₦airaland Forum

Fejoku:
You're very foolish. It's always better to shut up if you don't have enough information on a subject matter. That is, if you're not deliberately being cynical about the issue. There are indigenous Igbos in all the SS states and we MUST go with them. It is not Gowon that will tell us where our land ends. Our people travelled to Lagos, Kano, etc but not the areas they occupy in the SS. These areas are our ancestral land and will never be left behind for strangers from futa jalon to annex. We will go to any length to get our people back to us.

About 85% of all wars are fought over the ownership of lands or the rights to claim lands.

It's not as straight forward as you think.

1) Most times, there's no universally acceptable clear cut boundaries of ethnic homelands. It often overlap with the homelands of other ethnic groups ,thus some communities have multiple ethnic ancestries e.g Delta North

2) There is no universally acceptable classification of who is Igbo and who is not.

Nigercity:
Oga no sane Igbo man wants to form any country with you sir...
But you see etche,anioma (excluding ika), Ohaji, oyibo and co
Start clear out of there
As for ikwerre we have already dashed you guys!

Goodluck in your 9ja delta country

Who is going to define a universally and acceptable borders/boundaries?

JohnSin97:
Farooq is being half smart....the intercultural and intribal relationships and marriages have made core northern tribes into one single identity known as hausa/fulani. An ijebu man will tell you proudly that he is ijebu, but most people can't tell the difference between him and an Ibadan man.

Wrong analogy.

1) The North is a very vast territory populated by diverse people speaking different languages but many practice the same Islamic Religion.

2) Apart from old political divisions in terms of kingdoms, there's no difference between an Ijebu man and an Ibadan man (many Ibadan families originated from Oyo, Ife, Ijebu) but a Kanuri man is much different in culture and language from a Fulanis man.
Kanuris don't understand Fulanis language and both can only communicate freely by using a third learned language- Hausa which serve as a kind of lingual Franca in the North.

I was surprised while serving in Yobe State to see many Fulani Herdsmen unable to speak Hausa fluently.

JohnSin97:
Hmm, but the northerners are more ethno-centred as oppossed to the APC/PDP shit, shehu sani may sound pro-PDP and pro south.....but he's one of those northerners who will push against restructuring.

Politics is all about interests. Everyone tries to protect their interests, though these interests of different people/groups may sometimes overlap.

Donpresh95:
You don't know my history but you've concluded that your scam Laurette is better. That's how your small mind in your big head suggested that an illiterate is ur Messiah. keep on living in illusion ooh.

Who is your father?

Be proud of your lineage and tell us your family name so we can see anyone worthy of note in your lineage

Ihatemen:
I hate men

You hate men but you like penis?

IMASTEX:
We can only hope it doesn't get to that option of violence. Truth be told, the Fulani's need power to continue to remain relevance, hence their fear and obsession for power. Since they can't match others talking of exposure & education so they resolve to breeding uncontrollably to have enough foot soldiers for any fight.

The Fulanis are a minority ethnic group and they can't always be in power.
Already there's a growing anti-Fulani sentiments even in the North.

Luigi02:
No one cares. The south were supposed to be one, but west betrayed us when we needed them most, hence we shall do the same. They should not think we have forgotten bcus we haven't, at least not until we've had our own revenge. A yoruba told me yesterday, that we're all on our own. Hence, so shall it be.
Idc if I get tagged a slave, I'll vote for Fulanis!
The east, south and north will vote for Fulani or Hausa and NEVER yoruba. These folks think they can just shit on us and we'll forget. Nah, it doesn't work that way

1) Which candidate do you think Maazi Nnamdi Kanu will support?
2) In the last election, Atiku/PDP received ;

SE= 1.5 Million votes
How many votes do you think he will get in 2023 from the S/East?

effort1:
Hypocrite Helinues. Tinubu is indirectly responsible for all the woes befalling Nigeria today. He was the one who packaged a failure and presented it as a success just to satisfy his own selfish desires.

