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Eastlink:
TonyeBarcanista, a Bayelsa Ijaw reopened old wounds with his story of Adaka Boro. Unlike what a lot of people were told about him,, its time to tell the real story of his expolits.

Story of Adaka During His 12 Day Revolution

1. Adaka 12 Day Revolution was responsible for sacking Non-Ijaws from Yenagoa, an Epie capital the Ijaws claimed as theirs.

2. Adaka banned movement of activities and chased out the Police from the Yenagoa province just as IPOB is doing in the east.

3. Adaka imposed levy and fines on non-Ijaws of Yenagoa province and killed those who stood against him.

4. Adaka himself said his anger was borne out of his cry over the death of his benefactor and "Hero of the Ijaw nation" Alhaji Tafawa Balewa in a coup he accused Igbos of sponsoring.

Then the Police action by Ironsi happened and Adaka the ape was thrown into jail.

Adaka After His Release By Gowon

1. During the civil war, Adaka knowing he had the arms and support from the government unleashed the most evil killings against Rivers people, non-Ijaws from the Epie tribe, Brass and Ogbia too were not spared.

2. Adaka's third brigade used the cover of the war and backing of the Adekunle led third marine commando to do the following.

3. He carried out genocide in Bonny and burnt down the palace of King Secondus Pepple. Today the Perekule palace of Bonny is situated in a new site instead of the former. King Pepple had to flee to Port Harcourt before the city later got captured by the federal forces.

4. Evil Adaka was responsible fot the war-of-brothers-against brothers in Kalabari and Okrika that succeeded in piting blood relations with brutal killings taking place in Bakana, Abonnema etc. The Toboniju and Koniju crisis affecting Okrika today had its offshoot from that conflict.

5. Adaka head hunted King Jaja of Opobo with the King fleeing to join Ojukwu in Umuahia. The story was told that as he landed in defenceless Opobo, he took his anger on the peope same way he did at Bonny, by asking why a suposedly Ijaw town was speaking Igbo. Dude began shooting at anything that moved.

6. Adaka was a monster that fate killed. Fate with the help of Adekunle killed Adaka. Adekunle was said to be unhappy with the disobedience to order by Boro and his wanton killing of the non-Ijaw populace of Rivers and now Bayelsa. His brutal killings of mostly the Igbo people and landgrabbing of non-Ijaw land was never seen.

Cc:
Slayerforever
Igboid
AdakaBoro
BishopMagic
Truckpusher
BigSharon
Kwem
Bonessaw
Yujin
Idenna
Ijoh
Bbkay

The book below uncovers some of the expolits of Adaka Boro.

https://www.readcube.com/articles/10.4314%2Fad.v34i1.57356

https://www.nairaland.com/6604357/betrayed-adaka-boro


Of course, Adaka Boro was an evil bird the North used to destabilize the Eastern region.

Even Adekunle knew how senseless he was hence his elimination before the war ended.

Honest Ijaws knew that Adaka Boro was evil. Deep Inside they know he was consumed by evil. I have heard them say in their groups in hushed tones that it was the gods that cursed Boro for killing so many of his own people.

Emekaonline:
Ojukwu died shamefully at the age of 76/77 and was struck with stroke. At that material time my granny of 85 years old was strong, agile and able than Ojukwu. He could not take any challenge then

Atleast he died of disease he couldn't do anything about and he fought to the end.

Awolowo the coward took rat poison and died like a rat rather than face the consequences of his failed coup plot.
He took his own life like a wimp and was buried like a nobody with no national fan fare.

Lol!
How did you come about this information?

Ndibunna:
Since you want me to burst you let me help you

Nextdoor84=Igboid=Allcomage.

No be everyone be novocey

You think everyone is an impostor like you.

EastisBae:
Why are you so foolish na? You're here claiming Akwa Ibom lands and saying they would be landlocked without your phantom ijaw lands yet you're here calling out Igbos.

What's our business with your stupidity or you just want to be unfortunate?

He wants traffic that Igbo generate.
Just ignore him.

garfield1:
Bonny and opobo are ijaws not igboid

In your dreams.

Kinematics:
Thank you.

Land grabbing pirate.
E go soon clear you.

Kinematics:
From the bolded it's quite obvious you know nothing about Rivers, but want to chook mouth for every Rivers matter. Ipig miscreant!

