₦airaland Forum

Have any of past presidents - past or present better than Wike? As he is all in all based on our presidents he is a perfect fit for president

Macphenson:
Wike is just petty. This is the useless and disgusting character that wants to be a President.

Fubara thank you foe exposing this charlattan and lout to Nigerians.

Imagine Wike being a President of this country.

phantomxx:
Anybody who takes Wike serious needs to have his head checked.

Someone is going about sowing seeds of discord, he should not be taken seriously?
This comment today does it make sense anyhow you want to look at it?

BloomingDale:
He said the truth na. If opobo were real Ijaw people they would have been part of Bayelsa when they were splitting rivers into rivers and bayelsa.

Lol
So they should have carved some parts of Delta and ondo states too into bayelsa inorder to capture ijaws there?

By your statement Delta ijaws are not real ones!
Hmmm

From that photo of tribes in Rivers state. How come obigbo (Oyigbo) LGA is renamed an ijaw name
Abi una madness don start
Obigbo clan that are proud IGBOS and that does not have any tied with ijaw is now bearing ijaw name that doesn't exist.

Masterclass in lying with maps. You divide Ikwerre away from their ethnic compatriots and unite Ijaw together. If you divide Ijoid speakers as much as you divide Igboid speakers, you'll end up with Ikwerre the biggest in land area as they already are in population even in this joke of a map.

Truths9ja:
clueless wailer and manipulator, so tell me which tribe is governor Fubara. Fubara has disgraced you times without number, you are just ranting and wailing niii. Fubara is an ijaw man and prove that to the world. Ijaw tribe is the largest tribe in the niger delta
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There is no one this guy has not fought

The only Rivers Governor Wike is yet to challenge is Celestine Omehia. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Diete Spiff

“People like Chief Sara-Igbe, one of the worst persons you can ever think of. One of the political merchants. I know them. King Diete-Spiff, whom I respected, went to Government House. Look at the statement he made. ‘I’m an Ijaw man. You’re an Ijaw man. Call us, we’ll be with you’.

“An elder statesman would go and make such a statement? Now you are the same person coming again now to go and meet Mr. President to intervene. Intervene what? Mr. President that has no right? Mr. President that he took to court, that he has no power to intervene?

Odilli

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOLbT93WQdI

Amaechi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klkua9jImpo&pp=ygUMV2lrZSBhbWFlY2hp

Fubara

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feGPNIkyecY?feature=shared

Wike will later regret all what he has done

Burob:
Yet the Mumu Fubara that u are all supporting was singlehandedly picked by Nyesom Wike without any input from u & them.

Have u checked your own head, Charity they say begins @ home.

And so what? Is Rivers State gubernatorial position his birthright? How do some people even think in this country?

Lemme guess - you are from the South West where people call respect the idea of keeping quiet while irresponsible elders destroy the future of their children! Damn! That culture is so manipulative!

peleson1:
People can clearly see that some persons in this nairaland are lunatics and as mad as wike.

What so the ijaws in Ondo ,akwa ibom and other places that did not join bayemda are what?

Opobo and bonny are ibani peoptof ijaws.

Nonsense divide and rule politics.

Weak man like wike . Fubara an ijaws man is the governor. Wike can hang himself

😊 Most Opobo people are Igbos Oga, leave niger delta politics........even wike knows he is Igbo......asari knows he is igbo too! Tam david west all these people are Igbos!

BloomingDale:
He said the truth na. If opobo were real Ijaw people they would have been part of Bayelsa when they were splitting rivers into rivers and bayelsa.

It's like saying why weren't Igbos in Delta, Rivers, Cross river, Akwa Ibom, Benue and Kogi part of current South East states.
The people who created the states weren't interested in where anyone was coming from. States were created for political exigency.

This man is so pained that he has lost revenue in flow for almost 2 year now.

Mr Wike needs a serious self-assessment:
Dr Odili didn't disturb Rotimi Amaechi's government and neither did Amaechi interfere with his government , so why does he think he's larger than life by playing God on Fubara' s government.

President Tinubu probably needs to take the blame cos if he had not made Wike a minister he wouldn't have had the wherewithal and the trapping of office to be fighting his successor. We know he has been buying judges under the guise of building lodges for them and giving them expensive cars and I think his wife is a Judge too, and they are now re-paying back by awarding outlandish judgements in his favour. In better places court judgments are a reflection of the social pulse, but some of our judges are fond of awarding judgements that further inflame the society. I wish they learn!

