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From that photo of tribes in Rivers state. How come obigbo (Oyigbo) LGA is renamed an ijaw name
Abi una madness don start
Obigbo clan that are proud IGBOS and that does not have any tied with ijaw is now bearing ijaw name that doesn't exist.

Pls tell us what you expirence in their one year training.

"BEFORE YOU DECIDE TO LEAVE ME IN BETWEEN THE CROSSROADS, REMEMBER YOUR WORDS ON THAT DAY I BROUGHT THE MONEY MADE FROM THE SALES OF MY FATHER'S MOTORCYCLE TO YOU IN FESTAC TO RECORD YOUR FIRST SONG"~~Annie Macaulay.

2 Face Idibia's estranged wife, Annie Idibia Macaulay has penned an emotional letter for her man. The lady whose battling with her mental health has taken time to address 2 Baba after the African King announced their divorce which is already in process. 2Baba went ahead to engage his new found love, Honorable Natasha.

She Wrote:

""Dear Innocent, this is my first and only true love; forgive me if I have disrespected you by calling your name.

You have left me with no choice as I am still trying to understand how you are gradually slipping away from my warm hands.

I don't want to believe you are following the money because, for over 22 years, I have been married to you; we have never lacked anything courtesy of God's grace.

I don't want to believe you are trying to make a name because your name is my last name and it is loud on the lips of everyone across Africa and beyond.

Looking at you and the sudden change in retrospection of where we are coming from and how far we have traveled through life's journey, I ask myself, where did I go wrong? How did I become so irritating to you?

Have you forgotten so soon? What happened to "Together Forever"? What happened to our mantra of never letting go no matter how hard we fight?

Have you forgotten how i had to sneak out my father's motorcycle, sold it and brought the money to you to record your first song?

Pleaae Innocent, you need time to think. Do not get carried away. I love you forever❤️""~~Annie Macaulay

You know nothing Jon snow

Konquest:
If you had read my post that you quoted properly, you would have seen where I clearly stated that I lived in PH back in the 1990s to the 2000s and also worked with a major multinational oil and gas company in Port Harcourt right in Ikwerreland. I'm currently a Diasporan of Nigerian descent but I fly into Nigeria from time to time. I clearly stated that I asked my most of my Ikwerre friends who are highly educated from very influential and prominent families about the similarities in the names of places (Rumuokoro, Rumuola, etc) and more, so, I didn't have to repeat all that.

So, I've been aware for many years now based of off the archival materials available to me that some of the British colonial records grouped or classified Ikwerres as "Ibos." So, the picture you attached of the alleged Ikwerre man isn't strange to me. The difference folks that the British grouped as one entity after 1900 NEVER referred to themselves Collectively as Ibos before 1900! It was the British that created the concept of an Ibo ethnic group and central Ibo also evolved from this same colonial plan. Prior to that, every group identified with the names of their independent subgroups (such as Mbaise, Ngwa, Aro, Abam, Ohafia, Oka, Owere, etc), with some them being hostile to one another.
The etymology of the name Ibo (Igbo) is actually an "impolite" OR "derogatory" name that the ethnic neighbors surrounding the current East of the River Niger location refered to the peoples living there. The word is derived from the igala word "Onigbo" which means the primitive people lived in the bush and were captured as slaves to be sold to Aboh in Delta State. The Binis and other Edos also used the derogatory term "Igbon" meaning "slave" to refer to people East of Niger. The folks of Asaba and Onitsha also used the term "Onye Igbo" to refer to There are screenshots of well-researched books by Nigerian and international authors that clearly talk about this.

However, from 1963 when Ogbakor Ikwerre Worldwide was formed, what currently subsists as of 2025 is that as the APEX body of all genuine Ikwerre sons and daughters worldwide consisting of the membership of all Ikwerre traditional rulers, the stand of that sociocultural association is that they are NOT Ibos! All the traditional rulers of Ikwerre communities emphatically endorse the actions so far carried out by Ogbakor Ikwerre. Furthermore Azuta Mata has been excommunicated from his community for identifying with the Ibo Ohaneze organization and further punitive measures against him and his family members have been set in motion.

Unless Ogbakor Ikwerre Worldwide's leadership and the Ikwerre traditional rulers who are also members of Ogbakor Ikwerre Worldwide come out today to say that they are Ibos, Ikwerres will remain members of the Ikwerre ethnic nationality to me and other decerning people who know how the interior Ibos flooded right into especially PH and started trying to dominate the Ikwerres. My Ikwerres friends and associates over the years told me how the Ibos from other places came to lord it over them right from the Colonial times till during the Nigerian Civil War with the subsequent liberation of Port Harcourt in May 1968 and other surrounding Ikwerre communities from the secessionist rebels by gallant troops of the 3rd Marine Commando Division led by the then General Officer Commanding (GOC), Col. Benjamin Adekunle. It was they who released Elechi Amadi from prison detention of the secessionist because Elechi Amadi refused to fight on the side of the rebel secessionists!

Last but not least, I will find out more about the history and name of the hometown of the retired Nigerian Civil War veteran, Captain Elechi Amadi's to know if indeed they were called "foreigners" and "ostracized" (more like what Igbos still do to the Osus in their midst till today) because I know people who are connected to the Elechi Amadi family.

