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greggng:
Team tboss will surprise everyone by wining the grand finalle

Yess oo, TeamBossNation keeping it real
Tboss 4d moni

Serioisly, am damn surprised. I never knew T-boss would have as much votes as this! Even more than Debbie rise?
I love them both sha, but i think it would have been better if Tboss left so that her fans and Debbie's fans can team up and give Debbie the overall winning votes against Efe and Bisola.

The game is now on! Tboss or Debbie for the money!

Debbie rise 4d money!

Ikechu10:
See attempt on saving face.


You claim to see yourself as SS due to the fact you are born in SS therefore, you believe you have to right to speak for SS despite being a northerner..

In reality, that same logic applies to someone from SE with the same story as you.

You can't berate someone of an act you yourself is doing.

But then again, you are the fool that thinks asaba is against SE and Igbo speaking groups of SS all hate to be associated to SE. If i recall, this is The I'd that accused me of "being From SE" due to the fact i do not follow your pitiful attempt of divide and rule. Your so called "logical knowledge" in terms of SS seems to end in your pitiful attempt on divide and rule. Like a typical northerner that you are

Everyone on this forum knows you and your likes. Never put words in ppls mouth. Was i the one who created the states of Nigeria? Go and face those who did.
Why are u Igbos crying more than the bereaved? Many other Nigerians and even most SSners are not complaining of the states they are in as such unlike u SEners.
I never said any groups of the SS hate the SEners. I only said that many Ibo speaking people of the SS reject Igbo identity and association like a plague which is very evident to all and they have the rights to do so because ethnicity is more or less by community or even individual choice/identification.
I also said that Nigeria is not ruled by Ethnic govts but State govts, so can u tell me how that is wrong?. Satehood and geo-politcal zonning has more effect, meaning and legal cause of association more than tribal affiliations in the governing and functioning of the country and it's people. E.g, there is nothing like Igboland or Yorubaland in Nigeria's govt or constitution. It is not a legal term or definition. It is informal or personal, and these definitions can be reversed by the people involved unlike Statehood and geo-zones which are more legal and official.

This post is very true.

Ipobs keep displaying ignorance one after the other.

People are asking for restructuring for State or regional control of rescources with the current geo-political settings.
Nobody has ever asked for the SS to be merged with the SE as one region except the by force attache peeps from SE.

Ikechu10:
This is more laughable than any comment on this entire thread. So you aren't even from SS yet have been accusing others of attaching when you yourself is a perfect example of what you accuse others of.

If we follow your pitiful attempt to attache, that means someone from SE whom is born and bred in SS can equally claim to "consider himself/herself" SS this, would speak on it's behalf

You see how hypocritical and idiotic you sound

Ipob in their usual way cannot do without invectives. Well i do not have time to exchange insults.
In other parts of the world, that is the way it is done. U are free to claim the place u were born and support the people therein in their struggles and aspirations.
That is why whatever i say is supported by most people from that place e.g the OP.
Besides i am not trying to forcefully attach another place with Delta or the SS as u Ipobs are out there to do. All i am doing is standing or maintaining the integrity of the SS and Delta just as naturally as any Deltan or SSner will do. Ok?

kingzizzy:
Are you this much of a learner? Or just plain ignorant? Lets leave the issue of Biafra aside for a moment, what do you mean by you are a South-Southerner? Does the constitution of Nigeria recognise anything like South/South? So how can you come from something that does not exist in law? Do you know how the so called 'South/South' came about? The so called South/South along with the other 5 are geopolitical zones were created by the regime of Abacha in the 90's for economic planing. How can a geopolitical zone not recognised by the law be your identity? Also, when did Oron, Efik, Ogoja, Ogoni etc decide to join you in the so called South/South?

As far as Nigeria is concerned, the only two identities you are entitled to is your ethnic group and 'Nigerian'. Any other thing you call your self inside Nigeria is foolish. Outside Nigeria, you can add another identity of 'African'.


All this comes to the heart of what Biafra is all about. How can Nigerians still be answering the ficticious names imposed on them by Soldiers?

Because a British Soldier called Lugard came to West Africa, we have become Nigerians

Because Gowon came, some people are now Rivers and Cross River

Becuase Murtala came, Im now Anambra

Because IBB came, some people are now Deltans

Abacha came, now some people are South/South and South East.

One ficticious name after the other. So when do people get to choose their own name and identity? Why must people keep answering to imposed names?

The agitators of Biafra are right to demand a referendum. For once, let the people decide who they are, what their politics and country should be.

Those who love Nigeria should also come out express their love by voting to continue as Nigerians. Referendum means power to the people.

