The Ikwerre Man who speak of owning Rivers State and Port Harcourt is a big comedian. The Akwa Ibom who says that other people's ancestral land in Akwa Ibom state is his own. All these comedians because of state creation? Well all men to their comic opinion including mine. But with the seriousness of this discussion I say this. I as an Obolo man have no grudge with any Ibibio, Annang, Efik, Igbo or Ikwerre man. Whoever wants to be sentimental has his right to do so but to me clamoring for a state where the oppression will be less is not bad. I know by these group leaving it will reduce the wealth of their present states and as such I know jealousy is the reason of these online quarrels. No doubt. But somehow those who are against the creation of Toru Ebe and Oil Rivers States are not wrong my reason is that development does not come by more division it comes by proper understand for its need by the people involved. Most Ikwerre people are a collection of Benin, Ijo and Ibos and because Igbo proximity they adopted the name Ikwerrela. By reasoning of Agreeing to be one. Port Harcourt is an ancestral home to both the Ikwerres and Okrikas of Ijo extract. Diobu (Dinobu) is an Okrika word but the people are Ancestrally Ikwerre. The name came as a result of the civil war between Obumotu (Port Harcourt South) a section of the Rebisi kingdom in Port Harcourt North and part of Obio/Apkor a in the mile 3 Axis. These predated the independence of Nigeria or Rivers State as a state. The defunct Obumotu came by Harcourt needing the water terminals for sea business. This is why the Harcourt Quarters was at Moore House in the Borikiri Ama of Obumotu. The boundary of these group is clear and documents exists signed by the chiefs of Obumotu an the Rebisi king for the city to be born. For the aspect of Akwa Ibom Ijos I would say that they remain a minority there and have often suffered during government policies concerning the none Ibibio groups. Only Annang could withstand the Ibibio political dominance because of their number. Oro and Obolo have one father Abang. Due to their sojourning with the Efiks, Ibibios and Annangs at Camoroun mountains so truly one could calle them siblings for years of staying together but since they still remember their root as Ijaw will you blame them of accepting their root? My Ibeno brother is free to accept Ibibio if he wants that will not stop me as. An Eastern Obolo man from seeing him as my brother. And Ibibio man is a closer friend. The states remain one is not bad and if created it still should not be bad. Someone asked about Ogoni. Please the Ogoni has nothing to do with Ghana that is a political history to control from the Bonny axis. The Ogonis where also one of the families that stayed at the cameroon mountains and migrated long before the Obolo and Oro groups and settled in hinterlands while the Obolo settled below. They are also close but constant war for lands made them enemies which is fast healing now. Plz what is far greater than all these is the unity of all tribes in Niger Delta. He have bigger challenges than all these irrelevant sentiments. Before state creation we all worked together. If we end the sentiments we can still have many states fight for a place for the national marginalisation of the region a house divided against itself will not stand. Let me point out something, during Niger Delta agitations people from Akwa Ibom and Cross River felt less concerned to the extent that the Ijaws were blacklisted as naturally restive. Unity brings progress. Even in Bakassi crises people from Rivers had to go to cross river to ease the brutal treatment of the gendarmmes against the Oron and Ijaw inhabitants of the area. So until the sentiments are taken down we cannot make the federal government value each group despite the language spoken. Please let us all drop our sentiments and be one. Every man in each state is indigenous so to say Ijaws should leave is a wrong statement to make. Such persons might instigate problems of genocide to claim people's property and that is very bad for social integration.

