₦airaland Forum

AMINDA:
I just told you most of the votes Obi got would have gone to Atiku and you continue to be repetitive. Everyone knows Obi did Tinubu a favour by running but the reverse will be the case if Obi runs in 2027. He was never the face of the South. Religion was a more stronger factor in the South in 2023 than region and the same will still be the case in 2027. If Tinubu makes the mistake if repeating his Muslim-Muslim ticket, he will only have himself to blame. Already, the Church has continued its antagonism towards him. It will get more intense heading into 2027. This time, there will no longer be 5.6m Northern votes to carry him home.

“During your first four years in office, you did nothing, and now you want Nigerians to vote for you again for a second term? Don’t vote for them. Performance is the best form of campaign. You achieved nothing, and that is why you are busy destroying opposition parties.” -… pic.twitter.com/Ge1KQpm1jH

— Thεό Abu (@TheoAbuAgada) April 27, 2026

No the Yoruba Christian church votes would not have gone to Atiku. You are wrong on that. The PDP votes might go to him though but the loss would be by a wide margin

AMINDA:
False. Atiku had more votes in the Southwest overall than Peter Obi. Without Obi, a lot of people in the Southwest would have voted Atiku due to him having a religiously balanced ticket. Tinubu can not win the Southwest in a landslide, even in 2027. Granted, muslim-muslim hindered Tinubu in some states but it was a net gain due to the votes he got from the Muslim North. Repeating the same faith ticket will grant him no advantage this time in the muslim North but can potentially cost him votes in the Northcentral. He will likely replace Shettima for this reason.

Do you agree that on the overall Tinubu would have won with a wide margin both the SW and the NW if Obi did not contest? And that would be enough to win the elections not minding the fact that the rest of the country would just vote against Atiku because he is a Fulani trying to replace another Fulani or do you think ethnicity does not matter? Added together it would still be a huge landslide in favour of Tinubu

AMINDA:
No. Tinubu is president because Peter Obi's defection from the PDP balkanized traditional PDP votes into two. Tinubu only won 4 Yoruba states out of 17 Southern states. It was also the first time in a long while where we had a three-horse race. Otherwise, Tinubu would have lost the election and he knows it. This is why he doesn't want Obi to be part of the coalition and at the same time, is scared of the prospects of Obi running solo. Knowing fully well that he is still unpopular in the South and the 5.6m Northern votes are no longer a guarantee.

Let's say Obi didn't contest. The whole Yoruba would have voted for Tinubu and the NW will be split with Tinubu having the majority simply because many Hausa especially in Kano will not vote Atiku. Without Obi, Tinubu would have won with a landslide in the combination of Hausa and Yoruba land then most other people will just vote for any other person that is not Fulani since Fulani are not the only people in the North or in Nigeria

Gabrielshow26:
I can see that you have already decimated "antichristian" and his lies. It's obvious even to a child that Islam offers no proof. They cite oral tradition as if they had impeccable memories😅—this is obviously ironical and clearly conspicuous as regards the Quran, that memory surely failed😅! Even the prophet forgot verses🤧 and they have verses eaten off by sheep👀.

Let antichristian and his brothers provide one proof that places Ishmael and his Father, Abraham, within Mecca. Mecca, by the way, according to SIN(standard Islamic narrative), is archaeologically bankrupt and thus didn't exist until after. Modern archaeology has placed great scrutiny on the purported existence of Mecca during the time of the prophet. As at the purported time, Mecca didn't exist😅. Which even casts aspersions on the existence of the character, "Mohammed". If one pillar in the SIN is made up then others as well could be👀. This gives rise to the idea that this character was legendized in the same way, Santa Claus developed from St. Nicholas.

Then the hadiths also highlight this, though you have to be objective to conclude this, as different people made up hadiths to support their actions. Hadiths have been totally disproved, at scholarly level, as they come far too late to enhance any historicity! Prima facie, they were all made up!

As regards, the impeccable fraudulent claim, "Adam was a Muslim along with other biblical figures". Such claims are completely unfounded and any one can make such. I can as well, stoop so low to their level and commit similar fallacies, by asserting "Adam was black👀 with a blonde hair" —obviously this is unfalsifiable and can't be readily tested🤧. Even when tested I can fall back to the "metaphorical" motte.🥱 This is exactly what they do, you ask for proof they use some metaphorical motte and bailey fallacy as some last defense by quipping, "in the sense that Adam submitted to God then he is Muslim", when there's no justification, aside of Islam.