But until the people decide, everyone should speak only for their ethnic group. Not everyone will like the idea of Biafra, however, no one should stand against the democratic right of the people to choose their future via referendum

NB. Nigeria is not ruled on the basis of ethnicity. We do not run ethnic governments here, we only run state governments. So, states and geo-political zones are somewhat more important than ethnicity because ethnicity and religion remains informal.

So an Urhobo Deltan has more in common politically with an Ibo speaking Deltan than an Anambra person. An Isoko Deltan also has more in common politically with an Ibo speaking Ikwerre than any SEner based on geo-political zonning.

Ethnicity is optional and a choice in Nigeria today, but Statehood and geo-political zonning are here to stay permanently and to a larger extent defines the future of people in Nigeria today than tribe. E.g a political position which is supposed to go to the yoruba nation or South-west cannot be given to a Kogi or Kwara yoruba speaking person because he/she is not from South-west.
Ondo people can wake up today and decide that they no longer want to be adressed as yorubas and start denying yoruba identity and everyone has to respect their decision but Ondo people cannot renounce Ondo state.
This is the situation we have found ourselves today and we must learn to live with it and make the most of it.

kingzizzy:
Are you this much of a learner? Or just plain ignorant? Lets leave the issue of Biafra aside for a moment, what do you mean by you are a South-Southerner? Does the constitution of Nigeria recognise anything like South/South? So how can you come from something that does not exist in law? Do you know how the so called 'South/South' came about? The so called South/South along with the other 5 are geopolitical zones were created by the regime of Abacha in the 90's for economic planing. How can a geopolitical zone not recognised by the law be your identity? Also, when did Oron, Efik, Ogoja, Ogoni etc decide to join you in the so called South/South?

As far as Nigeria is concerned, the only two identities you are entitled to is your ethnic group and 'Nigerian'. Any other thing you call your self inside Nigeria is foolish. Outside Nigeria, you can add another identity of 'African'.


All this comes to the heart of what Biafra is all about. How can Nigerians still be answering the ficticious names imposed on them by Soldiers?

Because a British Soldier called Lugard came to West Africa, we have become Nigerians

Because Gowon came, some people are now Rivers and Cross River

Becuase Murtala came, Im now Anambra

Because IBB came, some people are now Deltans

Abacha came, now some people are South/South and South East.

One ficticious name after the other. So when do people get to choose their own name and identity? Why must people keep answering to imposed names?

The agitators of Biafra are right to demand a referendum. For once, let the people decide who they are, what their politics and country should be.

Those who love Nigeria should also come out express their love by voting to continue as Nigerians. Referendum means power to the people.

But until the people decide, everyone should speak only for their ethnic group. Not everyone will like the idea of Biafra, however, no one should stand against the democratic right of the people to choose their future via referendum

We are so sorry but unfortunately for u guys. The name and identity SOUTH-SOUTH has come to stay and this identity is being accepted and promoted by most Southern minorities.

Well, if u Igbos are so pained by the SS identity which has come to liberate southern minorities from majority influence, i guess u guys can take the Hausa-fulani approach.
Look for a common name that unites the whole South or at least the South-south & SE just like Hausas always speak on behalf of the whole north or Arewa or all muslims and never North-west alone, but however, most North-centrals and other northern minorities will always remind hausa-fulanis that they are middlebelters and not Core-northernerns.

Na wa sha, e be like say this South-south matter dey pain Igbos well well. Just like many Hausa-fulanis when they hear Middlebelt, they act hypertensive and so pained.

RockHard:
Bro, no one is doubting that igbos are in different parts of Nigeria, the contention is how many are they in those places. I just gave you an estimated breakdown of their numbers in the SW for example. Often times they may not even number up to 10,000 sef in many cases but are usually visible due to their trading activities. They often gather for their customary meetings wherever you find them and in such cases they usually don't number up to a hundred let alone a thousand. Bottomline is that they exaggerate their population outside their SE base.

I liken it to the false perception that most Nigerians have about dstv for instance. A lot of people would probably be shocked to realize that the cable company has just a paltry 1.5-miion total subscribers in Nigeria (out of close to 200-million folks, even though it generally seems like half of the Nigerian population are subscribers of the service by now. In a nutshell, perception doesn't always equal reality.

Ok i quite agree. I think their being traders is what makes their presence obvious wherever they are, even though they are in small numbers. True.

pazienza:
Soviet Union economic fortunes were already dwindling in the 80's, they relied too much on crude oil and the global price took a great hit in the 80's, they were not innovative and they relied alot on inferior technology systems. Many Eastern European countries were faring better than USSR in the 80's! Let's not even talk about the Western Europe and USA and Japan.

Even with the minorities, Russia was going down economically just before the USSR imploded.

I don't know what you speak about Majority losing more than the minorities. I don't think countries like Azberijian are doing better than Russia today, economically or otherwise.