So who do you think is going to win and solve all these problems?

Eriokanmi:
lool. Won tan ę, o tun tan raa ręę

We yorubas would rather consider Dr. Adesina or Prof Yemi Osinbajo instead of that drug baron, thug breeder and corrupt buffoon you call your leader

Which candidate do you think Maazi Nnamdi Kanu will support in 2023?

Princewell2012:
Tell me who is actually mumu here? Tell me how adamu from sokoto will be able to identify wike from river and nwike from Imo when he is on a killing spree? you guys are completely foolish. God is my witness. No wonder Hausa will rule this nation forever because of this types of idiot's.

You are a super idiot if you think Adamu from Sokoto killing spree is what define membership of a nation.

Fools like you don't even know that no Hausaman had ever ruled this country.

Igbodicool:
In as much as Ndị Igbo are not happy in this union called Nigeria, Nigeria will never know peace.

Nigeria need Igbo more than Igbo need Nigeria.
On referendum we stand!

Nigeria will know but your part of Nigeria may not know peace.

valentineuwakwe:
When all government functionaries is destroyed in the east, i wonder what will happen next?

Biafra will be declared.

BKayy:
What of men you sexist?

Men are the gender perpetrating the crime of rapes

ozoebuka1:
Call for round table meeting ...please... the government doesn't know who and what they are fighting, where they come from, but they know what these guys want, why not start from there to calm things down.

Round table meeting with people who are UNKNOWN?

Ekpeitit:
The Biafra tribe is the most uneducated and dumb tribe in Nigeria, we have told the idiots a million times that we don't want to have anything to do with them but they don't get it,instead they will call me will call us Afonja.
Bro,Niger Delta people don't like you or trust you and we will never allign with you.
Just fight for your Biafra and leave us out of your desperation.

They refuse to learn from History.
The same mistakes that Ojukwu made.

CSTRR:
He is marrying prostitutes.
Runs girls more like it.

Girls looking for fame or exposure for other endeavours.
They fit each other.

No sane lady with good head on her shoulders would touch him, let alone marry him.

I also have a feeling he has a thing for paedophilia.
Dating small girls that he can give birth to.

If you know the meaning of Peadophilia ,you will know that this is not a case of Peadophilia at all as this lady is in her 20s.

Hashabiah:
Some women are not ashamed of having affairs with their father's mate

In typical African cultures, age differences is no barrier for two consenting adults that want to marry.

amuwo1980:
I agree with u but that of coming to judge for us who is igboid or not will not be accepted , if u think u are Igbo and want to join u are free, free entry and exit, so what’s holding the disintegration? We want out ? And what do we get bullets , ok integrate us into the Nigeria no way haba

I didn't judge anyone but we need to realize that certain important questions will be asked at the negotiation tables which can't be swept under the carpet.

Owologbo:
You don't know what you are saying.
Igbo didn't unite SS.
And you following Biafra without any signed agreement will be the worst decision of your life.
you a minority following Biafra without agreement is equivalent to committing suicide.
The oppression from the north against the south will be a child play

The guy you are qouting is not a southern minority at all.

gidgiddy:
All these questions will be answered by referendum, which is what the Biafran agitators want.

Many of these questions will need to be answered before the referendum.

1) Where will the referendum be conducted?

a) Old Eastern Region which doesn't include Delta & Edo States

b) Old Eastern + Delta + parts of Edo/Kogi/ Benue

c) Anywhere Igbos are found including Edo, Kogi or Benue. Then who is an Igbo and who isn't an Igbo?

d) The present SE

e) SE/SS

2) Who is eligible to vote in the Referendum?

a) All Residents of the agreed areas.

b) All Igbos including those living in Kano, Lagos, Abuja, Ibadan etc?

c) All Indigenes irrespective of where they currently live.

3) How do we interpret the results of the Referendum?

a) Leave Nigeria for Biafra
b) Remain in Nigeria
c) Form a New Non-Nigerian, Non- Biafran Country.

kollinzgee:
You can have itsekiri and the rest but dont near anioma and igbanke.

