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Ezmans:
you people are always first to curse people but will be first again to react against curse

Ojiofor:
Wike is a man of yesterday in Rivers state politics.Fubara the governor himself is a nice guy to every ethnic group in Rivers state.
He himself is Igbo by ancestry Ijaw by political association.

Eboofa:
Fubara is 100% Igbo you slimeball.......ever ready to throw Igbo interests under the bus!!

rinzaugustine:
Igbos were existing before creation of Africa, Nigeria and states . Igbo is ONE with multiple sub sets like Anioma, Mbaise, Izzy , Ezza , owerri, Nkanu, Ngwa, Arochukwu, Agba enu , Idemmili, owerri, Ogbaru , Onitsha, Abiriba etc having different languages and cultures. Igbo have never asked anybody to identify as Igbo but if you feel within your heart you like Igbo culture and everything that concerns Igbo you identify as Igbo but if you choose not to, nobody will send you. There are communities that wake up in almost in every Igbo state and say they are not Igbos even though they speak Igbo but nobody send them

immortalcrown:
While claiming that Rivers is not Igbo?

chrisokw:
Much ado about Okiro


Thursday, June 07, 2007 People and Politics
Ochereome Nnanna

ON Wednesday, May 30th 2007, former Inspector General of Police, Mr. Sunday Ehindero, was ordered to hand over his post to the “next most senior” Deputy Inspector General. From records, it became clear that Mr. Ogbonnaya Onovo, the DIG in charge of Administration, was that person. But, by Friday that same week when Ehindero formally said goodbye to the Force, the formal instruction was that he should hand over to Mr. Mike Mbama Okiro, the DIG in charge of Operations.

This move ruffled quite a few feathers within the system. Some thought that the new regime of President Umar Yar’Adua, in making the decision, “bypassed an Igbo man” and gave the coveted position to someone from Rivers State. While some speculated that it was part of the administration’s continued effort to woo the South South and encourage the cessation of violence in the Niger Delta, others felt that the new leaders were continuing former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s perceived marginalisation of the South- East. Some even concluded that Obasanjo must have been behind the move.

LET me remark here that this mess was avoidable. Rather than ask Ehindero to hand over to the next senior officer, he should have been told to hand over to Okiro. Even though some people might still have grumbled that the bypass of Onovo was politically fishy, they would have recognised the President’s prerogative of making such appointments. Past Heads of State had tended to appoint their tribesmen to key security positions, including the post of IGP. In fact, it was the vogue to ensure that the service chiefs and key administration officials were from the tribe or region of the Head of State, perhaps, because it gave them a sense of security.

Many top officers in the forces were often retired to give way to the anointed ones. Even Obasanjo made sure that all three Police IG’s who served during the eight years of his regime were Yoruba, and retirements had to be conducted in 1999 to create room for this. When EFCC Chairman, Malam Nuhu Ribadu, was being touted as Ehindero’s successor, the stage seemed set for another round of retirements of top cops. It is, therefore, pleasantly surprising that (at least so far) the new regime is toeing former President Shehu Shagari’s line in giving the post to a competent policeman and not insisting that he must come from his geopolitical area. If this trend is continued in all areas of security and administration appoint-ments, people will no longer feel that their parts of the country are being kept out of the scheme of things.

It is important for us also to dispel the impression that Okiro getting it instead of Onovo amounts to the Igbo being bypassed. Even though some have speculated, in the past, that Okiro is Ijaw, the truth is that he is of Igbo stock.

He comes from Egbema, which was in the Ohaji/Egbema/Oguta Local Govern-ment Area of the old East Central State (ECS). When new states were created in 1976 by the government of General Murtala Mohammed, Egbema was part of the newly created Imo State. It was during the boundary adjustment exercise that followed that Egbema, an oil-producing area, was shifted into Rivers State, an action that some Igbo leaders, such as the late Chief Sam Mbakwe, felt was aimed at depleting Imo of its oil producing status.

Besides, Igbo-speaking people in Rivers and Delta are as Igbo as any other Igbo, just as Yoruba in Kogi and Kwara are Yoruba and Ijaw in Rivers and Delta are Ijaw. The boundaries that separate people are just artificial. Let people learn from the lessons of recent history. Former Rivers State Governor, Dr. Peter Odili, used to pride himself as a “Rivers man”, as if Rivers State is a tribe. But, as soon as he embraced the presidential race and looked like a real prospect, some Ijaw leaders, such as Chief Edwin Clark, started telling the world that Odili is an Igbo man, and that the agitation for a South- South president of Nigeria was not meant for an Igbo man masquerading as South Southerner! So, Okiro remains the first Igbo man ever to be appointed as the Inspector General of Police, for whatever it is worth.