I don't know about the Hausas, even with the minorities, Most Hausa commoners are poor and their living standard are low. They rank low in most development indices, so I don't see how the presence of Northern minorities had helped the average Hausa man on the streets of Kano. Unless you mean their looting elites who use the minorities numbers to hold unto power, then you might have a point.

NB: I have noticed that as a Northern minority, you have an axe to grind with the Hausa-Fulanis, but rather than face them, you run away and take solace in poke nosing into Igbo affairs, arrogating yourself the position of spokesman of SS minorities whom the Igbos( Majority tribe) is seen as equivalent of Hausas in your mind.

USSR was not innovative and till date they posses the greatest technological weapons of mass destruction in the world. I wonder what u call that.

I see no way Russia is better than Azerbaijan, Tajikstan, Lithuania, Ukraine or Latvia other than the fact that Russia has been reduced into bits and now in lifetime regrets (dreaming of their past glory) for letting USSR which made them a world superpower and influence slip through their fingers. That is why they tried to steal Crimea from Ukraine. Imagine the level they (the mighty Russia) have been reduced to. A laughing stock among their formal mates and inferiors like USA and China.

@ u and BigFrancis, I consider myself a South-southerner too because that was the land i was born, bred and still living and now mixed with. It's just like the so many Deltans we have in Jos who will tell u they know no other place than Jos e.g the likes of Efe (the likely winner of BBN this year) and Karen Igho (former BBA winner) e.t.c. Some of these people even act more Josite and will be more accepted than i.

North-central and SS people are not hate filled souls like SE people. Till date, u can hardly find any notable Nigerian from another tribe who will proudly tell u that he/she was born and bred in Igbo land and is proud to identitfy with SE culture and tribe.
This is why i will never tolerate any intrusion, attack or forceful attachment by you hate-filled SEners on any inch of the SS region.
We will always tell you that Ipob madness is free to end at Onitsha (River Niger boundary).

ConqueredWest:
Colonel Achuzie, Pat Utomi etc are they from the sky.

Referendum will hold in Urhobo land

Oya go and conduct it na. It's long overdued pls

Growing up in Delta state seeing Deltans who answer Nnamdi, Chika, Nonso e.t.c telling and warning u never to adress them as Igbos used to be confusing to me cos we believed those names are all igbo names, until i grew up to know why many Anioma people reject Igbo identity like a plague.
The more South-easternerns force themselves on SS groups the greater hatred and contempt they get in return from these people.
What have SE people ever done for SS people to win their respect, love and commitment? Selfish lots.

Ikechu10:
I am anioma you clown!!! I have more right to speak for anioma than you do!!

I'm addotion, tell the BS story highlighted to someone who haven't been to that FB page. Incase you aren't aware, you and your division crew have stated this highlighted post on this forum and I got direct discussions of Biafra in that Facebook page and posted it here before and I'll gladly redo it again if needed be.
One the page rarely speaks on biafra and two the times it does, very little percentage condemned it.

Lastly incase you aren't aware, the largest IPOB group is the one in Anioma!!!!!.

I repeat who the f2k made you our voice?

Pls, i have lived and been in Asaba, Agbor, Ogwash, Kwale name the Anioma towns, and we see many South-easternerns claiming to be Deltans both online and offline. So it's very easy to say.
Ndi Anioma has come out to reject Biafra and even Igbo identity countless times, let alone Onu Ika and others.
Until we see the Obis and Anioma groups drumming for Biafra, we can never take u clowns serious.
Keep living in fool's paradise.

Strongest Ipob in Anioma my foot. We all saw when Buses were used to transport South-easternerns all over Port harcourt from Aba to claim Rivers indigenes and protest. Likewise Asaba. So it's allowed.

ConqueredWest:
Referendum is an already concluded matter

Your opinion is worthless

stop wasting your mb

Every SS person will decide for himself or herself along ethnic line

What about Idomas, Igalas and Igedes? I thought u guys included them (Benue/Kogi) in your referendum?
Also include Igbirras, Tivs, Nupes, Jukun, Beroms, Eggons, all other middlebelt tribes and most importantly the Gbagyis too, so that u can claim Abuja. LoL

ConqueredWest:
Referendum will hold in Urhobo land so that all Urhobos can have a say in their future

So stop wasting your mb over an already concluded matter.


All SS tribes will be given an option to jump ship or sink with the ship(Nigeria)


Don't waste your energy

Okay, we are waiting to see it take place.
Afterall i am partly from Delta state and i am live in Uvwie, Urhobo land. My land of birth. Let me see how it goes.
LoL, jokers of the century.

Ikechu10:
And who made you the voice of Anioma?

In addition no group from SS have not asked for referendum.

I guess NDA and LNC is Chinese to your ass

A referendum is given to groups who demand for it and not to people who do not demand for it but are assumed or concluded to be part of it by others.
Are Hausas, Nupes and Yorubas going to get a referendum since they did not ask for it too?

