I am so surprised why the Igbos are so desperate to claim Ijaw land by manipulating Ijaw history. There is no historian in the world that has made a research about the history of the Nigerian people, who is not aware that Bonny and Opobo are Ijaw communities. There was never any time in ancient history in which Bonny and Opobo had been documented as Igbo societies. the only people that are now trying to do that are the Igbos and the enemies of the Ijaw people in Nigeria,because they are interested in Ijaw land because of the resources in it. As a result of this,they want to manipulate Ijaw history in order to claim Ijaw land. I want to make it clear to the Igbos that what brought Igbos to Bonny was the activities of the slave trade. Some of the Igbo slaves that were sold to the Ijaws at Kalabari,Okrika,Bonny,etc.,were initiated through ritual initiation to become Ijaws while others were sold to the Europeans. When a person undergoes ritual initiation(an Ijaw cultural practice),the person becomes an Ijaw. He or she will cease to be a part of his or her former tribe. But,it is an abomination for an Ijaw person to be made to undergo ritual initiation by an Ijaw community. Therefore,Ijaws do not carry out ritual initiation on their fellow Ijaw people. Ijaws only initiate a foreigner. Jaja of Opobo was only an Igbo man before his initiation at Bonny. Immediately after the initiation,Jaja became an ijaw man(according to the Ijaw ritual initiation tradition,he was no longer an Igbo man). Ritual initiation was also a practice of the ancient Egyptians and the Jewish people. It is still being practised by the Jewish people till today. Despite the fact that the Jewish people have initiated different non jewish people all over the world to become jews,it has not led to the manipulation of the origin of the Jewish people. The origin of the Jewish people as written in the bible is still being maintained. I want to make it clear here that the statements being made by the Igbos that Opobo is a property of King Jaja and his descendants are not true. Jaja was not the ancestor of the Opobo people. The true ancestor of the Opobo people was king opubo(opobo),who was an Amanyanabo that ruled Bonny in the past. It was the family of king Opubo(opobo) of Bonny that Jaja was sold into as a slave. After his initiation,he became an Ijaw man with an Ibani-Ijaw name. Therefore,king Jaja was a member of king Opubo(Opobo) family of Bonny. King Opubo(opobo) family of Bonny was an Ijaw family and it is still an Ijaw family in the present day Opobo. It should be noted that it was King Opubo(Opobo) family of Bonny that migrated to found Opobo. What was the percentage of Jaja and his family during the migration? They did not even account for one percent(1%) of the king Opubo(opobo) family during the migration. Now,where did some people get their information from that Opobo is a property and estate of king Jaja. This is laughable. It should be noted that fourteen of the eighteen leading houses of Bonny joined Jaja during the migration from Bonny. Finally,Opobo is a property of King Opubo(opobo) of Bonny. This was the reason why the kingdom of Opobo was named after King opubo(OPOBO) of Bonny. King Opubo(OPOBO) Fubara pepple of Bonny was an Ijaw king who ruled Bonny from 1792 to 1828. PLEASE OPOBO AND BONNY ARE IJAW KINGDOMS FOUNDED BY IJAWS. THE IGBOS IN THIS FORUM SHOULD BEHAVE WELL DURING SENSITIVE ISSUES. THE COMMENTS BEING MADE BY THE IGBO PEOPLE IN THIS FORUM ARE QUITE UNFORTUNATE. IT WILL ONLY MAKE THE IJAWS TO SEE THEM AS A THREAT TO THE IJAW NATION.

I wonder why some people are against president Jonathan in this issue. Jonathan was not the one that owned the money that was donated. I did not see anything that Goodluck Jonathan did wrong. Some of you are using this PDP fund raising as a pretext to blame Jonathan over the high rate of corruption in Nigeria. I want to make it clear to all of you that the history of corruption in Nigeria predates 1960,in which Nigeria gained her independence. There is no way Goodluck Jonathan can stop corruption within the short time he has spent as a president. The issue of corruption will be solved gradually. It is a continuous struggle that will take so many years. It will even take more than 50 years. This is because, corruption has eaten deep into the Nigeria society. Even the advance and older nations of the world such as
USA,Britain,France,Germany,Canada,etc,are still battling with corruption. The issue of the fund raising is not enough to discredit Jonathan. President Jonathan has tried. Even in the midst of disturbances from Boko haram attacks,he is still moving ahead with his transformation agenda. Finally,i believe that with the position of PDP today in the political sector of Nigeria,no political party can defeat PDP in presidential election. The PDP is actually ahead of other political parties in the country with respect to internal democracy,organization and political strategies needed to defeat opposition parties. LONG LIVE THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA.