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This well articulated rebuttal does it for me.
We can no longer sit and watch some loafers say crap about us.
We have to counter every thing they say and at the same time teach our young ones.

Thank you Anioma people.
Thank you immensely.
Our unity is paramount.

I'm waiting for Rivers Igbos to form a collective union like Anioma and start speaking with one voice.
This would checkmate the ever expansive Ijaw land grabbers and their agenda.

madenigga:
igbos should support oyigbo people as governor in Rivers state when the time comes, the ikwerres have ruled for more than 8 years its high time an oyigbo man had his turn, apart from support from other Rivers people if every single igbo man in rivers state can close his business for one day and vote for us, let them be rest assured that they would benefit from the govt too and also get recognized in Rivers state. Every marginalized igbo community in rivers would be reached out to, and we would make sure we give Rivers people the reason why they have not been able to reach there peak is because an igbo man has not taken the seat.
God bless Nigeria.
Godbless Rivers state.
God bless igbo land.

Is anyone from Oyigbo contesting?

carnegiefan:
Quite sensible. Meanwhile after they push you there, they themselves become the new majority.
I can't stop laughing.

They are not even the majority in number but majority in aggression and land grabbing and cheating everyone else.

The majority in the South South are the Ibibio ethnic group that covered 2 states with large population.
This is followed by the Igbo in Rivers and Delta.
Followed by Edo in Edo state.
Then the Ijaw. Their largest domain, Bayelsa, is less that 2 million.

ruggedboy01:
are u telling me there's no igbos is ss Bros I think u taking this ur hatred too far

Ignore the attention seeking ant.

My brothers, I greet you all.
I'm from the SE but my allegiance is to the greater Igbo nation.

Igbo bu/wu ofu.
Together we shall conquer and overcome.

Euro31:
Cure ignorance ...

y Ochereome Nnanna
ALTHOUGH there were varied positions on the matter, in the end the General Sani Abacha administration created Bayelsa out of Rivers State in 1996”
The circumstances behind my joining a delegation for the burial of His Royal Majesty, Sunday Nnanta Woluchem, the Epara Rebisi XI of Port Harcourt on Saturday, April 21, 2012 is encapsulated in the above quote taken from his burial programme.
As the author of his yet to be published biography, former Chief of General Staff, retired Commodore Okoh ebitu ukiwe, asked me to join his delegation to bury a royal father who, along with ukiwe and others, played leading roles in the creation of today’s Rivers and Bayelsa states between 1993 and 1996.
When the civil war started in 1967 and Biafra lost control of Port Harcourt to the Federal forces, the newly created Rivers State was handed over to the Ijaw. Ijaw leaders continued to maintain that Rivers State, with Port Harcourt as its capital, was created for them as reward for ceding their coastal terrain to the Federal side, thus making the sea blockade of Biafra possible. The Ijaw groups claimed to constitute the majority and continued to dominate the state both during military and civilian dispensations. With time, however, the Igbo speaking people of the state, particularly the Ikwerre nationality, decided they wanted a state of their own where they would be able to assert their own political and economic interests.
This was what led to the quest for the creation of Port Harcourt State. However, the Ijaws felt if such a state was created they would become estranged in a city they have been part and parcel of since it was founded by the colonialists. In fact, they had even started portraying Port Harcourt as the capital of a future Ijaw state. Thus was born a great rivalry between the Ijaw-speaking and Igbo-speaking groups for the control of Rivers and between what was termed the “Okrika-Ijaw” and “Ikwerre-Igbo” over the “ownership” of Port Harcourt. The gruesome murder of Dr Obi Wali, the leader of the Ikwerre political front by yet-to-be ascertained assassins in 1992, owed to this tussle, which often led to street battles between Okrikans and Ikwerres.
Meanwhile, the late father of Nigeria’s nationalism, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, had discussed the best strategies for reducing the animosity between the Igbos and their Minority neighbours as well as dousing the ethnic tension between Ikwerres and their riverine co-indigenes of Rivers State. It was agreed that as the touted largest Minority group, the Ijaw needed a state of their own. But with their emotional attachment to Port Harcourt, how would Rivers State be split without creating a permanent ethnic war front in Nigeria’s premier oil city?
With the Ijaw groups obviously being favoured by the Northern-led Federal Government, Eze Woluchem, a lawyer who was installed paramount ruler of Port Harcourt in 1977 turned to Dr Azikiwe, appealing for him to support the aspirations of his Igbo kinsmen in the struggle. An ageing “Zik” referred the Eze’s delegation to Commodore ukiwe, who had become Zik’s close political confidant. The Eze’s delegation of four, which included the late Chief Okogbule Wonodi and Chief Andrew Uchendu, met with ukiwe in his office in Victoria Island.
Their proposal was that Port Harcourt State should only be for Igbo-speaking Rivers people, while the Ijaw-speaking part would be named New Rivers State. On the other hand, the Kalabaris did not want to be parted with Rivers State, neither did the Okrikas, and ukiwe advised that it would be “unstrategic” to cut out Bonny, Opobo, Kalabari and Okrika, apart from the fact that the Head of State, General Abacha, who was pro-Ijaw, might be pushed not to create any new state at all.
Between ukiwe and the Ikwerre delegation, and taking into account the expressed needs of others, the maps of the present Rivers State and Bayelsa State were drawn and presented to Abacha, who found it acceptab

