As published on July 21, 1956:

"Port Harcourt is not Ibo (Igbo) Town." - D. K. Onwenu. Secretary to Ibo State Union.

Remember, Ikwerre, Ijaw, Ahoada people etc. Agitated for the creation of Rivers State as a way of freeing themselves from oppression, marginalisation and possible extermination of Ethnic Minority Groups in the then Eastern Region of Nigeria.

This agitations and demand for the creation of Rivers State raged on which led to the constitution of Henry Willink's Commission on November 23, 1957...

Henry Willink's Commission sat between November 23rd, 1957 and June 12, 1958.

The report of Willink's Minority Commission which was greatly influenced by Igbo leaders, ruled out the creation of Rivers State.

August 27, 1958. Ikwerre Chiefs protested against Willink's Commission's report.

The demand for creation of more states continued, not only by Rivers people & ethnic minorities in Eastern Region, but also by ethnic minorities in the Western and Northern regions of Nigeria.

These demands became fruitful for the Ethnic Minority Groups in Nigeria on 23rd of March, 1962 when the motion was passed for the creation of Mid-Western Region by both houses of Parliament.

The demands for the creation of Rivers State, demands for freedom from Eastern Region of Nigeria continued even during military regimes.

Amidst the oppression, February 23, 1966, Isaac Jasper Adaka Boro, a minority rights activist declared the Niger Delta Republic.

Niger Delta Republic as declared by Adaka Boro, the first separatist movement in Nigeria to free the ethnic minority groups in the then Eastern Region was an Independent Country for only 12 days as Ojukwu, the Governor of Eastern Region fought Adaka Boro and prevented the breakaway of Niger Delta Republic.

Adaka Boro was arrested by Ojukwu, stripped naked on the street and humiliated.

Freedom for Ethnic Minority Groups in the then Eastern Region finally came on the 27th of May, 1967 when Gen. Gowon created Rivers State..

3 days after the creation of Rivers State from the now defunct Eastern Region, Ojukwu declared Republic of Biafra on May 30, 1967.

This became the 2nd secessionist movement in Nigeria & came as a move to prevent the creation of Rivers State & the freedom of Rivers people.

Today, some who think and believe they are the knowledge bank of the world are ignorantly deceiving their people and the unsuspecting public with fabricated stories & propaganda to drive home a selfish, archaic agenda to annex a people and their ancestral land.

All Rivers people wanted was their freedom from oppression, intimation, suppression, marginalisation & prevent the extermination of Ethnic Minority Groups in the State.

Though the agitation is not over, Rivers people have made a lot of progress in achieving their demands.

Video: Oba Of Benin Speaks About Ikwerre-Benin Origin.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rb6oLOEYOI

Dem no dey hear word.

Every cretin feels the need to mention igbo so they can feel significant.

Mumu so called Niger delta militant miscreants!

Igbos are busy making too much money home and abroad while you miscreants are all over the creeks vandalizing pipelines.

Lazy and Ogogoro gulping lunatics.

Foolish Igbos claiming to be developers n taaging others people land should respect themselves instead of being foolish whereever they escaped to avoid the doom. N poverty in Alaigbo.

raker300:
Every cretin feels the need to mention igbo so they can feel significant.

OP please don't mislead people just to sound right.
These same Igbo people that the ikwerres
Talk like, dress like, bear very similar names and you are here saying nonsense in order to justify foolishness.

So sad

nthony10:
OP please don't mislead people just to sound right.
These same Igbo people that the ikwerres
Talk like, dress like, bear very similar names and you are here saying nonsense in order to justify foolishness.

So sad

Spanish and Portuguese and Italians bear similar names so what?

omonnakoda:
Spanish and Portuguese and Italians bear similar names so what?

Because They have a similar heritage.
Why didn't you add German to the list?

nthony10:


They have a similar heritage.
Why didn't you add German to the list?

Why should I add German?
Similar so what?
All humanity probably has a similar heritage if you go back far enough .So what?

What some people dont seem to realise is that the creation of states, such as Rivers state, by Gowon, is what the North has used to hold everyone down today. I laughed when that idiot called Governor Wike renamed liberation stadium after Gowon.

The breaking up of the Regions into states by Gowon was the start of "divide and rule" that Gowon and his fellow Northerners would use to dominate all Nigeria to this day

It is strong Regions that make the centre weak so that the federating units can control their destiny

You got Rivers state, but at what cost? You went from almost 75% derivation to 13%. You lost resource control, you lost fiscal federalism and you lost your sovereignty. Your oil wealth has been stolen and carted up North for the last 50 years.

