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Now that Amaechi has officially declared his interest to context in the upcoming 2023 presidential election.
I believe it's time to reassurect this thread again.

I actually agree with Ebubu.
Amaechi is not actually a choice for Ndiigbo and SE.

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.

Akponmfet:
You do know that Yorubas and the Binis are related but now Bini is Bini and Yoruba is Yoruba?
This is the reason Biafra people are the laughing stock of Nigeria, you want to attach to everyone but nobody wants you.

You are obviously a troll.

Ndiigbo are not the ones attaching to Ikwerre or Amaechi.
It is rather the other way round.

Also the Bini-Yoruba example is dumb.
Bini speak totally unintelligible language from Yoruba. This is not the same with Ikwerre and Igbo.

BlueRayDick:
Xhaka will just make simple stuff hard with his useless short passes.

Saka's wing is not working out today for us. Maybe we should bring Martinelli in to the left hand side and Pepe to the right.

Pepe is not on the Bench.

hammer567:
The tribe in yenagoa, your capital city in Bayelsa is not Ijaw.

Yet you insist u deserve more state?

Your the only group that convert people from other tribe to ijaws.

You dont deserve even 1 state. cc Igboid

Ijaw is actually the 10th ranked ethnicity in Nigeria by population.
This is why they are trying to claim none Ijaw speaking people to swelll their numbers today.

See: https://www.nairaland.com/3400415/1931-population-figures-nigerian-ethnic

SIONKPO1:
Obolo in Abia
Igala in Anambra
Idoma in Ebonyi
Make your Research

Nothing like Obolo in Abia.

No Idoma in Ebonyi.

Amaechi has no Political base true true.
Amaechi and Ikwerre is not Igbo. So he will not get Igbo votes, no matter how much he clowns around on Isiagu clothes and speak Igbo.

Amaechi candidature will effectively be a South South presidency.
But the problem is that South South have Political blocs and it's not yet Ikwerre turn.
SS Political blocs:

1. Ijaw
2. Akwa/Cross
3. Edo
4. Urhobo
5. Anioma
etc.

Amaechi emergence will mean pushing other power blocs higher than them in that ranking to the backyard and would mean they could have to wait for a lifetime before next presidency will return to SS to take their own turn.
So I wager that the above power blocs in SS will not work against SS president of Ikwerre extraction, but they will also not be too eager to embrace it.
Many groups will look for where their bread will be buttered and Amaechi will not be able to get a consensus/Bloc vote from SS.
In SE, he will not get more than 1% votes as Ndiigbo are currently focused on getting an Igbo president or atleast a compromise VP that could set us up in pole position for presidency in the next rounds.

In conclusion, APC would have committed a Political blunder if they pick Amaechi to represent them, same as PDP with Wike.

bigpicture001:
I am not telling u about plastic.. it's about vehicle manufacturing... That was the threat from the started government....

Believe it of. Not... Truth cannot hide

The plastic industry manufactures all plastic parts of Innoson motor like the dash board and vehicle fittings.

No such government threat. Go and rest.

bigpicture001:
This shows the south easterns are not United... Do u know Enugu state government called innoson ND ask him to locate a plant in Enugu state so that thier people can also get work unless they would stop to buy his product....

This is in the same vein that Imo state is doing same.....

It not a welcome development, it's not cost friendly

Stop taking Mkpuru mili. No such thing happened.
Innoson plastic industry is located in independence layout phase 2 Enugu.

Investment in Igboland is cost effective for every Igbo man. It comes with Zero threat of confiscation or hostility from non Igbos.

Innoson is a one Nigeria shouting Igbo man.
But he has sense too.
He understands that charity must Begin at home(Igboland).
I pray other Igbos begin to get the message Innoson is passing across.
No UGM, no ESN, no one has attacked Innoson business in the South East.
South East remains a safe place to invest, especially as an Igbo man.

Innoson also have a factory in Enugu. That's where they produce their GP tanks and plastic chairs, tables, cups, spoons plates, etc.

Ndiigbo, We will enjoy Nigeria more, when we build up Igboland!
Aku luo Uno!

BKayy:
Stop this nonsense, e no dey reign again. The era of you lots smearing Igbo name for relevance has passed. You forgot that Nairaland show post history.

We are not recruiting. Learn to respect yourself.

Thank you and God bless. Ikwerrian

I don't know when those Bini wannabes will understand what is currently going on.