It will be nice if you do not base your argument on third party sources. Whose options are definitely subjective and lack substancial and emperical evidence.

The president of ohanaeze was keenly contested by about 6 ikwerre sons. And Mbata happen to be the one that was chosen.

The question line is.....DOES THE SO CALLED OGBAKOR IKWERRE HAVE SUCH POWERS TO BAN MBATA FROM ASSOCIATING WITH HIS KINSMEN ? DOES THE ASSOCIATION HAVE THE POWER TO WITHDRAW ALL HIS CHIEFTENCY TITLE?
it seem you are not aware of one of the fundamental human rights which is also enshrined in the Nigerian constitution. i.e freedom of association.
To me that statement and the activities of ogbakor ikwerre is sponsored by detractors like wike. MBATA was congratulated by various ikwerre sons and daughters. Even the president him self and the state governor congratulated him. Hon. Chijioke the chairman of his local government (obiakpor) was the one who led the Rivers state delegation to Enugu where he was elected.
You shouldn't use a statement made by few privileged people to generalize.

This ikwerre matter is been overflogged. I really don't see the sense in it. Ikwerre we are talking about only made up of 3 and half local governments. with a population of roughly 2M. i.e Emuoha, obiakpor, ikwerre and half of port Harcourt. (southern PH is inhabited by the ijaws.
Other Igbo subgroups such as the etche, ndokis, ndoni, egbema, and ahoada in Rivers state, dosenot have crisis identity. Excluding the ikwerres and ogbas.
Ogbakor ikwerre is just a locust that think himself as a bird. But oneday it will realize that it is not a bird, and that it can never be a bird. Maybe it will eventually realize that when it has be eaten by the bird.

You are a learned and enlightened person. You should have a critical mindset. You shouldn't believe everything you hear or read from books written by authors that write about things they know little or nothing about.
How can you believe that the word Igbo originated from the igala word onigbo.
You are talking as if the igala nation that was eastablished in the 13th century precede
The nri kingdom (Igbo) that was established in the 9th century.
Ask Google the oldest tribe in Nigeria and you will see the answer. If you are a good student of history, you should know that
igala itself was an offspring of the Igbo tribe.

Konquest:
I will deal with some specifics here and give succinct keypoints with CLEAR videos and Weblinks as evidence. I CLEARLY stated in an earlier thread post on the page before this one that both Ebiras and Akoko Edos (Akoko Edos are ancestrally largely related to the Ebiras of Kogi State) of Northern Edo State share common land boundaries with the indigenous Okun-Yorubas of Kogi State and Akokoland in Ondo State. These ethnic groups speak Yoruba language and some bear Yoruba names due to acculturation and intermarriages with the Yorubas who are more than 60 million people worldwide, BUT you will NEVER find Yorubas claiming them in bogus expansionism because the Ebiras and Akoko Edo have their own distinct languages and cultures! There are many cases of ACCULTURATIONS around the North and South of Nigeria and the world.

First off, I lived in Port Harcourt and worked with a major multinational oil and gas company back in the 1990s right into the 2000s. So, I'm well-informed about the historical geopolitical dynamics of Port Harcourt and Rivers State. My first contact with Ikwerre folks was back in the 1980s with 2 buddies of mine who are individually prominent or well-known today from a very prominent Ikwerre family in PH. ALL the Ikwerre folks that I knew in PH told me they are NOT Igbos and I did ask how they came to bear Igboid names and some similarities in culture. Acculturation was the reason given

An Ikwerre friend of mine who's based in Lagos (He's now in his early 70s) told me just over a decade ago that he is Ikwerre NOT Igbo, though he's married to a woman from Imo. He told me how Nigerian Federal troops liberated Ikwerres from the repression of secessionist rebels because he was right in Port Harcourt region as of May 1968 when the city was liberated. On the other hand, a young man I knew in PH back then in the late 1990s who wasn't even from Rivers State but originally from Imo State got so impulsively irritated and volatile while angrily insisting that Ikwerres are "Igbos." Even after I left Port Harcourt and Rivers State down the road, I never forgot Rivers State and the intelligent, beautiful Ikwerre, Okrika, and Ogoni friends and other who left positive imprints on my mind. So, contrary to that last paragraph you IGNORANTLY posted, I very well have a RIGHT to "INTRUDE" into the issues and history of the Ikwerre people. YOU DON'T tell me what to get involved with or NOT! Right from 1981 till date, I've had a vast body of knowledge of advanced Nigerian history with massive collections of rare historical and archival materials in my home library and some of them are rare history books purchased in England (including old colonial records published before 1900)

Historically, [b]as far back as 1956, the Ikwerres along with other ethnic minorities were part of the "Calabar-Ogoja-Rivers Movement" (OR COR Movement) demanding for a separation from alleged Igbo domination in the Old Eastern Region. The Southern Cameroonians NEVER hid the fact that they left the Old Eastern Region for Cameroon in 1963 because of perceived Igbo domination of other groups. As of 1963, the Ikwerres FINALLY established a new umbrella socio-cultural group named "Ogbakor Ikwerre Worldwide" with E. J. A Oriji as the pioneer Chairman and CLEARLY emphasized that they are NOT Igbos but of the Ikwerre ethnic nationality. This was way back in 1963 before the exactly 30 months Nigerian Civil War ever started in July 1967 to January 1970. (This wasn't a case of "denial" after the Civil War ended as alleged by highly ill-educated young groups of ipob Igbo members online and offline). It happened in 1963 right BEFORE the Nigerian Civil War. As of today, the Nigerian constitution recognizes the Ikwerre ethnic nationality as a distinct group[/b] in Rivers State.

