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wiseone28:
But those groups highlighted are still denying you... is it by force?


Thanks for taking Akwa ibom off your Biafra..

We are Niger Deltan.

Nope. They didn't. And you are not their spokesperson.
They obeyed the sit at home.

I never had Akwa Ibom in Biafra. So I can't take off what I never out there.

dele1727:



Note that Even during the war Yoruba was the betrayal....

Yet ojukwu was the one who killed Victor banjo(yoruba) who was fighting on the Biafra side on Trump up charges..

He also killed ifeanyiajuwa...an igbo.....

After losing he fled leaving philip effiong (a calabar man)


Yet others are always the problem

Banjo betrayed the march to Lagos. He stalled the soldiers in Bini City for days , long enough for the Biafran army to lose their element of surprise and for the Nigerian Army to regroup and repel Biafrans at Ore.
He abandoned the original plan and decided to head to Enugu and kill Ojukwu which was discovered and he was rightfully killed alongside Ifeajuna.

T9ksy:
Oga, be real!!! Zik didn't have to point a gun at anybody's head to have his greedy and covetous way. All he had to do and which he did, was to concede the Prime ministerial post to the sardunna of sokoto and viola!, majority wins (2 against 1).

I do believe, at that point, Awo should have taken western region out of this fake and unfeasible union.

All the developments Awo accomplished before 1960 were reversed and deliberately destroyed by the various northern govts that ensued with significant support from their ibo sidekicks.

So in summary, we both agree that Zik never forced anyone to accept the secession clause at gun point.
He merely used a strong argument to win them over and then made sacrifices to bring them to his side.

Through out this process, Awo had the option to reject Zik argument didn't he? Balewa had the same option, didn't he?
So why did both accept Zik argument?
Maybe because they were convinced by it right?

If you didn't want something but someone convinced you to do it, and you did. Can you rationally claim that the person who convinced you to do the action was responsible for your actions and not yourself?

Afriifa:
Andoni are Ijaws and this is not debatable. Only confuse Igbos are crying over it. If they are not Ijaws go and stop IYC and INC stakeholders from Andoni Clans na.

Lol!
Of course, land grab has always been your end game, and Niger Delta republic is your strategy, because I can't understand why you are not agitating for Ijaw republic, but always chanting Niger Delta republic.
Ibeno-Obolo are IYC and INC clans too, right?

I heard IYC have inaugurated a new branch in Oron too. Jisike, you are doing well.

Lol! Niger Delta republic would be really Sweet.

wiseone28:
Your closest neighbors don't want Biafra is it we ibibios that will join you?

demme ke idab mbok.

You will do well to go through my posts and profile.
I'm not one of those IPOBS that give you Minorities inflated ego by begging you to join BIAFRA.
Go through my profile to understand who you are dealing with.
By the way, Igbos don't have "closest" neighbors. We just have neighbors which your Akwaibom happens to be one of.
And nope, I don't want Akwaibom or any minorities for that matter in my Biafra. I want an Igbo only Biafra with Igbo groups in Rivers (Obiigbo, Egbema), Delta(Enu-ani) and Cross River (Isobo).
https://www.nairaland.com/6570415/argument-economic-viability-alaigbo

Afriifa:
Ijaws are not just the ones clamouring for Niger Delta Republic Oga. Ibiobios are in it. Uhrobos, bini, ikweres and the rest. Why are you disgracing yourself. I have an Efik friend he share similar aspirations.

I have not seen an Ibibio clamoring for Niger Delta republic.
They want their own country.

Even Oron want her own country.
Yes, Urhobo and Isoko Carry Niger Delta for head too, mainly because both are land locked and favor association with other ethnicities in the region with sea access.

Binis want to reactivate their defunct Bini Empire by cornering the entire midwest including Anioma into their proposed Midwest republic. They are Empire builders (expansionist) by nature and can see through Ijaw Niger Delta expansionist agenda.

So why can't Ijaws fight for just Ijaw republic? Are you that parasitic?