Dear Ikwerre people. Young Igbo people no longer consider Ikwerres as Igbos.
You will be embarrassed and denigrated by us if we catch you claiming Igbo.
Better learn to keep your dignity and respect, by sticking to Your Ikwerre tag.
We are not like our fathers that tolerated you lots.
Move on to avoid further embarrassment.

SIONKPO1:
The Mistakes some Igbo's does is they call anybody that bears Igbo kind of Name igbo,abeg they should concentrate on the 5Wonderful States that is known

Go and rest you cunning Yoruba man.
No one solicitated for your opinion here.
Isobo people are proud Igbos.
There is no crude oil there for some vultures to latch unto and instigate Igbo denial there.

Igbo is beyond 5SE states and we will also hold tight unto any Igbo group outside SE that holds tight to us.
While we will never fail to deny and denigrate any who follows Ikwerre and Ika footsteps.

OyiboUgbo04:
Isobo is An Igbo community in Cross River State, They are mainly found in Obubra Local Government Area with Three communities, Otaka (Isobo Otaka), BikoBiko (Isobo Biko Biko) and Ezomezo (Isobo Ezomezo).. The Isobo people are predominantly famers, their major farm produce are Rice and Yam. The Isobo people are also found in Yakurr and Abi Local Government in Cross River and Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State..

I visited the community few days back.. You can read about them or watch the short video I made Below.

https://outravelandtour.com/among-isobo-people-the-indigenous-igbo-of-cross-river-state/



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WVZ37kXsp4

Shouldn't this be the job of OHANAEZE Ndiigbo.
I mean finding ways to raise funds, send delegates to far flung Igbo communities like Isobo, try to solve one or two of their basic needs and stamp it with "Donated by Ohanaeze Ndiigbo" sign post.
They raise funds from private and companies and build one central borehole for each of those three Isobo communities.
Then do small renovation or rebuilding work on their community primary and secondary school and also provide basic things like lab equipments and some good textbooks for the libraries.

Here is an earlier NL thread on Isobo people.

https://www.nairaland.com/3425009/meet-isobos-igbo-speaking-tribe

Fbisshit:
Op God bless you.

We have left the ikweres with their true identity because truly they're not IGBO.

We don't have anything in common with the ikweres and soon I'll kick all of them out of ohannaeze.

I can't wait for the day this will happen.
And that day is fast approaching.

Where is Sagay these days?
They were all dancing azoto in 2015 and early 2016 when Buhari and APC anti Igbo agenda was in full speed.

Told them that Ndiigbo have survived worst than them.

GenPutin:
Forget all those things,IKA candidates are our best and better alternatives to the IKWERRE option.Since you and I know the southeast is not producing the next President or VP.

Half bread is better than none.

Let Onu Ika go publish a public address on all national new dallies declaring their Igbo identity and denouncing all their Bini stories.
Let this letter be signed by all kings in Ika including the Dein of Agbor where Emefiele hails from.
Let them tender unreserved apologies to Ndiigbo for all the insults we have received from them in recent years since the war ended.
Then we might consider them.

For now, the only Igbos we know in Delta state are the Enu-ani.
Nkita agaghi na-eri nsi, eze ana ere ewu.

SE will stick to SE candidates.

Ijoh:
Mr man after the flood it was remaining only Noah, his three sons and their wives.
Noah was born after the tower of babel story so when all languages where destroyed and Noah and his three sons were speaking just one how come the so many languages in the world.

You mumu well well even Oro till today are begging to join IYC and INC saying they are Obolo Ijaw people we refused.

Ochi lee e!

Ijoh:
You are mad.
Ogbia is a subgroup of Ijaw.
What is Ogbia and what is Ijaw
This shows that you know nothing about Ijaw.
Ijaw have different subgroups and clans that came together to become Ijaw.
They all have one anscestor.

One ancestor with divergent and completely unrelated languages?

Ogbia is an Ibibiod language. Just like Obulom, Abua, Odual and Abureni.
These are proto Ibibiod people who migrated to and settled in the Eastern Niger Delta, before the arrival of Ijaws into the area.

EastisBae:
The day any sub Igbo group starts acting as a total enemy to all Igbos is the day they would also be treated as an enemy too by all Igbos. After all, Aka onye wetara ka eji eso ya!

It shows lack of self respect when you continue embracing those that insult and attack you.

Even Yorubas didn't seize our assets and call them abandoned properties but someone you claim is your brother connived with others to steal our properties in P.H! As if that's not enough, they continued to undermine and insult us because they felt we are done for after losing the war while they have oil wealth.