In the 2016 NL thread BELOW that was created by an Ikwerre NL member, he detailed out exerpts from a biography book about Captain Elechi Amadi, a Nigerian Civil War veteran who served in Nigerian Army's 3rd Marine Commando Division:

Ikwerres Went Against Igbo Colonisation In Elechi Amadi's Autobiography
=>https://www.nairaland.com/3493194/ikwerres-went-against-igbo-colonisation

=>https://www.nairaland.com/3493905/read-how-igbos-humilated-ikwerres


As of the commencement of the construction of modern Port Harcourt, it was located at Rebisi, but expanded to incorporate neighboring villages, which include those from Ogoni and Okrika villages. Lord Frederick Lugard founded Port Harcourt originally at the Ikwerre and Ijaw settlement areas previously called Rebisi. (Years later this place became the epicenter of clashes over land ownership and court cases). Umuahia and Enugu were also founded by Lord Lugard around the same time frame as Port Harcourt.

There's NO doubt, people such as Azuta Mbata and the lawyer Uche Okwukwu (who I see from his recent video interviews to be an irredentist based on some of his highly volatile or incendiary comments) align with an "Igbo" identity. I have it on record from direct Ikwerre sources that some of those who claim to be Igbo in Ikwerreland are either of Aro settler descent or have Igbo mothers which are responsible for them identifying as Igbos. The core OGBAKOR IKWERE Worldwide STRONGLY affirmed in the Press Conference video of January 9, 2025 that Ikwerres are officially and legally recognized as a distinct ethnic nationality and any attempt to violently undo that status quo by especially the ipob Igbo with the relentless expansionist agenda against the Ikwerres in PH and environs, and the Benin-Edos, the Esan-Edos, the Ijaws, etc, will be met with very severe consequences. We've seen some viral videos of highly irresponsible young ipob Igbo members openly threatening to include OR annex the homelands of the Ikwerres, Benin-Edos, Isan-Edos, Ijaw communities, parts of Igalaland, etc, into the rest of Igbo land claiming those land as Igboland. These have led to a strong backlash of videos from angry male and female Edos from Benin, Esan, and Ijaws vowing to deal with Igbos in retaliation for the relentless unprovoked aggressions and toxic hate speech henceforth. All these have definitely been triggered by the hate videos created and uploaded online by highly irresponsible Igbo ipob aggressors. Those who FAIL to learn from verifiable history will learn the very hard way. Period.

[b]I DON’T HAVE ISSUES WITH IGBOS, I’M AN UNREPENTANT IKWERRE MAN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnSjKvPfC2o?si=NqNLXachEE-qXmv5
BITTER TRUTH • Jan 20 2025

TODAY AT OGBAKOR IKWERE PRESS CONFERENCE! IPOB IGBOS WILL LEARN IN THE HARD WAY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUPHP2CqnhA?si=OEruUsEEfyhBEEjW
BITTER TRUTH • Jan 10 2025

AZUTA MBATA STRIPPED OFF IKWERRE TRADITIONAL TITTLES FOR ACCEPTING OHANEZE NDIIGBO OFFICE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meTU97WTUhM
BITTER TRUTH • Jan 2025


Last but not least, NO single Yoruba returnees and their descendants (from Brazil, Cuba, Sierra Leone, etc) to Eko Island (Lagos Island) OR Abeokuta from the mid to late-1800s bears a "Lebanese" name (sic) like you incorrectly stated in your post. What they have are Spanish surnames for returnees from Cuba, Portuguese-Brazilian surnames, British surnames for Yoruba returnees from the United States (such as the Vaughan and Jackson families) and Sierra Leone, the former British Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, etc.

As part of a wave of African nationalism, some Yoruba returnees from Brazil and elsewhere dropped their foreign names (such as the famous Prince of the Egba-Yoruba Royal family lineage of Abeokuta, Sir. Adeyemo Alakija, who founded Daily Times newspaper and he was the FIRST Nigerian to become a Queen's Counsel (QC) who dropped his old names after returning from his law studies in London to Nigeria in the 1910s. His former Brazilian name was Placido Adeyemo Asumpcao). Sir. Adeyemo Alakija is the direct patriarch of the lawyer, Modupe Alakija (the spouse of the Ikorodu, Lagos indigene and business mogul, Mrs. Folorunso Alakija).[/b]

@ Konquest

I do wonder what you benefits from this rift. You didn't say anything about the community names I mentioned in my earlier post. The establishment of ogbakor ikwerre in 1963 was not to identify as a distinct ethnic group as you claim, rather it was for political mobilization. There was similar groups like that among various Igbo subgroup. Like the orlu progressive union.

