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A Letter To The Edo People(bini Tribe). by Ugomba(m): 8:36am On Sep 10, 2015
Identity is an important asset a group of people can have and it is to be guided and preserved.
My attention have been drawn to an Edo website where edo people were trying to rewrite Anioma history and claim us.
The Anioma Nation will never allow a group of people from a tiny state inflict Identity crises on us and our future children..
Our Anioma son, Nzeogwu led the coup team that caused a huge crisis which left many of our SE brothers dead in the 1966 progrom in the North.. Civil War broke out, many of both Anioma and SE Igbos fought for the Biafran Army... Sometimes I wonder had it been our SE brethens rejected us and Nzeogwu, The civil war would have been between Anioma vs Nigeria.. But Ojukwu and our SE brothers stood by Nzeogwu which irritated the Northerners.. where were the Edo people then?
My question-
1) where were the Edo when the Asaba people were fighting in the civil war. Remember the Asaba massacre when the Edo people opened the midwest door for the Nigerian Army.
2) Do Anioma, Ogwashi Ukwu, Aniocha, Asaba, Oshimili etc sound like a Bini language.
3) We Do Not Bear Bini Name but Igbo name; we have our Eze, Obi etc and not Oba.
4) why are you Edo people marginalizing the Igbanke people in your state?
5) Our People are members of Ohanaeze Ndi Igbo and have produced a president in that Association.

IGBO is NOT a tribe But a Nation of many Igboid ethnic groups and Anioma is proudly one of it..
We are angry when people toy with our history and our identity..
Edo people pathetic attempt to claim our Anioma land will FAIL woefully and if they cross their bounderies, It will be WAR..
Long live Ogwashi Ukwu
Long live Anioma Nation.
Thank You

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Re: A Letter To The Edo People(bini Tribe). by Nobody: 8:38am On Sep 10, 2015
grin
Condemning a people to glorify yours show little of your passion for ethnic reverence....

Hian..

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Re: A Letter To The Edo People(bini Tribe). by isolated: 8:42am On Sep 10, 2015
pls i need a link to dat edo website

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Re: A Letter To The Edo People(bini Tribe). by Ugomba(m): 8:43am On Sep 10, 2015
Freemanan:
grin
Condemning a people to glorify yours show little of your passion for ethnic reverence....

Hian..
I don't understand.

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Re: A Letter To The Edo People(bini Tribe). by Ugomba(m): 8:44am On Sep 10, 2015
isolated:
pls i need a link to dat edo website
ok.
Re: A Letter To The Edo People(bini Tribe). by broxymall(m): 8:56am On Sep 10, 2015
lol
am just here to read funny comment

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Re: A Letter To The Edo People(bini Tribe). by Ugomba(m): 9:00am On Sep 10, 2015
As for Biafra, we Asaba people Do NOT want another war.
If a group of people want to have their own country, invite them to roundtable and give the a refrendum just like Britain did to Scotland.

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Re: A Letter To The Edo People(bini Tribe). by Ugomba(m): 9:05am On Sep 10, 2015
broxymall:
lol
am just here to read funny comment

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those people are becoming annoying.. In their mindset, every tribe in southern nigeria are from benin.

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Re: A Letter To The Edo People(bini Tribe). by IgboDelta: 9:05am On Sep 10, 2015
Ignore the Ignorant yoruba and edo people. The reality is that we are Igbos and we are proud of our heritage

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Re: A Letter To The Edo People(bini Tribe). by Ugomba(m): 9:24am On Sep 10, 2015
IgboDelta:
Ignore the Ignorant yoruba and edo people. The reality is that we are Igbos and we are proud of our heritage
I was shocked when I saw them rewriting history on that website..

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Re: A Letter To The Edo People(bini Tribe). by Nobody: 10:44am On Sep 10, 2015
first and Foremost The OP is nt from Delta, Igbo man trying to claim Anioma, Read all his comment e gat no trace Of Anioma in him... Most anioma av met av claimed they migrated from Bini , But the Hatred This Igbo guy av 4 Edo and Yoruba is too much, so e thinks d Best Way is to claim Anioma so e could Get Back At them.