They are yet to provide a single evidence for such unprecedented claims 😅. They only use fast talk and fallacious arguments to evade the obvious. It's been over 1400+ years and yet no single evidence🥱.

As for the black stone, it is a well established fact that it's an heritage inherited from pre-Islamic era. It's a clear object of worship used since pre-Islamic antiquity. None of them can deny that such practices existed and their beloved prophet , supposedly sent by the same God that appeared to Moses, kissed the black stone and worshipped it😅. Any person with basic knowledge of the Torah can see how this breaks the Laws of Moses👀. Their prophet also added "sauce" by saying the black stone would intercede on their behalf on judgement day😅... Whew, that's definitely pre-Islamic paganism evincing forth. If you compare pre-Islamic rituals with the present day Islam you will see nothing has changed, save a change of name and the often confusing, and contradictory monotheistic assertions.

Islam is based on assertions without evidence. Let their best dawah guys attempt to provide a semblance of evidence instead of all these fast talk and "AI generated redundant stuffs".

Hopefully the whole world will soon return to the spiritual tranquility that existed two thousand years ago before the invention of religion

CorperKola:
Which on is disintegration
Me i am talking election strategy o
My mouth no dey for disintegration

Whats the percentage of LP votes in south south

Did Lp not win convincingly

You gave example of 2 states out of how many states to counter my point

Bro argue well na

You can as well say the south is a single bloc of votes then and that MKO Abiola and Awo won when they contested or that Obi will always win

What I am pointing out is that Nigeria is rigged from the beginning and it is too late to reset it and the best way forward that will benefit everyone is a breakup

CorperKola:
If you notice the igbos dont just vote alone
People understimate them a little
My reason is simple

Ask yourself has the southeast and south south ever voted for different candidates in a presidential election before
They always vote same
They are effectively a single block of votes

And thats also y i prefer that they build trust among the northerners first by serving as VP first
Peter Obi should not miss this opportunity

Which state apart from in the SE was rigged for the LP? You can't get the margin LP got in the SE without rigging and observers' report confirmed it. Then Akwa Ibom, Rivers voted differently in the last election. They don't have the belief that Igbos have that they have the highest population in the country. That belief is why some Igbos think they must share everything equally with the Yoruba or Hausa. If Igbos accept the reality that they are less than half of the Yoruba in population, then they will simmer down. Unfortunately colonial census laid the foundation for the turmoil. If you think you are 100 when you are only 30, it will bring issues. Igbos have that issue which other southerners don't. So they don't vote necessarily in the same direction since they are not driven by the same sentiments. A disintegration of the country will reset everything.

ibabz:
Oh really? Seriously? Let’s look at this calmly, with open and mature minds. At least we agree on one thing, Tinubu doesn’t deserve a second term. The real issue, however, is choosing a candidate who can both defeat him and actually deliver the dividends of democracy.

But here’s my concern: many Obidients seem to be repeating the same pattern from 2023, and it risks playing right into APC’s hands. Back then, the opposition vote was split, and that division gave Tinubu the edge. Instead of learning from that outcome and recalibrating strategy, it feels like the same approach is being recycled.

There’s also this persistent belief that Obi won the election, yet when you examine the results, most of the states he secured were traditionally PDP strongholds, with Lagos being a notable exception and even that had very specific circumstances tied to the post-EndSARS climate. Unfortunately those conditions don’t exist anymore.

What’s happening now is simple: an illusion is being sustained to keep you believing you won, so you can believe you can repeat it. And from the look of things, the same mistake is about to happen again.

And this idea that people who “rigged” the election have suddenly confessed. come on, let’s be serious. That sounds more like a calculated narrative than anything real. They know that’s the only lies that can keep you believing in the Obi’ candidacy.

Most of your Obidient leaders and influencers are being pushed to aggressively promote Obi’s candidacy. But have you stopped to ask who is actually funding that push?

The uncomfortable reality is that, knowingly or not, many of them are advancing a narrative that ultimately benefits the APC. You may believe you’re campaigning for change, but in effect, you’re strengthening the very system you’re trying to oppose.

At the end of the day, it feels less like a strategic movement and more like a setup, one that risks turning your energy into an indirect campaign advantage for Tinubu.

