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The greed of Igbos is showing its head again. You guys want to claim SS? so as to lay claims to their oil?
Anyways, I have long come to a conclusion about Igbos.
1. They are bluffers. Someone with a small shop selling 2nd hand cloth will claim to be the one feeding his billionaire landlord because the landlord buys rags for his househelp from the seller.
2. They are very very greedy and covetous. e.g Lagos was Yorubaland pre 1999, but once Lagos was improved by Tinubu and Fashola, the influx from the East started. Now they are laying claims to Lagos, even wanting to replace the Oba with an Eze. Give an Igbo a room in your house, and his plans will be to take the house from you.
3. They are not strategic, just lousy noisemakers. While others are planning for the future, Igbos will be gloating and abusing them. When the future comes, Igbos will be the first to line up for the goodies. E.g loss of senate presidency, wanting to be FCT minister, even currently laying claims to APC success.
Now the SS is their brother. The same SS they were ready to wipe out in their ill advised war of 1967. I can bet 99% of SS people want to form their own identity. In the last election, the SS had more voters than the SE, so why should the SS lose its identity to the selfish Igbos?

Heard you.

OP..... come to PH and say this nonsense! Whatever you see you take.

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abduljabbar4:
Then stay at home and live together. Simple

^^^Nice idea.....but an even better one would be the disintegration of this contraption, let every group then choose who and who to form a true nation with!

The old eastern region have little in common with the north and south west; and if truth be told, these three regions would thrive better giving each other some space either by way of a confederation or having separate countries entirely!

What is this "alliance" between the South East and the South South? I'm this only happens on this forum. Outside here, in the real world, the South South see themselves as being different from the South East. Even the Ikwerre man that bear Igbo name. The minorities that made up the defunct Eastern Region were happy when Gowon gave them Rivers and South Eastern states. It was the same minority political activities that Ojukwu arrested during the war.

OrlandoOwoh:
What is this "alliance" between the South East and the South South? I'm this only happens on this forum. Outside here, in the real world, the South South see themselves as being different from the South East. Even the Ikwerre man that bear Igbo name. The minorities that made up the defunct Eastern Region were happy when Gowon gave them Rivers and South Eastern states. It was the same minority political activities that Ojukwu arrested during the war.

Edo and Delta were not part of Biafra

olapluto:
The greed of Igbos is showing its head again. You guys want to claim SS? so as to lay claims to their oil?
Anyways, I have long come to a conclusion about Igbos.
1. They are bluffers. Someone with a small shop selling 2nd hand cloth will claim to be the one feeding his billionaire landlord because the landlord buys rags for his househelp from the seller.
2. They are very very greedy and covetous. e.g Lagos was Yorubaland pre 1999, but once Lagos was improved by Tinubu and Fashola, the influx from the East started. Now they are laying claims to Lagos, even wanting to replace the Oba with an Eze. Give an Igbo a room in your house, and his plans will be to take the house from you.
3. They are not strategic, just lousy noisemakers. While others are planning for the future, Igbos will be gloating and abusing them. When the future comes, Igbos will be the first to line up for the goodies. E.g loss of senate presidency, wanting to be FCT minister, even currently laying claims to APC success.
Now the SS is their brother. The same SS they were ready to wipe out in their ill advised war of 1967. I can bet 99% of SS people want to form their own identity. In the last election, the SS had more voters than the SE, so why should the SS lose its identity to the selfish Igbos?

^^^Pray, what business has a Yoruba with goings-on east of the Niger? Why get so emotional over talks of cohesion in the old eastern region or our forming a common front to face shared challenges or pursue common goals? I just don't get it!

Instead of being satisfied with your APC/Buhari win and continuing with your victory party and gloating, you're busy getting threatened and worried over south east and south south talks of political and economic integration.....i don't get it! Your post is dripping with frustration, hate and bile.....and you could do yourself some irreparable mental damage if you continue along this path! What i find curious though is that absolutely no one from your ends is calling for the dissolution of this shithole of a country.....you despise Igbos with an all-consuming passion yet you don't want to live without them!