I am a not a voice for Anioma people and neither are you but i have seen how most of them react against it. I am a member of Anioma voice, the largest Anioma group on facebook and i have seen the reactions most times when Biafra issue is raised. Let alone Ikwerre. And these are Ibo speaking groups let alone non ibo speaking groups.

fratermathy,
u have done a good job here. Most SEners can only beat their chests or rant for Africa. When the chips are down they will always know whats up.
That was exactly how Ojukwu concluded that he had the support of Eastern minorities and even went to ahead to force some midwest groups into his Biafra. What happened at the end? He was betrayed even from some of the so called Igboid groups in Rivers and Delta, let alone other eastern minority groups.

The people of the south-east have no rights to ask for a referendum for any of the peoples of the south-south or North-central because no groups from the south-south or NC has asked for one cos i can see that Ipob is also dragging Igalas and Idomas into Biafra.
All the cultural groups in the south-south have a mouth piece including the Aniomas, Ikwerres who are even Ibo speaking and none of their socio-cultural groups have ever come out to say they want a referendum or join Biafra.
All these Ipobs making noise online anyhow, does any of them have the effrontery to go to the Obi of Agbor, or any of the other Ika, Kwale or Ikwerre kings palace and tell them that their people have been added to Biafra or a referendum to come? Let alone other non igboid groups of the South-South.

It's a good thing u are speaking for your own Urhobo people alone but i bet you, if you want to see commotion go to any Ika, Ndokwa, Anioma, Ikwerre, Ogba, Ekpeye or Etche facebook groups and tell them that they are Biafrans. Let alone other SS non Igboid groups.
I was born in Ekpan, Uvwie, Delta state and bred all over Delta state and the SS region.
These Ipobs think because they have more keyboard warriors and others are not arguing with them or replying them in their own folly then it means others have accepted their silly proposals and conclusions.

Untli Ipobs are ready to fight for a SE only Biafra, they shall continue to make a caricature of themselves.

Ikechu10:
Laughable to say the least.
Oyigbo LGA and Egbema LGA have more oil separately than Urhobo clan put together and this a well known FACT!!!.

Last I checked, Both towns are igbo lands and both town are still proudly IGBO despite being sneakily carved out of their community.

If Nigeria actually cared about removing igbo alone and leaving just the minorities. Question: Why is it that your zoogerians has been ignoring the indigienous of both LGA area to be moved back to imo and Abia state they were carved from.

In addition, where I'm from Asaba had access to water directly. Likewise, yet again Oyigbo and Egbema LGA.

There is a reason Biafrans do not want you people in Biafra and the only set screeching this entire page while shouting "SS" are ALL urhobo!!

I never knew that a lot of u are so dull. Pls is there any place in Rivers or Nigeria like Egbema LGA? Egbema people of Rivers state are only found in Onelga. It is Ogba/Ndoni/Egbema LGA. 3 in one, and the Egbemas are smaller in population compared to the Ogbas and Ndonis, most of whom reject Igbo identity.

pazienza:
Russia remains a world power, with or without those breakaway Soviet nations.
The minorities are Ok on their own, but non of them are a force to reckon with on the world stage.

Russia is no longer a world power. They only have a strong military and weapons of mass destruction unlike during the days of the soviet union where America had nothing on USSR, both economically, world political influence and not just military wise, and both were considered equal worldpowers.
Today, even smaller countries like Japan, South Korea, UK, France and Germany are faring far better economically than Russia with a greater world influence. Imagine!

Majority tribes loose more than the minorities.
Do u know that if all northern minority groups decide to abandon Hausas, the so called mighty Hausas would be reduced to majority in only 5 states of Nigeria? Hausa is now arguably the most spoken language in Africa because northern minority groups adopted it too just as Russian language was dominating and spreading over Europe and Asia during the days of the Soviet Union but today it's power is seriously dwindling.

ManMountain:
Those guys are simply desperate for association with those minorities.

Don't blame them. Majority groups worldwide are always interested or desperate over minority groups in order to use them for greater influence, significance and to do their bidding.

This is one fact i wish the OP fratermathy should also know.
South-South minority groups are even lucky because they have a greater autonomy unlike those of us minorities from the North-Central and North-east whom are always overshadowed by Hausa-fulanis.
And to worsen our plight, Hausa-fulanis have succeeded in using religion (islam) to divide our people and gain the allegiance of our muslim groups. It's just sad.

Can't u see how the Russians were stripped of being world power and lost their world influence as soon as the Soviet union collapsed and the minority groups liberated? This is one thing most majority groups dread.

Hmm, terrible. Africa and witchcraft! Why?