I would rather vote for Atiku, Osinbajo or any other person than vote for characters like Amaechi or Wike. I will even use my personal resources to campaign against them should they claim to represent Igbos because that's fraud! Any party that mistakenly nominate any of them as candidate to represent Igbos will fail woefully!!

I can't believe that this common sense doesn't come naturally to Ndiigbo.
I mean do you even need to spell these things out for our people to understand?
You keep the group strong by protecting its interests aggressively even against former members who have turned non-members/enemies, you must show no mercy.

This is why Wike and Ikwerre keep Messing up in Rivers State, because they know that the emotional Igbos resident there who atleast form up to 15% of the resident population, will always vote for them regardless of how Igbophobic they are.
How can you give someone or a group such control over you just because you can't control your own emotions?

Someone must wake Ndiigbo up from this slumber.
I swear.

Ikegwuru o.

SweetiliciousD:
@the emboldened, you keep contradicting yourself, if Opobo people are Igbos as you claimed in another post, Ikwerre people are not as you opine in this post.

One day for reasons best known to you, you will claim Waawa or Ndoki people are not Igbo too cos the power to determine who is Igbo is mainly based on conduct, not ancestral heritage.

This topic has nothing to do with Opobo and Bonny.

Graysons:
So Jonathan is now an ijaw man? The funny is that you are busy calling the ikwerres cunning, while you igbos are more cunning. Oga leave ijaws out of your mouth and fight your fight with the ikwerres. He no concern ijaw people.

Lol!
GEJ is an Ogbia man, but since Izons are happy with an Ogbia man masquerading as an Ijaw man to take what belongs to them, who am I to complain.

GenPutin:
Igboid as an Igbo man like you,aside ameachi it is only emefiele that our last hope, because emefiele is an Igbo man.APC will not zone to southeast.In the PDP if it comes south,It'll go to okowa.It will be giving to Atiku or he may even be a VP to Atiku.

We can strike a deal with his Ika brethren, they're better than the ikwerre.

Since when has Emefiele and Ika people become Igbo?
The only Igbos I know in Delta are the Enu-ani (Aniocha/Oshimili).
If Ika and Emefiele say they are Igbo, let Onu Ika release a public communique proclaiming their Igbo identity and have it published in atleast four major newspapers.
This is something Ohanaeze ought to have done long ago to stop all these mushroom groups denigrating Ndiigbo while trying to have their cake and eat it.

Buhari got accused of Marginalizing Ndiigbo from his appointments in 2016. Buhari came out and claimed that he has many Igbos in his cabinet and mentioned Emefiele and Ibe Kachiukwu.
Ibe Kachiukwu comes from Onicha Ugbo in Enu-ani whose king proudly proclaims the Igbo identity of the town, so we can understand Kachiukwu being called Igbo, because he is Igbo and we know where his allegiance lies.https://www.nairaland.com/3805117/history-enu-ani-igbo-people-onicha-ugbo

But Emefiele comes from Agbor, a place where it's people and King take pleasure in insulting and denying being Igbo.
Yet when Buhari said that Agbor son Emefiele is representing Igbo quota in his cabinet, Agbor people and King, including the Igbophobic Onu Ika all kept quiet.
None of them came out to tell Buhari that they are not Igbo. Because at that moment, claiming Igbo offered them an opportunity.

And of course, because Ohanaeze Ndiigbo have not done their homework earlier, they too couldn't come out to deny Agbor and Emefiele as we should have.
So in the end, Agbor people remain Igbophobic while still managing to reap benefits of being Igbo. And the loser in this con game are the Igbos whose quota gets snatched by a people who openly bash us at will.

This is my grouse with Ohanaeze Ndiigbo their incompetence have shortchanged all Igbo clans whose loyalty lie with Ndiigbo, because it has allowed Igbophobic Opportunists grab things that could have otherwise been reserved for Igbos. By now, Ohanaeze should have demanded that all Igbo speaking communities outside SE who want to be part of Igbo nation "MUST" release a public communique to be published in all Newspapers proclaiming their Igbo identity and signed by their Ezes and their town union presidents and apex organizations ( Onu Ika, Ogbakor Ikwerre, etc).
Any town that couldn't comply to this, should be promptly excommunicated from Igbo nation.
This way we can get a well defined boundary of REAL IGBOLAND, ie those whose allegiance we can count on and not Opportunists. And whenever anyone from these places whose allegiance is not to us try to play the Opportunism game, we can actually come down on such persons hard and disgrace the hell out of them.
https://www.nairaland.com/6251727/why-ohanaeze-ndiigbo-must-restructure

CSTRR:
The south East will keep experiencing mass migration of humans for a very long time.