So what if Igbos are demanding for Senate presidency and the FCT minsiter slot? Are you saying that because we supported GEJ (which we'd gladly do a million times over) that we shouldn't make our own demands on the in-coming gov't? Is the in-coming gov't going to be one just for the Yoruba and Hausa/Fulani or for the entire country? It's for us to demand and for Buhari/APC to reject.....simple!

You really need learn how to mind your business mate!

OrlandoOwoh:
What is this "alliance" between the South East and the South South? I'm this only happens on this forum. Outside here, in the real world, the South South see themselves as being different from the South East. Even the Ikwerre man that bear Igbo name. The minorities that made up the defunct Eastern Region were happy when Gowon gave them Rivers and South Eastern states. It was the same minority political activities that Ojukwu arrested during the war.

Johnson you have started again. I don't know why anything that has to do with Igbos or Niger delta gives you a hard ön. It is this kind of desperation that made you go around the forum claiming to be an Itsekiri when you are infact from Kabba Kogi state. Nobody says the South South and Igbo are the same people, they are only asking for better political cooperation among neighbors. There is no need citing history because as recently as Abacha's administration, Yorubas and Northerners were arch enemies, but today they said they are in alliance, so nothing stops the SS and SE from doing same.
Mind your business Johnson.

Sounds as if this was written about today. Igbo mma mma.

omonnakoda:
“THE WILLINK COMMISSION REPORT OF JULY 1958”

Posted by: admin January 4, 2014 in News

THE HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL BACKGROUND.

1. “More than 98% of people who inhabit this area (the ‘Ibo Plateau’ of the Eastern region) are Ibo and speak one language, though of course with certain differences of dialect. There are nearly five million of them and they are too many for the soil to support: they are vigorous and intelligent and have pushed outward in every direction, seeking a livelihood by trade or in service in the surrounding areas of the Eastern Region, in the Western Region, in the North and outside Nigeria. They are no more popular with their neighbours than is usual in the case of an energetic and expanding people whose neighbours have a more leisurely outlook on life.”

2. “Though there has been no great kingdom or indigenous culture in the Eastern Region, the coastal chiefs grew on their trade with the (European merchant) ships and they adopted customs, clothing and housing more advanced than those of the peoples of the interior on whom they had at first preyed for slaves. They came during the 19th Century to regard the people of the interior as backward and ignorant, and it was therefore a blow to their pride, as well as to their pockets, when the Ibos began to push outwards into the surrounding fringe of the country and particularly into the Calabar area, to take up land, to grow rich, to own houses and lorries and occupy posts in public services and in the services of large trading firms.”

“It was among the Ibos, formerly despised by the people of Calabar as source of slaves and as a backward people of the interior, now feared and disliked as energetic and educated, that the first political party formed.”

3. “It is important to remember that of this (Ogoja) Province’s 1,082,000 inhabitants, 723,000 are Ibos, almost entirely in Abakaliki and Afikpo (Divisions), while the census classifies 350,000 as “Other Nigerian Tribes.”

4. The Rivers Province …includes the two divisions of Brass and Degema, both overwhelmingly Ijaw, and the Ogoni Division. The former Rivers Division also includes over 300,000 Ibos of whom 250,000 are in Ahoada Division and 45,000 in Port Harcourt. Port Harcourt is a town of recent growth and of rapidly increasing importance; it is built on land that blonged originally to an outlying branch of the Ibo tribe, the Diobus, but is largely inhabited by the Ibos from the interior who have come to trade or seek employment….Of the total 747,000 in the Rivers province, 305,000 are Ibos, 240,000 are Ijaws and 156,000 are Ogonis.”

5. “The strip to the south of the Ibo block, is physically, divided by a block of Ibo territory, tipped by the important Ibo town of Port Harcourt and tribally divided between the Ijaws and the Ogonis.”

6. “In the whole of this non-Ibo area there is present in varying degree some fear of being over-run, commercially and politically, by the Ibos….. if Ahoada and Port Harcourt, which are really Ibo, are considered with the solid centre of Ibo population, there are 54 seats for the Ibo area and 30 for COR (Calabar, Ogoja and Rivers) in (Eastern Regional House of Assembly).”

