Tranquill:


All these ipad he goats that have become overnight Ijaw to insult Ikwerre people because they have rejected you and your criminal enclave Biafra. You have been uprooted from Oyigbo and all you do now is to see how to cause disunity in Rivers State but you have failed woefully. Unfortunately, you can not raise your rag ( or flag) again.

ariesbull:


Exactly... We igbo also don't need confused clowns in name of Ikwerre

Poloyanabo2:

Wherever they were chased away from, they should be careful in Rivers state,
Very dumb people with their equally dumb brother as governor.
What is my business with an Ikwerre?
They always mention Rivers state collectively as if other tribes in Rivers state don't know their origins,
Ikwerre man should not call me his brother, I know my brothers and they're in Bayelsa and 4 other states , state creation separated us.

Ikwerre man should go to Benin and look for his archaeological remains.

BlackSaints:
I am an ijaw man from Rivers state.

Poloyanabo2:


Thank you brother, I'm also Ijaw from Okrika in Rivers state, we the Ijaws in Rivers state are over 40% of the population,
Ikwerres should go and join their brothers in the south east,
An Ijaw man from Bayelsa is more of like a brother to me than an Ikwerre man rejecting his Igbo tribe.
Only state creation brought us together.

BlackSaints:
You are dumb! Very dumb Person.

BastardWike:


The part in bold is actually unrealistic and impossible. If Nigeria is going to break up, it will definitely be through a UN mandate. UN can't allow more than 6 countries to emerge from Nigeria, possibly two from North and 4 from South. Allowing more countries will mean giving room to banana republics that will always need UN/West assistance to function.

Igbos will automatically have one, Yorubas one, then a maximum of two from the minorities. It now depends on how they will delineate the boundaries which will be very difficult. Either way, the areas around Rivers, Bayelsa and Southern Delta/Edo will remain volatile.

As for pockets of internal crises within Igbos, those are a minor infraction that can occur in any country and it will be easily dealth with because of our culture and religious homogeneity.

BastardWike:


Yes, I understand your point as well. The Alex guy brought Igbos into a topic that has nothing to do with us. Wike is not Igbo and he was threatening the ijaws, so it has nothing to do with us. However, I have come to understand the insecurities these minorities have toward Igbos. They hate and see each other as threats but each time it involves Igbos, whether directly or remotely, they immediately close ranks and direct their energy against us. That's the number one reason why shouldn't have anything to do with them. They actually know we don't mean any harm because we are basically business minded and need peace and stability to thrive but because they can't compete against us in a level playing ground, they now concort all manner of lies against us, just like they did under the Eastern region, claiming we were oppressing them.

They will even lament more should we share a country with these minorities and each time we are making progress, they will project lies about how we are using their resources to develop our place.

I pray we have an only Igbo country because I will love to watch from Owerri how the royal rumble will go down in their Babel republic. It will be a war without end

BastardWike:


You're getting it all wrong. I'm not a member of IPOB and I care less what the minorities do with themselves. I got into argument when an ijo fool started saying trash about Igbos.

Whether the minorities unite against Igbos or not is immaterial because they see each other as threat same way they see Igbos as a threat.

I don't advocate for Igbos to be in same country with them post Nigeria because that would be South Sudan 2.0 but that doesn't mean we will take trash from a minority group because we want to avoid them.

AlexBells:

So according to you Rotimi Amechi is not Igbo

BastardWike:


Even during the Biafran war, how many notable Ikwerre people fought on our side? At least, I can remember that many Anioma sons were key figures in the Biafran army. People like Air-raid Joe Achuzie, Chukwuma Nzeogwu and several others fought for Biafra.

During the first republic, Osadebe and other notable Anioma sons also worked with Zik's NCNC instead of Awolowo's AG despite being under the western region. However, on the contrary, the Ikwerres were known to join other minorities in lamenting of imaginary maginalization against Igbos.

We are better off without Ikwerres as a nation and in truth they've nothing tangible to add to us that we don't have already. So, I wonder why any sane Igbo man would be advocating for ikwerres to be part of when they've never truly supported us.

