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gift2xl:
Ohanaeze at times make una de use silent de wine issues. No be everything una done run come out.

Tranquill:
When Amaechi was addressed as “Our Igbo son” in Abia State by the then Ohaneze president Joe Irukwu, during the reception in honour of Arunma Oteh, he promptly took the mic and said “I am a proud Ikwerre son and not Igbo. This was over 15 years ago. At a radio Station in Lagos when he was governor, he was asked if he was Igbo and he said No.

Igbo people continued to call him an Igbo man so when he was campaigning for Buhari against Jonathan he used that advantage to tell the crowd that he was more Igbo than Jonathan and Igbo people started cheering him. Is there any where in the world where someone would overnight say he belongs to an ethnicity that he never identified with and then you take that as indelible fact?

Only Igbo people would see someone whose mother, father, none of the siblings is Igbo but assume that person can become Igbo overnight. If this is not stupidity of the highest order then I don’t know what it is.

jmoore:
Ogbakor Ikwerre means what?

Ogbakor means gathering in Igbo language.

They should have used Rumugbakor Ikwerre.

Tranquill:
When Amaechi was addressed as “Our Igbo son” in Abia State by the then Ohaneze president Joe Irukwu, during the reception in honour of Arunma Oteh, he promptly took the mic and said “I am a proud Ikwerre son and not Igbo. This was over 15 years ago. At a radio Station in Lagos when he was governor, he was asked if he was Igbo and he said No.

Igbo people continued to call him an Igbo man so when he was campaigning for Buhari against Jonathan he used that advantage to tell the crowd that he was more Igbo than Jonathan and Igbo people started cheering him. Is there any where in the world where someone would overnight say he belongs to an ethnicity that he never identified with and then you take that as indelible fact?

Only Igbo people would see someone whose mother, father, none of the siblings is Igbo but assume that person can become Igbo overnight. If this is not stupidity of the highest order then I don’t know what it is.

justified007:
Did you know this same Amaechi was almost elected as the Ohanaeze president? I have never seen such level of desperation before

Tranquill:
Start by telling us why Igbo delegates supported Atiku and Igbo people expected Wike to support PitObi.

jmoore:
Ogbakor Ikwerre means what?

Ogbakor means gathering in Igbo language.

They should have used Rumugbakor Ikwerre.

Tranquill:
When Amaechi was addressed as “Our Igbo son” in Abia State by the then Ohaneze president Joe Irukwu, during the reception in honour of Arunma Oteh, he promptly took the mic and said “I am a proud Ikwerre son and not Igbo. This was over 15 years ago. At a radio Station in Lagos when he was governor, he was asked if he was Igbo and he said No.

Igbo people continued to call him an Igbo man so when he was campaigning for Buhari against Jonathan he used that advantage to tell the crowd that he was more Igbo than Jonathan and Igbo people started cheering him. Is there any where in the world where someone would overnight say he belongs to an ethnicity that he never identified with and then you take that as indelible fact?

Only Igbo people would see someone whose mother, father, none of the siblings is Igbo but assume that person can become Igbo overnight. If this is not stupidity of the highest order then I don’t know what it is.

ysth:
😂😂😂😂, the north respects Wike, and he was disappointed by his main man Tambuwal? Did you ask yourself why Tambuwal decided to support Atiku at the dying minute, same Tambuwal, Wike gave 500million after a market fire in Sokoto. .. Ask yourself critical questions. Rivers politicians think they are smart by spending billions for the north to support them but they keep running away from their own shadow.

Kc3000:
The Ohaneze youth or whatever they are called did not watch the interview for themselves. They must have read mischievous headlines and fell for the propaganda. Amaechi did not deny being Igbo.

- He said he started to assert his Igbo identity because of the political marginalization of the Igbo.

- He said he did not claim Igbo because he wanted the Igbos votes.

-He said one has to be Ikwerre first to be Igbo.

-He said many Ikwerre deny being Igbo, but he belongs to the faction that affirm their Igboness.

-He said it did not make any sense that Ikwerre has so much in common with other Igbo yet some say they are not Igbo.

Agugbadin:
But why are Nigerians rejecting and not wanting to be identified or be associated with the Igbo tribe? can someone please tell us.

ProudlyLagos:
Ndigbo themselves made themselves available to this politicians because they know how emotional this clan of people are and how to easily press their mumu button

I don’t know why a majority tribe will be in a desperate need for validation and forced attachments to a people who have made it clear severally that they don’t belong to your tribe and yet still can’t respect their wish and just let them be

This is a show of pure inferiority complex and they Should look inwards and work on themselves and ask why this people are rejecting them and not just the ikwerres

Mrexcell:
Amaechi and wike thinks by denying being igbo will automatically give them an edge over other politicians in the ss/se and make the north and west support them to become nigeria's president they don't even know that they still see them as igbos in their closets. The north and west will continue to use ikwerre politicians to achieve their own long term political goals just like they have been using igbo politicians like rochas, orji kalu, ogbonna onu, soludo etc.

Junior66:
This your example makes no sense. The Portuguese and the Spanish were original the same people, it is just geographical separation that changed their languages slightly. A Spaniard that has never heard Portuguese language in his life before will understand much of it once he listens to it. They both understand themselves to a very large extent similar to the way Igbos and Ikweres understand each other. The only difference is that the Portuguese and Spaniards have the same origin.

Even these your Ikweres likely have the same origin with the Igbos. At least you can't prove that they don't.

I'm an Igala observer from Kogi State.

ideatoprince18:
..... Why do u people think like this? If a person from KOGI bears Funmi Adebayo, what do u think her tribe would be?

