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XXXOGBA:
I dey follow mumu people talk so. I shouldn't use the two of you to generalise on the Igbos.

I met good Igbos when I was in Nnewi for few years.

Later.

Na your stepid father is Mumu, illiterate

XXXOGBA:
Honestly, I wish they will understand. Everybody's very angry.

Mumu you and the other guy does not represent everybody, get it into your empty thick skull

NaMe4:
From the streets of Ikwerre land


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnyv_fbNopQ?si=We-3_2CaVC8spcX-

Keep interviewing illiterate who don’t know their history
Yourba people interview…river state will always aling with the brother in the east
I can’t leave my people and then side with people who have not seen oil before in their backyard
Have you house being bought my fire before because of oils bunkery
Why don’t you interview the sentor mbata and hear what he has to say his an elder not this riffrats that can’t read and write.

Kreesxxx:
Not all of us buy the idea of Bini origin. What about if a Bini prince married an Igbo lady and perhaps left his hood because of disagreement or disapproval with his choice of wife with kins?

Very good.. but will the bini Prince Change His Name to igbos Name because He IS married to an igbos Woman? Will he drop His language and culture because He is leaving? Because of quarrel with His fellow bini?
Lets be rational..

pquaver:
Very good.. but will the bini Prince Change His Name to igbos Name because He IS married to an igbos Woman? Will he drop His language and culture because He is leaving? Because of quarrel with His fellow bini?
Lets be rational..

My uncle married an Igbo woman. Do you the names of his children?
Obinna against Ikwerre Ovunda. Emenike, Uche against Ikwerre Uche.

Kreesxxx:
#FOR_THE_RECORDS

IWHURUOHNA (IKWERRE) ETHNIC NATIONALITY IS NEVER A SUBGROUP OF ANY ETHNIC NATION IN NIGERIA OR ELSEWHERE

Preamble:

Iwhuruohna ethnicity is one of the ethnic blocs which constitutes present day Nigeria and the people are found in four local government areas in present day Rivers State. The local government areas (LGAs ) include: Ikwerre ( Kelga), Emohua (Emolga), Obio-Akpor (Obalga), and Port Harcourt City (Phalga). Iwhuruohna remains a homogeneous ethnic group with a common ancestry and paternity. In this stead, we make the following declaratory statements:
Iwhuruohna people are from Rivers State and the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The people have their unique culture and traditions.

Iwhuruohna share the same ancestry with the Ekpeye and the Ogba people of Rivers State.

Iwhuruohna people migrated from the Ancient Benin Kingdom during the reigns of Oba Ewuare (Ogwaro) . Our paternity is traceable to a great grand ancestor - AKALAKA who left the Ancient Benin Kingdom in company of his sons which included IHRUOHA ( IWHURUOHNA).

The name, Ikwerre, was an " Igbonised" version of " Akwerulem" - ' we have agreed or consented ' ( a response of a Rebisi Monarch to an Igbo translator and a Briton during the negotiations for acquisition of acres of land for Port Harcourt wharf).

The theory of origins linking Iwhuruohna ethnicity to Igbo ancestry was ill- conceived as a result of the balkanization and " Igbonisation" of Iwhuruohna by Igbo merchants from Aro, Nkwere and Awka who oppressed and suppressed the aborigines in their place.

The declaration of Ogbakor Ikwerre Cultural Organization during the Chukwudifu Oputa Human Rights Violation Panel 2001 that : " Ikwerre ethnic nationality is not and has never been a subgroup of any other tribe in Nigeria, including Ndi-Igbo..." would suffice here.

The regionalization of Nigeria during the colonial era placed Ndi-Igbo on an advantageous position against other minority groups in the defunct Eastern Regional Government including Iwhuruohna people.
Till date, there are still pockets of Igbo ( Aro) settlements in such Iwhuruohna Communities at Elele, Igwuruta, Isiokpo. They are evidently Aro compounds like Aro-Omuodu, Aro-Omuodukwu, Aro-Omuma, Aro-Ogbogbu in Igwuruta and Nmgbu Oyo at Isiokpo.
8. The earliest incursion into Ikwerre hinterland by the Igbo emboldened the proponents of Igbo expansionist theory to erroneously think or link Iwhuruohna to an Igbo ancestry.
9. During colonial era, some Igbo merchants such as Nwocha Amefula, Osondu Oyo, Amakiri Nwocha, Nwosu Okorie Ebika held positions of trust and represented Iwhuruohna people as warrant chiefs at Isiokpo, Omagwa, Ozuaha, Omademe and Ipo for seven years at the Choba division
10. The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999(2010) as amended recognizes Iwhuruohna ( Ikwerre) ethnic nationality as a distinct and unique ethnic group in Nigeria. The people of Iwhuruohna frown at any attempt by some Igbo expansionists to incorporate Iwhuruohna as a subset or subgroup of any other in Nigeria or elsewhere.
11. We acknowledge some shared similarities between Iwhuruohna and her neighbours including the Igbo in terms of aspects of culture and traditions. This does not, in anyway, validate the bogus and unverified claims that Iwhuruohna is Igbo as being peddled by Igbo expansionists.
12. We call on the general public and the Governor and Government of Rivers State to be wary of the tricks and pranks of the Igbo expansionists in the nomenclature of " Ohaneze Ndi-Igbo" and their activities in Rivers State.
13. We would continue to associate with and reverence our paternity or genealogy to the Ancient Benin Kingdom in honours of our ancestors - AKALAKA & IHRUOHA (IWHURUOHNA).
14. Thanks for your rapt attention and be properly guided as we pray "CHIOKIKE" to strengthen and embolden us to always speak the truth and nothing but the truth! We do not also support any expansionist meeting(s) in Rivers State as it will cause agitation among the people of the State.

Signed:

His Majesty, King Amb. Sir. Leslie Nyebuchi Eke, JP, Ph.D. DCF.
Eze Gbakagbaka
Nyerisi Eli Woji (EzeWoji XII),
Nyerisi Mbam Oro-Evo
Eze Oha Evo III of Evo Kingdom
Chairman, Supreme Council of Ikwerre Govt Recognized Traditional Rulers
Date:6/1/2025

HRH Eze Engr. Ben O. Ugo, JP
Elumoha VIII, Nyenweala Omerelu
Kelga Rivers State
Secretary, Supreme Council of Ikwerre Govt. Recognized Traditional Rulers
6/1/2025

#ikwerre
#ikwerretv
#ikwerretotheworld
@seun, myndd44, lalasticlala, Dominique

The AKALAKA of a founder where did he migrate from.

There is an lgbo man that migrated to Benin, lived for some decades until there was issue he left to come back....

Kreesxxx:
My uncle married an Igbo woman. Do you the names of his children?
Obinna against Ikwerre Ovunda. Emenike, Uche against Ikwerre Uche.

What IS your uncles Name? Did He also Take igbos Name against ikwere? There lies Ur answer.. Akalaka was the Name of the progenitor coming from bini

Igbo or no Igbo we are still Igbo. Period