BastardWike:
Ijos are the fulanis of Niger Delta. I pity any group that will have any alliance with them.
Very lazy people that only know how to drink kai-kai and be constituting nuisance everywhere.

They dashed you small Bayelsa state so you will be pushed out of Rivers State totally, and you guys were so dull to fall for it.

You think it was old Rivers State when you were oppressing others? No, times have changed! You no longer have any place in the state just like Wike is now threatening you all.

AlexBells:

I'm asking you did Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu mention Igbo during the coup before it was termed Igbo coup

Owologbo:

Will the south Easterners allow someone from Asaba to be given the presidential slot if the Igbos are to be considered for president in 2023?

AlexBells:

I'm okay Sir, Wike is from Ikwerre an Igbo sub group which is fighting for a unique identity, yet there is no accord, so for the fact that there are Ikwerres who maintain their Igbo identity then for the sake of those ones, I will continue to see Ikwerre as Igboland, the only thing to do is to conduct a referendum for them on if they want to join Igbo Province or Igbo Republic should Nigeria break tomorrow becuase me.

I don't fancy the idea of Biafra becuase Niger Delta thinks we only care about their oil and most of those tribes frequently attack us like Adaka Borro, so that's why it concern me becuase he spoke about mobilising his people and I know that Ijaws in Rivers will not be part of the mobilisation and he should not even think of Etche and Obigbo, let Ikwerre hang in the balance for now.

Tranquill:


Who determines what is Igbo name and what is not?
All these your claims and assertions make you guys look desperate and very cheap. Philipinos, Portuguese, South America's etc have Spanish names but it doesn't make them Spanish. Even within spain, you have some groups like Catalan that have similar names, language and culture as the Spanish but don't identify as same.

You guys should stop this public disgrace and allow people to be who the are or want to be. You can not force people to be who you want them to be. We are in the 21st century. Search online and you'll see that it is only Igbos that are always about who is Igbo or igboness and similar claims. Show that you have a little self respect by letting others be.

oilyngbati:
I almost fell for the so called call for alliance until I read this silly article. A leopard never changes its spots. I think we Igbos should just mind our business and find away to secure our forests/homeland.
This should be our main priority right now, as this killer herdsmen will come for Igboland after the sw has fallen.

AlphaSoul:


1.
Nduka Obaigbena.
Nduka Irabor.
Jim Ovia, etc.
All of them from the Ika/Agbor
area with Edoid ancestry.

Yeah, Modupe Ozolua is a
direct royal descendant of a
Bini monarch.


2. Usen in Ovia N/E was
founded by Yoruba migrants
from Ile-Ife and they greet one
another by asking "How is
Ife or Uhe?"
Usen also has Edoid influences
as well.

There are Usen indigenes
on NL such as wale03 who
I remember said in 2020 that
the Oba of Benin prevented
Usen town from joining their kith-and-kin in the SW via
boundary adjustments.

NOTE: There are Yoruba-founded towns in Edo State such as
Usen and Egbeta. Indigenes
of these towns have discussed
this on NL in the last 10 years.


Cc: Pazienza, most Akoko-Edo
towns have people who have
Yoruba names with some
Yoruba and Edoid/Benin
migrant ancestry.


However, most of the
Akoko-Edos claim Igarra origin
(they are of Ebira ancestry).


Usen indigenes are of
Ile-Ife or Yoruba descent.
Usen ancestry also migrated
to found the Olukunmi-speaking communities/towns in Delta North
(or Aniocha North) of Ugbodu
and Eko Efun (or Ukwunzu).

Sammy07:



Well you're wrong.
This is just the Basics of the message.

SOME of our supposed compatriots of Fulani extraction have been taunting Yoruba to war of late thinking that the people are a senseless group who will fight as a first resort without choosing their battles and weigh the cost of a war.
we are only reminding them.
Many people including you guys are all waiting for us to attack first but no, we don't do that without thinking of the cost and damages, that's why we always use diplomacy(which I don't like anyways) to resolve issues before it escalates.

