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toneroforever:
Senseless

Your people are the most senseless set of people. Covetousness is your default page.

2aces:
Wike might be anything and everything you call him, but to us living in the FCT, he is 001 for a reason, the next FCT minister will just chill, relax and chop money cos everything he can ever think of doing in the FCT, his predecessor has surpassed it.

People of the Indigenous People of Bitterland won't be happy with you for being truthful.

chuose2:
Ikwerre People: Proudly Igbo, Always Igbo
In 1916, a beautifully crafted clay pot from the Ikwerre people was displayed at the Pitt Rivers Museum in the UK. It was celebrated as part of the rich cultural heritage of the Ikwerre, a proud Igbo-speaking community. That pot, believed to have originated from Igwurita (Igrita) in present-day Rivers State, serves as a reminder of the deep history and identity of the Ikwerre people within the Igbo nation.
Yet, over time, some Ikwerre people have distanced themselves from their Igbo roots, often claiming they are not Igbo. While they are entitled to their opinions, the facts remain unchanged. Being Igbo is not something that can be denied or undone—it is in the language we speak, the culture we practice, and the history we share. Denying these connections is like a person insisting they are not human. Such a claim does not change the reality of who they are.

Who Are the Igbo?
The Igbo nation is not defined by geography or politics but by shared language, traditions, and ancestry. Every Igbo subgroup has its own dialect—Ngwa, Nsukka, Awka , Enuani, etc and yes, Ikwerre. These dialects may vary, but they are all interconnected, with over 80% mutual intelligibility among Igbo speakers. Central Igbo was created for ease of communication, but the real essence of Igbo lies in these local dialects, including Ikwerre.
The Ikwerre people live and breathe Igbo culture. Their names are Igbo, their traditional foods are Igbo, their marriage customs are Igbo, and their kings are called “Eze,” a distinctly Igbo title. To separate Ikwerre from the Igbo is to separate a branch from its tree—an impossible task.

Why the Denial?
The roots of this denial lie in history, particularly during the Biafran War (1967–1970). During that turbulent time, efforts were made to divide the Igbo people, exploiting political and social differences to weaken the unity of the region. These tactics left scars, and some of the divisions persist to this day.
However, historical events cannot rewrite the truth. The Ikwerre, like every other Igbo subgroup, are an essential part of the Igbo nation. The population of the Igbo people, estimated at nearly 80 million, is made up of many subgroups like the Ngwa, Nri, and Ikwerre. Each subgroup has its own sociocultural organization—such as Ogbakor Ikwerre for the Ikwerre people—but all fall under the umbrella of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex body that represents the Igbo globally.

The Truth Will Always Stand
For those who claim the Ikwerre are not Igbo, the truth is simple: you cannot change what you are. A son may disown his father, but that does not erase their blood ties. The Ikwerre people are Igbo because that is their heritage, their language, and their culture. No amount of denial can change that.

The Ikwerre are a vital part of the Igbo story—a story of resilience, unity, and greatness. Instead of clinging to divisions created by history, it is time to embrace our shared identity and celebrate what makes us one.
The Ikwerre are Igbo, not because someone is forcing them to be, but because that is who they are. It is in their blood, their history, and their culture. And just as you cannot separate a river from its source, you cannot separate the Ikwerre from the Igbo nation. This is how God made it, and this is how it will always be.

Ikwerre people are yet to celebrate Ojukwu for what he did for them. Ikwerre people would have gone into extinction if not for Ojukwu going to war against Nigeria. Igbos greatest loss in the war was Port Harcourt not even millions of Igbos who died.
Nnamdi Kanu asked once if we had heard of One Ghana, One Togo , One Egypt before? Why One Nigeria? He said we hear of One Nigeria all the time because it is artificial.
Show me where you have seen Mbaise Igbo, Ngwa Igbo, Nkwerre Igbo, Aro Igbo. It doesn't exist because everyone knows they are Igbo. But you people went about forcing Igbo on Ikwerre people.

mightyhaze:
U sound very pained

Ikwerre people don't know what Ojukwu did for them. If Ojukwu didn't go to war Ikwerre would have been exterminated by the Igbos by now.

mightyhaze:
Is ikwerre not a subset of Igbo?