The miscreants were cut off from Port Harcourt.
They know what awaits them if Biafra comes to be hence their apprehension.
Well, all these would end in 45 years time.

Truckpusher:
Mad man, I said drop your number lemme make a simple phone call and pick you out from whatever hellhole you are, catching hell.

Coward.
You expect someone to drop his number here.
Meet him where he said.

Ant!

Truckpusher:
It might interest you to know that those that were digging up contaminated chicken are your folks who left your underdeveloped bushy interior villages to come and settle in Rivers State thinking that the oil money flows in the streets of Port Harcourt

Have you seen any Rivers boy hawking things in Aba road? Go figure

Choi ! na your people dey disturb the city o , but no worry simple state policies will see your refugees returning in their thousands it is just a matter of time.

Keep drinking oily water and deluding yourself.
You inconsequential fool said you would commit genocide on the Igbo.

Time shall tell, keep slaving away to the Hausa until we get a chance and lay our hands on you.
Ijaw would be history.

House thieves, you think we will ever forget that.

Truckpusher:
Olodo , I said history ,your history will repeat itself.

No, history will not repeat itself.
We have plan B: Stay and keep feeding on 'awa oyel' while you dig up rotten and buried chicken to gain some protein.

Truckpusher:
I told you that this your elephant was beaten black and blue and he is yet to recover from the ordeal.

You can't have Biafra without the support of the minority ethnic group of the Niger Delta you all love to hate but you like their land and resources - Not in this generation.

We will use any means necessary including slavery to stop your expansionist agenda mark my words.

Keep beating your dry chest even as you have become the scum of this country.

I thought you just said you would commit genocide on the Igbo?
Now you don't mind being a slave just to avoid being with the Igbo in a smaller country.
What an ant!

Look, we will stay till "awa oyel' runs dry.
You'll feed us fat while you drink oil poluted water.

ikechu1278:
No one started anything but truckpusher and tonyebarcainsta. Do you know how f2king insulting to see narcissistic mofos telling you to your face wtf tribe you should be? Do you know how insulting it is seeing the mofos speaking on your behalf under the concept of "we SS". Do you know how insulting it is to see the mofos telling you to your face to migrate out of your ancestors land and move back to east? Do you know how insulting it is watching the mofo rewritting history of other groups as well my owm ppl history right in your face? Do you f2king realize how insulting that is. Truckpusher and tonyebarcainsta started it. I'm not even taking about the wannabes like hopeathand, mulattoclaro and co, I'm addressing just those two ijaw miscreants.

The only people i feel pity for is dearpreye, kotv, bolatino, etc cause those three have to watch their own ppl constantly belittled because of those narcissistic mofos

They've gone too far this time.
Imagine saying there are no Igbo in thr SS.