Edo don't need to fight Over Anioma, if its because of Biafra u created this thread then u must be a fool,

Secondly as for ur comment OP, Pls do speak 4 ur Anioma people, we Itsekiri, Urhobo, Isoko re fully in support of Edo, Any where Edo go we go, but obviously nt Biafra..

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Re: A Letter To The Edo People(bini Tribe). by Ugomba(m): 10:59am On Sep 10, 2015
Goodboiyy:
first and Foremost The OP is nt from Delta, Igbo man trying to claim Anioma, Read all his comment e gat no trace Of Anioma in him... Most anioma av met av claimed they migrated from Bini , But the Hatred This Igbo guy av 4 Edo and Yoruba is too much, so e thinks d Best Way is to claim Anioma so e could Get Back At them.

Edo don't need to fight Over Anioma, if its because of Biafra u created this thread then u must be a fool,

Secondly as for ur comment OP, Pls do speak 4 ur Anioma people, we Itsekiri, Urhobo, Isoko re fully in support of Edo, Any where Edo go we go, but obviously nt Biafra..
another Itsekiri fool.. Do you know how it feel to see people playing chess with our history? Ogwashi Uku is an Anioma town and Not bini, am in Village temporaily now for a program, come down to my area with this your Edo history talk if you get liver.. I hate nobody, but Edo people should know their bounderies..
I am not talking about Biafra here but edo people rewriting history..

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Re: A Letter To The Edo People(bini Tribe). by Energito: 11:20am On Sep 10, 2015
I am from ika and have never deny my igboness.i will deny my igboness once our able gov stop putting on his red cap.
Ugomba:
I was shocked when I saw them rewriting history on that website..

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Re: A Letter To The Edo People(bini Tribe). by Ugomba(m): 11:24am On Sep 10, 2015
Energito:
I am from ika and have never deny my igboness.i will deny my igboness once our able gov stop putting on his red cap.
Edo people should not think that I hate them.. I have an edo friend, very close friend.. But their attempt to rewrite our history is funny.. Everybody should stay on his own.

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Re: A Letter To The Edo People(bini Tribe). by patrick89(m): 11:30am On Sep 10, 2015
Ugomba:
Edo people should not think that I hate them.. I have an edo friend, very close friend.. But their attempt to rewrite our history is funny.. Everybody should stay on his own.

can you post the link, let's go there and devour their lies and claims! enough of these propaganda and lies

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Re: A Letter To The Edo People(bini Tribe). by cheruv: 11:30am On Sep 10, 2015
Ugomba:
Identity is an important asset a group of people can have and it is to be guided and preserved.
My attention have been drawn to an Edo website where edo people were trying to rewrite Anioma history and claim us.
The Anioma Nation will never allow a group of people from a tiny state inflict Identity crises on us and our future children..
Our Anioma son, Nzeogwu led the coup team that caused a huge crisis which left many of our SE brothers dead in the 1966 progrom in the North.. Civil War broke out, many of both Anioma and SE Igbos fought for the Biafran Army... Sometimes I wonder had it been our SE brethens rejected us and Nzeogwu, The civil war would have been between Anioma vs Nigeria.. But Ojukwu and our SE brothers stood by Nzeogwu which irritated the Northerners.. where were the Edo people then?
My question-
1) where were the Edo when the Asaba people were fighting in the civil war. Remember the Asaba massacre when the Edo people opened the midwest door for the Nigerian Army.
2) Do Anioma, Ogwashi Ukwu, Aniocha, Asaba, Oshimili etc sound like a Bini language.
3) We Do Not Bear Bini Name but Igbo name; we have our Eze, Obi etc and not Oba.
4) why are you Edo people marginalizing the Igbanke people in your state?
5) Our People are members of Ohanaeze Ndi Igbo and have produced a president in that Association.