Sammy07:
So the whole south east ( Anambra, imo, enugu, abia, ebonyi ) = 15, 431, 555

south west (Osun, Ekiti, Ondo, Oyo, ogun, Lagos )
= 25, 221, 332

and their are significant igbos in South south....
also their are significant Yoruba in North

and also in South West states,,, their are 10-15 % of igbos in South West .. in each state of South West ( they aren't upto that, it's just assumption)
in the north igbos are not up to 5%

Also their are 20 - 25%of Yoruba in Kaduna and Kano each ...

Now do the calculation

I am from the middlebelt and believe me, Igbos are more than yorubas in any northern state.
In northern cities like Kano, Zaria, Jos and Kaduna, yorubas may have large populations like Igbos there too but Igbos have large populations in other smaller towns and even in Villages and this makes them more than the yorubas overall in the north.

For instance i am from Plateau and i am always shocked to find Igbos even in some of the most rural areas in my state while most yorubas on the other hand can only be found in good numbers in the state capital Jos.

Yorubas are not many in the north east and north-central places like Benue and Nasarawa, but go to Maiduguri, Nguru, Gashua, Potiskum, Damaturu, Yola, Biu, Mubi, Wukari, Jalingo, Bauchi, Azare, Ningi and many other towns of the North-east, Igbos are well represented. Some Igbos even enter into Niger republic towns.
They truly have more populations than yorubas in most northern, middlebelt and SS state except for Niger state where i strongly believe that Yorubas outnumber Igbos throughout and Kwara and Kogi which has indigenous yorubas too.

RockHard:
Outside perhaps Lagos which is actually a potpourri of ethnicities, nowhere else outside Igboland and maybe Delta state do Igbos have populations as much as a million. #Fact

Fayose once said publicly said there are close to 30,000 igbos in Ekiti (the smallest state in the SW), they can't be more than 30,000 -50,000 max or thereabout in Osun (if not lesser), maybe anywhere between 30,000 - 50,000 (max) of them in each of the remaining Ondo, Oyo, Ogun, and Kwara states as well. These are states that have an estimated total population of between 3 - 10million each. Altogether they are most definitely far from being up to 1-million of them residing in the SW states outside Lagos (yes, I know they like throwing around 'millions' here and there but that's just them doing their usual unsubstantiated chest-beating). I laughed when I once read about some igbos in Benue who said they are a marginalized minority in the state, yet they claimed to be more than a million in population in Benue. . Abeg if they are that many in Benue where would that leave the Tivs, Idomas and other major natives of the state? What is the overall population of Benue? Na just their usual penchant for throwing around 'millions'.

Now, I don't know about their population in the Northern states put together but it certainly can't be more than probably 1-million max.

I think Igbos could also be up to 1 million in Rivers and Kano states too apart from Delta and Lagos. Infact in Rivers and Delta some of the indigenous groups identify as Igbos let alone the population of Igbo settlers in these places.
So, Igbos, both indigenes and non indigenes in Rivers and Delta run into Millions. Other parts of the SS like Edo, Akwa Ibom also have large igbo populations, even in middlebelt areas like Jos-Plateau, Abuja and neighbouring parts of Abuja like Nasarawa and Niger has so much Igbos too.

obyno417:
Na WA oo so Fulani men are now above all communities? Can't communities protect them selves anymore? If u guys can't fight for your farm lands and women stay and allow Fulani take over your lands. But why are Fulani men not terrorizing northern parts of Nigeria? I have never heard of Fulani men raping and killing in sokoto,zamfara,kano,bida,kastina,etc

Exactly. They only terrorize southernerns, middlebelt and northern christian communities.
We christians and southernerns are busy fightinh each other over tribe.

I think it should be Igbos or Yorubas but certainly not Hausas because the people we refer to as Hausas maybe Fulanis, Kanuris, Shuwa arabs, Bauchi, Nupe e.t.c.
Almost all northern muslims are generalized as Hausa because Hausa is a lingua franca im the north.