Because you have Rivers state, you have become several times bigger slave than you ever were when you were in the Eastern Nigeria as a province.

Today, you clamour to restructure so as to enjoy what you had before the creation of Rivers State.

State creation benefited the North, but was a very bad thing for the South. Go and ask how how much the 44 local governments of just Kano recieved and compare it with what your 23 Local governments in Rivers state got and you will start to know how state creation was used to cheat you in Rivers

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If you want to blow just mention Igbo in any trend.....Igbo is like fire....it ignite like fuel.

Proudly nwa Idemili

AdaugoChisom:
If you want to blow just mention Igbo in any trend.....Igbo is like fire....it ignite like fuel.

Proudly nwa Idemili

Female IPOB. I’m also female, though not IPOB.

just saying

If you have a bolt driver account you no longer use or drive. Please sell it to me. I need it

70 percent of ikwerre men marry igbo women. Leave igbo women alone now una no go gree. Igbos are miles ahead of ikwerre people. Comparing the two is a big insult to ndi igbo.

ibrahimdoc:
70 percent of ikwerre men marry igbo women. Leave igbo women alone now una no go gree. Igbos are miles ahead of ikwerre people. Comparing the two is a big insult to ndi igbo.

WAT ABOUT iKWERE WOMEN?

"Port Harcourt is not Ibo (Igbo) Town." - D. K. Onwenu. Secretary to Ibo State Union.

jerseyboy:
"Port Harcourt is not Ibo (Igbo) Town." - D. K. Onwenu. Secretary to Ibo State Union.

AFONJA, YORUBA MUSLIM, Y ARE U SO USELESS?


MUST BE THE CURSE OF ISLAM.


HERE U ARE RUNNING AROUND TYPING CRAP.

Ikwere is part and parcel of Benin Kingdom. They have equal rights to Benin like every other Benin out there

Ikwere people should stop making noise joor... They still have a lot of same minority tribes to worry about in Rivers state. Port Harcourt is not Ikwere land pls. Is town, Abuloma etc Ikwere Land? They better go back to Benin or better join the Ibos

omonnakoda:
Spanish and Portuguese and Italians bear similar names so what?

God bless you brother. You are educated and travelled.

Idiot who send ikwere, fools wey no get identity.

the pic u posted has a man putting on okpu agu.if the ikwere people want to distance themselves from the Igbos they should do it completely including our culture as well, ikwere people should adopt their Benin culture and names and leave our Igbo heritage alone.!!

Land grabbers, una don hear

helinues:
Land grabbers, una don hear

I know you will here, isreal are looking for people like you to test somethings

helinues:
Land grabbers, una don hear

Lagos is not Yoruba land, you Yorubas must stop claiming Lagos...
Port harcourt is far more igbo than Lagos is Yoruba. Aworis and Eguns whom you guys have been oppressing for ages have always wanted you lot to leave Lagos alone for them.. Even the Oba of Lagos has repeatedly and openly told you guy to let go, Allow the real lagosians to enjoy their state, while you move down to your Ogbomosho and Akure... But you will cling to Lagos by force as if there's any part of her development that can be traced to you, while advising Igbos to leave Port Harcourt for Nyesomghosa Wikevie! What kind of treacherous behavior is that?

owobokiri:

Lagos is not Yoruba land, you Yorubas must stop claiming Lagos...
Port harcourt is far more igbo than Lagos is Yoruba. Aworis and Eguns whom you guys have been oppressing for ages have always wanted you lot to leave Lagos alone for them.. Even the Oba of Lagos has repeatedly and openly told you guy to let go, Allow the real lagosians to enjoy their state, while you move down to your Ogbomosho and Akure... But you will cling to Lagos by force as if there's any part of her development that can be traced to you, while advising Igbos to leave Port Harcourt for Nyesomghosa Wikevie! What kind of treacherous behavior is that?

Beautiful gibberish

Is that all?

Nice submission

ThEGodFaThEr102:
Mumu so called Niger delta militant miscreants!

Igbos are busy making too much money home and abroad while you miscreants are all over the creeks vandalizing pipelines.

Lazy and Ogogoro gulping lunatics.

No need for the insults.

Their only demand is not to be included in Biafra.