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SlyDev:
Self assurance but you got all your civilization from British, igbo that they had to teach them how to plant crops properly, getaway u

Lol!
E shock you right?
The British themselves knew that Igbos never considered them as superiors, but rather as stepping Stones to a higher pedestal.
But an African from a probably slavish group like yourself is here tearing your pants over Igbo matter.
Lol!
People learn from each other when they meet.
The British learnt alot from the Romans and the Vikings.
The Greeks learnt from Persians, Arab, and Egypt.
The Chinese learnt alot from Americans.
Everyone learns from each other.
We saw the British as nothing but a people to learn their technology from and never as superiors.
We had our own civilization. We had cloth making centres, we had Metallurgy centres with Iron ore minning sites at Lejja, you can look up Igbo ukwu artifacts and exploits of Awka blacksmiths.
The Igbo had perfect understanding of astronomy. We had our days and weeks and years that were perfectly aligned with the movement of the Moon.
We evolved our democracy before the Whites understood what it meant.
Teach Igbo how to plant crops properly? Are you mad? Look at Igbo population pre colonial era, we were a heavily and densely populated people. You don't achieve that without first and foremost conquering food production and preservation science, as you need food to keep humans alive.

SlyDev:
Ibo equal of Britain? your master Israel no reach Britain level talk more about you a nonenity. Some minor tribes are even more civilised than Ibos, na population una get uno get anything

The Igbo self-assurance frightened the British
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"True democrats, no one was better than themselves but yet they were somehow better than anyone else. This self-assurance was sometimes a little frightening. The Ibo men and women are so continually in the right and so busy proving that everyone else is in the wrong. They want to learn from us but only such things as may be materially productive as soon as possible. They tolerate us because they need us. They do not look upon us resentfully as conquerors but complacently as stepping-stones. What will happen when they can, or think they can mount it alone and no further use of the stepping-stones, no one can tell."
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AFRICAN WOMEN: A Study of the Ibo of Nigeria, Sylvia Leith-Ross, page 357, published 1939

oyatz:
Had it been that this was done before 1923, it may succeed but nowadays, it's no longer acceptable in International laws to expand territories and/or exercise political authority over a territory through military invasions, disregarding the current boundaries.


The closest you can do to get those territories is to push for a POLITICAL solution (provided there is a problem of boundary disputes between the two new Republics) in which the two islands will vote in a referendum whether they want to join Igbo Republic or remain as parts of Ijaw Republic. A major drawback to this approach is 'do you share boundaries with these Islands'?

It's very difficult for one country to be laying claims to parts of another country that doesn't share boundaries with it.

For instance, if Nigeria is laying claims to Accra, because the early settlers of Accra, the Ga-Adangba people said they migrated from Ile-Ife, the world court will ask which part of Nigeria borders Accra?

Re-read what you wrote above again and ask yourself sincerely, if you made any sense.

Psoul:
Many Nigerians have asked if there were parties from the southern and northern Protectorate that partook in the declaration of Nigeria, or did the British on their own sign the document in the absence of the people involved?

Southern and Northern Protectorate were joined to form Nigeria in 1914. By then the nationalist we know of now were still little to know what happened. Nnamdi Azikiwe was only 10 years old, Ahmadu Bello was 4 years, Awolowo was 5 years then. Which Nigerian signed the Amalgamation document?

There were only 28 individuals involved in the forceful Amalgamation of the South and the North Protectorate. Out of the 28, only 6 were Nigerians. The rest were all British citizens. Lord lugard the first governor general led the Amalgamation (he was one the one to propose it first) and the final signature was his. Sir Kitoyi Ajasa

The six Nigerians are;


1. HRH Maiturare Sarkin Mussulumi and Sultan of Sokoto

2. Usuman Dan Maje who later became Emir of Kano

3. Sir Kitoyi Ajasa a lawyer

4. HRH Oladugbolu Alaafin of Oyo

5. HRH R Henshaw (Obong of Calabar)

6. Abubakar Shehu of Borno

These are the Nigerians present at the amalgamation. They were there ceremoniously. From the names above, you would notice that no Igbo man was present in the amalgamation of Nigeria despite the Igbos having powerful Kings like the Obi Okosi of Onitsha, Eze Nri òbalíke etc The reason is not far-fetched. The Igbos fought strongly against the British rule and they were never in support of their systems. Lagos colony was also against the amalgamation as at then.