The Ikwerre Man who speak of owning Rivers State and Port Harcourt is a big comedian. The Akwa Ibom who says that other people's ancestral land in Akwa Ibom state is his own. All these comedians because of state creation? Well all men to their comic opinion including mine. But with the seriousness of this discussion I say this. I as an Obolo man have no grudge with any Ibibio, Annang, Efik, Igbo or Ikwerre man. Whoever wants to be sentimental has his right to do so but to me clamoring for a state where the oppression will be less is not bad. I know by these group leaving it will reduce the wealth of their present states and as such I know jealousy is the reason of these online quarrels. No doubt. But somehow those who are against the creation of Toru Ebe and Oil Rivers States are not wrong my reason is that development does not come by more division it comes by proper understand for its need by the people involved. Most Ikwerre people are a collection of Benin, Ijo and Ibos and because Igbo proximity they adopted the name Ikwerrela. By reasoning of Agreeing to be one. Port Harcourt is an ancestral home to both the Ikwerres and Okrikas of Ijo extract. Diobu (Dinobu) is an Okrika word but the people are Ancestrally Ikwerre. The name came as a result of the civil war between Obumotu (Port Harcourt South) a section of the Rebisi kingdom in Port Harcourt North and part of Obio/Apkor a in the mile 3 Axis. These predated the independence of Nigeria or Rivers State as a state. The defunct Obumotu came by Harcourt needing the water terminals for sea business. This is why the Harcourt Quarters was at Moore House in the Borikiri Ama of Obumotu. The boundary of these group is clear and documents exists signed by the chiefs of Obumotu an the Rebisi king for the city to be born. For the aspect of Akwa Ibom Ijos I would say that they remain a minority there and have often suffered during government policies concerning the none Ibibio groups. Only Annang could withstand the Ibibio political dominance because of their number. Oro and Obolo have one father Abang. Due to their sojourning with the Efiks, Ibibios and Annangs at Camoroun mountains so truly one could calle them siblings for years of staying together but since they still remember their root as Ijaw will you blame them of accepting their root? My Ibeno brother is free to accept Ibibio if he wants that will not stop me as. An Eastern Obolo man from seeing him as my brother. And Ibibio man is a closer friend. The states remain one is not bad and if created it still should not be bad. Someone asked about Ogoni. Please the Ogoni has nothing to do with Ghana that is a political history to control from the Bonny axis. The Ogonis where also one of the families that stayed at the cameroon mountains and migrated long before the Obolo and Oro groups and settled in hinterlands while the Obolo settled below. They are also close but constant war for lands made them enemies which is fast healing now. Plz what is far greater than all these is the unity of all tribes in Niger Delta. He have bigger challenges than all these irrelevant sentiments. Before state creation we all worked together. If we end the sentiments we can still have many states fight for a place for the national marginalisation of the region a house divided against itself will not stand. Let me point out something, during Niger Delta agitations people from Akwa Ibom and Cross River felt less concerned to the extent that the Ijaws were blacklisted as naturally restive. Unity brings progress. Even in Bakassi crises people from Rivers had to go to cross river to ease the brutal treatment of the gendarmmes against the Oron and Ijaw inhabitants of the area. So until the sentiments are taken down we cannot make the federal government value each group despite the language spoken. Please let us all drop our sentiments and be one.

Well I enjoy this Argument but as an Obolo man I can proudly correct some impressions here. The Andoni also known as Obolo, Idoni apu, or Ido is Izon and to be precise the 1st son of Ijo. Presently they are their brother Oron do not speak Ijo but originally migrated out of their families and settled with the Efiks and Ibibios in Urombi, also known as Ramby in portuguese documents of our people. It is their stay in Urombi and inter-marriage that changed their linguistic construction into what we speak today as a language. Till present the neither an Obolo man or Oro son will agree to be Ibibio because they know they are not yet they do not deny their friendship with the Ibibios, Efiks or Annangs. Now Ibeno is Obolo and it was the Prince of Ibeno to founded Eket during the reign of king Nna Biget who was a tyrant ruler and did so many oppressive acts against Obolo sons and daughters. Yes till today in Ikot Abasi LGA there are still Obolo communities, Uta Ewa is one and from there to Okoroboile or Okoroinyong is not far. Also the the Andoni names especially some Old towns like Asarama, Alabie - Agwut Obolo, Gogo - Ngo Aya-ama, Iwoma etc. Ama means the same in all Izon groups from Akwa Ibom till Ondo. etc still has the Ijoness which we try to deny. Ayaile is purely an Ijo. denying Ijo heritage is sometimes good and sometimes dangerous to our politics as Obolo people. All Ijo do not speak one language due to their agelong History but that does not make them strangers. I am from Okoroboile a descendant from Inituk brother to the great Agalaga. I cannot deny my bloodline because of modern politics of fighting for place in the system. My Ancestor fought for Obolo sons not to be slaves and today we understand why we as Obolo people should stand for freedom and development. Eket has claimed Ibibio but was never founded by Ibibio man. It was from Eket that the Ibeno prince regrouped with a stronger force to destroy the tyrant reign of Nna Biget from the Asarama area. I think only an Obolo man knows his story. I think Obolo sons should ask questions as far back before Europeans came to avoid this misunderstandings and the political misinformation of our time. Obolo month bolo. We are the largest distinct Ijo clan. Our sons have begotten many like the Ohafia in Igbo land, Ogoloma in Okrika, Kala Ido in Kalabari, Bolo in Okrika, and many Opobo families, not forgetting the Aro people knwon as Arochukwu in Igbo land. We are more than we are presently, we should learn to value our heritage and fight for our unity rather than more divide which makes us less important and less-existent in the nation of Nigeria. Obolo itiki.