And all the consequences of that.

SE probably have the biggest population density in Nigeria.
It's only normal that a progressive people like Ndiigbo will migrate for newer pastures.

Omanambala:
Because it's shameful and demeaning for grown men to dance in such an outrageous way. Very disgusting. A Yoruba guy tried to call it an Igbo dance and I quickly corrected him ,asap! I made sure he understands thats Ikwerre and never Igbo...he wanted to label it Igbo dance and use it to mock me in front of Jamaicans and African Americans. I rejected it like a curse....Chukwu aju!

I have watched a lot of Ikwerre video to see one single thing about them that shows elegance , grace nor aristocracy but nothing....these people are worthless and untop of it feeling funky....WTF. IPOB gave them too much confidence. Their culture is at best inferior....i will not touch them with a long pole.

Well, the waist dance thing I must confess is embarrassing.
But I wouldn't say their culture is inferior. No culture is Inferior to the other
And you are right about IPOB role in inflating their egos.
But Ohanaeze have always had them in Igbo organizations before IPOB started their own wahala.
So I think the Ikwerre issue is a collective Igbo problem that we all at one point or the other all contributed to creating.
If you go through this my handle and other handles you will see threads where I was busy defending Ikwerre Igbo identity.
I embarrassingly fell for their con game led by the likes of Aguma, Okwukwu and Amaechi who have all infiltrated Ohaneze Ndiigbo.

I guess we all wake up at different times. I woke up in 2015 to their games.
It's going to take every other Igbo time to wake up to it too, but I hope to help in accelerating the awakening process, so that we can flush out those spies off our gatherings, set boundaries and heal ourselves again.
In 2017 after Wike took up microphone and pointed leprous fingers at Ndiigbo during Rivers State 50yrs anniversary, accusing us of invading Rivers State and Gowon praised as liberator of Ikwerre and Rivers. I raised a big alarm to IPOB people here.
See the thread:https://www.nairaland.com/4232285/wike-secondus-vs-yoruba-pdp
But they all labelled me Afonja until Wike fully manifested his Igbophobic self in Obiigbo, that was when IPOB got the message I was passing across since 2017.
Our people tend to be too emotional and less calculative and hence easily fall preys to simple sociopolitical manipulations of other Nigerian groups.
We must start doing better.

Omanambala:
This is their game plan....very shady characters

Ife anyi machakwa ama.

Omanambala:
Why do you make it sound as if there is anything worth celebrating as an Ikwerre....your culture is shhhit. Your ancestors were dumb who did not invent a thing, other than shaking boottty like bunch of whores and call it a dance. Scram!

The way you hate this Ikwerre and Ijaw waist shaking dance eh.

Grown ass men shaking buttocks like cheap strippers in a cheap brothel.
Haha!

PressMyButton:
Maybe I exaggerated a bit saying Ikwerres would issue a stern warning to ibos, however, I can bodly predict that the Ikwerres would definitely pronounce it an Ikwerre presidency directly or indirectly, most likely back it up in all paid Newspaper pages. Specifically, several ikwerre groups would congratulate him and refer to him as their son to the discontent of ibos.

I think they will play the carrot and stick game.
While Ogbakor Ikwerre will be congratulating him as their son.
The likes of Uche Okwukwu who works as their agents in Ohaneze Ndiigbo will be massaging Igbo ego and working on Igbo easily tuned emotions by telling them that Ikwerre is Igbo and Amaechi is one of Igbo people.

Both the Ikwerre in Ohanaeze Ndiigbo and those in Ogbakor Ikwerre will meet in their secret places and have a healthy laugh about the folly and gullibility of the average Igbo man.
Amaechi will continue to speak from both sides of the mouth. He will declare Igbos the foundation of his administration, which is a way of saying that Igbos will be used as his shield against attacks from other Nigerians.
Igbos will embrace him and will bear the brunt of his administration actions as other Nigerians will call him Igbo. At every giving opportunity, he will also remind Nigerians that he is Ikwerre and not Igbo.

Meanwhile Amaechi will be busy having meetings with his Igbophobic Ogbakor Ikwerre people behind scenes. Wike actions at Obiigbo will be child's play to what he would do because he will always want to prove to other Nigerians that he really isn't Igbo. SE will hardly get FG projects( take a cue to how SE was skipped in the Chinese loan projects under Amaechi ministry before we all raised uproars in the social media) instead, he will empower few Greedy Igbos with contracts and posts in his cabinet, who will go about telling us how Amaechi is Igbo and is protecting our interests.