IGBO is NOT a tribe But a Nation of many Igboid ethnic groups and Anioma is proudly one of it..
We are angry when people toy with our history and our identity..
Edo people pathetic attempt to claim our Anioma land will FAIL woefully and if they cross their bounderies, It will be WAR..
Long live Ogwashi Ukwu
Long live Anioma Nation.
Thank You
Thank you my brother

As for those Edoids claiming Anioma...they should be careful bkos if they try fim angry they'd not only be fighting the Anioma Resistance army but the ones that would pour from the Niger.
If the oba of Bini could build a moat around his city to protect himself from the attacks of the obi of Agbor then he should know it'd not be child's play if he triggers the invasion of a nation that's 15X his country's population shockedangry

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Re: A Letter To The Edo People(bini Tribe). by Nobody: 11:32am On Sep 10, 2015
Ugomba:
another Itsekiri fool.. Do you know how it feel to see people playing chess with our history? Ogwashi Uku is an Anioma town and Not bini, am in Village temporaily now for a program, come down to my area with this your Edo history talk if you get liver.. I hate nobody, but Edo people should know their bounderies..
I am not talking about Biafra here but edo people rewriting history..

Point of correction, am nt Edo, never related to Edo, Am itsekiri...


bye, got no discussion with u....

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Re: A Letter To The Edo People(bini Tribe). by onenaira3: 11:45am On Sep 10, 2015
@OP you dey mind am. Even agbor, it made me feel pity when I read a statement from the past dein of agbor where he stated

Here tradition tells us that Ogele or Ogene was the patriarch of our ancestors; but whence he came from we do not know for certain. Even the Benin, who claim him as their own, confess to the mystry of his exact association with them. Better to know the man from his deeds among us, as I have recounted. We believe that early Agbors have some cultural affinity with the East Niger—Igbo people, and that the Edo people as neighbors of Agbor 


Language: Agbor spoke the ika dialect akin to other Igbo tongues, but the special vehile of the ika culture end image. It is distinct and dissimilar from Edo language and vice versa, even though some say that Agbor was once under the Oba’s rule. This was so because Benin was the first to acquire firearms from the Portuguese, and with which they terrorized the neighboring states. But this state of affairs lasted for only a short: Agbor liberated themselves before the 18th century. “Oru asuw Igbo; Igbo asuw Ika”: From this saying Agbor appears to be the credits of the Ika dialect and the citadel of Igbo heroes.


Chief A.G.Idwue
Dein of Agbor
Agbor-Obi 1979

http://ikaworld.com/books/Iduwe.History.pdf

After he died, may he RIP, the new dein that is half Benin decided to switch the story. After reading that, I felt so sorry for am and stopped seeing agbor ppl as groups to look down on but actually pity.

It is the same with onitsha, I remember coming in contact on a forum where the Onitsha people were arguing against the Benin descendants stories. There was even one Onitsha chick I used to know that told there were this Edo group in FB the Edo followers she had kept putting up in and anytime she decline their request, they send it to her again. She said she literally had to beg them to stop and inform them she's Igbo, not Edo before they actually left her alone.
I equally came in contact with an article where one guy was attacking obi of owa and obi of Idumueje-unor for writing a book and trying to correct the Bini descendants stories many have been spreading for their land. SMFH

I've always said it, the mistake our ancestors did was allowing Bini migrants to continue staying with them after defeating them during their colonization attempt. That was the biggest error our ancestors did because to me personally, modifying the history of others is modern day colonization attempt. Their offspring have grown, adapted into the community and now seen as one of us so they are back to what their great great great grandparents tried and failed at.
Anyway for me personally, they are not doing that rewritten thing for Asaba so I can careless. I just pity those that have to go through it. Smfh

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Re: A Letter To The Edo People(bini Tribe). by Nobody: 11:53am On Sep 10, 2015
Our Anioma son, Nzeogwu led the coup team that caused a huge crisis which left many of our SE brothers dead in the 1966 progrom in the North.. Civil War broke out, many of both Anioma and SE Igbos fought for the Biafran Army... Sometimes I wonder had it been our SE brethens rejected us and Nzeogwu, The civil war would have been between Anioma vs Nigeria.. But Ojukwu and our SE brothers stood by Nzeogwu which irritated the Northerners.. where were the Edo people then?

