MelesZenawi:


Ijaws made same statement but today the story is a little bit different.....Abua left them.

BKayy:

I don land like Arụsị

izac82:

Abokina, you don't equate Ijaws to Igbos. We are contingent of same language speakers with varying dialects and allmost same cultures.
Ijaws don't have that advantage, so like I stated early on, you are very inconsequential in the affair of ndi Igbo, and thus your rants end here on nairaland. Otogbo ndi ka gi

MelesZenawi:


Lalasticlala for what?

Ah ah?

Igbos are totally irredeemable. FP for what exactly?

Igboid:
Once Abuloma people detach from Ijaw, because they are proto Ibibiod people and not in anyway Ijaw.
Ijaw claim to PHLGA will be truly and fully over.

Egberi Faaa!
Aswana!

MelesZenawi:


Trash.

You are Jubilating a group left Ijaw youth council because the name doesn't befit them

Same way the name ohanaeze should be restructured or face mass exodus from some Igbo groups.

Case closed.

SlayerForever:



They are related to Efiks like Andoni

MelesZenawi:


Same culture that some kill and eat snake?

What sort of same culture is that?

Who even hears what most of you guys speak?

Pls move aside.

Fejoku:
Many more to go. Below is the true lingusitic representation of coastal areas of Rivers State. The Ijaws have been claiming all the different tribes there as Ijaw clans when clearly they are not. Isn't it preposterous how Ijaws have been claiming Obolos who clearly are not related to Ijaw in any way? One by one the truth will be revealed for all to see.

Cantonese:


On that map where it says Igbo(4), Izon (3), Ibibio(2), can you please explain?

MelesZenawi:


What do you people derive in creating new Monikers every now and then?

Just asking

ikennamadu1:


Na so you Dy do.. anytime them block you... No dey crucify person when you dey do same ..

Fejoku:
Many Igbos may not know but the Obolo language is a mixture of Ekoid, Ibibiod, Igboid and Ijoid languages. There are communities and markets there with clearly Igboid names. Some of them bear Igbo names like Uche Secondus, etc. There is popular name called Horsefall is Rivers State from Andoni. The origin of the name is from a woman called Nwanyi Osifolor. She was a good cook and was very wealthy such that she started a war canoe house which morphed into the house of Horsefall.
They call themselves Obolo people and their language is clearly a cross river language group. It's the Ijaws that call them Andoni which many historians used for them. They are not an Igbophobic group. I once met one of them and I learnt a couple of things from him.

Fejoku:
Many Igbos may not know but the Obolo language is a mixture of Ekoid, Ibibiod, Igboid and Ijoid languages. There are communities and markets there with clearly Igboid names. Some of them bear Igbo names like Uche Secondus, etc. There is popular name called Horsefall is Rivers State from Andoni. The origin of the name is from a woman called Nwanyi Osifolor. She was a good cook and was very wealthy such that she started a war canoe house which morphed into the house of Horsefall.
They call themselves Obolo people and their language is clearly a cross river language group. It's the Ijaws that call them Andoni which many historians used for them. They are not an Igbophobic group. I once met one of them and I learnt a couple of things from him.

Igboid:
Good development.

Abuloma people are not Ijaw too.
These people like Abua are proto Ibibiod people, just like Andoni.

Ijaw only succeeded in claiming these people for a while ( we all knew it wasn't going to last), because the Annang, Ibibios and Efik were too petty, too blind to see the big picture, too myopic to unite into one single mega ethnic group they truly are.

If they had succeeded in doing this, then they would have successfully pulled Abuloma (Obulom) Abua, Ogbia and Andoni into this mega group.
Because ethnically speaking, these groups are for all intents and purposes,proto Ibibiod people who developed riverine culture having migrated to and live in the riverine region as opposed to Ibibio and Annang that stayed on land.

Now that opportunity is lost because these proto Ibibiod people now see themselves as independent groups.

Nigerians don't know it, but GEJ and his Ogbia people, linguistically and ancestrally are more related to the Ibibios than to any Izon man screaming Aswana up and down.

izac82:

Abokina, you don't equate Ijaws to Igbos. We are contingent of same language speakers with varying dialects and allmost same cultures.
Ijaws don't have that advantage, so like I stated early on, you are very inconsequential in the affair of ndi Igbo, and thus your rants end here on nairaland. Otogbo ndi ka gi

Igboid:


I tuo down ka Alusi.

Ditari ezoo ka nkapi.

SaintBishop:
What will you say about the Ikwerres who keeps telling you to Your face that they are not igbos. Even their governor Wike even made a statement on it that ikwerres are not igbos yet you keep forcing your unholy brother wood down their throat.? And btw, MelesZenawi is your Igbo brother.


https://www.nairaland.com/421192/not-igbo-ikwerre

izac82:

If you post one Ikwerre rejecting Igob, I can post ten embracing Igbos. We understand the politics in Rivers state. Every hamlet is an ethnic group, for political leverage. Wike rejects Igbo, but Amaechi, his fellow Ikwerre brother, flaunts his Igboness to the world. Keep off from what you don't know.

BlackAdam55:
Abuloma people are Okrikas and the Okrikans are of the ijo subgroup.

Eastlink:
A welcome development. Abua, Bonny, Okrika, Andoni etc are unique tribes. Ijaws from Bayelsa should stay clear of Rivers states ethnic groups.

mrvitalis:
Abua and ogoni are two tribe that's strange really they are not related to any of their neighbors honestly

They are not yorubas , not igbos ,not ijaws not akwa cross n not even a mix of any

They are totally absolutely unique

Abua .. unique people tho

Idafire:




You are a dunce.
Go tell them to stop naming their children with Ijaw names.
What is Fubara, ibingo, tonye doing in ther names of they aren't Ijaws.

Be concerned more with Ijaw matter and leave your erosion ravaged lands we are here.
Continue.
Ijaw matter kee you there

BlackAdam55:
Abuloma people are Okrikas and the Okrikans are of the ijo subgroup.