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OPINIONSKC Ogbonnia: Wike and Biafra: The Northern Nigerians are no foolsPublished on December 1, 2020By Daily Post Staff


“I will lead a war against them (Nigeria) like Ojukwu. Am not joking, I know am on air, and I am warning them now. Any attempt to rob us the way they rob our brother (GEJ), the battle will start from Rivers State. We will remain opposition state like Lagos. In fact, we from the South-South and South-East will remain in PDP. We leave the South-West and North to run APC. That is how they tactically shared the Country. And we will not allow them use our resources to develop their States…I want all South-South and South-East to remember this, that we’ve two Judas.”

The incendiary proclamation above came from no other Nigerian than Nyesom Wike, the current governor of Rivers State. The period was shortly after the 2015 presidential elections.

The objective fact is that Ezenwo Nyesom Wike was a ringleader among the political kingpins who exploited the defeat of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015 to spew the current Biafran crisis into existence. Even Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) acknowledged at the time that Jonathan’s electoral misfortune fueled the current clamour for secession.

Upon becoming the governor, Wike became a whited sepulcher. He would hobnob with the Biafran vision in the dark, only to present a holier-than-thou image of one Nigeria in the open. Believing that the people are gullible, he occastrated series of gestures to assuage Northern Nigeria.

The appetizer was to evoke the emotions of the Biafran war by renaming the Liberation Stadium Port-Harcourt after Yakubu Gowon. According to the governor, the gesture was for Gowon’s role in the creation of Rivers state over half a century ago, a wartime scheme then designed to decimate Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, the very man Wike swore to emulate in his “war against them (Nigeria).”

Serving as buffet was the deployment of a pipeline of political appeasement from Port-Harcourt to Sokoto, the seat of the Caliphate, chanting one Nigeria, with oil largesse to boot. This is how Wike became the turbo engine of the presidential ambition of Sokoto State governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal who, luckily, is a crafty character, sufficiently shrewd to detect a phoney from afar. And the stage has been set.

Hear him (Mr. Wike) at the palace of Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III: “We cannot run away from this country. The unity of this country is very, very paramount. The unity of this country is non-negotiable…I am from the Niger Delta, Rivers State to be specific, so I cannot see us in a divided country. No way. We stand for the unity of this country.”

What followed was a string of visits to Rivers State by the Sultan, performing rounds of ceremonies for laying foundation and commissioning of state projects. Worried that the chicanery was becoming clear, and to equally pacify the South-west that he had roundly castigated in 2015, Wike saw a moderating pawn in the influential Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi. The camouflage was the hasty hosting of the General Assembly of the National Council of Traditional Rulers of Nigeria at Port-Harcourt. This is the occasion Wike declared that “The Sultan and Ooni are my fathers”, ostensibly to curry favor with the North and West, as the kings from his native East moped and gaped in utter amazement.

The oddity is apparent, but no one can fault royal fathers who honor underhand invitations perfectly packaged as entreaties for peace and unity of the country. Sultan Abubakar III was even kind to seize one of the occasions to enjoin the Muslim community in Rivers State to pledge their full support to the labile governor, his pre-election provocations notwithstanding.

But the apple, they say, does not fall far from its tree. It did not take long before Wike relapsed into his militant ways, including all manners of separatist innuendoes. At one point he declared other religions, besides Christianity, as non grata in his state. The governor would go on to demolish a Muslim mosque, which eventually fetched him a resounding rebuke from the Sultan. Something had to give.

Ezenwo Nyesom Wike is a bombastic bozo, quite alright, but the man can still remember the parable of the tortoise and hot water. He was able to recognize that his overbearing transgressions, most of which were targeted against Northern Nigeria, might have dug him deeper. The governor needed a broader escape route.

Enter the # EndSars protest, a nationwide movement against police brutality in Nigeria. Though the protest was timely, it unleashed serious economic havoc in the country, with massive looting and destruction of both private and public properties. And many innocent lives were lost. A coterie of highly placed politicians, who were fingered for turning the peaceful protest into a bloodbath, also needed an escape route. They quickly zeroed in on the Igbo, the whipping boy of Nigerian politics, exploiting the IPOB and the teetering bluster of its cavalier leader, Nnamdi Kanu.