This quote can be likened to the atomic bomb America dropped at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Chai! Nwanna you're a bad guy!

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Re: A Letter To The Edo People(bini Tribe). by Nobody: 11:57am On Sep 10, 2015
South South will Form Niger Delta republic not Biafra. Biafra is for south east ONLY


South South is almost 3 times the size of south East.
Yet the population of South east is almost 80% of south south population base on 2006 census. But by the time you add igbo who are currently leaving outside south east, you will discover that thier population is more than all the south south put together. More than 90% of the resources (oil, gas, limestones,etc) are in the south south. The whole of South East is landlock with no direct access to the sea or atlantic ocean. but almost all the south south states have direct assess to the sea and atlantic ocean. Some will say they have River Niger. River Niger is not a sea or an ocean for big Ships.

Tell me why South South Nations will want to form a country with south east if they have a choice ? all south east will bring to the table is population and domination? The total oil production from south east is not up to 10% of south south oil production!

if Nigeria will divide peacefully by United Nations referendum, south south will not join Biafra. Peaceful division of Nigeria can only be into a minimum of five countries (Arewa republic, Niger Middle belt, United Niger Delta, Oduwa republic, and Biafra). South South will form its own nation/nations. The only way south south and south east will form a single country like Biafra is if Nigeria divide by War because population will be important in size of Army.


a quote from Isaac Adaka Boro Autobiography (wriiten himself). Read Chapter 5 - Campus Politics
http://www.adakaboro.org/the12dayrev/chapter-5-campus-politics.
This was the campaign statement of his opponent for UNN SUG presidency:

"My opponent, Ejiogu, took the floor when I had finished, and what did he say? "Ladies and gentleman, this is a crucial time in Nigeria when we should not allow a vocal minority to rule an obvious majority.
These words still ring in my memory because, as my opponent put it, they are crucial not only to me but to my people, the Ijaws. Most of the alien students walked out of the hall and it seemed as if a spell was cast on the atmosphere. The campaigns ended solemnly and the result of the election was again one way. Ejiogu won with his majority. The last minute strategy. A Cameroonian friend of mine, John Ngole, promptly resigned his secretaryship of the Historical Society in protest."

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Re: A Letter To The Edo People(bini Tribe). by Nobody: 12:08pm On Sep 10, 2015
atbu1983:
[s]South South will Form Niger Delta republic not Biafra. Biafra is for south east ONLY


South South is almost 3 times the size of south East.
Yet the population of South east is almost 80% of south south population base on 2006 census. But by the time you add igbo who are currently leaving outside south east, you will discover that thier population is more than all the south south put together. More than 90% of the resources (oil, gas, limestones,etc) are in the south south. The whole of South East is landlock with no direct access to the sea or atlantic ocean. but almost all the south south states have direct assess to the sea and atlantic ocean. Some will say they have River Niger. River Niger is not a sea or an ocean for big Ships.

Tell me why South South Nations will want to form a country with south east if they have a choice ? all south east will bring to the table is population and domination? The total oil production from south east is not up to 10% of south south oil production!

if Nigeria will divide peacefully by United Nations referendum, south south will not join Biafra. Peaceful division of Nigeria can only be into a minimum of five countries (Arewa republic, Niger Middle belt, United Niger Delta, Oduwa republic, and Biafra). South South will form its own nation/nations. The only way south south and south east will form a single country like Biafra is if Nigeria divide by War because population will be important in size of Army.