Elechi Amadi that you mentioned, registered in the Nigerian army as Igbo man. He only started fabricating lies when he saw that IGBOS were no longer in advantageous position in Nigeria after the civil war.
I lived in ikwerre land for decades and I can tell you emphatically that there is no doubt that some individual might have migrated from bini centuries ago. Those set of individuals are at the minority. They eventually rose among the elites in new rivers state after the war, and generalized that all ikwerres are not Igbo. I really don't blame them for their misguided attitude because during the war, the Nigerian grand design was to wipe out the entire Igbo race. So it was logical and justifiable to deny being Igbo at that time.

for your information, Elechi Amadi hails from a village called mbodo, which means 'foreigners' in Igbo language.in the olden days, that village was often segregated among the near by community. they were always the last to participatew in community rites. What do you expect from someone from that community?
Aro that you mentioned. Do you know the history of Aro in lkwerre land? Do you know that Aros were in that land before the arrived of the so called akalala from bini?

IGBOS do not really need ikwerres for anything provided they let go of what belongs to the IGBOS that they have.
If you are in Lagos or southwest, you should know better that an average Igbo man don't give a dime about ikwerre being Igbo or not.
Just as I said before, anyone who is not Igbo is definitely a nuisance.
Port Harcourt is to IGBOS what Lagos is to Yorubas.
I know many ikwerres that proudly identify as Igbo.
This is a photo of an ikwerre chief back then in the early 1900s. Before independence.

Konquest:
@diamond68

Absolutely well said. The original folks who constitute the Ikwerres claim NOT to be Igbos, but it's a historical fact that during the slave trade, some Aros and their allies settled among the Ikwerres and Ijaws to facilitate that insidious trade in human slaves who the Aros brought from the interior Igbo areas. The folks who descend from the Aros know themselves but are in the minority. The Ogbakor Ikwerre Worldwide which was founded in 1963 (before the 2 years and 6 months Nigerian Civil War of July 1967 to January 1970) have since 1963 emphasized that they are distinct from the interior Igbos and also affirmed in the January 9 2025 Press Release video right BELOW that they NOT Igbos but of the Ikwerre ethnic nationality which is known to the Nigerian constitution.

TODAY AT OGBAKOR IKWERE PRESS CONFRENCE! IPOB IGBOS WILL LEARN IN THE HARD WAY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUPHP2CqnhA?si=OEruUsEEfyhBEEjW
January 10 2025

Did you know that Alex Otti, the current Abia State Governor is also of Aro descent whose ancestor migrated from Arochukwu in Abia State and settled in the Aba region in the 1800s? He actually said this himself in an interview he granted to Punch newspaper in the 2010s when he wanted to contest under a different political party. He went on to say that their was some resistance to his becoming a Governor then because he was of Aro descent. He further claimed that the Aros and Ibibio migrants of centuries back in the Aba axis constituted about 10% of the population while the Ngwas who migrated from Mbaise in Imo State were in the majority in the Ngwa/Aba area.

I remember that interview because of my gravitation towards advanced world history for decades now and I have a fascination with how the Aros evolved (from the original Ibibio settlement of 400 years ago) and went about organizing small colonies in areas outside their enclave while engaging in the notorious slave trade of majorly Igbos of the interior and more.

Oga, you are wrong. Absolutely wrong in your narrative. I'm not here to argue with you about ikwerre this or that....but to correct you. IGBOS are not forcing ikwerres to become Igbo, is just that they have something that belongs to the IGBOS that will alway make IGBOS come for them. The Land, language, cities and individual names ,customs and traditions.
You claim to know history but you haven't read about the 1954 supreme court declaration of port Harcourt as Igbo land. During when the IGBOS and ijaws were tustling for the ownership of port Harcourt.
By then ikwerres fully identified and aligned with the hinterland IGBOS.
The ikwerres that are denying and touting IGBOS do not know the gravity of what they are doing.

They don't know they are currently at war with the IGBOS. In politics, issues that cannot be settle in a round table, will definitely be settled at the war front. Akalala their ancestor which they claimed that came from bini bears Igbo name. He was returning to Igbo land (presently ikwerre) from slavery which he was condemned to in bini. Port Harcourt is very important to the IGBOS. When the time comes those that do not identify with IGBOS will be send back to bini where they came from. If you are not Igbo, you are definitely a nuisances in Igbo land.

Do you want to tell me that those slave returnees that are currently lagosians but still bearing Portuguese and labanese names in Lagos are not Yoruba?

Or you want to tell me that Rumuokoro, Rumuola, Rumuji, isi-okpo, Rumuodomanya, elele nta, elele ugwu, Rumuigbo etc are bini names. For your information, cities name shows the kind of people that were there in the earliest time. Although most of these nam have been altered, But we still have their original name it in our achives. Obigbo is now oyigbo, the R have been added to Umu, and Obi-akpor has become Obio/akpor. I can go on and on....but for time sake.
IGBOS knows where their boundary end. Go and ask an elderly okirika man, he will always tell you that ikwerres are IGBOS who came from south central part of Igbo many centuries ago, in search of farmland, and they eventually settled in their presents location.

So oga, don't intrude into issues you know little or nothing about.

powerkey:
Buhari who in his stupidity called Igbos 5% thinking his useless tenure will never expire couldn't have given Igbos an additional state.

For those who don't know, President doesn't have such powers however, it's only possible through the national assembly......