Your story Obiagu looks catchy but very political. the documents signed for the city of Port Harcourt is still resident the Brick House of port Harcourt signed by the Chiefs of Okrikaland and Ikwerre land and not any Owerri chief or King. the History of the Niger Delta belongs to the Niger Deltas and someone who speculates it. We the people of Rivers from Oyigbo down to Ndoni iknow how we began and where we normally thrive before the coming of both Portuguese and British and so when you say things not that the people of Rivers especially those who know the History of their land will dismiss it. Owerri Province was a political division for smooth running of the African peoples. Being in Eastern Nigeria does not make the Niger Deltans Igbo or does it? and get this pointer. The History of the Aro and the Ohafia trraces to the Obolo tribe of Niger Delta and those of Ndoki belongs to another clan of the Ijaws. The entire Niger Deltas where classified by the Portuguese from then as Oru and Kumoni this dates before the word Igbo or Ijo existed as a nation. The Ijos retain the Oru and so does the Imo in Igboland> I will tell you this. Obumotu is never an Igboland and cannot be from History till present and this is not as a result of the bias in which you have been writing this propaganda and painting the people of the region as robbers. If the Ikwerre people more Bini and Ijo fathers who formed their towns and less Igbo friends that were absorbed could accept to be Ijos, Binis and Igbos but an entity as a hybrid group then we should respect them>. Stop diging old infested wounds like buzzy flies because the salt is always ready to purify the infested wound for healing to take place. Igbo people keep claiming Niger Delta and always claim superiority this is really the problem of Igbos generally. All men are equal under the sun and no slave nor master. My granny is Igbo and I school in Igbo territory but never try to downgrade or remind them of how much my people were robbed and hurt by them but I keep hearing it. consider this. Yoruba hates Igbos, Hausas, Niger Deltas and everyone in Nigeria because they are Jewish? funny. All Niger Delta triubes are of Jewish origin separated long ago and in modern era fused as one and that is why it is easy to relate with aLll Igbos and Yorubas and Middle Beltans from the same faith stock. My Advice whether you end up insulting me as you showed in previous comments or not is that my Ancestral land attached to a province under Owerri Province does not mean that I belong to Owerri. Let the past that brought hurts remain. this bias and claims should stop. check your homeland proximity and what you claim to be yours. the people of Obumotu was resettled when the agreement was done for the Harcourt to use the place for import and export of the crude of the region and thereby Changing the name from Obumotu to port of Harcourt and after which during the Nigerian Civil war the Igbos conqurered it and renamed it Ugwuocha yet it is return to the true people, Ikwerres and Okrikans and now that all is well this new bias is resuming and you expect the world to believe this. sight your documents to prove that this land was signed by your chiefs and was inhabited by your people during slave trade and before the amalgamation of 1914 and not the political division done by the wicked British in their divide and rule policies to engage in wrong joining of people that made free people slaves to others in ancient times. Port Harcourt my brothers is not and Igboland but was placed in Owerri Province because of easy control by the British. the on all the sides of Port Harcourt geographically is Ijaw city states that are now LGAs. and major part of this city is the inhabited by the Okrika Ijaws from time immemorial. also the Port that gave the city the name is exactly Opoosite Isaka-Ama and Kalabari water territory> understand the geography> see the people there and say the truth and not the bias>. I pray you are not one of those people fanning discord amongst the Rivers people and Igbos because I am not and my grand mother is an Obowo woman. very close to Owerri. this is just an eye opener for everyone and the documents are valid in the Rivers State Government House where it cannot be tampered with. Thank You.