The British were more comfortable to deal with Fulani/Northerners. The reason there were more fulani/northerners during the amalgamation. So, the saying that Northerners wants to always rule Nigeria did not just start. It was positioned so by the British. Even the location of the amalgamation was also located in the North.

Nigeria was not formed by consensus but by Force.



https://www.binnabook.com/2020/02/those-who-signed-nigeria-amalgamation.html?m=1&fbclid=IwAR3itl6hxfIg3ImRT9iTNW_HoiQ7kXTd5rCa_rEidb2R6t3cSuge4CCT2OI

Good piece of history.
Maka ndi "Secession clause".
The stiffest resistance to British colonialism was in Igboland.

oyatz:
World court don't adjudicate on petty topics like ethnic Identities. However , they rule on LAND matters.
In this case, the deciding factor is 'who is exercising or had exercised political power over the land in question' languages spoken don't hold water.

Ndiigbo will swiftly assert our claim on Bonny and Opobo once NIGERIA collapses and sack all the Ijaw usurpers there.
Then we will see who exercises Political power there.

Captain8:
imagine Igbos that cannot even swim want claim people inside river,,,,,,,, can they even drive speed boat talkless of swimming?


How are the stone like Igbos even going to drive speed boat to Bonny sef,,,

Before the first Ijaw man followed the Europeans from Sierra Leone as porters to Nigeria, Igbos have been living on both banks of River Niger and have well established riverine and fishing culture.

You lots are basically not well exposed.

GreatBoss:
Oya go and join it since u say it is political if u can.

Mumu like u.

Ndoki youths want to join nah.
Everyone want a slice of the lucrative crude oil crumbs that your Hausa-Fulani friends are throwing to you.
It's the like of Aldophus Wabara that is holding Ndoki youths back.

Wait the day the Hausa-Fulanis are put in check finally by Ndiigbo, you will see your Political Ijaw disappear and have to deal with the reality of Bayelsa and Delta State real Izon.

GreatBoss:
See as ur lies are catching up with u guys.

Andoni is what?
Is it not Ijaw?
Go and claim all the Ijaw areas physical not online.

The Ijaw National Affairs Commissioner Patrick Erasmus is Andoni
The Ijaw Youth Council President Worldwide Timothy Peter Igbifa is another Andoni person.

Like I told you.
Ijaw is Political franchise centred around oil politics.
Andoni people want a bite of the oil protection deal contract so they joined the franchise.
Which is okay as it pays them.
The day Nigeria ends, everyone will bear their fathers name, Andoni is not and have never been ethnically Ijaw.

Captain8:
but, their elders are in INC Ijaw Nation Congress.......... which of the Andoni man going to denied the Ijawness na

Oh, there kids will stopped it

Ijaw is not an ethnic group.
It's a franchise.
Andoni are Ibibiod people.
In Eastern region, Andoni alongside Opobo was even in Cross River province.

Captain8:
Andonis are Ijaws......

Obolos are Ijaws......

President of the Ijaw Youth counsel IYC is Andoni man......... Comrade Timothy Igbifa...

Any body can belong to IYC.
It's more of a political union than an ethnic one.
Ekpeye boys even applied to join when they saw their Engenni neighbors reaping big from oil protection deal when they joined.
It took the intervention of their elders to stop them.

Captain8:
yeah, the New Ijaw center dialect Will solved everything

No such thing will happen.
Ijaw is not an ethnic group. It's more like a modern day fraudulent Political franchise.
There's is no linguistic homogeneity base whatsoever to build the Utopian Central Ijaw on.

The Andoni and Ogbia speak an Ibibiod language.
There is no way you can centralize or harmonize their language with Engenni, Udekeme, Epie-Attisa, etc who are Edoid speakers and in real sense Isoko people in Diaspora, and we are not talking about the Main Izons yet.
Have you not learnt from the failure of your attempt to impose Kolokuma language on people?

Captain8:
another territory as saying,,,,,who owns that territory they went to occupied


are the Igbos in far away land own that territory they went to occupied or the Bonny Ijaws within that territory


is that how to owns a land,,,,,,,, so, if I come to enugu forest to found a place, will that place automatically became Ijaw territory

You people are thieves

Opobo originally belong to Ibibiod tribes.
They are currently found in Andoni and Eastern Obolo.
Ijaws are strangers in the region.

