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RobbStark:
This their desperate attempt at claiming Opobo n bonny started the moment Buhari said they are like a dot in a circle.
Go thro the timeline, you will notice that.
Don't worry brother, their noise ends in this forum, no be today dem start to claim lands.
No where e reach.
After all they yet to see anyone in this forum who claims to be Ibo at the same time from Opobo or Bonny

Igboid:
Then stop panicking

Let me tell you an example of effort in futility.

The useless attempt to implant the dead Kalabari language called Ibani in Opobo and Bonny.
That's an example of an exercise in futility.

It has been on since 1990s and now a yearly jamboree and avenue for funds embezzlement for Opobo and Bonny politicians.
I bet they would be earmarking huge state funds for it.
And after the whole jamboree, they all go back home to speak their beautiful Igbo language with their wives and children, probably mocking you desperate Bayelsans in their bedrooms.

RobbStark:
Effort in futility...

Vintagepipes:
...So, you believed the map is actually a map of West-Africa in the 17th century?

.....Please, jokes apart, tell me you are joking..

DubaiLandLord1:
Please carry your useless and foolish explanation comot my front.

Igboid:
Okay.
So I'm back.

Finally, what we have been able to achieve in this thread is to establish that the Igbo presence in Bonny is Aboriginal and not only via slave trade.

This is very important, because no one have been able to argue this point convincingly and provide evidence for it before now.


The second stage is awareness creation. We have to find a way to put this information out there in the real world and make it a common knowledge!
Social media would help on this. And I reckon this should move smoothly.


The next stage is to get the academia involved. Our professors in history at our universities in SE should earn their keep.
We need them to ruin Alagoa intellectually by publishing books on Bonny and Opobo to correct Alagoa manipulations and force Alagoa into an intellectual debate. It would be interesting to see the old fox grasping at straws like JANK23H have been doing on this thread.

Like Eastlink noted, Alagoa cannot be dragged by people like us. We need our big wigs in the Academia to do the job! Gidi gidi bu ugwu Eze. Ekelu Olu eke!


Then the most important aspect, we need a political will.
And this can only happen when we start putting people who reason beyond women, drinks, parties, stashing of public funds abroad and jetting off to live abroad come the end of their tenure, in positions of power in Igboland.
This obviously cannot be achieved with IPOB methods that shies away from taking control of Political power in SE and the enormous finance that this could give to us to finance a Better positioned and reformed Ohanaeze to do it's ground job of cultural unification of all Igbo speaking people.
We have to start putting people of substance who reason beyond their clan , village, town and state and close ranks with counterparts from Igbo speaking regions in SS, SE and NC to achieve a purpose.
Zik was Better in this aspect, that was how we got Osadebey to be the premier of Mid Western region.


In my opinion, this is the challenge facing us.

But we are already doing alot just by discussing this topic.

ThickSharon123:
and you're a lady. Ijaw Militia, any Igbo lady that would marry you people, I believe she's cursed.

RobbStark:
Show your face na let's lick our lips.
Or you no fine as you dey talk

9Pluto:
I won't advice or encourage this for obvious reasons. Gently, make your observations and leave there.

mancoconut:
I'm in Opobo now for a wedding event with some friends who are neither Igbos or Ijaws.. I'll use some time to mingle with the natives, listen to the language been predominantly spoken and hopefully do some interviews.. my findings will put to rest whether these people are Igbos or Ijaws

RobbStark:
Slayerforever is my friend, so I will name him Tamunoibim.....God is Good
Or he may like Ibiwari.....Good house

RobbStark:
Nwaotam is a borrowed play in Opobo n Bonny.
But it has come to stay as it is a play used to identify the people.
That is not the only masquerade being played in Opobo.
Every 25th of December, it is played in Port Harcourt (talking of the Opobo own) and 1st of January in Opobo. Bonny plays theirs on the 15th of December.

Now, after nwaotam is played on the 1st, it ushers in the celebrations in the town, where other masquerades play like Owu-tariah etc.

