your so called ijaw nation and all the deceit and lobby going on there. Thank God for NYSC, it was an eye opener.

It's local government headquarters

Dvdpity:
Ijaw Minorities talking bulshit. Who takes them serious. Let them declare independence, they will understand the Ukrainian treatment. Cockroaches.

Landlocked dot circle Biafra.

securitywatch50:
Louder ooo

The table you are shaking is risky

I'm highly Obidient and Yusuful
What about you

Obi is wasting his time.
This election is between PDP and APC

Dvdpity:
Ijaw Minorities talking bulshit. Who takes them serious. Let them declare independence, they will understand the Ukrainian treatment. Cockroaches.

Igbos are not larger than Ijaws in population.
Why haven't you use your false population figure and become President.
Even this time the party you are coming with controls no state.

1.Ijaw Republic with Capital @Wilberforce


2.Oduduwa Republic with Capital @Lagos


3.Biafra Republic with Capital @Enugu


4.Kwararafa Republic (North East And Central) with Capital @Wukari


5.Arewa Republic with Capital @Kano

6.Akwa-Cross Republic with Capital @Calabar.


The Ijaw Republic carries the Ijaws unjustly balkanized into six States of Ondo, Edo, Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers and Akwa-Ibom States.

Ijaw Republic is bigger than the 53 smallest countries in the world including Isreal and Rwanda.
Ethnicity Ijaw 100 percent.


Ijaw produce over 90 percent of all Nigeria's Crude Oil but was unjustly balkanized into six States when we are fully together.


Below is the Map of the Ijaw Nation.

Only Egbema Clan have over 350 villages and settlements under it and Ijaw have 86 Clans.



Ijaw Republic or nothing else.



@General Ditari.

Emotions don't win elections.
This election is between PDP and APC.

It's very obvious that Atiku Abubakar Presidencial Candidate and Dr Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa his Running mate under the platform of people's Democratic party (PDP) will have a landslide victory at the 2023 Presidencial election in Nigeria Because of their credible nature,wide experience in Governance and leadership, excellent manifestoes, Leadership skills, ability to unite the country,wide spread of Political network across the country.Most importantly,the platform he is running under (PDP)is a well known Political party,her ideologies and style of Leadership has been tested and trusted,Where the economy of the country, education, security and other very important sectors of Human Endeavors were seriously booming it's on these notes that everyone is of the opinion that crystal clear that PDP will take over.

This is the bitter truth.

Peter Obi is a failure just accept the bitter fact instead of lying to yourself.