Have you asked yourself, which other combo can give the opposition more than 13million votes? Atiku/Obi did it in 2019, their combined votes also maintained same numbers in 2023. Do you think Obi/Kwankwanso can give you that number? Think again

The truth is, the only candidate Tinubu genuinely fears is Atiku, especially in a united front that includes Obi and even someone like El-Rufai. That kind of alliance changes the entire equation.

Politics is a game of numbers. If the opposition presents a strong, united ticket like Atiku/Obi, APC could lose a significant chunk of its support because politics is a game of numbers, and politicians naturally gravitate toward numbers and not opposition.

No one fears Atiku as a person. Any Fulani Muslim equal any Fulani Muslim in this scenario and there are Fulani Muslims with no baggage unlike Atiku. So not Atiku as a person is being feared. The only arrangement worth fearing is Northern Muslims voting massively for a Southerner.

CorperKola:
The south west hijacked a south south president by installing buhari and a south west VP and they waited for 8 years before getting the actual President which was always the main goal.
Copy the same strategy
Dont be greedy and entitled and emotional
You too sulloet the north to bijack tinubu's presidency
Dont be maroonic

The problem with that is that politics is a game of numbers. The number of votes the Igbos can muster is not up to half of what the Yoruba can do. Yoruba and and NW constitute a simple majority. Igbo and the NW don't.

Members of a federal union do not have to be contiguous

It is old fashioned to think a sovereign nation should be all in one place to be able to hold elections together, identify as one nation and be run by the same policies. All those are no longer necessary requirements in the modern era. All overseas territories of any nation no matter how far away can still be integral parts of that nation that are represented in Congress according to their GDP while they pay tax and fulfil other obligations required of them.

It is after all a global village and your next door neighbor can be twenty thousand miles away on another continent in today's world. Therefore you can as a land owning ethnic group be surrounded by one country and align your land with another country entirely if that serves better your national interest.

brain54:
People travel for different reasons...


Even citizens from the best governed countries and with high standard of living still travel to other countries.


Saying stay to fix corrupt country is insensitive!

Yes people travel for different reasons but If you come from a well run country, you will be respected so they are not wrong to say you need to build your country because if all countries run properly then countries will be competing among each other for people. Germans in Britain are called expatriates while Nigerians are called immigrants. Ghanaians today in any country are more of expatriates than immigrants when compared to Nigerians and same is true for many other African countries.

Heffalump:
If you believed the results released by INEC after the 2023 election, then your hallucination is incurable. Those that did the Hatchett job have openly confessed that Obi won the election free and square, but INEC manipulated it in favour of Tinubu. Why do you think that all of them in APC are barking at Obi as if he's the only one in the opposition? He's considered the biggest threat, the biggest Tsunami in the Nigerian political space. Even you, you're afraid of Obi, who's capable of dismantling Tinubu.

One can be silly in hiding the truth, but you can't hide it forever in the eyes of God. APC and its followers/ minions are so wicked like their master, Tinubu. This is the reason why the country is in disarray right now. PDP in 16 yrs never did all these abrakadabra. Nonsense.

Somebody who lost heavily in both the NW and the SW can hardly win the Presidency in Nigeria. Not low margin loss but loss with a wide margin.

Nobody can win the primaries of a major party without widespread support. It is actually a mock general elections. Northern Muslims alone that is his constituency can not win any primary for Atiku nor can Igbo votes win it for Obi. Shekarau is also there as well as Amaechi. The right thing is to go for primaries if they are able to sort out the problem they have with INEC.

It is far cheaper to have Mini plants on roof tops. Max of 50 Kw per unit or so. Solar is now efficient and such can be supervised on a part time basis making it cheaper to run. Large scale solar is more expensive to run. A unit of 50kw can possibly serve ten houses or more

New Odus of ifa April 26 2026

Osa meji

A tiny minority can not defeat the majority

This was the IFA cast for the fundamentalist Muslim who left Jos because of the frequent conflicts between the Muslims and others in the city

He was advised to sacrifice
He listened and complied
Onlooking people of Po and Offa!
Jo's is under the control of non Muslims. It is not a place where fundamentalist Islamists can thrive!

Otura Osa

A striking resemblance is enough to prove relationship

This was the IFA cast for Prophet Mohammed of Islam who proclaimed that ancient Jewish leaders were Muslims despite that they never tried to convert the whole world

He was advised to sacrifice. He listened but did not comply
Onlooking people of Po and Offa!
People who let other people be are not Muslims!. No peaceful worshipper is a Muslim.