THE FEARS AND GRIEVANCES OF MINORITIES

7. “It was suggested (by non-Ibo petitioners) that it was the deliberate object of the Ibo majority in the Region to fill every post with Ibos (in public post and services).….when, however we came to consider specific complaints about the composition of public bodies, we found them in many cases exaggerated or unreasonable.”

8. “The allegation was put forward by counsel (to petitioners) that the Judiciary (when not European) was predominantly Ibo, with the implication that this caused fear among those who are not Ibos. But it was clearly stated in evidence by Dr. Udoma, the leader of UNIP, that no occasion could be adduced of the judiciary acting with partiality. The fact is that the legal profession is largely Ibos and the reasons for this do not seem to be Government action. It is therefore inevitable that there should be an Ibo preponderance among Judges and Magistrates. Further, it is the declared policy of Government that the Judiciary should be federal and this does not indicate a desire to control it. Again, the operation and composition of Public Service Commission here, as in the West, appeared to us in no way open to reproach.”

9. “In the Police, which in this region alone is wholly Federal, the number of Ibos in the higher appointments is not out of proportion to the Ibos in the region. The force is now federally controlled and although there are a large number of Ibos in the lower ranks, this is due to the fact that it has for long been a tradition among the Ibos to offer themselves for recruitment in this force in far greater numbers than any other tribe.”

10. “we noted that in five years, 1952 – 1957, from a total of 412 secondary scholarships, 216 were awarded to persons living in the COR areas, while the figures for post-secondary scholarships were 211 out of 623. The latter is about the right proportion of one-third, the former considerably in excess. It was suggested that scholarships awarded to non-Ibos were of an inferior kind and that the best scholarships went to Ibos, but we were, unable to see that this claim held any validity. On the evidence before us, we conclude that the allegations of discriminations in the matter of scholarships are unjustified.”

11. “It was further suggested that loans by the Eastern Regional Finance Corporation, the Eastern Region Development Board, and the Eastern Region Development Corporation were made with some degree of preference to Ibos. It did appear that most of the loans made by these bodies were to Ibos, but that is not to say that this was necessarily improper. Ibos constitute two thirds of the population of the region and have a bigger share of financial and commercial responsibility than their numbers warrant.”

12. “That there should be modern streetlight in Onitsha, and not Calabar, was also quoted as example of discrimination; it proved however that Onitsha Urban District Council had financed this measure from their own resources.”

13. “The question of land was repeatedly raised, it being resented by the Efiks and Ibibios that the Ibos should acquire land at all in their territory while the methods by which it was obtained were also questioned. There is no doubt that on the Ibo Plateau there is insufficient land for the people and the Ibos ate thrusting outwards where possible they acquire land and use it either for cultivation or building…..This is a matter which will require legislation sooner or later and it will be delicate to handle, but the economic process is in itself healthy and we had little sympathy with a witness who remarked that there is much undeveloped land in district and he was anxious that it should not fall into the hand of the Ibos….We believe that Governments in Nigeria should be careful not to try to protect minorities by introducing measures that would restrict development.”

14. “A group of miscellaneous grievances and charges against the Ibos from Calabar may be treated together; we were told that the Ibos did not observe local customs in the markets….We formed the impression that jealousy of the Ibos successes in the markets was the main factor.”

THE PROPOSAL FOR NEW STATES

15. “The Ogoja state proposed to us would include former Ogoja province, whose population of slightly more than One million include more than 700,000 Ibos…the main intention would be separation from the central body of Ibo population, but in which they will still be linked together with as a minority with their Ibo neighbours in Abakaliki and Afikpo…A majority of evidence we heard from Ogoja was direct that they preferred the present situation to any association with Calabar and that they were at least as much afraid of domination by Efiks and Ibibios as by Ibos.”