His kind of godfatherism reminds everyone of 1999-2007, the President needs to sack him and find another way of winning Rivers State come 2027. Heating up the polity by a serving minister belongs to yesteryear politics.


Addendum: my attention has been brought to the fact that Fubara demolished the House of Assembly two years ago, that's an impeachable offence. I wasn't paying attention to Nigerian politics at that time cos internal Nigerian matters always made me sad. I totally support the suspension of the governor.

DatNiggaDaz:


Wike has learnt tribalism, divide & rule tactics from the sophisticators.

He is lying again after claiming before the election that he "supported" an Ijaw man to become Governor

Now, he is no more an Ijawman. Since the Ijaws through their Chiefs & associations have made a bold attempt to stand behind SIM,nothing is left for the drunkard other than tribalism & division

He knows he has failed already

Nailed it.
Tinubu, Bayo Onanuga and co have taught him how to use tribalism to divide a population while stealing their resource.

heniford2:
Wike is smart though he has lose mouth but Wike is very very smart...he says what's in his mind not giving a aloot about ur feelings

Smart in what sense? Smart not to have ensure that the politics of Rivers State is free from good fatherism?

Smart to have fixed Rivers State during his tenure?

Smart to have ensured that Rivers State has one of the best facilities (name any of your choice) in the whole of Africa or even Nigeria?

Smart by trying to twist the arm of the Governor into paying him a certain amount monthly?

What are you guys smoking down there? He is just a selfish fool like every other Nigerian politicians.

Burob:
Yet the Mumu Fubara that u are all supporting was singlehandedly picked by Nyesom Wike without any input from u & them.

Have u checked your own head, Charity they say begins @ home.

You are an idiot

Someone like Wike with such a Megalomania complex should not be allowed near the corridors of power. The dude is just so full of himself.

How can you tell indigents of a state that they cannot rule because they are minority. Gosh this sense of reasoning stinks.

Now you are telling the so called minority by you that the governor is not their tribal man, because you want to use "divide and rule tactics". Who made you the spokesman of the Ijaw people. The ijaw people all around Nigeria are from different clan and the governor is from the ibani clan of Ijaw, so what makes him not a real Ijaw man. Are you the decider of who gets to be a real/unreal Ijaw.

In essence he is just telling the ijaw people that the governor is not their tribal man and they should never dream of leading the good people of Rivers State because they are minority.

Wike is confused. In your previous statement, you boasted how without you Ijaw could not be governor. Now you are saying Fubara is not real Ijaw. So we now have fake Ijaw

Abufo:
😊 Most Opobo people are Igbos Oga, leave niger delta politics........even wike knows he is Igbo......asari knows he is igbo too! Tam david west all these people are Igbos!

Your assertion is not correct.

The natives of Opobo speak Ibani, which is classified as an eastern ijaw dialect.
I'm a southern Ijaw man from Bayelsa state and I understand the Ibani language because it is a branch of the Ijaw language. The name Amaopusenibo Siminalayi Fubara has Ijaw written all over it.

That been said.
The influence of King Jaja of Opobo, an igbo slave who was adopted by the Opobo-ibani's and later grew to become king in his adopted home has made many Opobos speak the igbo language and bear the igbo name. But by ancestry, the Opobos are full blown Ijaws.

Wike that says a thing in the morning and a different thing in the evening

Gov. Fubara please continue to deal with Wike. Let him keep creating contents for us.

Deal with him mercilessly..

Our yoruba Muslims are deceiving him,the way they deceived Rochas Okorocha. Today Rochas is as meek as a dove.. Dem don dump am. I remember the day madridguy, omenka and Rottennaija were calling him the 'Next president after Buhari'....

Splashme:
So, the famous King Jaja of Opobo
was not Ijaw?

That is laughable. Wike talks
before he thinks
.

For the avoidance of doubt, King Jaja of Opobo was an Igbo man. It has never been disputed

Wike has lost it totally and finally.
He should just go and rest.