Governor Wike finally found the scapegoat and wasted no time to attempt an escape. He believed, and understandably so, that that any nuanced opposition to Biafran activism or even mere anti-Igbo antics would firm forgiveness from the North. There and then Wike mounted a montage of propaganda, peeling himself from his Igbo roots of “South-South and South-East” that he had employed to win elections. He followed by peddling the EndSars protest in Rivers State as a potential beginning of another round of Biafran war. The result was a chilling campaign of extrajudicial killings in Obigbo, a small native Igbo settlement in River State, with the governor claiming to be rooting out the IPOB, the very group he helped to nurture.

But Wike will soon find out the hard way: There is no way for the wazzock. The Northern Nigerians are no fools. And neither the South-west! The day of reckoning is around the corner, come 2023! As the governor would say in time of his need, “I want all South-South and South-East to remember this, that we’ve two Judas.” And the more dangerous judas, for sure, is Ezenwo Nyesom Wike himself. Mgbọ!

Arrewa:
see them!!

Make una enjoy!!

Over 40 farmers were killed in Borno village.

You ipobs have been celebrating this tragedy opening thread up and down on how the north is gone.

Farmers were killed in Borno village. But I have been seeing comments from the Easterners telling us how the whole of the north is gone and Wil never know peace.

The unity in the north is second to none!!

The killings happened not to Hausa or Fulanis.

The killings happened to kanuris of Borno.

But we share their pains!!

Killing of 43 innocent villagers in Borno is like a killing in kano to me.

For those mocking the whole north of Over the killings in Borno. Keep it up and enjoy!!

Dear people zabarmari We have failed you. To all those killed, May Allah grant them Aljannatu Firdaus.

It's a shame that the people in Zamfara, kastina, Kaduna villages and Zabarmari couldn't get the protection they deserve. This is a failure of the president, manifesting before our very eyes.

Check threads on lekki killings and obigbo killings and see how nothern Muslims reacted. Stop demanding what you can't give.

AlexBells:
Dont mistake interpretations, many people misinterpret maybe for selfish gain or ignorance but if we seek truth, truth should be able to set everyone free, irrespective of religion

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Puleeeeeeease, read your Quran and Hadith well, there is nothing like miracle of re interpretation, as assumed by Islamic scholars, religious researchers has debated them severally, and has taken them to the cleaners. What bokoharam is doing is the truest and purest from of Islam.

AlexBells:
I'm not in the North, I'm in the East but I have friends in the North, humanity first

The first thing you should do is to study Quran and Hadith without bias, then come back and tell me whether Boko Haram is wrong or not.

This is how SS leaders wants to be treated, so the deserve it. Leaders that sabotage their people, and shamelessly sign away their inheritance and the resources of their people to enemies from distant lands should be treated this way.

NwaAmaikpe:



Just like it is with women.
If these policemen want to go, the IGP should let them go. "Never beg who doesn't want to be with you to be with you."

Agbamuche learnt the hard way that when a woman tells you that she is fed up; you should neither try to beg, coerce, blackmail or cajole her to stay back when he found out that the pastor whom he begged to counsel her on the importance and sanctity of marriage was the father of their 3rd child.

The IGP should not be scared.
The truth is that; even if all these policemen choose to retire today, there are many of us who are willing to pick up their batons and guns and replace them at those checkpoints collecting every 50 naira bribe with the truest diligence.

This guy must be a legend in the satirical world.

How can a blank bullet penetrate the skin, how!!!

I'm not against Bashir El rufai marrying any Christian girl, the question is, will Bashir El rufai, as a devout Muslim, allow his Muslim sister to marry a Christian guy.

IkwerrePikin:
What is the meaning of “Ibo” In Israel where you igbo migrated from? How come no igbo bear Israeli names?


Aka = Oka, [Oka abreviated from Okaro (Okao) meaning first. Leader, head]. Oka also represent fighter/warrior in Benin. Okuo is war in Benin. Oka Okuo, Okakuo (War leader, commander). Oka na Aka, (Aka n'aka) means war commander from Aka or Oka of Ogbelaka. (Please check Ogbelaka street in Benin on google – Ogbelaka is an area in Benin probably Aka domain or settlement in Benin).