16. “The (Calabar, Ogoja and Rivers or COR) state proposed would consist of Calabar, Rivers and Ogoja provinces excluding the two Ibo Divisions of Abakaliki and Afikpo. The population of this area is 2,649,000 and the following would be the five largest tribes:

Ibibio 717,000
Annang 435,000
Ibo 428,000
Ijaw 251,000
Ogoni 156,000

As already explained, the small but important Efik tribe of 71,000…The (COR) area is far from homogenous , and many of the other tribes expressed at least as much fear of the Efiks and Ibibios as of the Ibo. It would leave the Ibos of the Ibo Plateau surrounded by a state whose reason for existence was hostility to themselves: the Ibos are an expanding people…”

17. “The area claimed for Rivers state consists of the whole of the Rivers province, that is: The Division of Brass, Degema, Ogoni, Port Harcourt and Ahoada, together with the Western Ijaw Division from the western region, and two small sections in the Eastern Region from outside the Rivers Province, Opodo and Andoni being one, Ndoki the other.”

18. “Port Harcourt is an Ibo town and it is growing rapidly and the indigenous branch of the Ibos who are original inhabitants are already out-numbered by Ibos from the hinterland.”

19. “The people of Ahoada, a Division of which a pan runs down to meet Port Harcourt, appear at one time to have favoured the idea of a Rivers state, but have changed their views and before us expressed themselves as strongly against it. Comparatively few of them live in the low-lying swampy country of the coastal strip and they have voted for the NCNC consistently, they said themselves that a main factor in their change of front had been the inclusion if the Western Ijaws in the proposed state. So long, they said, as the Rivers state was to consist of the River Province only, the Ibos would have been the most numerous tribe within it: but the inclusion of the Western Ijaw Division put them at a numerical disadvantage beside the Ijaws and they therefore preferred to stay out. Whether or not this was a line of reasoning that really had a wide appeal, the fact remain that before us they were opposed to the idea of the state. This is not surprising because their problems are different from those of the ijaws.”

I don't know why some people become apprehensive at the mention of SE/SS alliances . To me, this is a manifestation of inferiority complex, jealousy and insecurity.

You are a true historian. Up you. And somebody pressed the like button for you.

olapluto:
The greed of Igbos is showing its head again. You guys want to claim SS? so as to lay claims to their oil?
Anyways, I have long come to a conclusion about Igbos.
1. They are bluffers. Someone with a small shop selling 2nd hand cloth will claim to be the one feeding his billionaire landlord because the landlord buys rags for his househelp from the seller.
2. They are very very greedy and covetous. e.g Lagos was Yorubaland pre 1999, but once Lagos was improved by Tinubu and Fashola, the influx from the East started. Now they are laying claims to Lagos, even wanting to replace the Oba with an Eze. Give an Igbo a room in your house, and his plans will be to take the house from you.
3. They are not strategic, just lousy noisemakers. While others are planning for the future, Igbos will be gloating and abusing them. When the future comes, Igbos will be the first to line up for the goodies. E.g loss of senate presidency, wanting to be FCT minister, even currently laying claims to APC success.
Now the SS is their brother. The same SS they were ready to wipe out in their ill advised war of 1967. I can bet 99% of SS people want to form their own identity. In the last election, the SS had more voters than the SE, so why should the SS lose its identity to the selfish Igbos?

omonnakoda:
“THE WILLINK COMMISSION REPORT OF JULY 1958”

The report of the commission generally ackowledges political leaders agitating (most likely for relevance) but found those fears those allegations of domination were unfounded and false. From the report -

7. “It was suggested (by non-Ibo petitioners) that it was the deliberate object of the Ibo majority in the Region to fill every post with Ibos (in public post and services).….when, however we came to consider specific complaints about the composition of public bodies, we found them in many cases exaggerated or unreasonable.”

12. “That there should be modern streetlight in Onitsha, and not Calabar, was also quoted as example of discrimination; it proved however that Onitsha Urban District Council had financed this measure from their own resources.”

14. “A group of miscellaneous grievances and charges against the Ibos from Calabar may be treated together; we were told that the Ibos did not observe local customs in the markets….We formed the impression that jealousy of the Ibos successes in the markets was the main factor.”

Ozin:
Don't cry for us...we are far better of with our igbo brothers than any tribe in Nigeria

"We"? Speak for yourself my brother.

yemaldo:
So no more south south again? We can now call them s.east,I pity the ss people very soon the ibo people will claim ur land,if they can go as far as claiming Lagos and Abuja then their neighbour shouldn't be that difficult

Jk210:
Another region about to be labelled "no man's land"

Battle ground shifting from Lagos to SS

This seasonal movie is gonna be interesting to watch

aresa:
...but is it by force to keep doing attache ni?