Pride comes before a fall

phantomxx:
And so?? If I sponsor your traditional and white weddings, honeymoon and buy a car for you and your wife DOES IT GIVE ME THE RIGHT TO F.UCK YOU WIFE

well said, Wike sounding like the only person who have governed the river state as if they don't have past governorS

Emotions and sentiments apart, the correct question is: if you know or had a gentle/silent agreement with him on the fact that you will f.uk his wife (after marriage), before you take all the fund expenditure of his wedding, then do you have right to f.uk his wife?

phantomxx:
And so?? If I sponsor your traditional and white weddings, honeymoon and buy a car for you and your wife DOES IT GIVE ME THE RIGHT TO F.UCK YOU WIFE

Alright

SmartPolician:
And so what? Is Rivers State gubernatorial position his birthright? How do some people even think in this country?

Lemme guess - you are from the South West where people call respect the idea of keeping quiet while irresponsible elders destroy the future of their children! Damn! That culture is so manipulative!

I didn't want to post anything on this thread BUT had to come in when I saw highly MISLEADING comments and innuendoes in your post here.

From here on out, YOU have to STOP generalizing and typing trash here about people you don't know! You know absolutely NOTHING about the centuries-long history of Yoruba folks (who number over 80 million people worldwide who are indigenous to Nigeria, Benin Republic, Republic of Togo, and are spread in other major population centres of the world). I don't know where some of you highly ignorant people get your disrespectful and warped ideas about other ethnic groups from.

Yorubas DON'T keep quiet when things are going wrong especially when irresponsible elders are going off the trail. It's true that Yorubas "respect elders" for their years of experience and hierarchy, BUT if you begin to go out of line, they will checkmate you contrary to the FALSE assumptions I've been seeing some of you Ibos post online. In FACT, Yorubas are largely REPUBLICANS who operate a blend of monarchies. This is why you will hear that folks from Ibadan, Egbas, Oyos, Ekitis, Ondo, Ijesa, and many more, DON'T take nonsense from ANYBODY and have warrior origins going back to centuries.

It’s a testament to the firm and liberal attitude of the entire Yorubas that Yoruba women have risen to high-ranking aristocratic positions for centuries even as of today, in parts of Yorubaland such as the warrior Egbas of Abeokuta City and parts of the Ogun State environs (Egbas are historically a subgroup of the Oyo people), women have risen to become the "Heads of families" (or Olori ebis) if they happen to be the oldest in the family tree. Properties are also shared equally among all the children regardless of whether they are males or females.

Even in the days of the Oyo Empire, the "Oyo Mesi" High Chiefs were always there to checkmate the Emperor or Alaafin of Oyo Empire (which extended from modern Nigeria to modern Benin Republic and parts of modern Republic of Togo) so that he doesn't get too autocratic and misuse his position.

Take note. If you fall out of line regardless of age, you will get called out in Yorubaland and sanctioned. Period.

ibronkw:
Only God knows why woke is really bitter

He's bittered he did achieve godfatherism in rivers state.

BloomingDale:
He said the truth na. If opobo were real Ijaw people they would have been part of Bayelsa when they were splitting rivers into rivers and bayelsa.

So why is kalabari not part of Bayelsa?

[quote author=Bob.loco post=134551550]The immediate past Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has said that Governor Similayi Fubara is not an Ijaw man.

Wike stated this while addressing a large number of Kalabari people at a reception organized for him on Saturday.

Recall that Wike had recently claimed that an Ijaw man would not have become governor in Rivers State without his support, talking about Fubara.

Wike said the Ijaw ethnic group does not constitute the majority in any of the Niger Delta states except Bayelsa.

The statement came amid the ongoing political crisis in the Rivers State, with Wike and Fubara at the center of the feud.

In the same interview, Wike said that people from the Opobo clan of Rivers State, where the governor comes from, are not real Ijaw people.

Speaking to the Kalabaris on Saturday, Wike was more direct, saying, “Let nobody deceive you that the governor is Ijaw; he is not. All of you are Ijaw; are you benefiting? Politics is interest.