a quote from Isaac Adaka Boro Autobiography (wriiten himself). Read Chapter 5 - Campus Politics
http://www.adakaboro.org/the12dayrev/chapter-5-campus-politics.
This was the campaign statement of his opponent for UNN SUG presidency:

"My opponent, Ejiogu, took the floor when I had finished, and what did he say? "Ladies and gentleman, this is a crucial time in Nigeria when we should not allow a vocal minority to rule an obvious majority.
These words still ring in my memory because, as my opponent put it, they are crucial not only to me but to my people, the Ijaws. Most of the alien students walked out of the hall and it seemed as if a spell was cast on the atmosphere. The campaigns ended solemnly and the result of the election was again one way. Ejiogu won with his majority. The last minute strategy. A Cameroonian friend of mine, John Ngole, promptly resigned his secretaryship of the Historical Society in protest."
[/s]

my frnd shut up, and Bleep off this thread, in as much as I am nt in support of Biafra , I can tell u the person operating on this moniker is not from SS .. All his comment is just about Igbo.. Get a life dude... Gosh

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Re: A Letter To The Edo People(bini Tribe). by EasternLionn: 12:18pm On Sep 10, 2015
atbu1983:
South South will Form Niger Delta republic not Biafra. Biafra is for south east ONLY


South South is almost 3 times the size of south East.
Yet the population of South east is almost 80% of south south population base on 2006 census. But by the time you add igbo who are currently leaving outside south east, you will discover that thier population is more than all the south south put together. More than 90% of the resources (oil, gas, limestones,etc) are in the south south. The whole of South East is landlock with no direct access to the sea or atlantic ocean. but almost all the south south states have direct assess to the sea and atlantic ocean. Some will say they have River Niger. River Niger is not a sea or an ocean for big Ships.

Tell me why South South Nations will want to form a country with south east if they have a choice ? all south east will bring to the table is population and domination? The total oil production from south east is not up to 10% of south south oil production!

if Nigeria will divide peacefully by United Nations referendum, south south will not join Biafra. Peaceful division of Nigeria can only be into a minimum of five countries (Arewa republic, Niger Middle belt, United Niger Delta, Oduwa republic, and Biafra). South South will form its own nation/nations. The only way south south and south east will form a single country like Biafra is if Nigeria divide by War because population will be important in size of Army.


a quote from Isaac Adaka Boro Autobiography (wriiten himself). Read Chapter 5 - Campus Politics
http://www.adakaboro.org/the12dayrev/chapter-5-campus-politics.
This was the campaign statement of his opponent for UNN SUG presidency:

"My opponent, Ejiogu, took the floor when I had finished, and what did he say? "Ladies and gentleman, this is a crucial time in Nigeria when we should not allow a vocal minority to rule an obvious majority.
These words still ring in my memory because, as my opponent put it, they are crucial not only to me but to my people, the Ijaws. Most of the alien students walked out of the hall and it seemed as if a spell was cast on the atmosphere. The campaigns ended solemnly and the result of the election was again one way. Ejiogu won with his majority. The last minute strategy. A Cameroonian friend of mine, John Ngole, promptly resigned his secretaryship of the Historical Society in protest."

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Re: A Letter To The Edo People(bini Tribe). by cheruv: 12:28pm On Sep 10, 2015
Goodboiyy:
first and Foremost The OP is nt from Delta, Igbo man trying to claim Anioma, Read all his comment e gat no trace Of Anioma in him... Most anioma av met av claimed they migrated from Bini , But the Hatred This Igbo guy av 4 Edo and Yoruba is too much, so e thinks d Best Way is to claim Anioma so e could Get Back At them.