Aswana sea pirate.
Dem go soon catch and burn you.

nextdoor84:
Do not be deceived bro, the so called ‘Ijaws’ will never rule rivers state. The next governor of Rivers state is Austin Opara or bro Felix Amechi Obuah. Take this to the bank �. Wike has advised the riverine people to go for the senate seat. He has endorsed his loyal deputy for this seat.

Where is the Felix Obuah guy from? I hope it's not another Ikwerre man.

I think one of Hon Isaac Kamalu and Senator Olaka Nwogu both from Eleme axis should be chosen, to give the Ogonis a sense of belonging in the state.
Ijaws have ruled old Rivers State. Ogonis are about the only Bloc not to have tasted power in the state.

Tranquill:
Oga you are not from Rivers State so take your bigotry and troublesomeness to wherever you come from. Every tribe in Rivers State can be governor and not for you to come here and declare that some people "will never" rule Rivers State. Do not bring your hateful ideology and your 'superior vs inferior' mentality to Rivers people because they are not shallow minded like you lots.

You this Igbophobic impostor.
You are only angry because the Ekpeye man you quoted is not filled with Igbo hate like you.

d142475:
A dream team would be Wike as president and Peter Obi as minister of Budget and planning.

The tail does not wag the dog. Dream on.

IgbuduMonkey:
Like I have said, it is impossible to know how Olaudah got to the coast since he alluded to going through many places he didn't bore the reader with. What we know is that he was from a town, Essaka under Eboe/Aboh, a nominal province of Benen.

You know nothing.

IgbuduMonkey:
Eboe is not the old word for Igbo. Eboe is the name of a town and Kingdom which exist to this day. Called Aboh by its natives and Eboe by neighbours, it was a entrepot for slaves and goods due to its strategic position along the Niger. What this means is that slaves were moved to Aboh and sold there, from where they were resold to the whitemen at the coast. It is the reason why Crow recorded a large Eboe population at Bonny.
The Eboes/Abohs did not sell their natives as slaves. Most of the slaves sold were Igbos, most likely from the hinterland. But these slaves were called Eboe slaves because they were sold by the Eboes/Abohs just as cars imported through Lagos are called Lagos cars.
Aboh was a naval force on the Niger and had hundreds of gun boats patrolling the river. They also raided Igbo villages for slaves and had slaves sold to them by Igbos. It is from this the word Igbo arose which the Abohs refer to as slaves. The Eboes/Abohs were feared so much at that time by their neighbours as was recorded by explorers. Infact, thecLanders was captured at Asaba(called Kirree) and sent to Aboh where the Obi ransomed him. Few years later, the Abohs were said to be at war with the Kirree who killed a son of the Obi. The Abohs raided Asaba, captured 20 men, cut off their head and displayed them in the Aboh market
There are also recorded document of the Abohs raiding Omoku(or a village near there) and taking the head of their ruler
Overwhelming contemporary and literature evidences of these facts abound. You people have no idea what Aboh/Eboe is.

Lol!
I can't believe I was taking you serious.

Not in support of this, but the people Osibanjo appointed, are they qualified and competent?
If they are, I see no problem here.

Mind you, I'm Igbo and I'm non-religious ( I subscribe to no religion and I'm not an atheist either).

Shiver99:
While this distinct spirally jewelry has fast fallen out of fashion in Igboland itself. Interestingly, in some parts of Nigeria, particularly in parts of the Northern cross river, with a history of intermarriage and migration with Igboland, they have managed to retain an attire very similar to Igbos.

Other than traditional attire, they have also managed to retain distinct aspects of culture linked with Igbo origin that distinguishes them from surrounding groups, such as the worship of the earth goddess (Ala), and the new yam festival.

Which group is this?

And by the way. Aboh was once regarded as the capital of Igboland. Igbo slaves in Sierra Leone considered Aboh the capital of Igboland as it was the most important and powerful Igbo speaking town in the colonial era.