Afriifa:
Ibenos are not Ibibios so why would Ibibios cry? Obolo is Ijaw. The presence of IYC and INC is very strong there. And that affirms their Ijawness just like other Ijaw clans like Ndoki in Abia state. . These people Identifies with us as fellow Ijaws. We never forced them. The Present IYC President is an Ibeno guy. How are you gonna think its an expansionist agenda? Have Ijaws gone to Ika people and told them they are Ijaws and they have to identify with their Ijaw roots? Lol. You think in present Nigeria ethnic nationalities are not conscious of their roots? Okay, go and ask Ika, Anioma to join Ohanaeze group to identify with their Igbo roots na. . Na cutlass you go see.. You think indigens of Obolo and Ibeno will Join and Identify with IYC and INC without deep knowledge of their Ijaw roots? You Igbos are plain fools.

Lol!

We know your strategy. You use few Ijaw refugees that were allowed to settle in those places in the past by the indigenes to try and claim ownership.
I pity you, because those refuges would soon be sent back to you to accommodate.

How can you say that Ibeno/Obolo of King Uko Ukong are Ijaws?
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ibibio

Small Ogoni is proud enough to declare and pursue independent Ogoni republic.

But Land grabbing Ijaw who can't stand on their own but rather looking for minorities to subjugate like they did in old Rivers State that made Wiwa and Obi Wali to run back to Igbos they rejected.

Attache by force people looking for an Ogogoro republic.

Ogoni wants Ogoni republic having tasted Ijaw nepotism and domination in old Rivers State.
So why can't Ijaw fight for just Ijaw republic if they don't have an agenda?

Press release - “We are acting with legitimacy to reclaim all of our rights, without exception,” says Goodluck Diigbo

[size=20pt]Jubilations are continuing throughout Ogoniland after the Ogoni people in southern Nigeria, today, Thursday, 2nd

of August declared political autonomy. In a live broadcast on a newly established radio station: Voice of Ogoni, MOSOP President/Spokesman, Dr. Goodluck Diigbo vowed that:“By this declaration of political autonomy, we, the Ogoni people are determined to enforce the United Nations Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples, without fear or retreat,” Diigbo said.

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Diigbo affirmed that self-government within Nigeria will secure for the Ogoni people, their indigenous rights, enable them to meet their needs and interests and finally end internal colonialism.

Diigbo said self-government became urgent recognizing the need to arrive at a consensus to collectively review the disputed UNEP Ogoniland Oil Assessment report, because any dialogue must be with the genuinely elected representatives of the people expected to enforce indigenous rights without dictation.

In the broadcast, Diigbo further underscored the reason for the urgency of self-government for Ogoni: “Concerned that in the absence of a responsive government that the indigenous people of Ogoni will continue to suffer from historic injustices.”

Diigbo stated: “In order to make indigenous rights practicable in Ogoni, we have through a very transparent electoral college process, beginning with community by community elections, set up 272 village councils, while the village councils in turn elected representatives for 33 district councils and the district representatives went on to elect representatives to serve at the center as custodians of customs and traditions, otherwise called lawmakers.”

“The law makers in turn elected the executive arm of the Ogoni Central Indigenous Authority (OCIA) with checks and balances inbuilt to ensure corruption-free, effective, efficient and answerable system of grassroots self-government instead of the old, corrupt and mismanaged local government system endured by the Ogoni for decades,” Diigbo explained.

“In taking these measures, we are quite aware of the discomfort to about 56 local politicians that control local government politics in Ogoni, however, we care more about the 1.2 million people that have for too long been excluded,” he stated.

He announced that a Transitional Committee was already set up to facilitate dialogue to ensure peaceful transition, within 30 days, while consultation with the national government and international community begins without delay.

Diigbo emphasized the need for Ogonis to remain law-abiding and act nonviolently; saying “we are acting with legitimacy to reclaim all of our rights, without exception, and for the sake of peace and security; let no one test the collective will of the Ogoni people, because we will not surrender our indigenous rights anymore.”

Excerpts:

In 1990, we the people of Ogoni presented the Ogoni Bill of Rights to the Government and people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, in which the Ogoni nonviolently demanded among other indigenous rights.

• Political autonomy to participate in the affairs of the Republic as a distinct and separate indigenous unit (by whatever name called), provided that this autonomy guarantees political control of Ogoni affairs by Ogoni people; The right to control and use a fair proportion of Ogoni economic resources for Ogoni development; adequate representations, as of right, in all Nigerian national institutions, and the right to protect the Ogoni environment and ecology from further degradation as recognized under international law to which Nigeria is obligated.