Oturupon Osa

Age does not bestow authenticity

This was the ifa cast for the 21st century Muslim who said some Hadith written by first generation Muslims are not scripture

He was advised to sacrifice
He listened but did not comply
Onlooking people of Po and Offa!
What was written largely by the companions of the prophet obviously rank next to the Quran!

Obara Owonrin

The path to bliss can be through horror

This was the IFA cast for Jesus Christ who went to hell before going to heaven

Oturupon Otura

Proving yourself is more important than your pedigree

This was the IFA cast for Lisabi Gbongbo Akala who became the father and founder of the Egba nation without anybody being sure of his background

He was advised to sacrifice
He listened and complied

Onlooking people of Po and Offa!
The people of Egba did not know who the father or mother of Lisabi was but he became their founding father!

Irosun Osa

When you own the space, you grow with whoever makes it grow

This was the IFA cast for the Western Nigeria Industrial investment and Credit Corporation which would not watch any big business thrive within it's jurisdiction without moving to become a part of it's story and share in its fortunes, good or bad

They were advised to sacrifice.
They listened and complied
Not long after
Meet us where we celebrate blessings at the feet of Obarisa



Owonrin Irete

Two hundred quacks does not even one expert make

This was the ifa cast for the man who had 200 heaps of yams in his farm but was going about saying he has 1000
Onlooking people of Po and Offa!
When he finishes eating two hundred truths, he will commence the consumption of 800 lies
Ela boru Ela boye Ela bo sise


Odi ika

In your worst moment, there will still be at least one person lined up for you

This was the IFA cast for the newborn whose mother will thrust her breast in its mouth anytime it cries

It was cast for the nation of Israel, the small majority Jewish nation in the middle east completely surrounded by big majority Muslim nations but that is secure by enjoying the military alliance of the USA

Oyeku Osa

It is by our own hands that we can mend our destiny

This was the IFA cast for the farming villages of Nigeria when they were under the attack of armed bandits
They were advised to sacrifice
They listened and complied
Onlooking people of Po and Offa!
They didn't have peace or security until they armed themselves and fought back


Owonrin Odi

The insect that rottens the vegetable is part and parcel of the vegetable

This was the IFA cast for Nigeria where the NSA was sending unknown gunmen as vigilantes to communities under the attack of unknown gunmen

Check the internet to see pictures of abandoned cities all over the world with real estate. There is nothing special about any city. The noise about Lagos is too much and too loud. Nobody brought anything to the world but we owe a duty to leave it better than we met it.
Whether Nigeria remains or it is broken up, Lagosians will still remain Lagosians and nothing significant will change only that those who have the relevant citizenship will be able to participate in the politics

NaWhoTalkAm:
First, the Itsekiri and the Ilaje are not "more or less the same people". That they both speak a Yoruboid language and are riverine groups does not make them "more or less" the same group. They have very significant differences in culture, traditional political structure, social order, customs and so on. While they share some similarities, particularly in language, it is not enough to amount to them being basically the same people.

Next, no state in Nigeria is doing good. They may be doing better than other Nigerian states but none are meeting basic standards, let alone international standards at that. Also, a big part of why the SW is more successful than other regions in Nigeria is because Lagos serves as the economic hub for all Nigeria which then has a spillover effect on the SW. Remove Lagos as the economic hub of the country and you will see people leave and market size reduce, businesses will close, ports will shut down, foreign corporations, financial institutions will leave and so on. They are not there simply for the sake of being amongst the Yoruba people, they are there because of the market access and all that comes with being the economic hub of the country. "Pride comes before the fall.".

People is economy and economy is people. Before Lagos it was Ibadan before Ibadan it was Oyo ile in west Africa, in antiquity it was at a point Ijebu Eredo. Ijebu Eredo has been described as the largest city of the medieval world by some people. Cairo is bigger than Lagos in population yet Egypt is just around 100 million people like half of Nigeria. Therefore your notion that the SW is economically ahead because Lagos is Nigeria's economic hub has no validity. What Lagos has is population and it can still have that population without Nigeria. Jakarta in Indonesia is like double the population of Lagos while Indonesia as a country is not double the population of Nigeria and if Lagos does not have that population then it would have been Ibadan if the Yoruba had their own country.

So you have now gone from saying the Yoruba are living below dignity to saying their land is doing better than others?