Read the history wella with open understanding you would see he is reminding them.

BTW, we don't have problem with you guys and kanu whatsoever.
If we have problem with you, you would have know even your brothers would have been giving you update.

What we ask from you is to stay clear of us, let every region pursue her region interest.
We always put our interest/region/people first before anything, I wonder why anyone would call that tribalism.

Igbos and Yorubas have not been in alliance since 1959, and yet you were in government.

I wonder what your alliance will do now?
We can still be a good neighbor anyways.

And yes, we know our common enemy but let each region fights her common enemy the way she can fights it.

Sammy07:


There was NEVER a time Yorubas ask for alliance or help with Igbo's.

Prove me wrong.
We do things in our own way.

By the way, we are only reminding the Fulani's that, the tactics and the war spirit is still there.
They should never take us for you guys.

We've had history and series of wars with them, we're only reminding them that its been long BUT the spirit and tactics didn't die.

We have not forgotten so soon that when Nigeria had a misadventure of a civil war the heroes of that war were Benjamin Adekunle, Olusegun Obasanjo, Alani Akinrinade, Alabi Isama and others from Yoruba land. At the same time, some of their compatriots from Arewa land led troops which perished in the rivers as they had no war plan but followed the instructions of marabouts.

If that mistake is repeated today there would be wars on many fronts and those who are not capable of formulating war plans will have no competent commanders to hide behind.

When minorities say that they suffered during and within Biafra, Igbo nationalists will come and shout that everyone suffered. When minorities then express how this sort of gaslighting and outright dismissal makes them feel (and how it contributes to anti-Igbo sentiment), Igbo nationalists then act as though they cannot comprehend how their dismissive actions have contributed to minorities dislike of them

Yet, if we draw the same picture with the Igbo context, they will magically understand it. Igbo nationalists say they are suffering in Nigeria due to the stigma of the Biafran war and anti-Igbo sentiment. However, anyone who looks at Nigeria as a country will see that the entire country is in shambles and everyone is suffering. The SE is actually not that unique in its own suffering. We can then dismissively say to Igbo nationalists that everyone is suffering. At this point, Igbo nationalists will understand that they’ve been dismissed. They will understand that their growing anti-Nigeria sentiment is due to the dismissive actions on Nigeria’s part.

This is obviously a one-sided sense of comprehension, and after a certain point, you just have to ask yourself if people just simply choose to be this way.

“Do unto others as Nigeria has done unto me” only breeds a vicious, never ending cycle with no room for actual honest discourse. The acknowledgment of the trauma induced by way of Gowon’s propaganda and Ojukwu’s tactical errors is never addressed. The wound continues to fester and be exacerbated by ongoing insults being hurled left and right. Generation after generation consumes internet bandwidth simply arguing to the point of forgetting who the real targets of their discontent should be; FG. Are you people not tired by now? All of you? Seriously. It’s utter nonsense

Non-Igbo speaking Biafrans who were Top Officials during the war of genocide waged on Biafrans by Nigeria and British Government
Major General Philip Effiong – Biafra’s Chief of General Staff and Head of State.
Brigadier Willie Archibong – Commander Biafra’s 58 Brigade – Major Battle – Ikot Ekpene
Colonel Nsudoh – Commander 18th Battalion and 53rd brigade Major Battle – Onitsha with Col. Achuzia.
Lt. Col. Frank Okilo – Commander 14th Battalion and 63rd Brigade – Major Battle – Igrita, 15 miles to Port Harcourt till war’s end.
Col. Adigio – Commander Biafra’s 7th Battalion. – Major Battle – Calabar with Lt. Col Okafor.
Mr. N.U. Akpan – Secretary to the Eastern Region and Biafran Government.
Mr. Okon Okon Ndem – Communications officer and Broadcaster with Voice of Biafra.
Mr. Frank Opigo – Introduced the name “Biafra”. Former principal of Okrika Grammar School; Commissioner for Rural Development and Biafra’s administrator of Yenegoa Province.
Mr. Ekukinam Bassey – Annang Province Administrator
Mr. Ignatius Kogbara – Biafra’s representative in London
Dr. Gary Leyton – Deputy Head of the Research and Production Department
Mr. Sam Inyang – Communications expert with Biafra’s Directorate of Military Intelligence.
Mr. S.E. Imoke – Chairman Rehabilitation Commission.
Dr. S.E. Cookey – Biafra’s Relief Coordinator.
Prof. Eyo Bassey Ndem – Biafra’s Calabar Province Administrator.
Mr. S. N. Dikibo – Biafra’s Degema Province Administrator.
Mr. S. J. Edoho – Province Adminstrator, Eket.
Mr. Frank Ugbut – Province Administrator, Ogoja.
Dr. S. J. Cookey – Province Administrator, Opobo.
Chief J. Udo-Affiah – Province Administrator, Uyo.