I can easily see how this will go down, if Ndiigbo don't nip this evil in it's bud now.

chrisxxx:
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You are not correct. I don't believe Ikwerre and Benin have any relationship. I am closer to an Igbo man than I am to a Benin person.
I strongly disagree that Ikwerre is Igbo same way Igbo is not Ikwerre.
I don't hate igbos.

You are not close to any Igbo.
You are Bini people, from the great Akalaka of Bini.
Igbo has nothing to do with Ikwerre.

RacistProudIgbo:
Shut up, Ikwere is not Igbo kill all you Igbo haters here, Ngwa is also not Igbo useless jealous things. Ikwere is more even Igbo than most Igbos. Take it or hang, at last we will defend our land and all our brothers from Rivers to Asaba.

Voltron, the defender of the Universe.
All air and no substance.

Ikwerre is not Igbo. Grow up and stop letting your emotions get the better of you.

MetaPhysical:
If we were talking about Lagos you don't consider yourselves to be commoners. You are not delegates in party elections in Lagos, whether PDP or APC, the handicap has not stopped you from contesting for office in every election cycle, has it?

I believe Tinubu will win the election. He is that good! Personally I don't want him to win. My grudge with him is his zealotry with Nigeria and patriotism that a unified Nigeria is possible. Yoruba is far more civilized and supreme to a shitty Nigeria. Those we hold in esteem and call leaders ought not to promote Nigeria above Yorubaland. It should be other way around. Tinubu has professed to be a Nigerian first, I therefore think his fate is in the hands of Nigerians, not Yorubas. I am a strongly patriotic Yoruba man. My patriotism to Nigeria is in an order beneath my patriotism to other Yorubalands in West Africa and diaspora. I will support Ketu or Porto Novo in Benin Republic for example before I support Nigeria.

I say all this to share that unity advocates exist in every ethnic group, those who love Nigeria more than their indigeneous fatherland. You cannot deny Onu but embrace Amaechi, they both are unity lovers and reverence the North. Nevertheless, Igbo should see Onu's eligibility as non-negotiable and rally behind getting him out to the primary.

Stop mentioning Umahi. If Fani Kayode contest against Umahi APC will endorse FFK ahead of Umahi. Drop the idea. Umahi will be a deficit to Ndigbo.

I don't remember any Igbo denying Onu.
Election in Nigeria is a cash and carry thing.
Onu has no money, he hasn't been able to get the opportunity to loot the public treasury like the likes of Amaechi, Tinubu and Umahi who are ex governors.
This is why I think he will struggle to buy APC delegates to win the primaries.
Umahi has the financial muscle to do that to some extent.

I understand you are scared of Amaechi and is somewhat Happy to see the Igbos not back him.
You should enjoy it and stop all these funny games mbok.

Amaechi will be a bad market for APC.
His emergence will alienate SW from APC and will see the region show apathy to voting on election day.
SE will not vote Amaechi either as he doesn't protect our own interests being a non Igbo and from Ikwerre, we believe SS have had their turn with our support and should out of magnanimity support SE and Ndiigbo and not come to us again for support.

Wike will not give Amaechi a breathing space in Rivers State as well.
So APC with Amaechi will not even be sure of clearing SS.
It's a lose lose situation.

PDP will just coast to victory.
The whole Amaechi permutation is based on Igbos embracing him and allowing him use the SE as a launching pad to make inroads into other parts of SS.

The permutation have not put into consideration that the Igbo younger generation are fed up with Ikwerre shenanigans and will no longer tolerate them like the old Igbo generation did and are doing.

PressMyButton:
True talk.. A situation whereby Ameachi emerges the President and his Ikwerre brothers issue a very stern warnings to the ibos to steer clear of him. Lol

Lol!
This scenario will even make sense and be good for Ndiigbo. This is the scenario I hope to elicit by making this post.
Maybe it would wake most emotionally driven Igbos from sleep.


But the Ikwerres are more cunning than that.
They will want to allow Amaechi retain the attachment to Igbo, so that the Igbo will bear the consequences of Amaechi failure and the wrath of his enemies too, while they hide behind the Igbo and enjoy their share of the national cake. Until Amaechi is out of power, then they quietly return back to their Igbophobic ways.
And you can trust Igbos not to even see through the con game.