Truckpusher:
You are a mad man, you lying bunch of scumbags and emotinally battered men.

Kill yourselves and we remain resolute to everything we are saying and let me make it very clear - If the Igbo man continues his expansionist agenda then In can assure you that another genocide is eminent.

You all have totally lost it and I spit on you, and I spit on your phantom Biafra - Whatever you got bring it on ..........mad men....Trust me ,the hatred is now mutual........

Talk of an ant challenging an elephant.
Why are you scared to death of being with the Igbo in a country if you are this brave and capable of committing genocide?

Dude, you are a bunch of poverty stricken 3 million people.
Stop elevating yourself to what you are not.

mulattoclaro:
I'm yet to understand why you igbos are very stupid and suffer from inferiority complex. Tonyebarcanista opened this thread to celebrate south south heroes and not discuss Midwest or biafran affairs. Una no dey get sense? Them swear for una. Now I see why no one wants to join you people in biafra.

When last did we warn you to stop using SS or NigerDelta because it involves the Igbo?

Please limit yourself to Ijaw/Edo.
This forceful attachment has to stop.

Duru1:
Oba Akenzua was also against the creation of Midwestern region. He was cowered when Awolowo warned him to stay away from political. Oba Akenzua pitched tent with Chief G. Obaseki and the like of S O Ighodaro. Oba Akenzua's son who ran under AG was trounced during the regional election. I guess you have forgotten the insult meted to Oba Akenzua in the western Nigerian regional house assembly by Oba Adesoji Aderemi. Most dumbass fools from the southern Nigeria are so afraid of Ndigbo that they are willing to live a misery and servitude life in the zoo called Nigeria.

I've told that Barcanista to leave history and face his silly political epistles.
He knew nothing about the past and only live on hearsay.

My daddy told me this, my mamma told me that, my uncle said this.
New generation with no brain of their own, no independent mind.

Ritchiee:
That is the proof there.. http://www.academia.edu/1188935/Proof_of_the_Riemann_hypothesis

Does the proof bear Prof. Enoch's name?

"We all stand before history. I am a man of peace, of ideas. Appalled by the denigrating poverty of my people who live on a richly endowed land, distressed by their political marginalization and economic strangulation, angered by the devastation of their land, their ultimate heritage, anxious to preserve their right to life and to a decent living, and determined to usher to this country as a whole a fair and just democratic system which protects everyone and every ethnic group and gives us all a valid claim to human civilization"

Ken Wiwa after realizing that begging on his knees for resource control from the real owners of 'awa oyel' can only lead to more penury to his people and ultimate death for his past treachery.

Isaac Boro: Classic Example Of Biafran Who Betrayed Biafra. Osundefender

During the Biafran-Nigerian civil war, there were a few Biafran sons and daughters, who were deceived by the Hausa-controlled Nigerian government and used to fight their fellow Biafrans. Some of them were made to believe that Biafra was dominated by Igbos, who would commandeer all the resources. Isaac Adaka Boro and Ken Saro Wiwa were among the prominent sons who were misguided. They paid dearly for their betrayal of the Biafran Republic with their lives. And for more than fifty years, their kith and kin have suffered the nemesis of the errors of these sons who were misled and betrayed by the Hausas and their Yoruba friends.
Isaac Boro was killed at the peak of the war in controversial circumstances that strongly linked Colonel Benjamin Adenkule to the death, while Ken Saro Wiwa was eventually killed by Sani Abacha, who worked with him during the war, at Bonny. The stories of Isaac Adaka Boro and Ken Saro Wiwa are great lessons for contemporary and potential betrayals of the renewed movement for the restoration of Biafran Republic.

Isaac Jasper Adaka Boro, from Kaiama (in present day Bayelsa State), was born in September 10, 1938 in Oloibiri.