See Gutenberg view on that:

The Ibos, or 'Eboes' of American tales, are even more divided; still they
feel and act upon the principle 'Union is strength.' This large and savage
tribe, This large and savage
tribe, whose headquarters are at Abo, about the head of the Nigerian
delta, musters strong at Sá Leone; here they are the Swiss of the
community; the Kruboys, and further south the Kabenda-men being the
'Paddies.' It is popularly said that while the Aku will do anything for
money, the Ibo will do anything for revenge. Both races are astute in the
extreme and intelligent enough to work harm. Unhappily, their talents
rarely take the other direction. In former days they had faction-fights:
the second eastern district witnessed the last serious disturbance in
1834. Now they do battle under the shadow of the law. 'Aku constables will
not, unless in extreme cases, take up their delinquent countrymen, nor
will an Ebo constable apprehend an Ebo thief; and so on through all the
different tribes,' says the lady 'Resident of Sierra Leone.' If the
majority of the jury be Akus, they will unhesitatingly find the worst of
Aku criminals innocent, and the most innocent of whites, Ibos, or Timnis
guilty. The Government has done its best to weld all those races into one,
and has failed. Many, however, are becoming Moslems, as at Lagos, and this
change may have a happier effect by introducing the civilisation of
El-Islam.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18506/18506-8.txt

I wanted to ignore the funny claims the OP is making, but on second thought I have changed my mind.

Lander calling Aboh "Eboe" was a mistake which was later corrected.
https://archive.org/stream/narrativeofexped01alle/narrativeofexped01alle_djvu.txt

See attached documents.

If all your argument is based on Lander error that was later corrected, then you have no argument.

IgbuduMonkey:
He was certainly referring to Aboh Kingdom. There was an Aboh kingdom that stretched from Idah to Iru(Ijaw) area which had the Obi of Aboh as it's sovereign ruler and Aboh town as its capital. The Kingdom consisted of mostly Igbo speaking tribes but also included other tribes including Isoko and Itsekiri. [there are Isokos that will tell you that they are abohs]

The Aboh Kingdom was very powerful and influential around the time of Lander and had numerous gunboats on the lower Niger. That the Obi of Abohs influence extended as far as Idah is evidenced by the fact that his son, Ajieh went to Igarra to settle some disputes in 1854. So, Yes, Aboh/Eboe kingdom was on the Western and Eastern banks. Even today, we have Aboh settlements on the Eastern banks in Today's Rivers state.

Many of Captain Crows description of the Eboe people point to the fact that they are Aboh people. For Example, he said the Eboes believe in reincarnation, a strong believe in Aboh culture. He also said the Eboes looked like Benins. As I have told you guys before, Aboh people are from Benin. Also interesting is the fact that the Bonny people like Abohs revere the Iguana. So many things in that memoir that reveals the Eboes are actually Abohs

Now this is laughable and sincerely speaking, does not deserve a response.

IgbuduMonkey:
Here is what the document actually says:

Abó, the Eboe or Ibu of Lander and of Allen, is
the name of a town and also of a district extending
along both sides of the river, from the Orú country
towards Igára. It forms one of the sections of the Great
I'gbo (Ibo) territory ; and though by no means the
largest, is, from its position along the Kwóra, one of the most important. The sovereignty, since the
death of Obí, having, as I have mentioned, been
partly in abeyance, many towns which were under
his rule have ceased to pay tribute, and have become
independent. The dialect spoken along this tract is called also Abó, and it is readily understood over the
whole of I'gbo

From the above, it is obvious that Abó and Eboe means the same thing. It is also clear that these people have a Sovereign ruler called Obi. It is also very clear that the writer knows the difference between Eboe and I'gbo.

These documents I am sharing were written in the 1800s and it is from them rewriters of history have dubiously equated Eboe as Igbo to unsuspected readers. It is a lie that has to stop

Nope. I shared this same document you are posting about here before you.
If you are cleffstone, then I remember exposing you to this same document for the first time in the past

What the document is saying was that Lander and co in their early visit, mistook Aboh to represent the whole Igbo(eboe).
But with the new visit, the one who made the recording, noted that Aboh was only a part of an extensive Igbo country lying on both sides of the Niger.

Aboh and Eboe cannot mean same thing.
Unless you are saying that Eboes of Bonny were from Aboh as well.

Here is more of Captain Crow writing Igbo as Eboe too.
Was he also referring to Aboh?

Are you telling me that the Eboe refered to here by Captain Crow on Bonny history is Aboh too?

IgbuduMonkey:
he never called himself Igbo. Provide evidence please

You are creating a non existent argument.

Eboe was how Igbo was written in the past.
You don't expect to see Igbo in historical records.
The document you provided told you that the Eboe exists on both sides of the river, more on the East than on the left.
How is that not a description of Igboland?

The other time,it was someone from Etsako in Edo state that was claiming Olauda,now it's someone from Igbophobic Ukwuani.
All this even when the man in question went around the world calling himself an Igbo.

bigfrancis21:
So your assertion is that Olaudah is from Aboh and he isn’t Igbo? Aboh and Eboe are two different words pronounced differently. How you think that Aboh and Eboe are the same baffles me.

