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AguluLiar:
No Ibo in Rivers state

IyfeNamikaze:
Lol .. who's this ignoramus? Have you ever even been to Rivers state before in your life? There are the Etche, Ekpeye, Ogba and Ndoni people who are Igbo.

Even some parts of Ikwere are Igbo, despite what amaechi says here, I have met a lot of Ikwere people here in Lagos who claim to be Igbo.
Go and sit down kid.

IyfeNamikaze:
Lol .. who's this ignoramus? Have you ever even been to Rivers state before in your life? There are the Etche, Ekpeye, Ogba and Ndoni people who are Igbo.

Even some parts of Ikwere are Igbo, despite what amaechi says here, I have met a lot of Ikwere people here in Lagos who claim to be Igbo.
Go and sit down kid.

IGBOPROMISE1:
Yoruba man, if this is what helps you sleep well at night then carry on believing it!

Hope by now naive Igbo know EXACTLY where the drive for this Igbo denial and attempts to limit Igbo territory is coming from! Keep on thinking you're safe and can thrive sharing the same country with vipers who despise you and see sabotaging all your interests as their reason for living and wanting 'one Nigeria'! You think it's for nothing that they're terrified at the prospects of seeing a Igbo become president of Nigeria, and therefore have ACTIVELY worked towards ensuring this doesn't ever happen!?

ChiefOkporghe:
I will not annoy aribisal0 in future I promise to be a good boy

AguluLiar:
Continue to wallowi in delusion!

No Ibo in Rivers state, period!

chrisxxx:
Will it be safe to say that all those group you mentioned are Ikwerre people? If they have a lot in common with the Ikwerre people then they are Ikwerres.

IGBOPROMISE1:
Dude, i'm a very proud Igbo and i'm from Rivers state! Any Igbo from Rivers state that has fallen for your divide-and-rule antics is one gullible fella without a mind of his own!

chrisxxx:
If you understand Ikwerre why can't see yourself as Ikwerre?
Meanwhile which Ikwerre dialect do you understand?
Ikwerres have over 12 dialects. Which one do you understand?

werisetogether:
But seriously, what kind of toxic "growth" is that?

Sad that bad news seems to attract more people...

ChiefOkporghe:
Why are you quoting me and making a comment I did not make?
When I don't have any issue with you or any one?
I've a friend who is a Political Scientist and I quote posts like this for easy references when we are discussing political matters.
Oga sir, please undo that thing you did for posterity sake.
I'm a Cross Riverian, nothing concerns me with who is same as who arguments here online.

AguluLiar:
Stop belabouring the issue.
I live in Ahoada town at present.

No Ibo in Rivers state, period!

IGBOPROMISE1:
Dude, you can live on Uranus for all i care! You're either being decietful or deluded asf to think there are no Igbo in Rivers state! So me that's from Ndoni (ONELGA), what would you say my ethnicity is if not Igbo!? Tell me!

gidgiddy:
That is why all those many people are grouped as Igbos. It's nothing unusual. In the Yoruba Nation, there are Oyo's, Ijebu's, Egba's, Ekitis and many others. If an Ijebu man speaks his dialect of Yoruba, an Oyo man will be struggle to follow. If an Ondo man speaks his brand of Yoruba, the Ekiti man will have to listen carefully or he will be lost. But they are all called Yorubas because they are connected linguistically, culturally and traditionally. It is no different with Igbos. Ikwerre are free to claim whatever identity they wish, but beyond claiming, they have never managed to point at one single thing that differentiates them with those they call Igbo

gidgiddy:
There over 20 different dialects spoken here in Enugu State. If someone from Imo State came here, he will understand most of them with carefully listening, but will not know the difference. Only someone like me who grew in Enugu State will know the difference between Nsukka, Amaechi, Nike, Owa, Eziagu dialects

But they are all Igbo people. Nothing stops any of them from claiming to be some 'distinct' ethnic group, but that will be laughable because there is no difference with them and others except small difference dialectical pronunciation

Ttalk:
Don't mind them, that's why they want to claim Lagos because of Igbosere and Igbobi

Irony1:
You say any truth and there is nothing hurting in your statements because they are lies and all you are saying is from the position of ignorance you want to open the eyes of ignorant ones. that is the joke of the century coming from someone who is ignorant coupled with dangerous obsession laced with hatred and bigotry.

aribisala0:
Ikwerre is not a dialect of Igbo

Ikwerre have more things in common with all their neighbours. not just Igbos

Having things in common with you does not make me you
The fundamental thing that differentiates them which you keep waffling about is THEY DO NOT SPEAK IGBO LANGUAGE

THEY EVEN HAVE THEIR OWN BIBLE

The way they dance is very different and more similar to their riverine neighbours

The Ikwerre have NO PROBLEM WITH KINGS

Igbos claimthey have no Kings
Ikwerre claim Edo ancestry

You see and hear all this and continue parroting they have never managed to point to one single thing