They don't want you and they never did, they just used you to elect Jona and keep jona in office..

We don't see folks from SS posting all the silly attache nonsense, only SE folks. You people need to stop this open and shameful display of low self esteem, insecurity and no sense of worth and identity.

https://www.nairaland.com/2251676/photos-asari-dokubo-massob-leader

You've proven my point. The thing is that without fail it's always another part of Nigeria that comments about the relationship between groups in the east. You even went as far as to comment on what you have no clue. Please, easterners reading, ask yourself why these people are going to such lengths as to talk for regions they do not care about just to prove that easterners hate each other when such an individual cannot tell you the different between Akpa and Ekpe.

Now who is really doing attached? Buzz off.

ocelot2006:
As much as we in the SS appreciate the support of the SE in the previous elections, we still 2 different geopolitical regions, NOT Eastern region. I've not heard of our leaders call for a merger, and we intend to keep it that way.

Yes oh!! SS and SE are two DIFFERENT geopolitical regions and that would NOT change.

phantom:
OP..... come to PH and say this nonsense! Whatever you see you take.

You're a fanatic for a political party that is vehemently despised by 90% + of the East so what would you say otherwise? Do I blame you.

Agents of disunity.

ezeagu:
You're a fanatic for a political party that is vehemently despised by 90% + of the East so what would you say otherwise? Do I blame you.

Agents of disunity.

Guy, you people are making a mistake again.
We can cooperate with ourselves politically and economically without forcing ourselves to be one. We have to give others the recognition they deserve, no need lumping ourselves as one.

joeyfire:
The report of the commission generally ackowledges political leaders agitating (most likely for relevance) but found those fears those allegations of domination were unfounded and false. From the report -

7. “It was suggested (by non-Ibo petitioners) that it was the deliberate object of the Ibo majority in the Region to fill every post with Ibos (in public post and services).….when, however we came to consider specific complaints about the composition of public bodies, we found them in many cases exaggerated or unreasonable.”

12. “That there should be modern streetlight in Onitsha, and not Calabar, was also quoted as example of discrimination; it proved however that Onitsha Urban District Council had financed this measure from their own resources.”

14. “A group of miscellaneous grievances and charges against the Ibos from Calabar may be treated together; we were told that the Ibos did not observe local customs in the markets….We formed the impression that jealousy of the Ibos successes in the markets was the main factor.”

Actually this is not the report but a summary of it a rather uneven one if I might add. I do not express an opinion about the report which generated considerable controversy in its time but post that here just to provide CONTEXT.
They are "EXCERPTS" and this is the source
http://scannewsnigeria.com/news/willink-report-1958-the-following-are-excerpts-from-a-the-report-of-the-commission-appointed-to-enquire-into-the-fears-of-minorities-and-the-means-of-allaying-them-otherwise-known-a/

It is not true to say it found their fears to be unfounded .
That is just wrong. It is important to point out that the report covered the whole of Nigeria not just the East. For reasons best known to the soource they focused on the East . I will reserve comment on that.
The objective inquirer will do well to study the actual report and the controversies surrounding it and how representatives of the minorities e.g Ikwerre were chosen or their characterization as "IBO" and the contemporaneous reactions to the report itself. It was typical at the time to say Ikwerre/Etche Now we know there is Etche and there is Ikwerre . It would be dishonest to hail colonial reports that say what we like but then turn around to reject colonial censuses.

olapluto:
The greed of Igbos is showing its head again. You guys want to claim SS? so as to lay claims to their oil?
Anyways, I have long come to a conclusion about Igbos.
1. They are bluffers. Someone with a small shop selling 2nd hand cloth will claim to be the one feeding his billionaire landlord because the landlord buys rags for his househelp from the seller.
2. They are very very greedy and covetous. e.g Lagos was Yorubaland pre 1999, but once Lagos was improved by Tinubu and Fashola, the influx from the East started. Now they are laying claims to Lagos, even wanting to replace the Oba with an Eze. Give an Igbo a room in your house, and his plans will be to take the house from you.
3. They are not strategic, just lousy noisemakers. While others are planning for the future, Igbos will be gloating and abusing them. When the future comes, Igbos will be the first to line up for the goodies. E.g loss of senate presidency, wanting to be FCT minister, even currently laying claims to APC success.
Now the SS is their brother. The same SS they were ready to wipe out in their ill advised war of 1967. I can bet 99% of SS people want to form their own identity. In the last election, the SS had more voters than the SE, so why should the SS lose its identity to the selfish Igbos?