GreatBoss:
The Ijaw Youth Council Chairman Eastern Zone Rivers Akwa-Ibom Ijaw is Ibim Ibiwari from Opobo.
Does that look like Ibo name?
They teach Ibani-Ijaw in Opobo schools both primary and secondary it's compulsory why not Ibo.

Opobo speak Igbo as mother tongue.
We are well aware of neighboring islands like Finima and co where they speak that primitive Ijoid language that no one wants to hear.
Opobo people don't need school to learn Igbo. It's a mother tongue, their mothers teach it to them at home.

Captain8:
you can only take Opobos to the court, because they are the ones who sticked with the Ijaw identity,,,,,,

if you take Opobos to Court for not accepting igbo identity, then you will lose woefly

Opobo speak Igbo as mother tongue.
How exactly did they accept Ijaw ?

Captain8:
and you will believe that crap from the doomed captain, right?

The captain was a professional and was neutral.
Much better than illiterate ogogoro drinking persons dishing out fake news.
Problem with Bonny and Opobo, is that everything about both Islands were both well documented by the colonial masters.

If Ndiigbo take Ijaws to world court over both Islands, we would win, if you refuse to obey the court, we treat you in a language you understand.
Better enjoy your Hausa-Fulani friends one NIGERIA while it lasts.
Because from here upwards, nah downward spiral for you lots.

Christistruth00:
At the 1884 Berlin Conference The British held Bakassi and the Germans of Cameroon held the Cross River

The Germans used the Cross River of Eastern Nigeria to travel Back and Forth from their Colonies in Northern Cameroon

The British wanted the Cross River desperately so they agreed to give the Germans Bakassi as part of German Cameroon in exchange

for the Germans giving the British the Cross River

for the Cross River plus they would permit the Germans freedom of Travel on the Cross River to and from their Northern Cameroon

Territory This was the agreement between the British and the Germans at the Berlin Conference

But after the Germans lost the 2nd World War the British treated Bakassi as Conquered Territory especially after the UN Split

Cameroon between the World War 2 Victors Britain and France to administer

The issue of the agreement between Britain and Germany over Bakassi being exchanged for Cross River is in Lord Lugards Book Dual Mandate

This was the agreement that Cameroon used to win its case at the Court

NIGERIA is not under any obligation to obey the rulling of the world court, she probably did because of her gentleman agreement with Cameroon during the Biafran war.
The world court recently ruled in favor of Somalia over control of sea coast both countries are dragging. But Kenya rejected the world court rulling and there is nothing anyone can do about that.

BKayy:
See what Captain Hugh Crow recorded in 1830.
I posted the shot of the numbers but if you need more on the language he met in Ubani and Opobo, click the link.

https://ukpuru.tumblr.com/post/115997041797/igbo-ubani-bonny-island-dialect-word-list-by

And please, I am begging you in the name of the Ogogoro you respect and that would be Seaman's Schnapp, I am not here to move back and forth with you

Nwanne, you are wicked o!
You didn't even allow his Agenda to Agend . You shot it on the spot. Point and kill things.

Akintundexxy:
Brb

Bros, we are still waiting o!
It's been ages.

ariesbull:
Even their governor Obaseki is an igbo man and has igbo ancestry....

Ogbemudia also was an igbo man from igbanke


You can inagine tiny benin claiming something

We have kept quiet long enough.
Even the artwork they are praising here has an Igbo name: Okuko. These people are using Igbo market days. Ask them how that came about, they claim it was shared, they would never accept they borrowed from Igbo or were influenced by us.
I wouldn't be surprised if it were produced by Awka smiths.
I mean Awka blacksmiths went as far as Okitipupa teaching their superior metallurgy to indigenes there.
They went as far as Cameroon.
https://www.nairaland.com/6765286/early-igbo-sojourners-eastern-yorubaland

We can't keep quiet anymore. Lest our children start thinking these people could hold a candle near their ancestors.

saddler:


The joke is on you.

The great Benin empire doesn't need the validation of your insignificant igbo tribe to know it is one of the greatest civilization to ever come out of Africa.

It is you that is trying so hard to prove a point that igbos had anything in its primitive history to talk about.