Just like ngwa

Just like Owerre


Just like ohaofia etc


Is this the first time ikwerre is presiding ohaneze?

Including Ogonis, Akwa Ibom, Tiv, Fulani. Isoma people.

AwkaFinest:
Since you started telling them to go back what has been the votes from Ikwerre areas in the last 2 elections?

It doesn't matter. We want South Eat to be envy of Nigerians. Let them go back to vote the governor they want in Rivers State. Is this a bad idea?

richmond500:
Rivers west doesn't make up 75% of Rivers votes as he claim

I agree 75% is over exaggerated.

vanitybutiwanti:
yes but do you expect sim to win in any of the ikwerre areas if wike is given the go ahead to deliver his candidates? I hope you're aware that ikwerre Kings, chiefs and stakeholders still have soft spot for wike? Ogoni area is already a done deal, go and ask magnus Abe, there was no election in his place but result was announced for sim, social media is not real life.

Fubara has given Wike that edge. You see Sim nominating Mbata leaving his opobo people that is obvious have indigenous Igbo population to ikwerre where it is a controversial issue will be awakened in time to come.

vanitybutiwanti:
Nobody cares I they are solely Rivers people, those places are ikwerre areas and wike can do whatever he wants in those areas, same way he did it for sim, nobody can stop him, those are his strongholds. Remember town criers went round and instructed people to stay away if they are not voting sim in obio and phalga

SIM forgot this. What he did was to take Mbata to Ohaneze.

AwkaFinest:
Be calming down. The 1 million you claim in PHALGA and OBIO/AKPOR are those solely votes from Rivers people?

The other LGAs you mentioned have mainly votes from Rivers people. Unless you are praying that Inec will just be imputing figures, else in a free and fair election Igbos(from the SE) and Ikwa Ibomites who are the majority in those 2 LGAs will decide who wins if they really want to vote.


The last time that those set didn't come out that much for election, what was the result? You dey carry non indegines votes dey brag.

We usually tell voters from SE to go to their respective states to vote in the kind of governors they want in Rivers State. If South East becomes a better place to stay naturally they will all drift back home.

vanitybutiwanti:
what do you know about Rivers state? Do you have the list of registered voters? I have warned you small boy to stop talking about things you know nothing about, There are 3 million registered voters in Rivers state, obio/Akpor has 600k voters, Phalga has 400k, other Lgas like Emuoha, ikwerre, etche , omuma, okrika and ogubolo which falls under wikes District have a little over a 100k, obio and phalga alone has 1 million out of 3m, you think it's uhuru for fubara? If wike is given the go ahead who is going to stop him and his boys from deciding the votes in the 4 Ikwerre LGAs with block votes? Did you vote for fubara? Do you know how fubara was made governor? Only Emuoha alone gave fubara 20k votes which is more than the vote from opobo and other ijaw areas.

We will reply Ipobidients supporting Fubara at the appropriate time. Fubara became governor via Ikwerre votes. The Ijaws blocks voted Tonye Cole. Ogoni voted Magnus.

richmond500:
whoever told u the lie that one senatorial district makes up 75% of a states vote deh smoke Sapele weed

Prove him wrong. Obio Akpor, Port Harcourt, Emuoha, Ikwerre, Etche, Omuma, Okirika and Tai. On a conservative estimate this is over 50% of Rivers vote.

Tee to service agencies in the US: Fashion out ways to ameliorate sufferings of Americans.
Our own Tee: Please exhume avenues to expose Nigerians to excruciating poverty and suffering.

EmekaA125:
Igbos were ijaw, Itsekiri slaves but those 2 tribes are not even among 5 top minority groups in Nigeria. Meaning that both have the smallest population among comity of minority ethnic groups in the country. It's a thing of shame that those that served you in the past as slave are now bigger than you both in numerical strength, productivity and wealth creation. Shame on you.

It doesn't matter. They can have whatever they want. What we won't allow is to be absorbed by the same people who served us.

technicallyrich:
Yoruba man we're you dey for pH so that you will look at my face and call me slave in my own ph.
Coword.
That's why I prefer igbos to you snake'ss.foools

So now you know the difference between Igbo and South South?

Augustine2244:
Lol You can never be Igbo.
That's understandable.
Not every Ikwerre is bitterness and hate ravaged like you.
Deal with it.
And cry louder.