Akalaka (Akanaka or Aka n’aka) is warlord from Aka district in Benin (Ogbelaka). Owan will say Okakuo-si-Oba. Akalaka in Edo dialect of Emai also means, an acrobat or one who knows all tricks of acrobatics. If you check the etymology of the word...an acrobat in those days means the same thing as one who understands all the tricks of war. Akalaka. Same spelling. AKALAKA ALSO MEANS A GLASS CUP IN BENIN LANGUAGE

Akaluoka, Akaluoba or Okaluoba means Oba army commander, defender or Oba warlord, which Benin will write “Okakuoba”. Akaluoba is Okakuoba in Benin.

Igbo is just a corruption of the word ebreu, ebeu, from old french, hebraios in Greek, Hebrew in English, ibrio, ibo, in Hebrew, ibray in Aramaic

ayo291:
Nigeria politicians, only interest is permanent. A good move though

Noo, this is just politics, PDP is under the control of seconds, and secondus is under wike's control. The visit by South east to wike was not for Obigbo massacre as asserted by the media, the visit was to get assurance from wike, but he refused, so the ebonyi state governor is saying, either PDP presidential candidate or he ports to APC, wike tried to make him see reason, based on their people in mainland se and riverine SS being of same stock, but umahi reminded him of Obigbo massacre and case closed.

@princevictor966 ABI na 666 , stop inhaling pit latrine to high, it's not good for health.

See rat wee think say, e be elephan, nigger area to sanction America, mph!! This reminds me of the story of mosquito who said that the yam he saw in his mother's place, big reach his hands, pls, how big is mosquito's hand. No matter how frog expand, ino go big reach cow.

What's wrong with southerners, you are slaves, you are slaves, you are slaves. And ah, oh!!! Lest I forget, Igboes, iPod or whatever are your problem, now your happy, yes now, that's the reset code. Anyway, heard that all the smuggled goods from the north are being bought by Igboes, who are now secretly smiling to the bank, who cares whether it's the southern border or northern bother, Igboes will always do business with whoever has the goods. As for those who handed power to their enemies, claiming reformed democrats, how una border de. Ahh!!! I have to go, my container just arrived.

ladychioma:
Read before you comment. Sarowiwa was protesting against the pollution of the environmental. He was looking for a way to remedy the harm done to the environment and was executed by Nigerian government.

Yes we know that, but he was instrumental to the environment being under the control of outsiders, instead of his own people. He only realized very late that his actions, enslaved his people.

Arrewa:
Noted!

Carry go Dangote and BUA!!

I know that if Dangote happened to be one onuora ikechukwu from Anambra state.

IPOB zombies won't have seen anything wrong with this policy.

But since it's a northerner... Expect them to wail!

I just love seeing ipobs wail pains !

Let me help them small in wailing...

Government of the north!

You see why we want to divide this country?

The Fulanis have taken over everything!

Buhari is failure and a jihadists !

It shall never be well with lord lugard!

expect this kind of comment from ipob zombiess!

I just love seeing them wail in pains and agonny

The hatred for the Muslim north by the Igbos will consume the East!

It has already started!

I love the way you tell the stupid useful idiot Southerners the truth.

Vaughanlanrewaj:
Sir,apples to apples, Trump did far worse things to disgrace a country that prides itself for having the oldest modern democracy.
Let's just wish them the best. President Trump undid their democracy and trust me, a lot will be revealed in days to come. Just 4 years o and all their institutions have been dragged into the mud. No where was spared! Even a senior military officer was fired from his post for reaching out for help when most of his crew members contracted covid-19. The senior military officer was fired by a civilian political appointee before they realise that the order for redeployment should come from the military council. It was unprecedented!
Ha!! That man called Trump did them Agege!

What I'm saying is that Nigerians are not in position to judge Trump, if they cannot do same to their president, charity begins at home. What happened to the military officer is wrong but worst case scenario happened here, even when Trump was not in the picture, and America was still a model, Nigerians didn't do fim. We should just sit back and watch how things are done in a real democracy, and then we should learn and act to save ourselves from the embarrassment we have become as a nation.

potent5:
Wrong prescription/dosage.

Noo, his prescription is correct, that's how I treat malaria, and I've been safe for the last two years.

Vaughanlanrewaj:
So does it mean in Nigeria, a sitting president can declare an election inexclusive?
Sir, the Trump presidency is showing the underbelly of the false narrative thst they have an institution; from his hijacking of the Republican party to the way he got people who squealed on him fired to even how he rushed the appointment of a Supreme court justice in an unprecedented manner in their nations history.