BIAFRA’S PROVINCES & ADMINISTRATORS
Aba
Mr. Moses Onwuma*
Abakaliki
Mr. Samuel Mgbada
Annang
Chief Ekukinam Bassey
Awka
Mr. Paul Nwokedi
Calabar
Prof. Eyo Bassey Ndem
Degema
Mr. S. N. Dikibo
Eket
Mr. S. J. Edoho
Enugu
Mr. Christian Chukwuma Onoh
Nsukka
Mr. Frank Onyeke
Ogoja
Mr. Frank Ugbut
Oji River
Dr. Godwin A. Odenigwe
Okigwe
Mr. Sam I. Mbakwe
Onitsha
Mr. R. I. Iweka
Opobo
Dr. S. J. Cookey
Orlu
Mr. R. I. Uzoma
Owerri
Mr. Duke Njiribeakor
Port Harcourt
Mr. Emmanuel Aguma
Umuahia
Mr. Simeon Ojukwu
Uyo
Chief J. Udo-Affiah
Yenegoa
Chief Frank Opigo

soldiers --made of mostly Igbos might I add-- invaded and evacuated minority communities, FACT.

Nobody is lying against you. Or do you support the actions of the soldiers? Why are you trying so hard to gloss over their attrocities? Is it because they were mostly Igbo? You're trying to save face anyway so It's your business and your business alone.

The victimised "Biafrans leaders" who were 90% Igbos did not make provision for food or shelter. They just chased people off the place they've known for most of their lives because they feared the minorities were saboteurs or potential saboteurs -- a useless notion right from the onset. Thanks to the Nigerian army, a lot of those communities would've suffered starvation and would've been ghost towns by now.

If you choose to wallow in ignorance because of your pride or victimhood, it's entirely your business.

The minorities did not hold a secret meeting with each other to fabricate lies that they'll tell the world once the issue of Biafra is brought up. If you don't see the ridiculousness in this I'm afraid you can't see sense in anything except what you've been hardwired to believe.

History is what your lies cannot change though

Sinistami:


You don't get it. You don't understand the difference between a lie and what you feel is the truth but isn't.

The Minorities felt that way because that was what it felt like. Most of them at that time were uneducated and really saw the whole Biafra thing as an Igbo war with the federal government. There's nobody sitting any where manufacturing lies. It's just a product of Minority being afraid of Majority. Stop making your self look too special.

Sinistami:



How many of the saboteurs were hailed as heroes because of being a sabo?

Is it Isaac Boro? Isaac Boro isn't praised for being a saboteur. He's only praised for being the first Ijaw man to challenge the Federal and Eastern Govt , trying to liberate the Ijaws from Nigeria by creating a Niger Delta republic. After then he was captured by your Ojukwu who your people claim only quenched an uprising in the Niger Delta. The main reason Adaka Boro fought Biafra was because Ojukwu never gave him an apology and also added Ijaw land that Boro had fought for, to Biafra without consultation. His role in the civil war still leaves educated Ijaws splitted on wether he did wrong or good.

As for Sarowiwa, I know people don't celeberate him for sabotaging the Biafra struggle but for purely different reasons.