Igbos are not worried about how many states, Yorubas and Northerners that have many states are suffering more than Igbos, so of what use is an additional state from a tyrant?

He never called Igbo 5%, it was misinterpreted. What he said was that those that gave him 5% votes will not benefits much from his rule

He never called Igbo 5%, it was misinterpreted. What he said was that those that gave him 5% votes will not benefits much from his rule

January 19, 2025


Ohaneze Ndigbo crisis: How South East lost chance of a 6th state offered by President Buhari – Uche Okwukwu
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One of the contenders for the president-general seat of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Uche Okwukwu, in an explosive interview in Port Harcourt revealed how South East lost a 6th state offered them on a platter of gold by then President Mohammadu Buhari due to pettiness. He told IGNATIUS CHUKWU how money tears Ohanaeze to pieces and highlighted what Igbos must do to move ahead. He also spoke on many issues concerning the Igbo nation. Excerpts:

Can you please introduce yourself the way you want to be recognised?

My name is Dim Uche Nnam Okwukwu from Elele in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State.





How money tears Ohanaeze Ndigbo apart


Why did Igbo fail to get one more state from Buhari?

The third is in keeping with the recommendation of Ohanaeze Ndigbo recommending of an Aba State. We shall demand for the creation of Aba State from the South-East and creation of Anioma State out of Delta State.

Now, what happened about Aba State is the source of the conflict we are having today. In 2018, the then President met with Igbo leaders and Yoruba leaders and said he understood the pains of the Igbo and the Yorubas. That the Igbos has bitterly complained that they were denied state and the federal amenities that go with state creation. He said state capitals get many federal amenities such as federal medical centres, universities and polytechnics, etc. but that the Igbos have only five states whereas all other former provinces have six or seven states. It is same in representation in national bodies such as Senate and House of Representatives. For the Yoruba, he promised to recognise the late MKO Abiola to pacify them. By these proposed steps, he felt he would have pacified the Igbo and Yoruba.

We Ohanaeze came back home and recommended Aba State out of 18 demands. Nnia Nwodo, who was then the president-gneral, was not happy. He said the reason for which he worked hard to become president-general of Ohanaeze was to fight for the creation of Adada State. We had argued that the old Anambra had three state capitals that attract federal amenities (Abakaliki, Enugu, and Awka). The Old Imo have only two; Umuahia and Owerri. If you create Adada State and get another capital, you make old Anambra to have four capitals against Old Imo with same two capitals. There is nothing to show that they are more in number. This would be gross injustice. Only Imo State has 27 LGAs, whereas Ebonyi has only 10. The military handed states as favours to Generals. It has nothing to do with merit or justice of justiciability. We recommended Aba State, but Nwodo never submitted that recommendation to this day. President Buhari waited for it and had to recognise Abiola and conferred him posthumously with GCFR (Grand Commander of the Federal republic). The matter of the pacification of the Igbo was lost.

Another vexed issue was who was Ohanaeze going to adopt in 2019? My position was, do not adopt anybody. Nwodo insisted it must be Abubakar Atiku, and I said no. My reason was that Buhari was doing four years from the North. If we supported Atiku, the north would do another eight years with him. But if we supported Buhari, he would do only four years and go. Atiku is a Fulani, Moslem, and north. Buhari is same. It was a choice between two brothers. We should allow Buhari to finish and go so power will come back to the South. Let us negotiate power. He (Nwodo) went ahead to adopt Atiku, the Yoruba’s seized the opportunity and supported Buhari and negotiated themselves into power. That’s how we lost out again. The way it is today, if Asiwaju rules for eight years and goes, power will go back to the north. Before it comes back to the south or South-East, it will be 2039 by which time, a lot of people would have died.

Now, why do I say this, if we keep saying what somebody did to you, also say the one you did to yourself. We are not strategic in thinking.

The fourth thing I will do is very important. Ndigbo must create a council of elders or a mediation committee in conflicts in Igboland. When there was this type of conflict in 2021, the Conference of Archbishops and Bishops led by an Archbishop, Emmanuel Chukwuma of the Ecclesiastical Diocese of Enugu and Alternate Chairman, Bishop Anthony Obinna of the Catholic Diocese of Owerri with Bishop Chibuzo Okpoko of Umuahia as secretary, came on board to resolve it, and they resolved it, but power blocs did not agree. See what the bishops said about me, asking them to swear me in as deputy president. A lot of people do not know what I stand for.

From experience, Igbos must have a mediation into conflicts just as in Yoruba that resolved the problem between Fredrick Fasehun and Gani Adams. Today, the problem Simon Ekpa and Nnamdi Kanu was not resolved. Ekpa is pursuing ‘unknown gunmen agenda’ while Kanu is pursuing Biafra. That conflict is what has led us to where we are with lots of killings. No ethnic group can survive without mediation. There must be people who stand in the gap, if anything happens, they can say, all of you, go to Abiriba and see Ebitu Ukiwe. When Ukiwe turned 80, I wrote that people must respect him as Aka Ji Ofor Ndigbo (Hand that holds Igbo Conscience).