He even had political campaigns in the White House in same unprecedented manner! Where are all these 'safe institutions ?

This man even approved the assassination of an enemy nation even without consulting the congress and almost threw USA into war!! As we type here, it was on Twitter he announced the suspension of the stimulus package the congress was in talks with the Treasury department. USA has no safe institution all along, it was all a farce sir.

But our own president did worst than trump with our own judiciary, and we didn't even squirm not to talk of protesting.

kingsavage:
talkig about who? Are you mad.. does this forum look like biafrasay to you ?

Am I mad, interesting, anyway like you said earlier, theirs nothing to envy about Igboes, yet you talk about them all day, nawaoh!!
Since your now the entity that determines who is sane or not, determine your sanity by telling me what the word "biafrasay" got to do with your quote above.

OfoIgbo:
You are very correct.

To add one extra point, my Umu Nri people have slightly different pronunciations of various words like

Central Igbo - Umu-Nri Igbo

Afo - Avo , Afvo (market day)
Ofo - Ovo, Owho, Ofvo (ritual staff)
Ahia - Avia, Afvia (market)
Akaraka - Akalaka (destiny)

My people can easily choose to have a bible written in Umu Nri dialect, and it will only bear Umu Nri spellings, but that doesn't make Nri people different from the other Igbos.

One key point though is that Umu Nri will never deny their Igboness. The white people tried in the past, but failed woefully.

Actually you are right, when it comes to Umu nri, but in the case of ikwerre, theirs nothing like Ezenwo or wike in their dialect or even Rumu instead of Umu it's just foolishness.

TecM0:
Only you do naming ceremony for 50 year old Wike and rename him, only you change the name of a town from Oyigbo to Obigbo


This guys low self-esteem is on another level

Someone has already told us the meaning of Ezenwa Nwike, kindly tell us or call any ikwerre person including River state gov to tell us the meaning of Ezenwo wike.

JudasNaCarrot:
Land grabbers.
This is one of the reasons the Igbos always have problems wherever they found themselves. You come in cunningly and trick your host and later install your own king which you gradually introduce via town meetings and all that..
Mbano camp settlers and the likes in Oyigbo have given you people the credence to claim Oyigbo that is part of Iriebe and inner Ogoni land as Igbo land abi.

The Imo river is a natural boundary between these tribes even though people of the olden days allow their neighbors to cross boundaries to farm and fish due to a very small population as at then, hence humans see nothing bad inviting strangers to come live close to them.

You want to change the narratives because you want to make Oyigbo another Lagos you claim is no man's land.

Land grabbers.

Are you describing the fulani s or the Igboes, or are you saying that Igboes are in land tussle with their host in Lagos.

esomchi40041:
The look for love and acceptances in the wrong places..

Same way some people looked for love and assistance from buhari in 2015 and 2019, but are now protesting in 2020.

ILoveDemMANNA:
Wow!

Wow "such hatred , never been seen have i" yoda

kingsavage:
what is there to envy about igbos?

Then stop talking about them, after all, Obi Igbo is not Ibadan.

Let's assume that Igboes in the Kano carry dagger around, and an Igbo man stabs an innocent hausa keke driver in Kano, guess what will happen. Don't demand what you cannot give from others. A people that goes to other people's land carrying weapon around can only end courting trouble every where they go. No matter the animosity between Yoruba and Igbo, none of them carries weapon around in each other's backyard. Muslim northerners, be guided. Hypocrisy is demanding that which you cannot give if found in the same situation.

Actually that was the instruction given to the military, but the problems started when the army weren't able to differentiate those who are Igbo from those who are indigenes, because of same language and similar body structure.

NNEWIsuper:
Well my village will not harbour the ipob terrorists.. We don't tolerate them in my side despite their heavy presence in my state.. Ipob miscreants should be decimated, period.. They will always be collateral damage

And how will your village know that some Igbo men presently residing there are not ipob members.

What logic
1) IPOB members kill military in obigbo
2) military revenge's by killing civilians and indigenes
3) foolish nairalanders encourages military to finish off the civilians and indigenes
4) civilians and indigenes ends up joining IPOB
5) the monster gets bigger and bolder
6)the cycle starts again by IPOB killing military again,
7) 2,3,4,5, repeat itself until it consumes the country, including of course foolish nairalanders.