Nigeria, a multi-ethnic nation state, a legacy of the British colonial administration, granted political independence October 1, 1960, after the British violated Ogoni independence in 1901, did not respond to the Ogoni, inhabiting their ancestral land in southern Nigeria.

When in the struggle for indigenous political autonomy; especially, in matters concerning confiscation of sacred ancestral lands for oil production without prior informed consent, there comes a moment to assert powers derived from the consent of the people and Nature’s blessings in order to protect, preserve and pass on inherited sacred ancestral heritage to succeeding indigenous generations. On behalf of the entire Ogoni people, I am highly honored to present these issues surrounding the proposed Ogoni Declaration of Political Autonomy.

Part of Full Text

30. That despite the fact that the “Nigerian Constitution” and other laws and policies provide for a local government system, in reality, the local government constitutional provisions meant to extend the principle of Federalism to its logical conclusion, by bringing the government to the grassroots level, do not apply in Ogoniland as a result of corruption and public deception by local and state political actors and the lack of enforcement of the shaky “Nigerian constitution” by the federal government;

31. That, this is because quite often local governments are frequently dissolved in Ogoniland without any explanation rendered to the Ogoni people;

32. That, essential appointments into local government service are often suspended for several years without information to the Ogoni people about the reason for such suspension, when the local authorities still operate budgetary provisions for needed manpower;

33. That the elected representatives who have supported this proposed declaration of political autonomy for the Ogoni people as they have bitterly complained that the present system of local government in Nigeria does not allow them the freedom to govern according to the wishes of the people;

34. That individual local government chairman has to remit monthly allowances in substantial amounts to those politicians at the state and national levels that put them into office;

35. That since local government operators are often imposed on the people, they, the local operators are required to compensate for the way they are often put into office through massive and violent rigging of elections;

36. That in the circumstance, the local operators, expected to respond to yearnings of their grassroots constituencies have become perpetually vulnerable to threats of illegal removal from office without reference to the electorate;

37. That, we the Ogoni people take very serious, the complaint by the Ogoni local officials that have confessed that they still hold office because they are able to settle their political godfathers, meaning political stalwarts that planted them as conduit pipe for siphoning funds meant to help in the development of Ogoni villages and wellbeing of Ogonis;

38. That the application indigenous rights will end this manner of abuse of power and mismanagement of public resources as the representatives of the people have been duly elected by the people in Ogoni, and controlled by the people and to end the system whereby politicians handpicked by political operators at the national and state levels, remain in office without accountability to the people as long as they satisfy those who put them into office.

39. That the local government employees, some in service for over 30 years cannot even afford a good meal with their families, but have seen politicians that come into the local councils buying houses in Port Harcourt and Abuja, even in overseas countries within six months in office.

40. That we believe that the Ogoni people are equal to all other Nigerians that now lord it over the Ogoni by means of indirect internal colonial rule through the corrupt local government system, which violates indigenous rights of the Ogoni people.

Concluding Declaration:

“Now, therefore, acting on the General Assembly mandate on the questions relating to the Political Autonomy of Ogoni in southern Nigeria, and in the spirit of the General Assembly motion DPA/001/2012, and its resolutions DPA/002/2012 and DPA/003/2012 adopted and approved on July 31, 2012; in accordance with the wishes of the Ogoni people contained in the Ogoni Bill of Rights of 26 August, 1990 as revised on the 26th of August 1991; expressing the collective will of the good people of Ogoni in the referendum of 2010 and the second referendum of 2011, obeying the command by the Ogoni people and their elected representatives from 33 district councils, comprising over 272 village councils, living in the six kingdoms of Ogoni, namely: Babbe, Eleme, Gokana, Kenkhana, Nyokhana and Tai and two administrative units: Ban Goi and the Bori National Territory; conducting this solemn affair in accordance with the United Nations Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples adopted by United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 13, 2007, guided by the purposes and principles of international law in accordance with the United Nations Charter, I, Dr. Goodluck Diigbo, hereby make this historic statement, to announce the proclamation of this General Assembly Declaration of Political Autonomy for the Self-determination or Self-government of the Ogoni people within Nigeria, today, the 2nd Day of August, 2012. So declared, and so be it; for the advancement of liberty in freedom and the preservation of the ancestral heritage of the Ogoni people.”