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Thus, an ethnic group that does not have someone they respect is finished, whether the man is right or wrong. Let us believe in him and respect him. There is no person that is right in this world. We will have a standing mediation committee that can intervene in serious matters. Look at the problem between Rochas Okorocha and Gov Hope Uzodinma to the extent that Uzodinma went and destroyed personal house of Okorocha on Concord Avenue. It shouldn’t have happened if we had that kind of body. There must be ‘give and take’. But Peter Fayose became campaign manager of Asiwaju. Rotimi Akeredolu did the same. The Yorubas have a way of managing their problem. See what they did at the APC Convention in Abuja, they closed ranks to ensure Asiwaju emerged. If it was here, Igbos would carry it on their heads that their man was a drug baron, that he had no father, etc, that he had no WAEC, no degree. The Yorubas held tight, and no person released any document. If it was here, somebody would produce those documents.

Nnamdi Kalu came to me when I was secretary-general but I told him no, stop calling some prominent Igbos bastard even if their parentage is doubtful. There are things you don’t say. Today, there are lots of men who are not the children of the fathers they claim. Some are even more successful in the society. So, those people you were calling bastards are the ones that would have put word to release you.

If Igbos close ranks today, they will release Kalu but the Igbos have closed their mouth. These are my personal views. There are allegations today of the man that provided the plane that brought him to Nigeria. I do not have proof.

So, we must have a mediation committee that can caution you on what to say and not to say, so we can have one united Igbo.

I am happy today Ikwerre people are coming out to say they are Igbo and want to be president of Ohanaeze. Oh, it is like, this mad man 20 years ago saw what we did not see. Now they are shouting they are Igbo.

But Ogbakor Ikwerre is still insulting John Mbata for claiming to be president of Ohanaeze Ndigbo?

The truth is, how far would Ogbakor Ikwerre go? We have passed this stage. I am the one that wrote several articles that we are Igbo. What I want to say is this, anybody who says he is from Bini should quietly go back to Bini. No fight about it. This is Igboland. You cannot be talking about Isiokpo, Omerelu, Rumuji, and these names, and you are calling them Bini. They are not Bini names. One day, the president-general of Ogbakor Ikwerre will realise. I sympathise with him. When he realises, he will come.

Igbos must come home to invest.

The fifth thing the Igbos must do is that Ohanaeze Ndigbo must be at the vanguard that Igbos come home to invest. I went to Mbaise to see the professor, Uzodinma Nwala, first professor on earth of Igbo Philosophy. He is the man who introduced Igbo Philosophy in the world. He is over 80 years. At the front of the local government, there are no tarred roads, but every house you see in Mbaise is a mansion in the bush. The question is, why not come home to put your own community in order? Why are you investing and developing in Lagos, Ibadan, Abuja, Kaduna, Jos, Makurdi, Abeokuta, etc. Why is 75% of property in Abuja belongs to Igbos? Sorry, it’s not a plus. This is my personal opinion. If Nigerians today are going to Dubai on holiday, they can come to Igboland if we bring home the wealth in other cities in Nigeria. People go on holiday to Kenya.

Everybody was leaving other cities to go to Owerri which was becoming Las Vegas. Today, they have used ‘Sit-At-Home’ to destroy Owerri.

Everybody has run away from Owerri with unknown gunmen. If Igboland was growing the way it was growing, the place would have been like Los Angeles.

This brings us to another agenda: Ohanaeze being in the forefront of fight for peace in Igboland. We must carry out disarmament of our youths that are holding guns; their rehabilitation and reintegration. Else, nothing will work in Igboland. Orlu was growing as a pharmaceutical hub and also for paints and aluminum. But all that has crashed. Ohanaeze must lead the campaign for return of peace in Igboland.

Finally, Ohanaeze must negotiate with the Federal Government to release Nnamdi Kalu, and he must accept to lead the peace campaign. There is a condition for every bail, even in the police station, an undertaking. A lot of people are exploiting the name Nnamdi Kanu to commit crimes which he did not send them to do. The boys just say, they are holding our leader. They hide under it to commit havoc. This appeals to the vulnerable minds. So, release him, let him lead in healing the land.

The Igbos in the diaspora must be united and be strong. The strength of the Jews is the Jewish Congress. The Igbos abroad must work to foster Igbo dignity. Ohanaeze must collaborate the World Igbo Congress so that back home, we can improve human capital development, science and tech.

My last pursuit, Ohanaeze must develop strategies with local governments and states for agric development. A situation where 95% of food eaten in the east comes from other regions is catastrophic. A people that cannot feed themselves are doomed. Nobody can tell me we don’t have fertile lands in Igboland; from Etche to Ngor Okpala; from Elele to Owerri; from Elele to Egbema; from Obigbo to Aba; from Okigwe to Enugu. No land is not fertile. If the state of Israel that sits on rocky land can export food, every country can produce food. I am of the opinion that if we achieve these things, Igboland will be a new place and the next executive will build or improve on this.

As president, I will work to remove the title of president general. Any title that scares your people is not good. Why not just Leader or chairman of Ohanaeze just like Leader of Afenifere. General or President scares people. Word can enter your head to think you can cause trouble. Your title should pull you to your people, not pull you away. Igbos should be able to draw close to their leaders and ask them questions. I blame the elites that do not come into Ohanaeze. Journalists do not occupy the position of Publicity Secretary of Ohanaeze. Publicity is a specialised area not to be left to novices. Same with financial secretary that should be a chartered accountant. I may be wrong in this call but we have manpower. We call people in Ohanaeze thieves but we fall back on them. Imagine if Ohanaeze is in the presidency and the Minister of Information is facing the Publicity secretary of Ohanaeze as someone who is higher than the Minister in the profession, the minister would be careful.