Even now you are limited to your 5 small states which Buhari has rightly called a dot and thats what you igbos are.

An insignificant dot.

You keep crying and crying of marginalization in present day Nigeria and thats because you igbos are cry babies.

You keep trying to grab other tribes in the Niger delta and they keep rejecting you.


Igbos simply lack selfworth hence they are trying to claim tribes in river state, delta state and everywhere.

And they keep shaming you.

Lol! Bini of three LGA. A minority among Minorities.
Hahaha!
There is nothing about an empire built on Portuguese firearms used to invade fellow blacks and supply to Portuguese ships.
A mushroom empire that was ransacked in a matter of 48hours, is that one an empire?

Ndiigbo are a superior race. So superior that we have so called Bini decendants even in Edo state, Delta and Rivers dumping your backward Bini language for Igbo one.
I mean even in your Edo State you have people walking around with surnames like Chukwuma!
A mere interaction between Ndiigbo and their Bini ancestors was enough to convince them of the superiority of Igbo language, names and culture, so much that they dumped their Bini ones for Igbo one! Are you not ashamed to admit this?

Igbos are crying to leave NIGERIA, not because an insignificant minority like Edo or indeed any other group is doing better than Ndiigbo in Nigeria.
But because we know we should be competing with the world and not with laid back groups with no hope or desire for progress that are in Nigeria.

ariesbull:
They built a moat to protect themselves

Ndiigbo had kept quiet enough, that's why these low achieving groups feel they could stand before our ancestors.
Bini that Awka blacksmiths were teaching better methods of bronze works.
I mean, look at what we were doing in 1924/25.

saddler:
It seems only your small igboid brain is able to know and remember this civilization of the igbos!

Ask yourself why the might, ingenuity, intelligence of the great Benin emoure keeps making the news more than a hundred years after the british colonialists formed Nigeria.

Why is there no news of your igboness coming from around the world like the Benin Kingdom ?

You guys were not significant!

Look at the Benin bronzes all over the world! Everyone admits they came from a place of great civilization.


Igbos didn't have anything worthwhile so nobody cares of whatever you did or know.

Inferior bronze works that were looted because your weak empire was ransacked in matter of 48hours.
Is that something to be proud of?
There are Igbo artifacts in foreign museums all over the world, the difference being that many of them were sold to colonial buyers by families who own them and not looted. So no talk of returning them.

Igbo ukwu artifacts are in New York museum too, and they are recognized by all academia as the most sophisticated artifact in the entire NIGERIA!

Bini and intelligence in same sentence is a great mismatch. I mean even right in Edo state, Igbo culture and civilization is so superior that we have Igbo speaking clans with Igbo names in your midst. Can you beat that?

You are nothing but an insignificant minority group who had your hay days when you got superior firearms from Portuguese to procure slaves for them from inland.
As soon as the firearms proliferated, the surrounding tribes pushed you shameless savages back, and ever since then, you are still living in nostalgia of your looting, invasion and pillaging days of neighboring groups for filthy Portuguese bronze coins that you melted for your inferior arts.
The joke is on you.

Below is an example of an Igbo artifact in a museum in Israel.
It use to be in New York before Israel bought it.

saddler:
All these things you put up there coming from your potopoto brain.

Igbos had no civilization.

You were all in the bush when the whiteman came .
No form of intelligence, no organization. Just look back at history. Wherever you find greatness, you find organized leadership.

From Ancient Egypt to Ghana, India, Chinese, Germany, British, Portuguese, Spanish, Romans etc

They all had leaders that dictate how the people live their lives.

Igbos didn't have because you were unintelligent and primitive.

It was a yoruba man Ajayi Crowther that translated the English bible to Igbo so your ancestors can have some form of intelligence.

When the white came, they met a civilized Benin empire that was compared to what is obtainable in the Western world as at that time.
If not for colonialism, you will be roaming in the bush by now.

You are a primitive Bini man.
Lol!
Igbos had organized democracy, we were never without leaders. Power was decentralized between title holders, chief priests and priestesses of important deities,women leaders, Leaders of different age groups, market leaders and then the general assembly of the people.
We were that organized and it was much better than a fat and probably intellectually challenged Oba dictating for everyone else.