Thank you.

Signed by:

Dr. Goodluck Diigbo

MOSOP President/Spokesman

http://elombah.com/index.php/latest-news/12095-ogoni-declares-self-government

Sufferingboy:
This thread really weak Igbos.On that day their leader asked them to stay at home,he foolishly added Ika people even down to Ika people of Igbanke in edo state.But Ika people nor send them they did not obey...

Are Ika that important?
You need us, we don't need you.
Emefiele need to be Igbo to be CBN president. If he dared opened his mouth and said he wasn't Igbo when Buhari called him Igbo, he was a goner
Dorathy needed to claim Igbo to stand a chance in BBN! she had to denounce your irrelevant Ika and stuck close to Igbo tag to stay afloat.
Have you ever seen an Igbo man claim to be Ika? Nope! You Know why? Because you have nothing to offer us.

The la creame of Anioma land is Enuani. They are the Brain box, and they had embraced us, and in return, we have poured our wealth into Asaba , while your bush Boji boji village remains a village.
Asaba and Enu-ani complied reasonably with the sit at home, that was good enough for Ndiigbo.

Afriifa:
Lol. Another rhetorics of divide and rule? See antics. Stylishly pitching the Ogonis against the Ijaws. You Igbos are so poor minded. How about Zik rallying against Ojukwu? Una antics are obvious for everyone to see. Its a failed attempt. Try another tactics

Why are you hell bent on encircling and landlocking Ibibios and Annangs?
Is this the aim of your Ogogoro republic?

How can you lots go and be opening branches of IYC in Eastern Obolo and Ibeno just because Ibibios allowed you to fish in the coasts and establish few fishing camps on the coasts, now you are claiming the whole Ibeno and Eastern Obolo?
What's the plan? To land lock Annang and Ibibios and corner their offshore oil wealth?

Look at Akwa Ibom map and see what happens when you take Ibeno and Eastern Obolo off.
Why are you lots this wicked and expansionist?
https://m.facebook.com/Eastern-Obolo-Clan-IYC-107865557328983/

I belong to Ijaw private forums and do watch you guys debate on how to claim Eastern Obolo, Ibeno and even Ikot Abasi, and I would just be shaking my head. Because I doubt the Ibibios know what you are up to.

Afriifa:
Lol. Another rhetorics of divide and rule? See antics. Stylishly pitching the Ogonis against the Ijaws. You Igbos are so poor minded. How about Zik rallying against Ojukwu? Una antics are obvious for everyone to see. Its a failed attempt. Try another tactics

Wiwa was crying of Igbo domination in old Eastern region until he tested Ijaw domination in old Rivers State and confessed that Jesus is Lord.
He had to run to Ndiigbo seeking for help to Cage you land grabbers in Bayelsa, so that they could finally breath in Rivers State.

Common amnesty program, una chance all other minorities and claimed everything for yourselves.

Are you not plotting to landlock Ibibios with you recent aggressive drive to corrupt Ibeno and Obolo and turn them against their Ibibio and Annang like you did to Ndiigbo in Opobo and Bonny?

You think no one see through your land grab?
One hand you are shouting Niger Delta republic, the other hand you are plotting to grab people lands and blockade them.

Why can't you stand alone? I mean what happened to having Ijaw republic if not because you have an ulterior motive of subjugation of other groups?

Even small Ogoni want independent Ogoni republic and had declared it before, likewise Oron people.
Yet Ijaw don't want Ijaw republic, they want people to dominate, subjugate and grab their lands in the name of Ogogoro republic.

Afriifa:
see foolish Desperation. By bloggers. Everyone knows and other ethnic nationalities know the Ijaws has always been in the forefront of the Niger Delta struggles. And the Ijaws give due acknowledgment to other nationalities whom have always complemented their efforts. This nonsense you wrote above holds no water. You see your acts of desperations? Why are u always trying so hard to pitch other nationalities against the Ijaws in the Niger Delta? bro it will never materialize. You started with the Ika brother, you saw how you failed abi? Now u re dragging Urhobo into it. Tomorrow you will drag bini, ishekiri and others. Fools! We know all these antics.