Deadlytruth:
5. Without prejudice to the fact that Igbos are actually more unrelated to any SS ethnic group, I can tell that you exude ignorance of the existence of Edoid tribes like the Egenni, Epie etc in Rivers and Bayelsa States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engenni_people. https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/weekly/index.php/notes-from-atlanta/13466-what-s-really-president-goodluck-jonathan-s-ethnic-group
https://www.writing.com/main/view_item.php/item_id/1725677-nigerias--president-and-bombing
There are Ijaws, Itsekiris and Urhobos indigenous to Edo State and are enclaves within the Binis. Some Edo North tribes speak mutually intelligible languages with some minute tribes in Northern Cross River. Only Akwa Ibom is totally unconnected with Edo State in the SS.
Your attempt to define Edo State as Northwards with your map is at best stupid and reeks of ignorance. Southernness is not measured by latitude but by closeness to the coastline to which Edo is closer than any Middle East State. On account of direct access to the sea through Benin River Edo had a sea port at Gelegele in the past and is being revived now. Does any part of the Middle East have such access to the sea for a seaport establishment?
The lower South Western tip of Edo State is just 30km from the adjacent coastline but the most southern tip of the most southern Middle Easst state of Abia is 43km from the coast.
The northernmost part of Edo (Imoga) is 220km from her adjacent coastline while the corresponding part of Enugu is 300km from the coast. Even the Northernmost tip of Cross River is farther from the coast (230km) than that of Edo though closer than Enugu’s.
The tropical rain forest, another feature of southernness covers nearly 80% of Edo but is totally absent in Enugu and Ebonyi which are in the Guinea Savannah – a feature of Northernness.
If latitude were to really matter then the North should be classifying Benue as too Southern compared with other Northern states. Likewise the arm of Kogi which extends deep down beside Anambra should make Anambra too close to Kogi to be in the South. Even the Igbos indigenous to Benue State have become Hausa-Fulanis by your silly Geographical location logic.
If not for deep seated envy arising from a sense of loss and irrelevance why do Middle Easterners always have sleepless nights over the composition of the SS when their own Biafra cohesion is in a sorry state courtesy of the rancor between Nwazurike and Nnamdi kanu?
The practically yoruboid Itsekiris in Delta have no cultural or historical ties with the Ogojas in C’River any more than the Ogonis (of Ghanaian origin) have with their contiguous ijaws yet they are both in the SS, the Ijaws in Ondo State are not even in the SS but that does not disqualify them from the SS brotherhood, the Ebus in Delta (an Igala offshoot) have no cultural ties with the Ibibios of Akwa Ibom, yet they now see themselves as brothers. The South-South unity and sense of oneness is therefore founded not on cultural similarity or geographical location but on a shared objective of freedom from WAZOBIA oppression of which Igbos are number one culprit.
The US is a country of extremely diverse peoples totally unrelated by culture who have however found a common identity through their shared objective of a free society. That is the modern trend, hence it is extremely primitive, blind, crude, unenlightened, backward and bestial for anyone to still be basing it on ethnic similarities or intermarriage.
The SS has come to stay and there is absolutely NOTHING you can ever in your miserable life do about it. We have evolved our identity from the ashes of WAZOBIA oppression.

In response to the Middle Belters quest for their own identity, the Core North has let them be. They no longer call them their brothers.
Likewise the Yorubas who have left the Western minorities of Edo Delta be, and no longer drag them into the Yoruba brotherhood.
But Igbos have refused to let the Eastern Minorities be despite all their struggle for their own separate Identity. They derogatorily labell them as artificial creation by Obasanjo wheras they (Igbos) joined the North to vote in that same OBJ, any SS person that expresses genuine misgivings about biafra inclusion they demonize him, blackmail him with claims of being used by Hausa-Fulani despite themselves were the first Hausa-Fulani slaves in Nigeria's history. Why can't they let Eastern Minorities be? Why? Why? Why? Is brotherhood by coersion or by consent?

Among all the Southern tribes the Igbos are the most similar to the Hausa Fulanis in terms of shared values and attitude. While it would be understood that islamization in Edo, and Yoruba parts resulted from Dan Fodio's forceful evangelism, that of Igbo land has been 100% voluntary. The best islamic university in the entire country is going to be established in Igbo land. Find it here:
http://www.newsexpressngr.com/news/5362-Igboland-to-get-Islamic-University-to-be-located-in-Afikpo-Ebonyi-State-Boasts-the-best-Islamic-secondary-school-in-Nigeria
At this time that the wave of christian evangelism is sweeping the other parts of the South there are daily reported cases of free will conversion of young Igbo boys and Girls to islam in Enugu, Ebonyi, etc. Find it here:https://www.nairaland.com/3163005/young-igbo-woman-reportedly-converts
https://www.nairaland.com/2999326/islamization-afikpo-igbos-80-percent
http://ukpuru.tumblr.com/post/114749550692/muslim-festival-anohia-village-afikpo-igbo
That suggests that if Dan Fodio's had not been halted at Auchi and therefore had been able to set foot on Igbo land it would have been a walk over.
And this nonentity is here describing Edo as a Northern state without any regard for the voluntary islamization of Igboland or the pronounced upward tilt of the coastline at the points exactly adjacent to Edo.