The evidence of superiority of a people organization lies in their productivity.
Igbo arts (Igbo ukwu) were 1 million times better than Edo arts. Igbo blacksmiths (The Awka blacksmiths) where 1 trillion times better than Bini ones. In other words, we were and remain technologically more advanced than Binis.
What's more, Igbos evolved a traditional cloth weaving centres with Akwete in Abia State as the most famous of them all, Bini had not a single one. I bet you were all wearing plant leaves before encounter with the Portuguese who you shamelessly collected weapons from, with which you used to terrorize neighbouring groups and sold to them to the Portuguese in exchange for coins and other materials which you melted to produce your bronze works, as Bini had no traditional iron ore minning sites, like we had in Lejja in Igboland.

Igbos adapted and modified a writing style called Nsibidi before the whites came, your backward Bini had non.

Ajayi crowther never wrote any Igbo Bible, how can he do so when he couldn't speak Igbo?
Igbo missionaries of Sierra Leone origin wrote the first Igbo Bible, Ajayi crowther was the head of the church delegation to Nigeria so naturally supervised the work. Quit being retarded.
Google about Simon Jonas! He was an Igbo slave of Sierra Leone origin who did most of the work in Igbo Bible production.

Bini empire conquered nada! How can you claim to conquer when even in your Edo State, the superiority of Igbo civilization reigns supreme as groups like Igbanke, Owariuzo, etc, all speak an Igboid language?
Look around you how many so called Bini decendants who dumped Bini language for a superior Igbo language and culture.

Is there any better prove of cultural superiority than language imposition? I mean the sign of British dominance is seen in English language universality in today World, the Portuguese dominance of the word can be seen in Brazil, Angola and Mozambique.
Spanish dominance can be seen in South America and Equitorial Guinea.

Igbo superiority can be seen right in Edo state!
You were bunch of Savages who couldn't evolve civilization until the Portuguese gave you weapons with which you shamelessly used to terrorize your fellow black neighbors.

When the British came for you, you fell in a matter of days and the stench of your citiy where you used fellow blacks for human sacrifice was exposed.

saddler:
Mumu!

How do those rubbish you put up there serve as evidence that igbos influenced Edos?

One of the greatest igboman ever known Nnamdi Azikwe wrote his biography and traced his ancestry to the benin kingdom.

If not for the white men that came to teach igbos how to organize and govern themselves, you guys weren't different from gorillas and chimpanzees roaming the bush.

A tribe without organization isnt capable of influencing another tribe.

Should i give you an example of Benin influence on igbos?
Do you know Obi of Onitsha?

His ancestors are from the Great Benin Kingdom . His royal apparel and his staff are from Benin kingdom.

Pls do not bring Igboid/Edoid sub groups in Delta state into this.

Those tribes have rejected your land grabbing antics openly on several occasions.
They are not igbo. Your five landlocked states is what you should brag with.

Edo state as a whole is about 3 of those your southeastern states combined.

Zik was playing politics with you Edoids.
It's impossible for a Bini person to be named Eze Chima in 1770s, use your brain.
Moreover even in Edo state, we still have Igboid speakers till today.
The Obi of Onitsha who is the custodian of Onitsha culture had since come out to proclaim that Onitsha were ancient Igbos who were on reverse migration from Ife, had a brief stop at Bini before returning to Igboland.
Bini is too small to influence Ndiigbo.
There is nothing sophisticated about a bunch of people bowing down to a fat Oba who they are probably more intelligent than.
Ndiigbo are too wise for such tomfoolery. We evolved s much more superior Democracy where everyone opinion matters and is weighed upon in community square before a decision that affects everyone was taken.

If you think you are superior because your ancestors allowed a fat man dictate for them, then the joke is on you.
Bini never evolved a superior civilization than Ndiigbo. Igbo-ukwu arts are much more superior to whatever Bini had to offer.
Awka blacksmiths were much more advanced than Binis ever had. Bini land hard no pre colonial cloth making centres, Ndiigbo had many with Akwete being the most famous.
When faced with a superior civilization like the British, the Igbos put up much more robust and sophisticated military resistance as shown in Anglo-Aro war, than the weak Binis who lived on hype but was ransacked by the British in a matter of 48hrs.

greenmonk:
So you are more or less like the fulani. Looking for whom you can colonise and anneex. If people of Egbema don't want to be in Rivers State I feel they are mature enough to fight their fight but it is you who want crude oil allocation that want to remove them from Rivers State to imo state and in the process expose your ulterior motives.