Next you asked why he would have been taken through the Igbo hinterland and not through the river Niger canal, the author said so himself. I didn’t make it up. He said so in his memoir. Which makes me to believe, did you completely read his book from start to finish? I first read his book in 2007 and have read it again and again since then.

Olaudah didn’t travel down the river Niger canal. He said so himself. Therefore your hypothesis of him being from Aboh is probably unlikely. It is very obvious that several parts of Igboland were under the Benin kingdom and his village was probably among, however it doesn’t make him any less Igbo.

You were unable to answer AjaanaOka’s relevant questions. Before you come up with hypothesis such as yours you need to have your facts right and be sure of your facts. You are glossing over significant linguistic and geographic evidence that the author left behind in his own memoir over your own personal hypothesis that suit your nuances, just because you believe within you that your hypothesis is correct. Next, instead of coming up with objective counter evidence for his origins, you present subjective evidence and attack the entire Igbo tribe for ‘claiming him’.

Your hypothesis will hold strong if you can do more research on your own and prove that Aboh or Ashaka people call year ‘afo’, had/have mgburichi facial scaring and fish was a rarity in 18th century Aboh/Ashaka.

He avoided your probe on linguistics for obvious reasons.
They will crash his argument.

Aboh/Ukwuani call year "efor" and not "ahfor".
No way in hell Olaudo was from Aboh.

It's late here. I have alot to write, so I will write more tomorrow.
I intend to leave this thread as a reminder to future Igbo generations,incase we make this Amaechi blunder, that atleast I tried to stem the tide.
Ekwueme and co did this in 2010 and today, it's has been proven that they were far more visionary than the rest of Igboland at that moment in time.

The Igbo elite are going into the transitional politics of 2011 with a divided house. Ohanaeze Ndi Igbo, led by Ambassador Ralph Uwechue, has held several meetings with the Ijaw National Congress led by Chief Wolfe Obianime Atuboyedia in Yenagoa and both sides agreed to support the President.

No Ijaw group has come to the East for any meeting, though they have visited the North and West. EK Clark holds meetings with Jonathan Igbo supporters in his house, but has never visited any of their residences. This seems to justify the Jonathan camp’s claim that “when the time comes, the Igbos will line up”.

Now take a look at this part of the summary.

While Ijaws and GEJ were busy negotiating compromise with the North and West.
They knew they needed no negotiating with Ndiigbo.
They just paid few Political jobbers amongst us who went about preaching about GEJ being one of us, then all emotional talks about us and Ijaw being one! You know old Eastern region, and about how supporting GEJ will help bring the old Eastern region unity back.

So we negotiated nothing from GEJ.
While we supported him and took bullets for him, not even our federal roads could be built by him, why should he? He knew our support was not interest based , but rather emotion based. Moreover he paid Igbo Politicaljobbers who worked on our emotions well, so you couldn't blame him.
But he knew the North support was hinged on interests, so he kept trying to please them Amajeri school and all.

Take a look around you and you see same pattern with Igbo political jobbers that are projecting Amaechi to us.
The Isiguzoro faction of Ohanaeze Ndiigbo and all, have obviously been compromised. These lots can't tell me they mean well for Ndiigbo and SE.

By OCHEREOME NNANNA
This report which was first published in Saturday Vanguard of last week is reproduced for our readers’ delight

FINALLY, the day for the staging of a political summit of Igbo political leaders came on Monday, September 27, 2010 at Owerri.

However, it ran into a hitch when, the night before the event, the major stakeholders arrived from Abuja and other places only to learn from Chief Chyna Iwuanyanwu, the Secretary of the Igbo Political Forum, IPF, the organisers of the summit, that from the look of things, the Conference Hall of the Hotel Concorde, venue of the event that had been paid for two weeks earlier, might not be available.


From right: Prof Charles Soludo, Senator Ken Nnamani, Chief Simeon Okeke, Dr. Alex Ekwueme,Chief Achike Udenwa, Dr Sam Egwu, Mrs. Chinwe Obaji, and Senator Ben Obi outside the Hotel Concorde, Owerri venue of the Igbo Summit, where they were locked out, last week. Photo: Hill Ezeugwu
The hotel management and security officials had been instructed to lock it up and refuse the participants entry into the hotel.