“We must come up to say people must not behave and treat people, used and dump them and then you say it’s politics. That politics has to stop.”
https://dailypost.ng/2025/03/15/rivers-crisis-let-nobody-deceive-you-fubara-not-ijaw-man-wike/[/quote]For those who don't know and are NOT historically conversant of archival materials, as of 1870 when Jaja and his group fled the 1869 Civil War in Bonny, what you call Opobo today was ORIGINALLY Ibibioland NOT Ijawland. It was the White British trader friends of Jaja who saved him from extermination when the better armed war expedition of Bonny Island came for him where he fled to, otherwise Jaja and his group from the Anna Pepple house who fled from Bonny in 1870 would have been wiped out completely. Opobo (which is originally part of Ikot Abasi) was given out on lease by the Ibibios for Jaja and his group to stay with his group who fled from Bonny.

The current Opobo was later carved out right into Rivers State in the 1970s [The South Eastern State which was created by General Yakubu Gowon on May 27, 1967, was renamed Cross River State in 1976. Then the merger of Opobo to Rivers State was fully done in the year 1976 from Cross River State while the larger part of Opobo (Ikot Abasi) remained as part of the larger Ibibioland] otherwise Opobo in Rivers State would have been located in Akwa Ibom State today. Opobo indeed is an ancestral hybrid OR mix of people of Ijaw, Ibibio, and Ndoki bloodlines. Jaja was originally a slave (who later underwent the Ijaw initiation ceremony or rites to transform into an Ijaw after he was set free in Bonny) but in reality he is ancestrally of Ibo roots. Jaja was actually a very ruthless and wicked man who prevented other upland tribes and more (the Ngwas, Annangs, Ibibios, etc) from trading directly with the British traders down the river routes and this led to the Ikot Udo Obong War with the Annangs and Ibunos who resisted him. He had a lot of people from other tribes publicly beheaded in bloody circumstances and this is one of the reasons why the British Colonialists removed and deported him in 1887 because he was just a middle-man Chief who wanted to dominate the trading activities to the EXCLUSION of other tribes along the Opobo (Imo) River. He died in 1891, 21 years after first fleeing to Opobo (Ikot Abasi) in Ibibioland.

So, Opobo was originally a part of IKOT ABASI as of 1870. Jaja was originally from the Umuduruoha clan in Amaigbo, in modern-day Imo State but was SOLD into slavery (I watched a serialized Maxwell Enemuo documentary years back where some folks claimed it was Jaja's slave trader father who sold him into slavery based on some likely Ibo abominations) and was brought to Bonny in Ijawland to be sold off to the infamous White slave traders right in Bonny. The Aros and their confederacy gangs such as the Abam and Ohafia who followed them on several slaves raids in the Ibo interior brought these Ibo captives to be SOLD to the Ijaws of the coast at Bonny who then acted as middle-men and sold many of these people from the mid-1700s to the 1800s to the American, British and Jewish slave traders. Also, the place called Arochukwu of today is itself originally Ibibioland (with an original Ibibio name) BUT as a result of a series of wars that occurred between 1690 and 1720, the Ibibios lost full grip, BUT you will still see very strong vestiges of Ibibio cultural traditions such as in the Ibibio religion, Ekpe society, language, Nsibidi writings which are also common to the Ejagbams and Efiks, style of dressing, cuisines and more on the people of Aro till today. Some family lineages in Aro also have direct Ibibio ancestry and Ibibio names.


I hope that helps.


Read the iconic book: "History of Nigeria" by Sir. Allan Burns, who was the Governor-General of Nigeria and the Gold Coast (Ghana) to read more advanced information about the Ibibio origins of Opobo (IKOT ABASI) as of 1870 and Jaja's greed and wickedness to his fellow men because he wanted to monopolize the middle man trade to the exclusion of other tribes in the words of Sir Allan Burns.

Bobloco:
This is madness.

In fact, Wike is a madman.

He has arrogated to himself the power to determine who is Ijaw and who is not.

Wike is now a true disciple of Tinubu's 'Emilokan' tribal and ethnic bigotry, a brand of bitter politics that promotes hatred and extreme tribal and ethnic division.

Wike will not end well.

You ve been saying this since 2020. He is now minister of FCT about to deactivate your simpcard governor.

Burob:
Yet the Mumu Fubara that u are all supporting was singlehandedly picked by Nyesom Wike without any input from u & them.

Have u checked your own head, Charity they say begins @ home.

did Jonathan and his wife not hand pick the useless wike and now he's disrespecting them.