NaWhoTalkAm:
Go and look at the stats for any Yoruba state and all of Nigeria at that, show me one where the average standard of living is worthy of human dignity. It really is a curious thing why some of you don't seem the grasp the depths of what you need to be working on but are instead focused on annexing other ethnic groups.

There is no stats where the Yoruba are doing badly even if some smaller groups or bigger groups are doing better per Capita in some areas. Yoruba have the highest population in this Nigeria. They have the highest number of cities, towns and villages under their control and apart from quantity they also have quality. That is why the land is the richest part of Nigeria
My own is let each group control their territory. Let Itsekiri have their own state and align it as they wish. Their state can not contain up to 2 million people and there are over sixty million people living on Yoruba land Nigeria. Be free first then align as you wish which does not change the fact that the Itsekiri are more or less the same people as the Ilaje who are a Yoruba subgroup

The Yoruba are feeding Nigeria but to you their standard of living is not worthy of human dignity?

Every right thinking person that wants the progress of humanity wants Nigeria to breakup. It can't be resolved, so the only way forward is a breakup.

NaWhoTalkAm:
You're clearly very stupid. How did you come to determine I am an outsider? I am actually Itsekiri and from a well established Itsekiri family at that, indeed connected to the Olu of Warri himself. Go and find someone else to deliver your illiterate message to. So Ijebu and Itsekiri share ancestry, therefore they are the same ethnicity? This is your logic? Are you aware that every human being in this world if you go back far enough in time share ancestry, by your logic we are all therefore the same ethnic group. Please stop saying nonsense in your salivation to claim another ethnic group as your own. Put your head down and eat the food you already have, see whether it will satisfy you before you want to salivate for another person's food. Which Yoruba state is up to standards worthy of a human being that you have nothing else to do but to try to claim Itsekiri as your own?

So Yoruba states paying more than their fair share of VAT, CIT, port revenue and natural resources to feed and sponsor the country and taking far less than they give are not up to standards worthy of a human being? Continue.

NaWhoTalkAm:
Lol this is simply not true. Itsekiris do not claim they are Yorubas, I am Itsekiri myself by the way. Some of you Yorubas will see a few Itsekiri here or there claim to be Yoruba and pretend they speak for the group when the general consensus of the Itsekiri people is clearly that they are not Yoruba.

What is important is for all of them to have their own territories and control it. If you say they are not Yoruba, they are at least Itsekiri

Do you know that given some time to approach delegates and stakeholders the late Gani Fawehinmi could have won President Obasanjo in a PDP primary?

Anybody that can win a primaries at that level can also win the elections but if you buy primaries it will be difficult to buy the main elections

NaWhoTalkAm:
Itsekiri is not the same people as Ilaje, it is its own independent group with its unique features. That Ilaje see themselves as Yoruba does not mean Itsekiri are required to see themselves as Yoruba. I cannot understand the desire of many of you Yorubas to consolidate every group.

The people they are most similar to is the Ilaje. I am not saying they are exactly the same people. If Ilaje is a Yoruba subgroup then Itsekiri can be regarded as one and that is the position they hold. It is not anybody dragging them. Even Ilaje and etc are free to identify as non Yoruba but they don't

Allow me to pay 100 naira for energy when others pay five naira.

deandavid:
The Uvwie General Improvement Union (UGIU), led by Chief Hope Erute, has warned some misguided Itsekiris attempting to sow seeds of discord that the peaceful disposition of the Uvwie people must never be mistaken for weakness.

Daily Independent learnt this from UGIU President-General, Chief Hope Erute, in a press statement made available to Journalists in Effurun, Uvwie LGA of Delta State, as the group stated that Uvwie kingdom is not afraid, and will never be afraid, to defend its territory, its heritage, and its people.

Speaking at a world press conference in Effurun, Uvwie LGC, Delta State, today, being on Friday, April 24, 2026, the UGIU President General, Chief Hope Erute, warns some misguided Itsekiris from peddling false narratives over the origin of some communities in Uvwie LGA of Delta State.

Addressing some Journalists at the UGIU press conference organized at Effurun, Uvwie LGA of Delta, the group stated: “Our attention has been drawn to the fallacious and provocative claims being peddled by a few Itsekiri persons, alleging that the Itsekiris founded the historic communities of Ugbenuohwuru (Ukpolokposo, as corrupted by the Itsekiris), Okwatata, Iteregbi, and Ugbomro communities in Uvwie Local Government Area”.