Isaac Boro, while studying Chemistry at University of Nigeria Nsukka became the Student Union President of the University. Despite this support and political patronage he got from his Igbo brothers at the university, Boro led the first revolution of resource control in Nigeria few months after Aguiyi Ironsi became the Head of State of Nigeria.

He formed the Niger Delta Volunteer Force (NDVF), the first armed militia of only Ijaw extraction. On February 23, 1966, Boro and his NDVF declared the Niger Delta Republic. This was the first time any part of Nigeria tried to secede. He believed that the Ijaw people deserved a fairer share of proceeds of the oil wealth than they were getting from the Federal Government.

For twelve days Boro and his militias battled the Federal forces before they were finally defeated by the far superior Federal firepower. Isaac Boro and some of his men were convicted of treason and sentenced to death, but Ironsi out of mercy decided to jail him instead of killing him as demanded by the law.

On the eve of the Biafran-Nigerian war in May 1967, Yakubu Gowon granted him amnesty and drafted him into the Nigerian Army. He was afterwards commissioned as a major in the Nigerian Army. With his army of 1000 Ijaw soldiers he fought alongside Col. Benjamin Adekunle, who was heading the 3rd Marine Commando Division of the Nigerian army. With their deep knowledge of the Niger Delta creeks, Boro and his men guided the federal forces and pushed Biafrans back from the region. Boro fought with the Nigerian forces thinking as they had promised him he was liberating the Niger Delta from Biafran forces. He however never realised he was handing his people and the huge resources in the region into the hands of Hausa-Fulani and Yorubas who pillaged the region for years to come and impoverished his people till date.
Isaac Boro was betrayed by the Nigerian forces he trusted. On May 16, 1968, after a successful battle against Biafran forces at Ogu (near Okrika) in Rivers State, Boro was ambushed by what many of his men then believed was a unit sent by Col Adekunle. In a brief and fierce battle, Adenkunle’s men gunned him down. His death went down in history as mysterious and as there was no conclusive evidence on who killed him.

Strong allegations are rife that treacherous, Adekunle, threatened by Boro’s rising prominence in the Nigerian Army, killed Boro in order to usurp the glories of the success Boro helped the 3 Marine Commando Division to achieve. He wanted to silence Boro as well silence the people of Niger Delta. Subsequent to Boro’s death, Adekunle took all the credits of the successes of the division.

A Regimental Sergeant Major under Boro was quoted as saying that Boro did not die in the heat of battle with the Biafran forces. He said the area had already been captured and secured by his company and Major Boro was on an inspection tour when they came under fire. The type of gunfire that erupted during the firefight that killed Boro was completely different from what the Biafrans were known to use in that sector of the war. This confirmed to them that it was one of the federal troops units that carried out the ambush.

As soon as Boro died, his 1000 band of soldiers was disbanded. According to Olusegun Obasanjo in his book My Command, Adekunle’s post-war political ambition pushed him into killing Boro, as he was using the war to building a ‘formidable’ name for himself. Obasanjo stated that “Col. Adekunle, at this point saw the war not only in terms of crushing a rebellion, but also as a means of building himself up for any future political position or responsibility which he might wish to seek, I knew of people of Western State origin who had felt politically victimized and who saw in Col. Adekunle a saviour and told him so, and he believed them.”

What Boro fought and died for had eluded his people for years. Niger Delta has remained impoverished despite the huge revenue it has continued to generate for the country. Oil fields and mining leases have been allocated to northern oligarchs and friends. Isaac Boro remains a lesson for future revolutionaries in knowing where to pitch their tent.



http://www.osundefender.org/?p=143380

So true.

mechy:
Please take it easy. You are going too far. We, the Igbos need the Ijaws, just as they need us... This e-bashing will certainly be counterproductive. It is enough. Let this thread proceed on its initial course.... God bless you as you heed to common sense.

We don't need them.
Can you grab a slimy eel?
No you can't, that's what they are. You can't have them in any deal except they as the lords.

Look at how Clark threw GEJ under the bus or Boro after being made union president. They are treacherous!