They have pointed to dozens but you are in denial

aribisala0:
Their language is not 70% Igbo That is not true

Ikwerre is a distinct language

Your logic about Benin is upside down

Ikwerre people do not identify as Igbos
They NEVER did
They used to sell Igbos whom they call Isuoma as slaves


There are many languages that are close or similar that does not make them dialects
Good examples are French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. They belong to the family of languages called the Romance family

Spanish people cannot say Portuguese people are Spanish because they bear names like Roberto, Eduardo, Maria, Anna, Ronaldo or Antonio

oluwaahmed:
They are all One people bro, just subdivided into their ethnic nationality in order to build peace and collective strength. That's the exact reason why someone from Italy can migrate to Spain in search of greener pastures with no visa, just ID card confirming your nationality. Look, igbo, yoruba & hausa are what the British used to identify and divide us, before they came can you point to any historical data that showed the people living in those areas called themselves igbos/yoruba/hausa? What is even the meaning of that, do you have a translation for the word yoruba Guy i am a pan-africanist. But I am different from zik because we must first evolve ethnically before collectively. We mist first put our nationalism before anything like religion etc. It's from there that we form a strong united Africa & that's exactly what they european did. Divided themselves into smaller viable states they came together with an agreement to foster unity and development. Do you Know that the population of Croatia is just 5 million? That's means the egba people can actually have their own country? Everyone can exist on their own Ikwerre, etc but you do not have any right to change their ancestry.

gidgiddy:
Then that means you don't know anything about the Ikwerre language as all other Igbo speaking in Rivers State such as the Eches, Ndoki, Egbema, Ogba, Ndoni all understand Ikwerre, and Ikwerres understand them

IGBOPROMISE1:
All this denying being Igbo in the so called south-south, especially present Rivers and Delta states, started immediately after the counter-coup of 1966 and is driven by the same evil hegemonic alliance that led the uncivil war and fooled ethnicities and groups into joining them in the effort to sustain 'one Nigeria'! Let anyone reading this post provide any pre-66 document showing any of the present Igbo-denying groups declaring their non-Igboness! At what point did the prefix of umu change to rumu in Rivers state?

Not one Ikwerre person even among those claiming to be Igbo has EVER challenged or written against this RUMUIZATION. NOT ONE

Factcheck0001:
Hope these people are beginning to put their emotions in check, if not people will just b using them.


Once u want to b in their good book, just start insulting tinubu n u will become their hero overnight


Who would have imagined that el rufai they labelled the devil just few years ago will suddenly become their hero today cos he's against tinubu?


Even if u want to grow your page on twitter, just b insulting tinubu everyday

Moveittothem:
When did Igbos start praising Hell-Rufai?

I don't know you to be a liar here, behave.

viodemus:
Igbos, have you seen how the others like it when igbos deny their identity, the enemies love it. Now, what oga amaechi said was that he had to forefront his igboness, to kinda let others know that the igbos are not divided, and that if one igbo clan is in trouble, all igbos are in trouble. If one igbo clan is successful, every one will support and spread the progress.


Just look at how excited these igbo haters get whrn they think or see any form of igbo division. even though, amaechi didn't say what they're thinking. This news go charge all their sexual genitals, and if you mark today and 9 months later, they will experience new born babies, all because of this kind of news.


Igbos, in summary, these people live to make sure the igbos are caged slaves and are systematically eliminated, and also economically strangulated. So, can you imagine their anger, to know that the people they have tried to, and constantly try to eliminate, oppress, and suppress, are the majority tribe, the most thriving, the vast populace, etc.

aribisala0:
That is not an argument is it?

Do you have anything to say that is actually a logical argument?

Egbema Ogba Ndoni are NOT Igbo speaking

THEY have their own Distinct languages

The only ones that speak Igbo are Etche

It is not an argument to just make an assertion because you like the idea and hope that makes it true

There is a classification of Igboid Languages Not dialects but Languages

Igbo which has several dialects just happens to have the largest number of speakers and that is the origin of the term Igboid

Now Ikwerre is another language in the family it has dialects in its own right but the PEOPLE do not Identify as Igbo

The Ezza people of Ebonyi have their own language NOT DALECT but language
They identify as Igbo

A banana is NOT a type of plantain
A plantain is NOT a type of banana

Plantain cannon say to Banana you are a small plantain


Now there is presumed Evidence that the Igboid languages and Languages like Edo Yoruba had some connection and then branched off about 8000 years ago but also evidence that There were people in Places like Okigwe for example long before There was an Igbo language. What did those people speak?
We have seen Hausa language wipe out smaller languages so it is nothing that is new

The simple reality is a language can take over an entire space for one reason or another as we see with Arabic in North Africa. That does not make them Arabs


So this appeal to language as evidence of anything is ignorance

It is just evidence of being in the same neighbourhood