When I was shouting that people should come into Ohanaeze, they thought I was mad. Now, they see what I saw. Let educated people rush in now. How much is the monthly due, just about N20. You can pay for a year N240. Attend your local meetings and not leave it to others. It is the largest socio-cultural organisation in the world with 150m people. When we (Ojukwu, Uwazuruike, and I) went to the US in 2001 there were 5m Igbos in the US. How come people with this kind of population be carefree with their destiny!

Today, the support I have from the Diaspora is heavy. Google it. I was shouting to them to participate. Governors use Ohanaeze and will drop them. IPOB has declared support for me. They call them names I say no, understand them.

Can John Mbata face the fire that Igbos face?

He cannot. He is too pro-establishment. He cannot support secession but I do. It’s not a crime to ask to secede. If you read the History of Secession in Nigeria by Tekena Tamuno, you will see that Igbos are late comers to the agitation. The Yorubas demanded for secession in 1963, the Hausas demanded for secession in 1914, the Middle Belt insisted on it. The first time an Igbo man asked for secession was in 1965 by Frank Opigo on the floor of the House of Representatives that the east should pull out of Nigeria. Why would you persecute anybody asking for secession except the person is carrying guns. Right to self-determination is sustained in the law. Court of Appeal of Kenya has ruled on it as a right. Countries in the world have included the right to secede in their constitutions. Ethiopia is one. Russia had it in their constitution and that was why they were able to break into 53 republics. I believe in the right for secession if a man is not satisfied. After all that amalgamated us have included it and Scotland has gone for it twice. That is why I say that intellectuals must lead the struggle. The man leading the struggle for the right of secession of the Yoruba people is a professor of history.

What they are doing to Kalu will not be so if he was a professor of international relations. The problem is a small man is leading it.

Can Mbata talk of marginalisation of Igbos in Nigeria? He does not have what it takes. When the fire starts, he will not be there. What if they go to the census and undercount the east, can he raise fire. A businessman cannot do that. It is only in Igboland a business man wants to be a traditional ruler. He makes money in Lagos and comes to his community to be an Eze. He goes to the state government and pumps money and they create few compounds for him as autonomous community as king or Eze. He is a traditional ruler, a politician, a businessman. The billionaires in Yorubaland are not interested in being traditional rulers. The militants in Yorubaland are not traditional rulers but here, most of them are. So, all the fight you fought is to become a traditional ruler and wear big clothes? Does it make sense?

Any advice to John Mbata?

Harken to the voice of reason and accept that there was no election in Enugu. Let him allow those who can take the bullet to lead. Ndigbo are not yet a free people; it’s not everybody that can lead them. Generals fight the war but administrators come to administer the land. In Biafra, the Ben Nwabuezes did not come but the Achuzias did. The professors wait so the generals fight and maybe die. The Igbos are facing existential threat (battle of survival). It’s not uhuru. The governors are playing to the gallery. You cannot rig election in Kano but you sit in government house and write election results. Even when Peter Obi won everywhere in South East, would it give him the presidency? The answer is no, and they knew it ahead.

Igboland is ruled by four parties: Imo and Ebonyi are APC, Anambra is APGA, Enugu is PDP, Abia is Labour. So, four manifestos are facing Igboland. Each governor is in contestation against the other for political space. During election, each governor goes to help win election in the other state. How can such people speak with one voice. Each will fight to win the other. It’s hegemonic contestation for power.

People close to you say you went to Mbata to ask him to support you, the next thing you heard was he was contesting. Is that kind of rumour true?

Yes; I did go to him to support me. I also went to other important personalities. He never knew that Ohanaeze zoned presidency to Rivers State. I went to all Ikwerre sons to support me and it is right and proper because even in any circumstance, people go to get help to accomplish any task. The truth is I do not have money but even a man that wants to marry, you take drinks to relations. We are a communal people.

At what point did he then decide to contest against you?

They said it was the governors and they were the ones that brought all the officers. They say the governors did the harmonisation of list, but for 21 officers to emerge from consensus is highly suspicious.

People ask me if I was amenable to resolution. I have said yes, if there is a credible committee that is ready to understand the issues and face the facts, not by wish-wash anything. Now, non-royal families twist things and become Eze. They do not have royal blood but they are now Onyenwe-ala (owner of the land). I want peace and I do not want Rivers State tenure to be in pieces. Now, we have three presidents-general.

Wike is behind all this...
I wonder what he stand to gain.

I have lived in pH. Majority of ikwerre people identify with IGBOS, it's only few of them that are refusing to identify because of political reasons and insecurity.
This Igbo denial is only strong in some parts of emohua and some part of obiakpor. While ikwerre LGA and pH fully identify as Igbo.

To me I don't see any sense in all this.

HMMMM.....

NA WHAOOO

PERSON GO JUST STAY FOR HIM BROWN ZINK REPUBLIC DEY CREATE SENSELESS TRENDS UNA GO DEY RESPOND TO NONSENSE ARGUMENTS.