They should go form their Ijaw/ Edoid group and kill themselves with treachery there.

pazienza:
There is no ethnic group recognized as SS in Nigeria, even SS is not in Nigeria constitution
Can you be proud of your Ijaw ethnic group for once, and go open an Ijaw commonwealth thread?

Why should he be proud of Ijaw?

Map of Nigeria can be very deceptive you know.
The Ijaw have only Bayelsa state, unfortunately it's all swamp. That's why Jonathan's greatest dream was city on ocean but he was so silly and drunk all the time that he even forgot to give tap water to Otuoke.

kel4soft:
I think we should have an admin in this thread to ban folks like this.

Like I said, is SS a tribe?
Why can't you create Ijaw/Edoid thread and stop expansionism?

pazienza:
I tell you. Bunch of inferiority complex plaqued arrogant thieves, looking for hapless Igbo speaking groups to Lord over.

See the kind of ordeal Igbanke is undergoing in Edo state, total forceful acculturation and assimilation by the Edo is going on there as we speak right now.
Look at the type of ordeal that the Igboids in old Rivers passed through that made Ikwerre elders like Obi wali and Eze Rebisi to swallow their pride and came begging Zik in the name of Igbo unity for help, the kind of ruthless use of power Ijaws abused in Old rivers state was so bad that even Saro Wiwa, an Ogoni Started seeking for Ogoni only state, imagine renaming Obigbo with help of Gowon, if they were not barnishrd to Bayelsa and the control of Rivers state seized from them, they would have forcefully annexed Obigbo people and their lands, going by the trash they are spewing here.

Look at how Ijaws hijacked the Niger delta struggle and relegated the Igboids and the rest. Edwin Clark making it clear that Niger delta is strictly an Ijaw struggle, as Ijaw went on to displace Odili, cornered the VP position to Yaradua and went on to corner more than 80% of the proceeds from Yaradua amnesty program, in a region where there are up to 50 other ethnic groups.

We knew all these but decided to overlook them all for the sake of Eastern unity, but since these folks would not repent from their evil ways, it's time we call a spade a spade.

Bunch of power hungry land and oil thieves, these Edoids and Ijaws are.

... and this is coming from a mere 3 million people.
What would happen if they are as big as Hausa or Yoruba or Igbo?

kel4soft:
This is a SS thread, can you run along...

Shut up, land grabber.
Is SS a tribe?

pazienza:
Taa! No Igbo here is seeking any alliance with Ijoids or Edoids. We are just saying that you land grabbers learn to stand on your own, stop eyeing Igbo speaking territories in the SS like hawks, go form your Ijaw- Edoid union, stop attaching Igboids to your union, nah by force? They left old Rivers state to escape Ijaw domination, Igbanke is seeking to rejoin Aniomas in Delta to avoid Edo domination, Anioma is seeking for Anioma state to escape the gang up they have been experiencing in the hands of the Edoids of Delta state and Ijaws there.

Why then are you dragging them back into what they are running away from?

Create another thread and name it Edoid- Ijaw commonwealth thread, go there and knock yourself out and see if any Igbo from SE will care. Stop your greed driven land grabbing.

I wonder when they'll understand this simple thing.

Create an Ijaw/Edoid thread and if you see me peep into it, know that I'm nuts.

Arrogant thieves!

malton:
. @OP, you're mischievous, and created this thread for sinister reasons. I wonder why you're so full of hate. That hate will consume you someday!

Unfortunately for you, people are looking at it from a different perspective and you're tagging along, but in truth, you're evil in disguise!

Well meaning people can see through your ruse!

Why dig up some "news" from more than a year ago and paste as current? What exactly were you looking for when you "stumbled" upon that post?

You're worse than Shekau, I assure you!

It changes nothing.
The fact remains that the 13% derivation money is illegal and very unfortunate.

Can you dispute his claim or will just resort to name calling?

Whynotthetruth:
Bolded means what?...Mind the extent of lies or how you distort information publicly

It means that the ulterior motive for creating Lower Niger Congress by the Ijaw was for them to ride on the back of the Igbos to get more money from the federal.
Push for Lower Niger, the federal government negotiates behind the back of the Igbo and increases their percentage from 13%.