Don't take that to mean the town is purely Ibo nah!
This is 6:30pm this is a pic of the waterfront.
I am just chilling having a cool breeze to my skin

Alabo7978:
lol, confusion in the camp of drug dealing land grabbers.
do you know how many Eze'ndigbo they have all over Nigeria?
eze'ndigbo Lagos, Eze'ndigbo ogun, Eze'ndigbo Ondo.
The igbos are known travelers, entering everywhere uninvited.
they wanted to do that at cross river (Eze'ndigbo of Cross river) the cross river traditional rulers agressively halted it.
if care is not taken, 9pluto, Ekealterego, Igboid, Bkayy, SlayerForever of the future in 400 years time will claim the igbos owned those states.

igbos who don't have affinity to water, who dread the swamp and mangroves now suddenly claiming to be Water people.
Father lord!
Igbos who were slaves in Bonny just as pepple and crowther said.
igbos who were given freedom by Asimini because they showed they aided him in war.

funny enough, land grabbing clowns never want to talk about the ijoh enculturating ritual. (I will write a thread about THE ENCULTURATING RITUAL) where certain rites and spiritual practices are carried out before the spirits to change a person's ancestral identity.
if ijohs weren't the land lord, why were igbos enculturated
Ekealterego, 9pluto etc answer.

why were there enculturating rituals performed on Igbo slaves??
infact the igbos should stop seeing Jaja as Igbo anymore, he swore before the spirits, cleansed his blood, renounce his ancestry and tribe, even his name to be JUBO JUBOGHA.
that alone is big prove that the ijos were the owners, lord and master of the Igbos, and bonny.


captain8 Putindbutt ditaridesciple2
how about we think of names to rename our slaves?

I earlier renamed Ekealterego OTONYE DOMOKUMA
9pluto, SlayerForever Igboid biafrarep bkayy needs to be renamed ASAP.
we need to enculturate them like our ancestors did.

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Omanambala:
Please , stop being a nuisance here, oga. I have followed this thread with open mind to be enlightened and there was no place on the works by any Whiteman that visited the Niger Delta in precolonial state Ijaw inhabited Bonny or they were present.

You know danm well you have lost the argument a long time ago and your presence here is simply clutching at straws. There court of law that will cede Bonny to Ijaw with all these evidence. This thread has been exhausted.

Igboid:
You are being ridiculous.

We are discussing Bonny history.
Provide a source showing the presence of Jos men as Aboriginals in Bonny, you couldn't.

You went and provided a source showing that Ijaws were found in Rivers along the region, as if that was ever in doubt or part of the argument.

You are consciously obfuscating issues having lost the argument.

You are not a serious student.
You entered exam and saw you have no answers to questions raised, you decided to set your own questions and Mark the exam sheet yourself while insisting the result must be recognized after all the questions you set can be found in same textbook your lecturer set the main exam.

What a clowning behavior.
Move on bro.

Key words here are : Bonny and Jos.
Get a snippet that have them in same sentence or shut up forever.

Igboid:
Writer was speaking of Aboh.

Before Aboh, there was Akili/Akarai, an ancient Igbo speaking group who used to occupy the exact spot you have Aboh standing on today.
Aboh was formed in Akarai land. Until Akarai was vanquished and scattered all over Anambra (Ogbaru) and Rivers (Ogba and Ekpeye), there was no Aboh.
Aboh were recent migrants to the place, they were Igbo speakers who lived in the vicinity of Bini, like IKa and Igbanke do today before they Left and settled in Akarai land.

The writer was not wrong on Aboh being recent migrants to the place. What he didn't state was that Akarai were already living there and were scattered and their land possessed by Aboh people.

Igboid:
No where in the chapter was Bonny mentioned.
Did that get lost on you?
We are discussing the origin of Bonny Aboriginals here.
And you posted a snippet that not only did not mention Jos being Aboriginals in Bonnye, but didn't even mention Bonny at all.