“It is reported that at a recent public cultural festival of the Itsekiri nation, a spokesperson presented a narrative regarding the founding by the Itsekiris of the communities in Ugbenuowhoru, Ugbomro, Okwatata, and Iteregbi, all being indigenous communities in Uvwie Kingdom”.

“It is not in the character of the Uvwie people to respond to delusional folktales from neighbours. Ordinarily, we would have ignored these claims as the mere delusions of a few misinformed individuals or those who persist in the folklores of yore, lacking in substance. “However, silence in the face of persistent falsehoods can sometimes be mistaken for consent”.

“Therefore, we state the facts for the record to properly educate discerning minds, sifting the wheat from the chaff. The legal history of the cases and how they were mostly inconclusive, and attempts by these misinformed Itsekiris to shop for judgements to support their false narratives”.

“History is replete with the sojourn of the Itsekiris as they migrated across the creeks and river streams seeking shelter in riverine communities. They were never hinterland Aboriginal people. Prince Ginuwa did return to Benin to reclaim the throne”.

” His co-travellers, the Itsekiris or Jekris as they are known in historical documents, have continued to be a bane on the various aboriginal communities that accommodated them during their sojourn. The Itsekiri have recently used the occasion of their “Ghigho Aghofen festival” to propagate a version of history that claims they founded Ugbenuowhoru and Ugbomro towns in the Uvwie Kingdom.

“We observe that the Aghofen account that Prince Udefi “left Odi Shekiri and settled in Ugbolokposo at his mother’s hometown” is itself an admission. According to the narrative, “His mother was of Omoro (Ugbomro), daughter of Odogu, son of Ofo, described as one of the founding fathers of Ugbenuowhoru”.

“Even in their own genealogy account, Udefi came to a place that already had Uvwie roots. He was received, not a founder. The narrative implicitly admitted that Prince Udefi’s mother was of Uvwie extraction at Ugbenuowhoru. “

“The Uvwie people do not seek conflict with any neighbour. We believe in what we have always called intellectual prowess — the use of truth, evidence, and historical record to defend our land and identity. The truth, as the foregoing demonstrates, is sacrosanct and no grandstanding can alter it.”

“The narrative presented at the festival of the Itsekiris is pure grandstanding, fictional and trouble-seeking, very characteristic of the Itsekiris”.

“Ugbenuowhoru, Iteregbi, and Ugbomro are integral parts of Uvwie land. Ugbenuowhoru was a family settlement which the Erovie people of Uvwie granted to their maternal relations who were paternally Itsekiris; who moved to Uvwie as a result of a crisis they had in Itsekiri land. Ugbomro, on the other hand, was founded by Uwherume of the Abadi family of Erovie Quarters in Uvwie.

“The three Ruling Houses in Ugbomro reflect this history till date. There is no single indigenous or aboriginal Itsekiri family or compound in Ugbomro”.

“The late King Nana of Itsekiri was maternally Uvwie of Ugbenuowhoru extraction. He reportedly hid in Uvwie, his maternal homestead, when he was being persecuted by the British”.

“A British expedition in search of King Nana invaded and burnt down Uvwie market and several homesteads in the town. The then spiritual leader, Ovie Erumagborie, was held captive by the British until Chief Arigbe, who was allegedly hosting King Nana, was produced by the Uvwie people.

“The population at Ugbenuowhoru was swollen by the mass exodus of Itsekiris, some of whom also ran from Koko in Warri North. Migration from Koko naturally gravitated to Ugbenuowhoru, the material home of the Nana of Itsekiri, who was betrayed by an envious Itsekiri man, Dore Numa, which facilitated the downfall of the empire King Nana built and presided over”.

“History records that there was no king amongst the Itsekiris who contested the overlordship of King Nana. It was after his betrayal and fall that those who joined the British to pull down King Nana created a kingship that is today ruling the Itsekiri. It should also be noted that, whilst King Nana of Itsekiri was humiliated at the instance of the British, and his envious paternal Itsekiri kinsmen were celebrating, his chivalrous maternal people of Uvwie engaged the British officials in a fight of resistance for which Effurun, the city centre of the Uvwie people, was burnt in the 1890s.

“We also note for historical education that the contraption of kingship put together to replace the authority of King Nana was of two streams – one headed by Ogiebo, who ruled exclusively over his domain in Okere Warri, and the other by Ogiame, who held sway over Itsekiri domains in the Benin and Escravous rivers. Eventually, the Ogiebo authority waned, and that was the time Ogiame started extending his influence to the Okere part of the Warri metropolis. Even the Itsekiri Land Trust arrangement put together by Ogiame and his cohorts did not extend their authority to Ugbuwangue, which was a territory under the exclusive authority of Arthur Prest and validated by the courts.”