So this gibberish above would explain why Ijaws want to totally blockade Edos by laying claim to Gelegele, and blockading the Ibibio/Annangs by land grabbing Ibeno, Eastern Obolo and Andoni?

Was this also why Obi Wali and Saro Wiwa cried out loud in Old Rivers State when you Bayelsa people Oppressed and marginalized them until they came running to Zik and Ukiwe for help?

Why can't you stand alone in your Ogogoro republic? Why try to annex other minorities?
Can't you stand alone? Why are you looking for who to assimilate and marginalize?

Sufferingboy:
Let them settle their matter by theirself,E nor comcern Igbos.

Same way Igbo issues with Igboids no concern Ogogor republic people nah.

Sufferingboy:
Ijaws of today are different.Perhaps Igbos did worst to eastern region minorities.

The Recent call by the Ijaw youths which painted the struggle for the present Amnesty Programme by the Federal Government as their personal struggle, and not a collective fights by the youths of the Niger Delta, had been condemned, President of Urhobo Progress Union (UPU), Youthwing,, who had stated that it was a collaboration of the youths of the area.

Comrade Efemena Umukoro, in a reaction to the claim, has insisted that Ijaw Nation cannot lay claim to the Amnesty programme as their brainchild, adding that other ethnic groups in the Niger Delta complemented the efforts of Ijaw Nation during the Niger Delta struggle and should not be sidelined but accorded the respect they deserve.

Recall that Comrade Umukoro recently held a press conference were amongst the issues raised was to condemn the appointment of an Ijaw man to head the Presidential Amnesty program, stressing that the program became a scam after other ethnic groups joined hands together in struggling for the program, but now only the Ijaws want to benefit from it and have hijacked it.

The said statement from the youth leader has since been greeted by reactions from Ijaw youths who called on Comrade Umukoro to apologise to Ijaw Nation and cautioned him to be mindful of his words regarding the amnesty issue, as they claimed that the Amnesty Program is an offshoot of the agitations of Ijaws against the Nigerian government and will therefore remain under the stewardship of the Ijaws.

https://www.ndokwareporters.com/current-news/national-news/amnesty-urhobo-youths-denounce-attempt-to-hijack-program-by-the-ijaws/

Afriifa:
You are such a fool thay you only copy and paste anti-ijaw post with no facts. You clearly states that the Ijaws outnumbers every other ethnic group in rivers state which is true. But since 1999, the Ijaws are yet to produce a governor in rivers state. If the Ijaws weren't liberal you think Ikwere-men will be rulling rivers for almost 24 years? Divide and rule tactics won't work. There's no way Ken Saro Wiwa would say such. During his struggles, notable Ijaws were the ones supporting his activism

Lol!
He did.

Ijaws ruled old Rivers State with iron fist and marginalized everyone other minorities.

http://www.nigerdeltacongress.com/articles/Awo%20and%20the%20Creation%20of%20States.htm

See eh! Zik and Ukiwe were old school Igbos who still had soft spot for you Igbophobic Igboids.

But you see this my generation? We will not look back once we leave you behind.
Your cries and shouts of marginalization at the hands of your beloved minorities brothers would never be listened to once we get BIAFRA and you get yourselves trapped again with minorities, especially the Ijaws who are on look out for who to grab and rule in their Ogogoro republic.

Don't say we didn't warn you.

When the civil war started in 1967 and Biafra lost control of Port Harcourt to the Federal forces, the newly created Rivers State was handed over to the Ijaw. Ijaw leaders continued to maintain that Rivers State, with Port Harcourt as its capital, was created for them as reward for ceding their coastal terrain to the Federal side, thus making the sea blockade of Biafra possible. The Ijaw groups claimed to constitute the majority and continued to dominate the state both during military and civilian dispensations. With time, however, the Igbo speaking people of the state, particularly the Ikwerre nationality, decided they wanted a state of their own where they would be able to assert their own political and economic interests.