You see, this is why i love the yorubas. Yorubas really do not care about minority groups. They are the only majority group who really respect the rights of minority groups. They have left Edo and Delta people to be their own.
What about tribes like Bariba, Igala, Igbirra, Nupes, Ogori e.t.c? These are middlebelt tribes that share so much in common with yoruba, infact if care is not taken you easily mistake them for yorubas. Many of them even speak yoruba fluently as 2nd languages in their homelands, yet u will never see yoruba force them or arguing with them to be yoruba.
What about the yoruba speaking Kwara, Kogi and Delta (Itsekiri n Olukumi) people? You hardly hear Yorubas arguing over Ilorin or Lokoja or Warri, having a heated issue with these middlebelt yoruba speakers, unlike Igbos who you always see insulting and antagonizing many SS groups just because they fail to accept Igboness or Igbo brotherhood.

There are Yorubas in Benin republic and Togo, but those in Nigeria do not kill themselves over these people. Imagine if there were Igbo tribes in Cameroon and beyond, we would have not drank water in peace because of Igbo claims day and night. Why is it always Igbos?

Igbos completely lack the leadership skills as a majority group to treat minority groups well and win their hearts just as among the Hausas, Fulanis, Kanuris, Shuwa arabs, Bauchis, Nupes and many northern muslim groups do. They think it is about bragging, arguing and insulting day and night that will help them with the SS. Attache by force.
Hausa-fulanis welcomed a lot of these northern minority groups to their lands, gave them equal oppprtunities and that was how many northern tribes accepted Hausa-fulanis the more. But igbos cannot even accept themselves let alone other groups to fluorish and succeed in their lands. That was how an Abia state governor sacked all the Imo state workers in their state.

Deadlytruth:
Why are you this dishonest? The claim that UMBC was a minority party came from you not me. I only quoted you and supplied my counter arguement. Please re-read your comment and see the quotation marks I placed around the statement in reference to it as a claim by your very self. So why deny what you earlier said and trying to make it look like it came from me? What I said was that UMBC was a party founded and run by a Christian Joseph Tarka which made Awo's decision protective of the South as christianity would not inspire feudalist tendencies, while Zik first aligned with NEPU (a party founded and run by a moslem) and later on went into a greater alliance with NPC the bigger and even more islamist party of Feudalists.
It is necessary to state here that if NEPU were genuinely an opposition party to NPC in the North, then it should have pulled out of the its alliance with NCNC immediately Zik decided to go with NPC. But it didn't.
Please stick to your claims!

It's really funny seeing Igbos accusing Yorubas and Edos on partnering with the north, when everyone knew they started romance with the core-north first.

pazienza:
Maybe, Edos,Yorubas and Arewa should have known that Ndiigbo shared no direct boundaries with them before they ganged up and invaded our lands in Biafra to commit war crimes.

Isn't it. Ironic that a people who committed so much against Igboland and her people and show no remorse are accusing Ndiigbo of hate?

(1) "Among the large majority hailing from that
tribe (Yorubas) who are most vocal in inciting the
complete extermination of the Ibos, I often heard
remarks that all Nigeria s ills will be cured once
the Ibos have been removed ..." Dr Conor Cruise
O'Bien (21 December, 1967, New York review).

It’s (mass starvation) is a legitimate aspect of war,
" Anthony Enahoro, Nigerian Commissioner for
Information at a press conference in (New York,
July 1968)
"Starvation is a legitimate weapon of war, and we
have every intention of using it against the rebels, "
Mr Alison Ayida, Head of Nigerian Delegation,
Niamey Peace Talks, Republic of Niger, July 1968)
"


"Bestialities and indignities of all kinds were
visited on Biafrans in 1966. In Ikeja Barracks
(Western Nigeria) Biafrans were forcibly fed on a
mixture of human urine and faeces. In Northern
Nigeria numerous Biafran house-wives and nursing
mothers were despoiled before their husbands and
children. Young girls were abducted from their
homes, working places and schools and forced
into sexual intercourse with sick, demented and
leprous men".
Mr. Eric Spiff (German War correspondence
Eyewitness, 1967

And we still have U tube video of Igbophobic utterances of Yoruba and Arewa leaders before 1967, we also have Oba Akenzua infamous article about Ndiigbo in 1965.
Yet other than group pride or self praise, we can't find any Igbo hate message or actions towards these people pre 1965 or the war proper.

The so called Igbo hate today towards these Igbophobic entities and persons, are direct reactions of Ndiigbo to barrages of Igbophobia emanating from those quarters. Our fore runners ignored those hate messages and actions, the present Igbo youthful generation will not. We will return your Igbophobia back to you with 10 times more hate than you directed at us.




Atleast our hates against each other wasn't as bad as those Yorubas had for each other that led to all of them killing each other in Kiriji wrestling matches called "war".
Anambra and Imo despise each other in your dreams, just keep dreaming.
Osu culture is not widespread all over Igboland. It's not practiced in many parts of Igboland and it had since been phased out. The culture and logic behind it isn't one to be understood using today's ideals.


Lol! Even Germany was divided into East Germany and West Germany by allied forces, with Each part
of Germany being ideologically parallel to Each other. A price the Germans had to pay for losing the WW2.