Why?

gidgiddy:
Its one thing to trace your ancestry to Benin, it is another totally different thing to want be with Benin if Nigeria breaks up

Many Igbos believe they Israeli ancestry, but you will never find any Igbo who wants to be part of the state of Israel

If a referendum is held today, Igbanke is likely to choose to be in the same country with those they speak the same language with

If Nigeria is to disintegrate, you Biafran ethusiasts wrongly assume that ANY land (from Benue, Kogi to Delta, Rivers to parts of Edo State) that want or lay claim to is automatically Biafra without thinking that some other people will contest the right of Biafra to these lands.


The first problem will be

1) Which territory constitute Biafra?
2) Do other Nigerians aggree that these territories are Biafra?
3) Who is Igbo, who is not Igbo and who determine who is Igbo?
4) Where does Igbo land begins and where does Edo, Ibiobio, Idoma, Igala lands begins?

OfoIgbo:
Personally I don't mind an Igbo-only Biafra, but I know NK talks about a referendum before the eventual BIafran map is decided, which means other ethnic group must have the right to decide whether they want to be in Biafra or not. It can't be any fairer than that

Will Tiv, Nupe, Igbira, Fulanis, Bachama and Hausa peoples also vote to decide whether they should join Biafra or not?

amuwo1980:
Mr man I said they must be free to chose not manipulated by u afonjas or from even Igbos , why are ur Yorubas so so interested in undermining the igbos , stay on ur own side if the wall

This is not about childish and petty tantrums of Afonja Vs Igbos you guys do on Nairaland.

If Nigeria is going to disintegrate in peaceful ways, it won't be a sole Igbo affairs. Different parts of Nigeria will have to sit down together (as we did in the 1950s while preparing for Independence), discuss and iron out so many complex issues especially BOUNDARIES of the new countries..

Admissionclass:
Once we have portharcourt and opobo we have direcj access to sea nobody can stop us.

You want to repeat the same mistakes Ojukwu made?

ThEGodFaThEr102:
Shut up Jare! You're just running your mouth like tap water. You are on your own. Lazy people. All your people do is to wake up in the morning
and drink Kai Kai while starring at the ya.nsh of women going to the farm. Igbos don't have time for you u pipeline miscreants.

But their States are more developed than Igbo States.

puzzlegate:
Oga, which Delta State are you talking about ? So you expect ifeanyi okowa, Ned nwoko, Benjamin elue, Victor ochie, Emma Ejiofor, Ndudi elumelu, Lucky Onyenauchea Irabor, Godwin Emefiele, Nogozi Okonjo , and millions of Delta Igbos to follow you to God knows where ? ....Oga wake up, you are dreaming. WE ARE BIAFRANS !

No part of Delta State was ever pary of Biafra.
Ojukwu's Biafra stopped at Onitsha Head Bridge.

amuwo1980:
Am very much in support of the southern minorities not being a part of our Biafra but the obasanjo and post civil war boundaries must be redrawn to factory mode , all igboid group must be free to choose where to align to and a passage to the sea is our right

Who will determine which communities are Igboid and which are not?

This matter is not as straight forward as you think.

Admissionclass:
Fulani op
By their comments you shall know them

The Referendum will be for ONLY those who ask for it.

It won't be held outside the Five States of the S/East.

mrvitalis:
Has anyone forced you to be in biafra ?
Even IPOB is not even asking for biafra yet all we want us give the old eastern region referendum to decide if they want to be in Nigeria or not

If we decide to leave we all can now sit and decide what we want

How is that difficult to understand

Why the Old Eastern Region?
The same Eastern Region created by the British in the same ways Nigeria was created?

ThEGodFaThEr102:
Ewu Gambia! Which school did he graduate from?
Afonja, tell us we are waiting o

No be only fighter for democracy, na fighter for bullion vans

Vote for Atiku.

Others will vote for Tinubu.