Iwuanyanwu also disclosed that when he arrived in Owerri Airport on Friday, September 24, he was accosted by a couple of State Security Services, SSS, officers, who advised him to allow them to escort him into town for his own safety. However, the presence of a large number of his own “men” made the security men to back off and instead follow him into Owerri in a red car.

According to him, he decided to report to the SSS office in Owerri to know why he was being harassed.

Iwuanyanwu also told our reporter that he decided to have a meeting with Governor Ikedi Ohakim, whom he suspected as the brain behind the move to scuttle the summit.

He said: “When I got to the government house, I was made to wait for four hours before the governor came down, and after a hasty exchange of pleasantries, he informed me that the summit, if allowed to hold in Owerri, would jeopardise his second term ambition.

I told him that we were not here to support any candidate for president in 2011 as feared by some people, but that we were here to give the Igbo people an opportunity to deliberate and agree on the best way to get the best deal for our people in 2011 and to table our demand for the presidency to be zoned to the Igbos in 2015.

But the governor would not listen. He said they were about to enter a Security Council meeting to review the situation. We parted ways on that note.”

By the time the delegates had arrived in Owerri, they decided to hold the main meeting in the night knowing that the venue would not be available the following day. It was during the meeting that everything was concluded and the communiqué drafted.

The decision to hold the gathering outside the lawns of the hotel was partially to rev up the propaganda value of the lockout and partly because most hotels in Owerri, when they learned that the state government was not positively disposed to the meeting being held in Owerri, refused to rent out their conference halls for fear of being blackballed by the Ohakim government, the biggest customer of the many modern hotels in the town.

On Monday, September 27, at about 11 am, as if on cue, the big wigs, led by former Vice President Dr Alex Ekwueme, began to converge at the Hotel Concorde premises.

When they had formed a large body, they proceeded to the door of the hotel where, of course, as predicted, they were not allowed entry. Then they sensationally decided to hold the summit in the blaze of the morning sunshine.

There were no chairs. In fact, two loudspeakers and a microphone powered by the popular ‘I pass my neighbour’ tiny generator were quickly procured, at least to enable the gathering and their fascinated onlookers hear what was being discussed.

In his opening remarks, Ekwueme, who was chairman of the occasion, reiterated that the summit was organised to give the Igbo people a chance to decide how to approach the unfolding transition programme.

He expressed his dismay that anyone would want to stop any group of Nigerians from meeting, adding that it was against the spirit of democracy and constitutionalism.

Okeke also stressed the non-partisan nature of the gathering, pointing out that members of the campaign organisations of the various candidates of the various political parties were among the delegates.

The aim, he affirmed, was for the Igbo people to brainstorm and explore the most viable means of achieving the zoning of the presidency to the South East in 2015, the only means of bringing to a close the ugly memories of the civil war which ended 40 years ago.

He condemned the action of the authorities, lamenting that it was curious that groups from the North, West and South-South, and even Jonathan’s supporters were allowed to peacefully hold their meetings while Igbos were being harassed in their own land from meeting and discussing their political future.

Professor Chinwe Nora Obaji, in a stirring speech, lamented that in spite of the contributions of the Igbo people and the fact that Igbo ingenuity and professionals are in high demand across the globe, Nigeria continues to sidestep the aspirations of one of the nation’s largest ethnic groups to serve at the highest level, forty years after the civil war ended

The communiqué emerged and was distributed barely a few minutes after the one hour event was brought to a close. However, the Imo State Government officials distanced Governor Ohakim from the lockout saga.

The only officer who agreed to speak on record, Mr. Henry Ekpe, the Chief Press Secretary, told our reporter on phone from Abuja where he and his principal were at the time the event was unfolding, that the “order from above” did not emanate from Ohakim.

“If the security agencies felt that there was a threat to law and order and they stepped in to the stop any gathering that is their business. It has nothing to do with the governor.

He has no control over the security agencies, and the management of Concorde is not under the control of the governor. It is a private business. We cannot answer for their actions”.

The inside stories

It is time now to go below the surface and explore the undercurrents that led to the lockout and staging of the summit under the sun. You have guessed it correctly; it was old fashioned politicking at play, with jostling for prime positions by vested interests over the 2011 polls.

The IPF belongs to the flank that supports zoning and the emergence of a northerner as president in 2011. One of the high officials of the Governor Ohakim government who spoke to me described it meeting as “a summit of Anambra politicians for (General Ibrahim) Babangida, which should have held in Awka or Enugu.