“Itsekiris should recall that in the aftermath of the change of name from Olu of Itsekiri to Olu of Warri in 1952 by the Awolowo Western Region Government, there was a pogrom to expel all Itsekiris (squatters) in all Urhobo watersides. The Uvwie people, rather than expelling the Itsekiris in Ugbenuowhoru, recognised them as their maternal relations and, in an episode of chivalry, built a wall of protection around the Itsekiris squatting in Ugbenuowhoru. If that pogrom had swept through Ugbenuowhoru, the Itsekiris would no longer be on the land. The viper stings by nature even he that feeds it”.

“It is an irony that today, it pleases the Itsekiris to prefer the anglicized/corrupted version of Ugbenuowhoru (Ugbulokposu) around which they are mischievously weaving their false narrative, yet they are running away from the anglicized/corrupted version of Itsekiri by the British – Jekri, which is the name they are referred to in all British historical books. That is mischievous cherry picking”.

“Uvwie kingdom and the Itsekiri nation have a long, documented history of peaceful coexistence, inter-marriage, and mutually beneficial social and economic relationships. Even though the Uvwie people are at peace with their maternal relations in Ugbenuowhoru, the vaunting narrative by the larger Itsekiri leadership falsely laying claim to Ugbenuowhoru and Ugbomro will not be tolerated by Uvwie, who are known for hospitality, and we demand a cease to such provocative narratives from the Itsekiri leadership”.

“We advise the few Itsekiri individuals trying to foment trouble and drive a wedge between our two great ethnic nationalities to face another direction”.

“The path of peace and mutual respect is large enough for all of us to walk on; do not create an artificial crisis where none exists. Focus your energy on the development of your communities rather than coveting the ancestral lands of your neighbors. The purpose of this resurgent claim is hard to decipher, other than mischief and chaos”.

Ugbomro, Okwatata, Iteregbi, and Ugbenuowhoru (Ukpolokposo) are, and will always remain, integral and indivisible parts of the Uvwie kingdom. Whilst their paternal ancestry may be Itsekiri, we consider them our maternal relations under the overlordship of the Ovie of Uvwie and in Uvwie Kingdom”.

” The Edo, Ibo, and Hausa communities in Uvwie have peacefully co-existed in Uvwie Kingdom, notwithstanding their ancestral origins. Our Itsekiri brothers and all peace-loving people should adopt this posture”.

“We urge the Delta State Government and relevant security agencies to take note of these inciting claims and call the perpetrators to order before they breach the existing peace in the region”.

Uthobo should be given a state and Itsekiri given a state. I wonder why those who need state most are not even asking for it. Just partition the land. In an Urhobo state there will be some Itsekiri and maybe even Ilaje and in Itsekiri state there will be Urhobo etc all as natives. What is important is to have something to manage

NaWhoTalkAm:
Chaii this is very false.

Explain what is false there. History can't be manufactured as reality will always manifest sooner than later

NaWhoTalkAm:
While would you add the Itsekiri oil when Itsekiris are not Yorubas? Please respect yourself.

Itsekiri are the same people as Ilaje and etc. If there is a Warri state today, An Ilaje state would be the most related or similar to it. Itsekiri see themselves as a Yoruba group, they join OPC and etc, why should a Yoruba see them as different? There is no reason to do that.

They can bend the rule for ADC. Not impossible. They once bended the rule for AD to allow them participate though there was no leadership dispute in the AD. If however they don't bend the rule, what will happen? Whoever is chairman can not single handedly determine anything in the ADC and this is why the onus is on them to get their acts together

brain54:
So...?

You can now see that Lagos- Calabar cost more than five times the Indian average

brain54:
Can you provide proof of any road in Nigeria costing 10 times more than in India...?

Road construction costs in India versus Lagos-Calabar

budaatum:
Next time i go to buy Nigerian Guiness for £5, I will argue with the seller that it's only ₦2000 in Lagos so I should be paying £1. In fact, when they charge me ₦5000 for one Guiness at Eko Hotel, I should insist I pay ₦2000!

Op, why compare with Ethiopia only, and not UK or USA too?

Is the USA a peer of Nigeria? Are wages in the USA same as in Nigeria?