This was what led to the quest for the creation of Port Harcourt State. However, the Ijaws felt if such a state was created they would become estranged in a city they have been part and parcel of since it was founded by the colonialists. In fact, they had even started portraying Port Harcourt as the capital of a future Ijaw state. Thus was born a great rivalry between the Ijaw-speaking and Igbo-speaking groups for the control of Rivers and between what was termed the “Okrika-Ijaw” and “Ikwerre-Igbo” over the “ownership” of Port Harcourt. The gruesome murder of Dr Obi Wali, the leader of the Ikwerre political front by yet-to-be ascertained assassins in 1992, owed to this tussle, which often led to street battles between Okrikans and Ikwerres.

Meanwhile, the late father of Nigeria’s nationalism, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, had discussed the best strategies for reducing the animosity between the Igbos and their Minority neighbours as well as dousing the ethnic tension between Ikwerres and their riverine co-indigenes of Rivers State. It was agreed that as the touted largest Minority group, the Ijaw needed a state of their own. But with their emotional attachment to Port Harcourt, how would Rivers State be split without creating a permanent ethnic war front in Nigeria’s premier oil city?

With the Ijaw groups obviously being favoured by the Northern-led Federal Government, Eze Woluchem, a lawyer who was installed paramount ruler of Port Harcourt in 1977 turned to Dr Azikiwe, appealing for him to support the aspirations of his Igbo kinsmen in the struggle. An ageing “Zik” referred the Eze’s delegation to Commodore Ukiwe, who had become Zik’s close political confidant. The Eze’s delegation of four, which included the late Chief Okogbule Wonodi and Chief Andrew Uchendu, met with Ukiwe in his office in Victoria Island.

Their proposal was that Port Harcourt State should only be for Igbo-speaking Rivers people, while the Ijaw-speaking part would be named New Rivers State. On the other hand, the Kalabaris did not want to be parted with Rivers State, neither did the Okrikas, and Ukiwe advised that it would be “unstrategic” to cut out Bonny, Opobo, Kalabari and Okrika, apart from the fact that the Head of State, General Abacha, who was pro-Ijaw, might be pushed not to create any new state at all.

Between Ukiwe and the Ikwerre delegation, and taking into account the expressed needs of others, the maps of the present Rivers State and Bayelsa State were drawn and presented to Abacha, who found it acceptable.

On October 1, 1996, General Abacha included Bayelsa as one of the six new states approved by the Provisional Ruling Council, PRC. The postulations put together by Ukiwe and the Rebisi’s delegates worked like magic. Today the Ijaws have a state of their own with a capital (Yenagoa) which is being styled the “Jerusalem of the Ijaw Nation”. The Igbo-speaking groups in Rivers State also have a state in which they constitute a comfortable majority and have led since 1999. The issue of “ownership” of Port Harcourt has also been (partially) resolved, as Governor Chibuike Amaechi has retrieved the Crown Lands being claimed by the Ikwerres and Okrikans into government custody.

Ken Saro-Wiwa, agitated against Ijaw domination barely four years after the creation of Rivers State



“Worse still, the Ijaws were taking their frustrations out on the non-Ijaws of the State. For the Ijaws alone number more than the eight other ethnic groups

in Rivers State put together. Though historically disunited, the Ijaws find unity when it comes to lording if over the non-Ijaws. The Ijaws will want to

perpetuate this. Today, there is not even a Commissioner from my Local Government Area in the Rivers State Cabinet. My dilemma as an Ogoni is not about

to end.



“Lost in this dreadful nightmare, I went in 1971 to see Chief Awolowo at the Federal Ministry of Finance. There was nothing I told the sage that he was

not aware of. He showed me his writings on the issue and bade me seek the mid-Southern State he had proposed in 1966. Thus, was the quest for a Port Harcourt

State begun. In 1974, when we started, there was no shortage of opponents. To the Ijaws, I became a traitor. The creation of this State would alleviate

my nightmare”.

Sufferingboy:
Lies,when dorathy claim igbo to get vote what happened there after? Can you remember? We querried her on twitter,how can she deny her ethnicity because of bbn.She was under fire on twitter from Ika people.

You can't use dorathy to judge the majority,or can you beleive dorathy more than her king(dein of agbor)?