They brought it here deliberately to cause confusion.” To say it was a summit for Babangida was not quite correct. The correct way to put it is that they were pro-zoning political actors, which means they do not support the President Goodluck Jonathan aspiration for president in 2011.

For instance, Senator Ben Obi is the Director General of the General Aliyu Gusau Presidential Campaign Organisation.

The pro-zoning Igbo politicians have argued that it is only through it that the demand for the emergence of an Igbo president in 2015 can be possible, adding that if Jonathan succeeds in setting aside zoning and wins in 2011, zoning would die.

In so doing, the Igbo people would be “cheated” again, after zoning was used to heal the June 12 wound of the Yoruba and the agitations of the Niger Delta. The forty year-old wound of the Igbo nation would fester on.

All the pro-zoning politicians were prominent actors during the civil war, and forty years after the war, they want assurances that they would see the end of the conflict in their lifetime through the emergence of an Igbo president in 2015.

On the other hand, Udenta Udenta and Ben Obi, in discussions with this writer, expressed their belief that the North have proved to be promise-keepers in their dealings with the Igbo.

According to them, when the Northern People’s Congress (NPC) and the National Council for Nigerian Citizens (NCNC) went into an alliance after the NPC won the 1959 federal elections, the Igbos shared power with the North almost equally, producing the ceremonial president of Nigeria and juicy cabinet positions that compared well with those of the North.

That alliance forced the Action Group into the opposition. Again, twenty years later in 1979, after the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) won the presidential election and the Nigerian People’s Party (NPP) agreed to enter into an Accord with the North, it enabled the Igbo to produce the nation’s Vice President barely nine years after the civil war, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and several senior cabinet positions.

Again, the West-based UPN, which scored the second highest votes, was relegated to opposition.

A divided house

The Igbo elite are going into the transitional politics of 2011 with a divided house. Ohanaeze Ndi Igbo, led by Ambassador Ralph Uwechue, has held several meetings with the Ijaw National Congress led by Chief Wolfe Obianime Atuboyedia in Yenagoa and both sides agreed to support the President.

No Ijaw group has come to the East for any meeting, though they have visited the North and West. EK Clark holds meetings with Jonathan Igbo supporters in his house, but has never visited any of their residences. This seems to justify the Jonathan camp’s claim that “when the time comes, the Igbos will line up”.

The governors of the South East, a day to the Owerri Summit, had also endorsed the president. Late in August, a group of pro-Jonathan political actors, such as Chief Mbazulike Amechi, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, Dr Chukwuemeka Ezeife and others held their summit in Enugu and threw their support behind Jonathan.

The argument of the pro-Jonathan Igbo leaders is equally convincing. According to them, assisting Jonathan to get elected in 2011 would go a long way in healing the wounds inflicted on the relationship between the Igbo and their Minority neighbours in1952 after Professor Eyo Ita, Leader of Government Business in the former Eastern Region, who was poised to emerge as the Region’s first Premier, before he was displaced by Dr Azikiwe after the latter failed in his bid to become the first Premier of Western Nigeria. Since that period till date, the Igbo people and their minority neighbours have lived like cat and mouse, undermining one another’s political interests, forging partnerships with distant allies and creating deep hurts on one another.

They also believe that if Jonathan wins next year’s election, it would put an end to what they term “Northern arrogance of power and oppression of other Nigerians”.

They argue that it is the only chance Nigeria has to usher in a new beginning, as a Jonathan presidency that is not based on tribal or sectional fundamentalism is likely to work toward the restructuring of Nigeria to remove ethnic or sectional domination. They also claim that Jonathan, as a “neighbour” and in-law, would not ignore or neglect Igbo interest.

All these do not detract from the fact that this Igbo is giving Jonathan unsolicited support, and some are obviously doing so because they are eyeing PDP ticket or jobs or contracts after the race, without any special package for the common good of the Igbo nation. It would appear that the two camps may not be able to close ranks.