Stop going to the streets to look for Ikwerre that is igbo. Approach the chiefs. Approach the Nye We Ali. They are the custodians of the people history and culture.

Beautifulday:
So ikwere get igbo wey no sabi culture.

We mock anyone who doesn't know culture and traditions as Isoma.

technicallyrich:
Yoruba man😂😂😂you dey shift goal post steady.
Show prove you are from ph.here in ph all my friends are igbos or igboid and we all get along very well.
But you use your usual Yorubad hate to make it seem we have issues with our Igbo brothers.
Coword, derty Yorubad 🐖

I hit on the anvil. You dey talk nonsense. Am I talking you like someone asking someone questions? Look at this Igbo slave that was left behind in Okirika.

technicallyrich:
Tenant in what aspect,Yoruba man.so you don't know that pH is shared between okirika ijaws and ikwere igbos.
That's is the two tribe that owns ph.
You no from rivers state baba forget talk.na usual Yoruba propagandistt wey u be.if I lijar wey your pictures and we're you from

Okrika is customary tenants to Ikwerres. Know this know peace . You be Okirika Koniju. Konijus are Igbos slaves who weren't sold and settled in Okirika.

technicallyrich:
Yorubas can speak ikwere Igbo and other igbo languages.these does not prove you are from rivers state.
Which family and your pictures to make me believe.
About me I said I'm from ph,ijaw and not ikwere

That is you are my tenant?

FreedomfromtheT:
I don't think they are confused people calling themselves Ekiti but not Yoruba.

Slaves want to claim their master. As far as Ikwerre call you people Isoma they can never accept to be Isoma.

technicallyrich:
You are a Yoruba man,you are not ikwere igbo.im from ph.were in rivers state are you from and your pictures.anyone can claim anything online these days

Mmzunum akpa akami naga Ru la Olumeni.
Idu la nha bo gbu mnama me ah ma Maru.
You claim to be in pH hence Ikwerre reply me.

gidgiddy:
Well that going to be very unfortunate for the Ikwerre man because he is going to walk through life speaking a language that sounds Igbo to everyone, bearing names that are Igbo to everyone, practicing a culture that looks Igbo to everyone. And all that Ikwerre man is going to have is his denial and some cock and bull story about emigrating from Bini

This is very unfortunate for you guys. My language sounds Igbo because Igbo has more population than the Ikwerres. If Ikwerres had got more population than Igbos, Igbo language would be said to be Ikwerre dialect or sounds like Ikwerre. But we are not greedy. We wouldn't have accepted. Etche sounds like Ikwerre. Most people in Rivers State believe that Etche is Ikwerre because is more in population than Etche. But Ikwerres don't claim what is not theirs. They keep telling everyone who cares to ask or listen that Etche is a distinct ethnicity group and not Ikwerre.
You people should be contented with what God has naturally given to you people. Stop forcing your identity on others. Mutual intelligibility in languages doesn't only affect Igbos and Ikwerres it is a phenomenon all over the world. Ukraine and Poland. Malaysia and Indonesia. Sweden and Norway Denmark Finland. They are understand themselves but are different people and ethnic groups.
Ikwerre denied Igbos years before Zik was born, after Zik was born, before independence, after independence, before the war , after the war, before Oputa panel and till date.

FreedomfromtheT:
Ok sir.
My wife's forefathers told her that she is Ekiti.
So she is Ekiti and not Yoruba.

Go and ask Ekiti people who they are. Someone from Isikuator shouldn't tell them.

FreedomfromtheT:
Ikwerre is simply one of the dialects of Igbo language.
Ikwerre is a subset of Igboland just like Owerri, Ngwa, Onicha, Nsukka, Mbaise, Orlu, Anioma, Ohafia, Oguta, Ezza, Item, Abriba, Waawa etc.
Infact, Ikwerre is an Igbo word meaning 'if you agree' or 'do you agree?'
Same way the Ekitis, Ijebus, Ijeshas, Ilajes, Egbas, Okuns etc are all Yorubas despite speaking differening dialects and hailing from different states.
So it would be illogical to for an Okun man to say Yorubas should be Okuns instead of Okuns being Yorubas.
It doesn't make sense, does it?
But you are free to claim what you like.
But know this that the Nigerian political elite know who are Igbos including those who want Igbos divided.