In niger delta republic nobody will do us anything.I know ijaws too well,they are not as bad as Igbos paint them to be.In naija delta republic those ikas wrongly carved into edo state will be full added back to Ika state,with the capital in agbor.

How many times ijaw don attack ika? Or used propaganda to attack us? Igbos are the wan attacking and blackmailing us day and night.

Yes,ijaw are right to vote their daughter first in bbn.I will do same by voting an Ika lady first.

Ndokwa and Ika will be a very good alliance in NDR.We have been brothers since ancient times,trading,farming,living,fishing and intermarry among our self.How many times have you seen or hear Ika and Ndokwa fighting or attacking each other?

Did your query change anything? She was wise enough to know where her interests are better protected. After your never do Wells rantings on Onu Ika page and other social media platforms against her, she still went straight to BBC Igbo to grant interview and thank Ndiigbo for the votes.

The never do Wells among you who were castigating her would still do same if in her shoes.
When Buhari said that Emefiele was an Igbo man when Ndiigbo was complaining of lack of Representatives in his Government. Why didn't Emefiele and his aides come out and shout that he is not Igbo?
That's how it works.

I know Ikas that out of altruism uphold their Igbo identity. Osita Mordi is one of them, he is from Igbodo and have many pro Igbo articles some of which I have used to open threads here.
Why should Ijaw attack Ika, are you Ijaw neighbors? They don't regard you, they just want to use you count scores in their Ogogoro republic.

What ever relationship you think Ika share with Ndokwa, Ogbaru in Anambra and Oguta in Imo share more than that with Ndokwa East.
I had earlier shared U-tube videos of Mmawu masquerades in Oguta, Ndokwa, Nnewi South and Ogbaru, and you clearly see how they are same.

So chill with the attachment to Ndokwa. The border between Ndokwa and Anambra (Ogbaru) is longer than that between them and Ika.
Akri people ( Akili Oziza, Akili Ogidi and Atani) where Osita Osadebey, and Stella Oduah come from in Ogbaru Anambra, are basically same people with Akarai people in Ndokwa East.

Afriifa:
lol. Why are you so concerned about their affairs? Is this desperation not too much?

Says an attache by force Bayelsa man looking for people to annex into his Ogogoro Niger Delta republic.

OP.
Can you highlight the part where Zik pointed gun at the heads of Awolowo and Balewa to accept his idea of "no secession clause".

I'm waiting.

spearman:
After wasting all this energy on this silly comment that I never read once I saw Ijaw (your nemesis) I stopped. I am not Ijaw and I'm not even sure Ijaws will want to join our new federation. Ijaw seemed to think they're large enough to go it alone. In any case we have set a high bar. Any group joining us must return 70% minimum in a referendum. We do not want straggler groups that will drag us down the path of Nigeria. Anioma will have to scale the 70% bar and I suspect they will by a wide margin. Igboid does not make them Biafrans and they know it.

So Mr Man. What's the name of your ethnic group?

Afriifa:
that's your usual antics. When someone don't wanna be part of you, you call them names and all derogatory remarks. Shame! Desperate fools!

Says a Bayelsa man suffering from attache by force.

Afriifa:
Bro u misunderstood me. I mean we Niger Deltan took Igbo women as slaves. We conquered them. Bro

Really? Is that what you tell yourselves? That your Igbo mothers who your fathers saw as trophy to parade around village, seeing as marrying Igbo women was seen as big achievement amongst them, were slaves?

What does that make you? Children of slave Women?

IDENNAA:
Is this how you are going to build your Niger Delta .....lmao

They don't know what awaits them.

See, these lots need us more than we need them.
Infact apart from "Obinwanne" spirit, I doubt we need these people at all.
I mean, it's not like they would offer sea access. They are landlocked too.

The best of Anioma as per human resources is Enuani, and they are mostly sympathetic to the Igbo tag, with exception to Issele ukus who are still reeling from post Bini colonial Stockholm syndrome.

Sufferingboy:
Wrong,Ika we never conquered or taking as slaves,those names our natural names.Don't use your beef with Igbos to insult us pls.Say what you know only.

Dem never form the Ogogoro republic, kasala don dey burst.
I dey laugh o!

