Igboid:
They are not.
It's on record that Epie/Atissa people are proto Edoid people.

Their language is more or less related to Edoid languages like Isoko and Urhobo.

Also Degema(Udekeme) are not Ijaws too.
Degema people are proto Edoid people like Epie people too.

Wonderful and Truthful.
Going through the article I did ask myself where is the Urhobo and Isoko people in all these arguments. The Uses are stylishly claiming all riverine community as thiers. Truth must be told no matter how it hurts that epie atissa and many of those that populates our Riverine Communities are not ijaws but are claimed for Political Purpose.

Epie people has a history of originating from Bini, and unlike the Ikwerre and other Igboid groups who fabricated Bini origin stories, Epie Edoid language validates and authenticates their Bini origin claim.

yyba:
your eyes go soon clear

hisexcellency34:
Very true. Government should check quality of Dangote Cement too

LordofNaija:
Jonathan positioning his boys for a grand entry to APC. Goodluck is the presidential candidate of APC, you heard it here first

Dsalvo:


The OP is Igbo. Check his past post. Only takes a few seconds. The point is that you will rarely see any Nigerian ethnic group, even the Fulani that are most demonized today, trying, as outsiders , to spread divisive propaganda that pits brothers against brothers.

Only Igbos will tell Yoruba Christians to beware Yoruba Moslems and be ready to fight them in Yoruba land. Never mind that the affairs of Yoruba land is non of their business.

Only Igbos will tell Hausas to decimate Fulanis in the North because, according to Igbos, Fulanis are holding them in bondage and need to be dealt with.

Only Igbos will tell various ethnicities to rise up against the political dominance of Yorubas in Lagos since the State is "no man's land".

The pattern is clear for most observant Nigerians. Igbos can never promote peace and harmony or progress. They always overstep their boundaries promoting chaos and anarchy they wish to profit from.

No sensible Yoruba, Moslem or Christian, takes Ishaq Akintola seriously.

Why should Igbos alone be pushing the narrative that Yorubas Christians must rise up against Moslems if not that, like fundamentalist Moslems in Northern Nigeria, Igbos too have a fundamental, intolerant and radical approach to religion?

At least Northerners limit the divisive and radical propaganda within their region unlike Igbos who love to spread it everywhere. Especially in Yoruba land that is religiously tolerant.

What is the aim? Get Yorubas to be religious extremists like Northerners and Igbos?

Why not leave Yorubas to manage their religious interactions same as Yorubas never tell Igbos how to manage religion in their region?

Dsalvo:



@OP.

Why is it that it must always be an Igbo who starts divisive threads about everything and everyone?

Why must you people always be the only Nigerian ethnic group, of over 250, always seeking to create division where there is none?

Why do you people always seek to highlight what divides people, promotes intolerance and spreads hate, that could lead to enmity and bad blood, yet you never support what will unite Nigerians or promotes peace, tolerance and amicable coexistence?


Obvious you people love war, hate, religious extremism, raidcalism, ethnic discrimination, gender inequality, caste segregstion, disharmony, chaos and anarchy.