Go to these communities you mentioned ask them if anyone reminds them or came to inform them that they are Yorubas. Our forefathers tell us who we are. You can't change it. Although the only thing you can change is to claim to be Ikwerres. We will consider you.

gidgiddy:
Please, anybody can print this and post it online

What I choose to believe is what the Ogbakor Ikwerre leader, Eze Godspower Onuekwa, said that any Ikwerre man that accepts to be Ohanaeze President is an enemy of the Ikwerre people. He said this on a video that has long gone viral

He admitted that Igbos and Ikwerre share cultural and linguistic affinity, but still said that any Ikwerre son who accepts to be Ohanaeze President is his enemy?

So people you share a lot in common with, culturally and linguistically, are your enemies? But the Ijaw and Ogoni you share nothing in common with are your blossom friends just because military leaders carved you and them into the same state?

I understand where Onuekwa is coming from, he wants Ikwerre to be recognised as a seperate ethnic group. What he does not realise, or does not want to accept, is that some Ikwerres have looked at those called Igbos, saw no difference, and concluded that they are one and the same. Just like Mbata, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, Tonto Dike and Duncan Okechukwu(Duncan Mighty) all did

Onuekwa should respect the wishes of the Ikwerre that willingly accept they are Igbo, same way he would want Igbos to respect the wishes of Ikwerre that don't accept to be Igbo. We Igbos may believe that the Ikwerre are part of us, but never can we physically force anyone to be part of us. Those that have done that are the Sokoto empire, Bini empire and Oyo empire. Igbos never had empire, and we hate empire's

The Igbo nation is too big, we already have more population than most countries in Africa. That we choose to call those we see as brothers, brothers, should, never be a problem

That same Rivers State is where you will see an Ikwerre man calling an Ogoni man he has no connection with, culturally or linguistically, his brother, just because military leaders carved them into one State

Who is your brother?
Someone who is ready to die for you and not someone who wants to kill you or nearly kill you. An Ikwerre man prefers an association with the Ogonis and vice versa to anything Igbo. Know this know peace

Ojuntana:
At least you all now admit that he'll be there till 2027

That's a step in the right direction

He wil be there. Tinubu solicited this for him.

yarimo:
It's clear FUBARA already made up his mind not to re contest governorship election in 2027

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I will be in the field campaigning against Fubara. No doubt. My personal person did clearance and worked up to 5 months on job offered to her by Wike to make sure she and others around her voted for Fubara. They were asked to convince people around them to vote for Fubara so that their jobs could be retained. All votes cast for Fubara. Fubara won and the first thing he did was to sack them all without pay. Let him use any party I will campaign against him. Everyone living in my house most vote against him or pack to government house to stay.

ComradeNap:
Ala!!! Naturally if not for language and names I don't like the way an Ikwerre man reasons. The foolishness is too much. If not that they use our names a s our languages, I would have preferred not to have anything do with a very hateful and poisonous people like the Ikwerre. No Igbo blood will ever say he prefers to be a slave than being a free born.

Ikwerre people's deceitful lives is the reason life in Port Harcourt is upside down. In Port Harcourt streets, everyone you see is angry and wicked and waiting to show you rude attitude upon any slightest dealing with him.

That liveli, jovial, and palpablly nice populace that are always ready to wow you into patronizing them in the streets of Aba, Onitcha, Nnewi, Enugu, Lagos etc is visibly absent in Port Harcourt. This is why Port Harcourt has emerged as the most wicked city in Nigeria. All these are product of self hating Ikwerre people and it will continue to get worse from what I am seeing in this Mbata matter

All these you have said show the difference between us. In all these your community cities you mentioned I can't count number of those who are non native there. You people move from.place to place and copy culture and languages and soon after it becomes yours. . Soon Efik soup of edikikong will become yours. Covetous people.
Name one ikwerre man that has been caught in crimes and I will name a thousand Igbos.

PaellaPaella:
Keep deceiving yourself and I hope you wake up from your sleep someday, enjoy your Sunday

Tell others like you that 1. Ikwerre people see Igbos as brothers
2. That as brothers they will share a lot in common
3. That even while they share a lot in common they're still distinct people.