It is probably impossible for any large group to close ranks when they are not in power.

vanguardngr.com/2010/10/owerri-lockout-of-igbo-leaders-the-inside-story

In 2010, Ndiigbo was at a crossroad. It was obvious that we couldn't contest and win the 2011 presidential election.
So we had two options!
1. Accept to play the second fiddle role to the North by insisting that the GEj allow the North complete Yaradua tenure.
This was the right thing to do, because it would have helped preserve PDP rotational presidency and would have seen the North be magnanimous to Ndiigbo after they must have completed Yaradua tenure in 2015 by supporting us.
This would have also not have led to the injustice and dissatisfaction that the Northern elements felt in PDP in 2015 that led to APC formation.
Ndiigbo by supporting GEJ in 2011 basically buried PDP presidential rotation policy and blocked our own future path, on the altar of Emotions and sentiments!

2. Support GEJ, who had money to dole around, who also evoked the sentiments of "I am one of you" by playing on the Igbo easily controlled emotions by reminding us of our Eastern region brotherhood and how our support for him would help rekindle it.
He also played on the Igbo sense of justice and fairness by reminding us that his people though the main producers of Nigerian crude oil have not enjoyed the highest post in the land.


NB: I took time to copy and paste a long summary of the events that played out in Igboland in 2010 between pro GEJ and pro rotation (those who believed that the North should be allowed to complete her tenure) groups in Igboland, in the next post.

The effect of Amaechi emergence as president of NIGERIA to Ndiigbo will be massively devastating.

Just like Ekwueme warned that GEJ support from Ndiigbo and his subsequent emergence will delay Igbo political recovery by decades.

The emergence of Amaechi, a non Igbo man, as president of NIGERIA with Igbo support, will delay Igbo chances of having a clean shot at Nigerian president by atleast another 32yrs!

If no Igbo man emerges as flag bearer in APC and PDP.
Then we should sit down with anyone, be they devil or God who emerges flag bearer in both parties and discuss what they have to offer Ndiigbo in terms of Lionshare of Political posts and infrastructures, as well as future support for our presidential bid, in exchange for our support.

No one should have our support because they bear Igbo sounding name.

Anyone who gets our support should only do so because they offer us both present (influential Political posts in their government) and future (support in our bid for presidency in the future), and not for anything else.

We must be ruthless, pragmatic and merciless in our pursuit of our interests.
The need of few hungry Political jobbers who collected peanuts from non Igbo candidates like Amaechi and co, must not be allowed to override the interest of the Igbo nation as a group.

Also remember that one of the main emotional arguments paid GEJ agents in Igboland were pushing then was that support for GEJ would help quell the Igbophobia in SS especially in Ijawland.
This was the argument that got me on board then.
But we now Know from hindsight that this argument doesn't hold true.
Igbo support for GEJ has not in anyway changed how the average Ijaw man sees the Igboman.

And you best believe that voting for Ikwerre man will not also change how the Ikwerre views the Igbo.
The only people who will benefit from this Amaechi support in Igboland are the hordes of Igbo political jobbers he has employed, who are all over the internet selling the Amaechi Utopia to Ndiigbo.
These lots will smile home with millions while Ndiigbo will be left with eggs to our face again!

Ndiigbo cheenu echiche ofuma.

Ndiigbo must realize that "Ohu abu nwa".
Amaechi will always belong to his Ikwerre people and by extension Rivers people and then "we SS" people before he belongs to Ndiigbo if we adopt him.

We would be commiting a political suicide if we put our support down for Amaechi on the altar of sentiments.
It will end like GEJ ended.

Remember how Ekwueme and co went about Igboland trying to educate our people on need to insist that GEJ finish off his tenure as a VP to a one term tenure to a Northern President in 2011, and not contest, so that the Northern president having completed Yaradua tenure, with our help , will out of goodwill and agreed interest support Igbo presidency in 2015 or at the least in 2019.

But Ndiigbo out of sentiments led by the paid PDP agents probably high on moneys GEJ doled out to them silenced Ekwueme and co voice of reason and pushed for emotional politics.

Politics is all about interests and not emotions.
Amaechi and. Ikwerre are not Igbo.
We should be ready to work with any devil( be they Yoruba or North) that is ready to gurantee our interests.

Voting Amaechi an Ikwerre man, whose emergence will block our future path, and who will throw us under the bus to curry favor from same Yorubas and the North, will be another display of Buffoonery from Ndiigbo.

It will not be well with all these Igbos who have been bought by Amaechi and who are willing to sell the rest of us, just to put food on their own table.

In APC, we are waiting for Umahi to start active campaigning, or for Ogbonnaya Onu or Okorocha to step forward.
If they don't, then we should cut a deal with anyone who emerges in APC that is not Amaechi, and negotiate with them as plan B, in case PDP don't give us the ticket.