Ikwerre people that keeps saying they are not Igbos are just plainly daft. Wether ure Ikwerre ,Ohafia,Abiriba, Ohagwu,Ukwuani,Ndokwa, Mbaise,Owerri,Nsukka,Abakaliki, The brella that covers all is Igbo language. The only difference is that we speak a variation of same Igbo language.

Just like how Lions,Tiger,Cheetah,Leopard,are all Cats. You can't classify them under Dogs.

richie240:
sometimes Most times it's expedient not to interfere/dabble into igbo matters.

Are you aware that the president-general of Ohaneze is a fellow ikwerre-man just like Amaechi??

Don't let them use your head to play ball.
When it favours them they (ikwerres/nigerdelta igbos) will tell you "we are igbós", but when the narratives doesn't align with their aspirations, they'll deny their (igbo) heritage.

We think they are 'confused', but the contrary is the case: they are using the heads of gullible nigerians to play ball.
Their case can be likened to kwara indigenes waking up to tell the gullibles that they are not Yorubas simply bcus they were carved into north-central.

Pacesetter123:
You are saying trash!
Name and language are the first symbols of ethnic/tribe identity.
If 90% of Spanish and Portuguese language are the same as you said,what does that tells you?
Doesn't that tells you that they are the same people from the same ancestry?
You should have asked yourself,why is the English language you compared there not the same with other two despite being in the same Europe? That shows the English people are not from the same origin with them.

Then coming back to Nigeria and to this thread proper.

If you come down to the part of S/S that I'm from, and somebody or even a child ask you, what is your name?
And you answer,my name is Nnadozie Emeka.The person wouldn't even bother to ask your ethnicity again,he/she will automatically call you an Igbo man.

But if you say,I am Balogun Adewale,the person will automatically identify you as a Yoruba.

And I strongly believe and I know so too that,if somebody go to a village in Ekiti for instance ,and mention his name as Emeka Chinedu,the first thing that will come to the Ekiti person's mind will be that the person is an Igbo man.
The same thing will happen if you go to Hausa land and say you are Ngozi Infeayi Okowa, you will automatically be identified by the Hausa man as an Igbo lady.

So in summary, your name and language is your identity.
You cannot bear Tunde Bukola Adeyemi and come from Kogi or Kwara or even Delta states and you tell us or Hausa man that you are not a Yoruba man.You will explain tire ,u no go fit convince us cos de evidence is clear.

In the same vein, you cannot bear Obi,Okowa, Amaechi,Emeka,Chukwuma,Amokachi as your surname and tell my people here or other people in Nigeria that you are not an Igbo man simply because you are from Delta or Rivers states.

So,if you don't want us to call you a Yoruba man bcuz you are from Kwara or Kogi,then stop bearing Adewale,Oyedepo, Adeyemi, Bukola as your surname and nobody will identify you with the Yoruba ethnicity again.

Also,if you are from Rivers or Delta and you want people to stop calling you an Igbo man,then stop bearing Emeka, Amaechi, Infeayi, Nyesom,Nnabueze,Okoro,Okowa ,Okocha as your surname and nobody will call you an Igbo man again.

Why are the Igbos not saying we the Effiongs,Basseys,Okons,Affiongs,Ekaettes,Ekengs, Ekpeyongs,Udofias,Akpabios,Akpans are Igbos despite being in the same S/S zone with the Ikwerres and Aniomas?
They can't cos our surnames are not the same.We can only see ourselves as brothers but from different ancestry with distinct surnames and language.

So enough of all this back and forth identity crisis from the people of that sides.
They are Igbos by names and language irrespective of their states or geopolitical zones.Else, they should stop speaking the same language of Igbo and bearing Igbo names.
Everybody should answer their Papa name.

justified007:
Did you know this same Amaechi was almost elected as the Ohanaeze president? I have never seen such level of desperation before

chrisxxx:
Have you heard of mutual Intelligibility of Language before? Understanding a language doesn't make that language yours. Thus phenomenon is not only among the Igbos and the Ikwerres. There are other languages all over the world. It is just that Igbos have simply refused to listen. Amaechi has said it severally that he is not Igbo. It is a disdainful for any Ikwerre man to accept being Igbo. Mbata the PG of Ohaneze is today called Nye ISoma among the Ikwerres. It is a name reserved only for the Igbos. It is derogatory to call an Ikwerre man Nye Isoma.

chrisxxx:
Your smartest brother Rochas did more for North with Imo State money for whatever you claim Wike or any other Rivers governor did.

chrisxxx:
And an Isoma man like you have the effrontery to call freeborns like the Ikwerre people daft? No freeborn Ikwerre man will ever claim Igbo. Amaechi can't avoid to be called Isoma among the Ikwerres. He knows the insinuation.

ysth:
We no send Rochas message. Imo people didn't push him to run for president the way Wike was doing. Did you see Rochas buying 100 branded buses for just party primaries and paying delegates $50000 each to vote for him? Rivers people are too naive. Oil money is driving their politicians crazy

jmoore:
You go explain tire babablu bulabu.

Is Amaechi the whole of Ikwerre?

Many Ikwerre people believe they are part of Igbo.

So REST.

ideatoprince18:
..... Who is an Isoma man?.... I did not call Ikwerre people daft.... I called people who think like the way u think either Ikwerre or otherwise daft

chrisxxx:
Before you people keep claiming Amaechi said he is Igbo. Today he has debunked that. You people should manage with Mbata.

chrisxxx:
You are completely inebriated for you to ridicule anyone who has a debatable opinion daft.