But IPOB lead by an Igbo seems to have scuttled their plans. Imagine supporting Lower Niger and not Biafra.
What's the difference? Just name!

That's what it means my brother.
This people are the most treacherous people in Nigeria.

palladin:
Actually there is some element of truth in that statement.

But it's not that simple since some communities bear the brunts of the oil production activities and need to be compensated.

They should ask oil companies to clean up their environment not compensation.
You don't get money for not working, do you?

There's no reward for laziness.

SUPERBOMBER:
Obiagu1, this is EUROBOMBER.

Bugaje is very correct. I have always said it here that the oyel belongs to all Nigerians, these so-called SS people shouting our oyel are dimwits.

I think the 13 derivation should be scrapped too.

It's an injustice to the rest of the country and has to be ended.

pazienza:
So, are you saying we should accept that there are no Igbos in SS and adjust our politics to reflect that illusion, even if we still have proud Igbos in Enuani, Oyigbo and Egbema always reaching out to us? Are you saying that we should shut them out?

How do we carry them along?

You are right though about the GEJ support. That Clark remark about Odili and his insistence that Odili is Igbo speaking and that no Igbo speaking Man is qualified to represent Niger delta, which to Clark is synonymous with Ijaw, should have been an eye opener, but the problem was that Odili never complained, he seem to had accepted that Niger delta is an Ijaw cause, he was busy wearing fedora hat all over the place to mimick Ijaws, instead of the normal Akwa ocha his Ndoni people who are of Anioma- Ogbaru origin wear.
If Odili was not complaining of marginalization by the Ijaw led Clark, why should those of us in the SE complain? We just let him be.

By supporting the scrapping of the injustice called 13% derivation does not mean we are accepting that no Igbo exist in SS.
Let them blow their trumpet.

If the scrapping hurt them so much, they should be on the streets calling for Biafra.

What is important to us is to maximize what amount from 'awa oyel' get to us. Note the word: MAXIMIZE.

As for Peter Odili, Riverine Igbos wear those caps too not just the Ijaws.
In addition, there was nothing he could do because the final decision resided with Obasanjo.

NAIJASOM:
Supporting Jonathan was the best thing Igbos did because it proved to most Niger deltans that Igbos have nothing against them.

It proved nothing!
Same house thieves are calling us land grabbers, aren't they? Have they changed?

Supporting GEJ was the worst injustice of Igbo to Igbo.
Quote we anywhere.

pazienza:
Lol! That statement should be laughed at and not a thing to get worked up over, the Oyigbo Eze I posted earlier by simply stating that he is Igbo has challenged, The Enu ani led by Prof Chike Edozien, the Asagba Asaba remain pro Igbo. They don't need to be giving attention to online entities from Ijawland.

On the 13% ish, if the North want to stop it, like I suspect they would soon either stop it or simply try to stop derivation from offshore oil wells( which will drastically affect Akwa-ibom), if the current state allocation remain poor or even reduce more with reduction in global oil prices, I don't think there is anything we can do to stop it or help it, we just play it neutral and let the North have their way.

But for us to come out campaigning for cancellation of the 13% derivation? That's emotional thinking, not a strategic one.

When Edwin Clark came out openly campaigning against Peter Odili, an Igbo from the SS, from becoming the VP to Yar'adua, did heaven fall?
He got his wish, didn't he?

Now they are here to mock us for supporting GEJ.

We should think of ourselves first and shouldn't bothered about anyone.

We need that 'awa oyel' money since they all are scheming to keep us in Nigeria , entrapped and suppressed.

When I said in 2010 that the Igbo shouldn't support GEJ, OnlyTruth thought he knew best being the EzeIgbo of Nairaland and acting our same political correctness.
Now what happened?
Everything I said came to pass.

We should get wiser as an evidence that we are getting older.

moderation2020:
Usman Bugajeis suffering from mad cow desease

You cannot deny the truthfulness of his statement, can you?