You are not Igbo and certainly not from Egbema.
What's your interest in this issue if not your innate and incurable Igbo hate?

PrinceOfLagos:
Nigeria will not divide

The Yoruba nation and Biafra agitators should take note because we are stronger as a nation together

God bless Nigeria

There is no "We" between Ndiigbo and Nigerians.

greenmonk:
I don't know how you people come about recovering 22 oil Wells in Mgbede fields to imo state.
Is Mgbede fields in imo state. You keep blabbing about communities given to rivers state from Imo state. Those who know nothing about the history of Eastern Nigeria should stop fanning the embers of community wars because no community will watch while somebody give their land to another community and keep quiet.
The 16 clans in Egbema kingdom have never been anywhere near imo state or to be precise owerri province until some disgruntled elements pulled them out from Ahoada to Oguta division in 1958.
Mgbede fields are ancestral lands of the Egbema communities in Rivers State and if anyone intends to take the lands away from them they should also be ready to Bury them on the said lands.
There are people resident on the lands before discovery of oil and any other person claiming ownership have to show where they were before oil was discovered.

Stop taking nonsense.
Egbema people are Igbos and shouldn't have been carved into Rivers State to begin with if not for Igbophobic Nigerian polity.

SlayerForever:
Please Igboid, Bkayy, Eastlink and others who have followed this discussion closely. Come and give us update. What is the latest on this?

Case has not been decided yet.
But that these oil Wells were given to Rivers State to start with and Imo now has to fight for what rightfully belongs to her, is a grave injustice.
Ndiigbo has really suffered in this country.

Hopefully Uzodimma wins all those oil Wells.

Biafrarep:
You people like believing your own lies. A house of reps member from Igbo speaking part of Rivers State asked for referendum on the floor of House and he was almost mobbed to death. I think he name is Chinda.

Please, Chinda is an Ikwerre man.
Ndiigbo has nothing to do with Ndi Bini Ikwerre.

The Igbos in Rivers are Obiigbo, Egbema and maybe Ndoni (these ones have not made their stance clear).

Truthvalue2:
You people in the southeast have mental problems, you are basically agitating for an other people ! What is wrong with you ? Who made you spokesman for a people to whom you do not belong ?

Let people talk for themselves !
I am actually Anioma and I stand with my acestral country and emperor Benin empire.

It is incredible how self centered you guys are.

Lol!
You are not Anioma, I can assure you of that.
You are an impostor, a shameless unity beggar.
Enuani people are Igbos and I can speak for them as fellow Igbos since we are all one!

chemgee:
This is a very sick comment.
Everyone has the right to determine their identity & stand. You can't know the history/ancestry/culture of a people more than them. Why is it difficult for some of you Igbos to respect others for their stand? Must everyone support your cause?

Igbophobia
Identity crisis
Benin Slave
Oba Anus
Treachery
Even wishing them genocide...

All these words are flying because they have different opinions, or claim not to be from your stalk. Tufiakwa.

Better go and find healing o. The war ended over fifty years ago. Stop letting politicians use your head... Coz whether you like it or not, they are the chief manipulators behind all these dramas in Nigeria.

Bia! Isi adikwa gi mma?

Where exactly did Ndiigbo force anyone to join us.
You are not serious. NIGERIA is dead and Ndiigbo will get ourselves untangled from the mess called NIGERIA.

Thank you.

EzeAro:
I'm a proud Enuani son of the soil and we're joining the SE in a purely homogeneous Igbo nation, I want no part with people who will still feel threatened by me cause I speak Igbo.

It's only common sense that once Ndiigbo leaves, other Nigerians will transfer their Igbophobia to anyone speaking anything close to Igbo in their midst.
The likes of Ika, Ikwerre, Ogba etc, will no longer have SE to hide behind and play their game of Treachery.
They will be exposed in full broad day light, and will brace themselves well for the "Igbo treatment" SE have always served as a shield for them.
Yeah, Enuani might have some confused people in Issele-uku with their mouths glued to Oba Bini anus.
But the rest of Enu-ani ably led by Asaba will join SE, as far as we demonstrate capabilities to defend them from Nigerians hate, and not run to blow River Niger and leave them to their own fates like happened to communities like Isheagu and Asaba in 1967-1970.