Nnaa, are you sure you are alright?

Igboid:
You are not making sense.

The Igbos were already in Aboh before another set of Igbos who were living in Bini came to meet them.

The Igbo group Aboriginals to Aboh were called the "Akarai/Akili", they were the ones who welcomed the Bini cultured Igbos who left Bini Kingdom led by Esumai to join them.

The Akarai people accomodated the Igbo speaking but Bini cultured Esumai led party to the land we call Aboh today.
But trouble happened between the both, so the Bini party won, and chased off the Akarai/Akili people and possessed the land.
The Akarai people were forced to cross the Niger and formed the Akili communities in Ogbaru LGA named Akili-Ozizor ( Stella Odua is from here), Akili-Ogidi and Akili-Atani (Osita Osadebey is from here).
The rest of Akarai people were forced to travel further south the River Niger, they crossed the Orashi river and formed the Ogba and Ekpeye.
When Ogba and Ekpeye claim their progenitor was Akalaka, it's actually Akarai/Akili that they corrupted.

Now the Akili/Akarai/Akalaka were called so because they use to have a distinct type of facialmarks (which in Igbo is called Akalaka).

Long story short, the Aboh didn't meet the land empty, they met the Akarai, an Indigenous Igbo speaking people on that land, who they fought, won and displaced.
Some Akarai people stayed in Aboh and was assimilated, some of them are still scattered all over Ndokwa region.

This is the history of ABOH.

Stop meddling into things you know nothing about.

Isoko is basically a union of Edoid(Urhobo), Ijoid and Igboid speakers, who became Edoid with unique flavor

Igboid:
I'm here scratching my head wondering where Bonny was written in the snippets you shared.
Maybe I'm going blind.

But please can you circle the part of the snippet where it was written that the people of Bonny are people of Jos.

Eastlink:
A book written in 1970 that quoted sources like Alagoa and the Benin myth.

Igboid:
Lol! What's this?
Were Isokos not migrants to Isoko from Bini?

You are going mad o!

Didn't everyone migrate from somewhere?

Putindbutt:
Lol. Britannica is an academic fraudster, Cambridge University is an academic fraudster?

Keep Cherry picking the narratives that suits you. Exactly what you guys have been doing from page 1 till page 53.

9Pluto:
My claim is a challenge to an acclaimed Professor of History. My thinking is that you would be irked, report to him and have him come and explain himself while he is still alive.

P.S: I have never met him in person, so I cannot hate him like you claimed.

Vintagepipes:
....Well summarised.

.....The Bini did the same thing in Delta state.

.....They told the story and put it in Ika and Ukwuani psyche that Igbo means slave. For the Biniphilic, people from these places, this is what they were told.

.......I now ask this intelligent question, why would Eboe mean slave, when the greatest kingdom in your domain, Aboh when your ancestors arrived was Igbo.


They have the same blueprint...

understand that the Ejors learnt from the Binis, until Algoa erased it, this was their belief.

9Pluto:
Another obvious blight on the quality of Nigerian education. I suggest all history departments in most of this schools should be shut down and their professors sacked for a start. They are not what a penny. To imagine that I was the one teaching my neighbor history, that is someone that has a B.Sc in History.

I am just wondering, in a world without internet what was Alagoa referencing.

I make bold to state that Professor Alagoa is an academic fraudster.

Igboid:
You are not good at this.
No where in that your snippet was Bonny mentioned.
The snippet only mentioned the Ijaw(Jos people) pirated lurking those Rivers .
Which I noted and even showed you a U tube video of Ijaw pirates still lurking in coasts and Rivers of Bonny today, causing mayhem to the Indigenes.

Post those snippets again and Mark out where Bonny was mentioned there if dem born you well.

Igboid:
So which of the works called Bonny Indigenes Ijaw, Izon or Jos people?
Upload the snippets, it can't be that hard.

9Pluto:
Can you volunteer for a live debate on this topic?