You have absolutely no clue what you're talking about when it concerns the east. Let people from the non-Igbo speaking part of the east air out their gripes and the Igbo will reciprocate, apart from that, you are just here to cause disunity because the region is a threat to you. You probably don't even know what an Obolo or Mbe mbe is. Some of the people you're cursing are Igbo are actually non-Igbo speaking easterners, can you tell which ones. Of course not, because you'll treat them all the same.

Thank you for proving my point to all non-Igbo speaking easterners reading.

IGBOSON1:
^^^Pray, what business has a Yoruba with goings-on east of the Niger? Why get so emotional over talks of cohesion in the old eastern region or our forming a common front to face shared challenges or pursue common goals? I just don't get it!

Instead of being satisfied with your APC/Buhari win and continuing with your victory party and gloating, you're busy getting threatened and worried over south east and south south talks of political and economic integration.....i don't get it! Your post is dripping with frustration, hate and bile.....and you could do yourself some irreparable mental damage if you continue along this path! What i find curious though is that absolutely no one from your ends is calling for the dissolution of this shithole of a country.....you despise Igbos with an all-consuming passion yet you don't want to live without them!

So what if Igbos are demanding for Senate presidency and the FCT minsiter slot? Are you saying that because we supported GEJ (which we'd gladly do a million times over) that we shouldn't make our own demands on the in-coming gov't? Is the in-coming gov't going to be one just for the Yoruba and Hausa/Fulani or for the entire country? It's for us to demand and for Buhari/APC to reject.....simple!

You really need learn how to mind your business mate!

It's a bloody psychological mess. No one else butts in like this in other conversations. Without fail! We need to sit down in this country and evaluate the psychosis of anti-Igbo (and in extension ant-eastern) sentiment, because it's really a trip!

omonnakoda:
Actually this is not the report but a summary of it a rather uneven one if I might add. I do not express an opinion about the report which generated considerable controversy in its time but post that here just to provide CONTEXT.
They are "EXCERPTS" and this is the source
http://scannewsnigeria.com/news/willink-report-1958-the-following-are-excerpts-from-a-the-report-of-the-commission-appointed-to-enquire-into-the-fears-of-minorities-and-the-means-of-allaying-them-otherwise-known-a/

It is not true to say it found their fears to be unfounded .
That is just wrong. It is important to point out that the report covered the whole of Nigeria not just the East. For reasons best known to the soource they focused on the East . I will reserve comment on that.
The objective inquirer will do well to study the actual report and the controversies surrounding it and how representatives of the minorities e.g Ikwerre were chosen or their characterization as "IBO" and the contemporaneous reactions to the report itself . It would be dishonest to hail colonial reports that say what we like but then turn around to reject colonial censuses.

You posted a summary of the report to back up your point and I pointed out the report's vindication of alleged igbo domination and I'm cool with it unless you're saying the report u posted is flawed

sCun:
Guy, you people are making a mistake again.
We can cooperate with ourselves politically and economically without forcing ourselves to be one. We have to give others the recognition they deserve, no need lumping ourselves as one.

This is what I wrote:

ezeagu:
Respect difference, but it seems some others want to see the east suffer because they decided not to follow the leader so to say, a united east will be the only sensible response.

Rennee:
Yes oh!! SS and SE are two DIFFERENT geopolitical regions and that would NOT change.

Go to my original post and see if you can find your ethnic group among those listed. No offence.

ezeagu:
This is what I wrote:

Calling all of them ''east'' is making the same mistake all over again. Where is the identity the crave for?
This is foolishness I must say.
Can't their be economic and political cooperation without lumping all of them together into one 'east'?

ocelot2006:
And that's because of the boundaries both regions share. But the Igbo population is NOT a sizeable one with the igbos being the minority tribe in this region.