On a more serious note, it does not really matter where the Police IG comes from. That he comes from a tribe does not prevent him from doing the bidding of his appointers neither does it propel him to carry out an obvious ethnic agenda. In fact, the best person to be used against a tribe or religion is a member of that tribe or religion. All three IGP’s under Obasanjo were Yoruba, and, yet, till date, the real killers of Chief Bola Ige are yet to be exposed.

WHAT we know about Okiro, from his exploits as the Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, is that he is a tough crime fighter who does his job without creating undue political mess. He put area boys and the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) in check in 1999 to 2001 without creating the impression that he was on an ethnic witch hunt. Okiro is also very media friendly, having come from the background of a student activist in his university days.

It is now left for him to show Nigerians the stuff he is made of. The way Okiro makes his bed as Police IG is the way he will lie down on it!

Stolen:
U think Rivers State is like Lagos where Tinubu is god, U LEARNT NOTHING

DezMayorz:
Egbema Ethnic Nationality In Rivers and Imo States Endorsed Ex-IG Mike Okiro For Ohaneeze Ndigbo President General

- Clarified that Mike Okiro is a qualified Rivers son from Egbema in Onelga LGA, Rivers State

Dez Mayorz News.

Ahead of the January 10th, 2025 election of Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide, the people of Egbema ethnic nationality in Rivers and Imo States have unanimously endorsed the Inspector General of Police IGP, Dr Mike Okiro for the position of President General of the Igbo Socio-Cultural Organization known as Ohaneze Ndigbo.

The groups and individuals, while adopting Sir Mike Okiro as their sole candidate as the next President General of Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide, condemned insinuations by some people that Dr Mike Okiro is not an indigene of Rivers State and therefore, not qualified for the position that has been zoned to Rivers State.

The National President General of Ogbakor Egbema Alinso, Ifi Francis Igwebuike who addressed a media conference at Okwuzi community, Egbema in Ogba-Egbema-Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State, declared that Dr. Mike Okiro is eminently qualified for the position of the President General of Ohaneze Ndigbo and should be supported by all lovers of Egbema ethnic nationality.

On his part, the Nzeobi of Egbema Kingdom in Rivers State, His Eminence, Eze Evaristus Amuda said Mike Okiro is a Rivers son, has right from childhood, as an Mgbede indigene of Egbema, Rivers State, and been contributing his quota for development of Egbema ethnic nationality.

Also speaking on the development, the Youth Leader of Ogbakor Egbema Alinso, Evaristus Nicholas called on Ndigbo to support the former Inspector General of Police, Dr Mike Okiro

The election for the next President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo is billed to be held on January 10-11, 2025.

Subsequently, the group also called for an end to what it described as incessant extrajudicial killings along the boundary between Egbema, Imo State, and Egbema, Rivers State.

sapele914:
Eyepobian Waier u done show

sapele914:
When the cats away, the mouse will come out to play, all of u & a million Fubaras are nonentities where Wike stands.

Governor way sign budget passed by only 4 House Members, that one na Governor, abi u think say na military regime we dey?

Ezmans:
you people are always first to curse people but will be first again to react against curse

sapele914:
Keep spreading propaganda, the long arm of the law will catch up with u sooner than later.

That nuisance David Hundeyin is in exile today because of fake news.

DatNiggaDaz:
you are angry, sad, & in pains . Rivers people are not terrorists & jihadists.

You want the ND people to play second fiddle to lower breeds but you are on your own, you can feel that on this thread here.

These insults you throw around aggressively has been ignored for long. You have no monopoly to insults

If I come hard on jihadists & terrorists, there ain't no survivors. Be warned

DatNiggaDaz:
you are angry, sad, & in pains . Rivers people are not terrorists & jihadists.

You want the ND people to play second fiddle to lower breeds but you are on your own, you can feel that on this thread here.

These insults you throw around aggressively has been ignored for long. You have no monopoly to insults

If I come hard on jihadists & terrorists, there ain't no survivors. Be warned

immortalcrown:
While claiming that Rivers is not Igbo?

sapele914:
Please shut up Empty Barrel, what concerns President Tinubu with Rivers State?