The division in Igboland today between SE Igbos and the SS ones is a fall out of Igbos losing the civil war, and was encouraged by the FG as part of its post civil war policy of balkanizing Igboland to prevent future insurrection.

But like East and West Germany one day United, so shall the entire Igbo speaking people and that day is already coming, many persons from those groups are beginning to ask hard questions, Uche Okwukwu, an Ikwerre man is the current Secretary of Ohanaeze Ndiigbo, the admin of Proudly Anioma, Proudly Igbo Facebook page is an Ukwuani son, The foremost Igboist and historian, Osita Mordi is an Ika man, so better savor this division while you can, the veil of division you placed is currently wearing thin.

NB. Enu-ani share direct boundary with Edo state.

Really? Are u this jobless? What a long reply to such a short comment of mine. Seems like i now know the kind of folks am here with.

You are talking about online groups by Igbo loving Aniomas, as if there are no Anti igbo groups by the same Aniomas. For every 1 Ika, Ndokwa, Ikwerre, Ekpeye or Ogba person you see accepting Igbo tag, 10 more are rejecting it. You cannot show me these things because i was born in Delta state and grew up there.

Even among the Enuanis and Etches who have more pro Igbos, about half of them still reject Igbo identity.

Well, it's not as if i care as such. Even if all SS Igboids unite with SE igbos, which can never happen due to the hate filled souls of SEners, it's still not enough for you to pull any weight in a large country like Nigeria.
As Deadlytruth has made it clear, most SS igboids have imbibed the free spirit, culture and brotherliness of their fellow SS tribes.
Only a united South can challenge the North and with the hate filled souls of Igbos, no way it's ever gonna happen.

You are the one fighting for a cause and yet you are the ones always insulting and antagonizing others who can be your potential partners to achieve your goals. What stupidity.

pazienza:
Never knew that Igbos are the ones currently fighting the Fulanis in Southern Kaduna, they are the ones currently dragging Ijaw Gelegele with them, Igbos are Modakeke people that were fighting with Ife people, they were the Offa people that were fighting with their neighbors. Igbos are the Idomas that are politically fighting for the soul of Benue with the Tivs, they are the Igalas that see Kogi as their birthright and are in constant political faceoff with the Ebiras and the rest of Kogi.

Igbos the ones that took Ilorin from Yorubas, they are also the ones that Enslaved the Hausa's following Gobir fall.
You need a mental examination.

Ndiigbo don't care. Once we notice any trace of Igbophobia, we treat it and send down a concentrated hate message to any one or group who have their hate message directed at Ndiigbo.

We all have problems with each other especially our neighbouring groups, but it is usually settled and forgotten in no time.
All the feuding groups u listed above share boundaries with each other, hence their likely fracas.
Igbos do not share land boundary whatsoever with Yorubas, Hausas or Edos, yet u always see them arguing, cursing or hating these peeps, why always Igbos?

U guys are hate filled souls to the extent that in your region amongst yourselves some are classified as Osu (outcastes) and strongly discriminated. Anambra and Imo always despise each other even outside and jointly despise Wawa and Ebonyi people and will not intermarry them.
That is why most Igboid groups in the South-south like Ikwerre, Ika, Ndokwa, Ogba, Ekpeye e.t.c never want to be associated with u guys on anything and reject Igbo tag like a plague.

pazienza:
Keep deceiving yourselves. Gowon and his hordes of Arewa-oduanistanis and Edoids also thought that Igbos would be conquered in 1 month, but the war lasted for 3 years and they needed the total active support of two world powers( Britain and USSR), in addition to war crimes to subdue Biafrans.
Yet when the dust settled, they lost 3 soldiers for each Biafran soldier they killed.

The Jihadists would have met their Waterloo in Igboland if they advanced further.

You are the empty headed one here.

Waterloo in Igboland my foot.
Even middlebelt tribes like Igalas conquered, enslaved and influenced a large part of Igbo land like Nsukka and till date many Nsukka kings and chiefs still pay their respect to Attah of Igala land confirming their origins.

Deadlytruth:
Igbos stand on the liberty they enjoy from other's sacrifices and insult same people. A people who were existing as tiny independent villages this without any king let alone any standing army. We would have allowed the Usman Dan Fodio soldiers to wipe them off had we known.
I am in Benin too right now. I will inbox you so that we can meet.

Ok. Am already in Warri now but would be back to Benin by next week.

Igbos are the only ones u will see against everyone everywhere and all the time.
I only pity the few well enlightened and easy going Igbos because the hatred of these loud lousy igbos would be speaking for them.

Igbos are always against Hausas/the north, against Yorubas, against Edos, against Ijaws /South-south. Against middlebelt and even against themselves. I wonder which kind of creatures they are.