What boundaries? Sorry, did I say the Igbo were the majority of anything anywhere?

ezeagu:
It's a bloody psychological mess. No one else butts in like this in other conversations. Without fail! We need to sit down in this country and evaluate the psychosis of anti-Igbo (and in extension ant-eastern) sentiment, because it's really a trip!

lol. Wallow in your folly mate. If it makes you happy. Very soon, the SS you are pleading to romance with will put you where you belong. Then they will also become 'anti-Igbo'. Then, rather than address the self-delusion of most of you, you will start to threaten to form a country.
According to Godwill Akpabio: 'If war was won on propaganda, Biafra would win many times- Most times they will announce on the radio that in the morning they will capture Lagos, when they havent even reached Abagana'.
The only people who do not see Igbos for who they are, are the Igbos themselves. Egolomania will continue to blurr your political future.

sCun:
Calling all of them ''east'' is making the same mistake all over again. Where is the identity the crave for?
This is foolishness I must say.
Can't their be economic and political cooperation without lumping all of them together into one 'east'?

The idea that the Igbo people are all in the 'south east' and other ethnic groups are all in Bayelsa and Rivers is an old idea. When you understand how interconnected everyone, and that's everyone in the east is, you would understand why I would use the term easterner. Why would Ndoki be in a different region from Obigbo, or Egbema be straddling two separate regions in Imo State and Rivers States. Can anyone even define the south south? The 'south east' and 'south south' has done little politically, if you look at recent events you will see that it's an eastern political force that has emerged.

olapluto:
lol. Wallow in your folly mate. If it makes you happy. Very soon, the SS you are pleading to romance with will put you where you belong. Then they will also become 'anti-Igbo'. Then, rather than address the self-delusion of most of you, you will start to threaten to form a country.
According to Godwill Akpabio: 'If war was won on propaganda, Biafra would win many times- Most times they will announce on the radio that in the morning they will capture Lagos, when they havent even reached Abagana'.
The only people who do not see Igbos for who they are, are the Igbos themselves. Egolomania will continue to blurr your political future.

These are your hopes and wishes not an opinion grounded in fact. Sit down alone and ponder why a united east is such problem to you.

joeyfire:
You posted a summary of the report to back up your point and I pointed out the report's vindication of alleged igbo domination and I'm cool with it unless you're saying the report u posted is flawed

What was my point?
I posted it separately not to bck up anything.This was my earlier post

omonnakoda:
This is just untrue people should be Honest the so called SS is made of of 6 states of which 4 were in the old Eastern region and two were in the Western region Edo and Delta .Edo and Delta combined were known as Bendel and MidWest State at various times and earlier as MidWest region which was a breakaway region from the WEstern Region.The SE then was what has become Akwa Ibom and Cross River. There has always been agitation for a breakaway of the then SE(CrossRiver/Akwa Ibom) from the East and also the area that became the old Rivers state. The young uns can go and read the Wilkinson minorities report 1957-8

NONE OF THAT NEEDS SUPPORT FROM THE WILLINKS. Once again I posted that for a reson whih eludes you. I consider Willinks to be largely inaccurate a discredited but it is important for contemporaneous context. e.g

WILLINKS SAID EASTERN NIGERIA was 98% Ibo either he was dishonest or misled

ezeagu:
The idea that the Igbo people are all in the 'south east' and other ethnic groups are all in Bayelsa and Rivers is an old idea. When you understand how interconnected everyone, and that's everyone in the east is, you would understand why I would use the term easterner. Why would Ndoki be in a different region from Obigbo, or Egbema be straddling two separate regions in Imo State and Rivers States. Can anyone even define the south south? The 'south east' and 'south south' has done little politically, if you look at recent events you will see that it's an eastern political force that has emerged.

Edo and Delta are now in the SS those are not Easterners neither are they "Westerners". Let everyone decide what they want to be

omonnakoda:
Edo and Delta are now in the SS those are not Easterners neither are they "Westerners". Let everyone decide what they want to be

Thank you. Exactly. So your comment?