When Nyesom Wike single handedly picked that puppet Fubara & made him governor of Rivers state, did you have any input, did u know who Fubara was until Nyesim Wike picked from the box of puppets, & made him governor, did u vote for Fubara?

Nonsense waste Empty Barrel.

sapele914:
Go beg President Bola Tinubu.

sapele914:
Shut up obnoxiously minded empty barrel, when Nyesom Wike single handedly picked that mumu & made him governor did u have any say or input whatsoever, did you vote for Fubara? confused inconsequential nonentity like yourself.

Did you even know Fubara before Wike chose him from the box of abandoned puppets & made him governor?

Village inferiority complex, everybody na Yoruba because Tinubu na your president?

So you are still very pained that Nyesom Wike chose a Yoruba man over that Agulu fraudster?

Please get lost in your ignorance, incoherent peasant.

kedeojo:
That is their only anger with Wike. Those hypocrite will have sided Wike against Fubara if he had supported Obi, even if he didn't get the presidency. Very foolish people. Fubara was just a civil servant on level 13 when Wike made him the accountant general of the state and later governor. I don't like Wike's attitude since he became governor to now cos he is too pompous and talks anyhow. In all his attitude, the igbos celebrated him when he was against Buhari and Apc they so much hate for no reason. Today Wike is bad to them just like Reno too, who they hailed in the past.

sapele914:
Please shut up Empty Barrel, what concerns President Tinubu with Rivers State?

When Nyesom Wike single handedly picked that puppet Fubara & made him governor of Rivers state, did you have any input, did u know who Fubara was until Nyesim Wike picked from the box of puppets, & made him governor, did u vote for Fubara?

Nonsense waste Empty Barrel.

Kreesxxx:
I have corrected your mistake by delisting Ikwerre.
Meanwhile Okiro has always been from Imo State.

Stolen:
YORUBA MAN, RIVERS IS NOT YOUR EWEDU STOMACH INFRASTRUCTURE POLITICS.



PRESIDENT NO REACH THERE, UNLESS THE STATE GOV FAVOURS U.


RIVERS PEOPLE DO NOT SEND BOTH U AND TINUBU

Stolen:
YORUBA MAN, RIVERS IS NOT YOUR EWEDU STOMACH INFRASTRUCTURE POLITICS.



PRESIDENT NO REACH THERE, UNLESS THE STATE GOV FAVOURS U.


RIVERS PEOPLE DO NOT SEND BOTH U AND TINUBU

Dalohad:
Well, he is no longer your puppet, your loss your pain..

When Odili, GEJ and PEJ were fighting Amaechi to help Wike become Governor, did you not hate it? Were you APC buffoons not pro-Amaechi in 2015 and 2019, and fighting Wike tooth and nail for the soul of Rivers state?

When Wike was killing APC members like flies in Rivers state, you hated his guts. Now he is the best thing after sliced bread, because he rigged elections for Tinubu in 2023..

Thunder fire zombies.

rinzaugustine:
you delisted yourself not ikwere

sapele914:
Please shut up Empty Barrel, what concerns President Tinubu with Rivers State?

When Nyesom Wike single handedly picked that puppet Fubara & made him governor of Rivers state, did you have any input, did u know who Fubara was until Nyesim Wike picked from the box of puppets, & made him governor, did u vote for Fubara?

Nonsense waste Empty Barrel.

immortalcrown:
While claiming that Rivers is not Igbo?

sapele914:
Shut up obnoxiously minded empty barrel, when Nyesom Wike single handedly picked that mumu & made him governor did u have any say or input whatsoever, did you vote for Fubara? confused inconsequential nonentity like yourself.

Did you even know Fubara before Wike chose him from the box of abandoned puppets & made him governor?

Village inferiority complex, everybody na Yoruba because Tinubu na your president?

So you are still very pained that Nyesom Wike chose a Yoruba man over that Agulu fraudster?

Please get lost in your ignorance, incoherent peasant.

Kreesxxx:
Concentrate on those who do not argue they are you. Ikwerre has vehemently states they don't have anything to do with you

sapele914:
Please shut up Empty Barrel, what concerns President Tinubu with Rivers State?

When Nyesom Wike single handedly picked that puppet Fubara & made him governor of Rivers state, did you have any input, did u know who Fubara was until Nyesim Wike picked from the box of puppets, & made him governor, did u vote for Fubara?

Nonsense waste Empty Barrel.