UNA NO GET HANDWORK NI...
THIS ISSUE OF IKWERRE THIS ...IKWERRE THAT DON TIER ME.
IKWERRE BE IGBO OR NOT DOES NOT CONTRIBUTE ANYTHING TO IGBO NATION.


IGBOS PLEASE MAKE UNA STOP GIVING THESE JOBLESS PEOPLE ATTENTION.

GO TO ABUJA, LAGOS OR ANY PART OF THE WORLD, AN AVERAGE IGBO MAN DOES NOT GIVE A DIME ABOUT IKWERRE.
THE WAY THEIR COOKED-UP HISTORY IS TODAY IS NOT THE WAY IT WAS DECADES AGO . THEY KEEP ON RE- WRITING THEIR HISTORY EVERY YEAR. NOW THEY HAVE MODIFY IT TO COLLIDE WITH EKPEYA HISTORY.
NA ONLINE THESE JOBLESS HOLLIGANS DEY COME SEEK ATTENTION.

Worried by the misconceptions over the origin of the Ikwerre people, the Ogbakor Ikwerre Cultural Organisation Worldwide, has explained that Ikwerre ethnic nationality is not and has never been a subset or subgroup of any other tribe in Nigeria, including the Igbos.

The President General of Ogbakor Ikwerre, HRM King Godspower W. Onuekwa, gave this explanation in a press conference held on Thursday, at the Conventional Secretariat, Obiri Ikwerre, Port Harcourt, on behalf of Ikwerre sons and daughters.

Present at the conference were, distinguished Senator Andrew Uchendu, Prof. Wami Emenike, Chief Stephen Oparantu, Chief Paul Woke Nwonodi, Eze Gideon, Vincent Nyeche, among several others.






Is the above-mentioned names not Igbo names?
They should stop answering Igbo names since they say they are not Igbos.

To me those people are speaking for them selves in order to protect their insignificant organization not to go instinct.

Let's chat on WhatsApp I wanted to find out something.

Pls reply the mail with your WhatsApp contact so that I will chat u up

Solu102:
I suggest you put " NO"

Why?

That place they ask in the form whether I know anybody among the directors.

What should be the right answer.

In a job application form, if am asked whether I know any staff or director in the company? What is the right response?? Should I say yes or no ?

There is a married man that I really pity. He works hard to spoil his wife. He doesn't even know that she is a prostitute.

This woman does her job during the day when the husband is away at work. The husband provides everything. Despite this, his wife still chooses the streets. Men just offer her money plus fare, she goes to where they are.

The husband leaves for work at around 6:30am. The woman will do the house chores and leave at around 9am. She'll go do her business and come back in the evening before her husband arrives. In case he gets there before her, there are numerous places she can say she was at. There are church meetings, family meetings, work interviews, a sick friend etc. She never runs out of excuses.

It gets really bad when the husband travels. The woman will abandon her house and come back when her husband is also coming back. She has men all over the district. When the one with a lot of money pesters her for a meeting, she'll arrange with her sister to lie to her husband that the sister is sick and she's going to nurse her. The poor man always falls for these tricks.

She confesses that the money she gets in her hustle, exceeds the little her husband gives her and she hopes her husband will never find out. The problem is that she can't enjoy the money because the husband will start becoming suspicious and ask for the source. She just uses the money on fashion and saves the rest.

I asked her why she can't quit her marriage and she told me that she loves her husband and that is just a side hustle.
As the interim chairman of all men, up to now, I have been wondering what sort of love this is.

I mean, a lot of modern married ladies do this.
What could be the cause of this? Let's discuss!
🙏

Igbo is the oldest tribe in Nigeria. The NRI kingdom was established before the Benin and igalla kingdom.

Pls read

*_DIRTY POLITICS OF PETROL._*
*_DONT BE FOOLED!_*

1. *Oct 2022* ```NNPC bought Oando filling stations and assets for USD324m.```

2. *August 2024* ```NNPC Retail Ltd, dissolves itself and hands over itself to OVH, owners of Oando.```

3. *September 2024* ```NNPC is the sole buyer of Dangote Petrol.```

4. ```Who's the buyer? NNPC Retail.```

5. ```Who is NNPC Retail? Oando.```

6. ```Oando owned by Tinubu, will decide how much we pay for Dangote petrol.```

WINNERS
1. ```Minister of petroleum - TINUBU.```
2. ```Owner of Oando - TINUBU.```
3. ```Owner of Agip - TINUBU.```

LOSERS
1. Nigerians
2. Nigeria. 😭

Let's compare Godwin Emefiele with the current Patch-Patch CBN governor: Cardoso

Despite of Buhari failure, Emefiele was able to control the economy for 8 years no wonder Buhari respects him a lot.

Cardoso one and half years in office is like hell for Nigeria.' First time for Nigerians to experience Hyper inflation ’

Beans from 600 or 700 a mudu to 3,000 a mudu. And Nigerians are silent them just the look anya..anya. Na which kind jazz tinubu use hold una

Close your eyes a little, and move close. Then you will see what I see.

Joe42:
Hello good day,
The message is from my ceo under my state.

OK which state?

Joe42:
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This project is overdue to start, I do hope this July it will start.

Pls where did u get this message from: ??

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Don finish NigeriaooooooooooO