Afriifa:
The Dein of Agbor who is answering Ikechukwu made it clear that they are not Igbos despite answering an Igbo names. So go and watch his interview if you have problem with the names. We are liberals, we took so many of your women as slaves and bore children with them, their Igbo influence is what you see in the names today. Does not mean they are Igbos. For instance, Davido's child with Chioma is answering Ifeanyi, does that make him Igbo?

Stop lying. The Dein said they should stop bearing Igbo and Ika names.
Agbor has names perculiar and unique to them only, and the Dein wanted them to promote those names more.

Either way, many Igbos have acknowledged that Ika people, Agbor inclusive are not interested in Igbo tag or Biafra, and so have learnt to leave them alone and stop counting on them.
Yet whenever an Ika man runs into problem with other Nigerians and and need help, you always see them running towards Ndiigbo.

Dorathy of BBN needed votes, she knew she would not get support by shouting Niger Delta,as Niger Delta is a meaningless term, Ijaws would never have left Nengi and start voting for an Ika girl in the name of Niger Delta.
Dorathy was a wise woman so she started attaching to Igbo and claimed Igbo all through to gather Igbo votes and not let Prince and Ozor have it all for themselves.
It worked for her.

When Ndiigbo finally leaves Nigeria, all Igboid would come calling for us, I can assure you that.
They really need us more than we need them. Which is why I am a strong advocate of cutting any Igbophobic Igboid off from Biafra.
Once Igbophobic non Igbos look for Igbos and couldn't find us, they would transfer their aggression and pent up Igbophobia to those Igboids as happened during the events of 1967-70.

I want to believe the Igboids are wise enough to know the above and do make conscious effort to leave with SE once we leave , because if not.. OYO will be their case.

Afriifa:
You are suffering from cognitive disorder. Now read and assimilate before you quote me again. Please acknowledge where I mentioned Ndokwa to be members of IYC. And about Nembe, we are not the one to claim them. They identify with us as Ijaws because they know their roots. Nembe has strong representatives both at the IYC and INC. One of the scholars whom have written extensively about the Ijaws is Professor Alagoa - Nembe Ijaw. E pain you.. between, The Niger Delta ethnic nationalities has ancestral affiliation with each other. Most of them are Edoid, and we have Edoid Ijaws, so nembe could be one of them. The bottom line is that, they are Ijaws, and that's a fact!

Lol!
Ndokwa is not a member of IYC, so why are you attaching them in your Ogogoro Niger Delta?

Alagoa is a single man and has only one vote.
The fact remains that Nembe people still hold strong unto their Bini origin stories, which they practically inherited from association with Aboh! (Ndokwa).
Ali Chukwuma was an Ndokwa man, very popular one too who was at home with his Igbo tag.
I belong to a Facebook page called Proudly Anioma Proudly Igbo, and one of our Admins there is an Ndokwa man who happens to be Proudly Igbo too.


Now watch this video and cry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd6CjBQ1rgE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd6CjBQ1rgE

Mmawu Ndokwa Ashaka Anioma


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgloJN1mlB0

Mmawu Oguta Imo


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CtQi9d60ZI

Mmawu Ogbaru Anambra


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxmcXJKjwsE

Mmawu Ihioma Imo state


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iDggWkBL6Q

Mmawu Unubi Anambra


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rb93R-NeWs

Mmawu Ase Ndokwa


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNfiLLE1fOQ

Afriifa:
lol. The people you claim as Igbos have their socio-cultural groups different from the Ohanaeze. And they are not part of Ohanaeze, during my secondary school studies in Ndokwa land, Kwale and Ashaka precisely, I never got to withness one gathering or function depicting Ohanaeze. Even the Paramount ruler of Ashaka (Okparuku) and other Kings in Ndokwa routinely visits benin to fulfil some traditional rites and not in any Igbo state. This, I have withnessed myself so I still wondering why you nitwits would clamour for this guys to be part of you.

And the Nembe people are not still claiming Bini origin?
How is Ndokwa any of your problems?
Are they Ijaw people or members of IYC?
Why are you attaching by force to them?
If they drop you in Ndokwaland now, can you communicate with the locals in their local lect?
Yet you are shamelessly attaching to them.