Edo don't need to fight Over Anioma, if its because of Biafra u created this thread then u must be a fool,

Secondly as for ur comment OP, Pls do speak 4 ur Anioma people, we Itsekiri, Urhobo, Isoko re fully in support of Edo, Any where Edo go we go, but obviously nt Biafra..
Of all the BS you wrote up there the highlighted aspect is the only part that makes sense
Seriously, if not for the craftiness of IBB there was absolutely no need carving out your "delta" tribes from bendel..all IBB would've done was create Anioma and then carve out the ijaw parts into the old rivers state(which is present day bayelsa).
Biafra as already enumerated so many times has no space for you guys,unlike the Anioma and ijaw that are full time stakeholders.
The OP is Anioma and nothing can change that! He's just sick and tired of inconsequential nincompoops trying to appropriate his people into a farce He's not interested in cool

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Re: A Letter To The Edo People(bini Tribe). by Ugomba(m): 5:00pm On Sep 10, 2015
Goodboiyy:



my frnd shut up, and Bleep off this thread, in as much as I am nt in support of Biafra , I can tell u the person operating on this moniker is not from SS .. All his comment is just about Igbo.. Get a life dude... Gosh

hahahahahahahaha. Believe me, you will be a good comedian, you are disappointed that I am not part of your Igbo hating team.. Anioma is Anioma, Edo is Edo, Itsekiri is Itsekiri.. Everybody stay on your own and stop joking with our history.

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Re: A Letter To The Edo People(bini Tribe). by phyllosilicate(m): 5:24pm On Sep 10, 2015
The obi of said in this article that he and the
Oba of Benin are 'direct blood brothers '.

"We are direct blood brothers, so at that time, there was a lot of pandemonium, my life was at risk, the safest place for me then was to have stayed with my brother, the Oba of Benin. Therefore, I was there briefly before they finally took me abroad."

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/what-buhari-should-do-with-tompolo-asari-dein-of-agbor/

Enough Said

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Re: A Letter To The Edo People(bini Tribe). by Ugomba(m): 5:32pm On Sep 10, 2015
phyllosilicate:
The obi of said in this article that he and the
Oba of Benin are 'direct blood brothers '.

"We are direct blood brothers, so at that time, there was a lot of pandemonium, my life was at risk, the safest place for me then was to have stayed with my brother, the Oba of Benin. Therefore, I was there briefly before they finally took me abroad."

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/what-buhari-should-do-with-tompolo-asari-dein-of-agbor/

Enough Said
my dear we are NOT at war with edo people.. I have edo friends.. Don't misunderstand my writeup.
Re: A Letter To The Edo People(bini Tribe). by tociano009(m): 5:33pm On Sep 10, 2015
Useless set of people
Re: A Letter To The Edo People(bini Tribe). by VickJames(m): 5:40pm On Sep 10, 2015
Lol. Edo claiming Anioma. Those guys are funny

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Re: A Letter To The Edo People(bini Tribe). by bokohalal(m): 6:02pm On Sep 10, 2015
Edos DO NOT claim anybody.
Re: A Letter To The Edo People(bini Tribe). by onenaira3: 9:20pm On Sep 10, 2015
phyllosilicate:
The obi of said in this article that he and the
Oba of Benin are 'direct blood brothers '.

"We are direct blood brothers, so at that time, there was a lot of pandemonium, my life was at risk, the safest place for me then was to have stayed with my brother, the Oba of Benin. Therefore, I was there briefly before they finally took me abroad."

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/what-buhari-should-do-with-tompolo-asari-dein-of-agbor/


Enough Said

The new dein of agbor is half Benin in case you are not aware. That's why he's currently contradicting the past dein and modifying history written by the past dein.

Oh while I'm at it, agbor is not the entire anioma. Hell they are not the entire ika either. They are just a small section of anioma.

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Re: A Letter To The Edo People(bini Tribe). by phyllosilicate(m): 9:27pm On Sep 10, 2015
onenaira3:


The new dein of agbor is half Benin in case you are not aware. That's why he's currently contradicting the past dein and modifying history written by the past dein
I hope you are also aware that the past dein is his dad? So if he is half Benin, so must be his dad.

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Re: A Letter To The Edo People(bini Tribe). by onenaira3: 9:30pm On Sep 10, 2015
phyllosilicate:
I hope you are also aware that the past dein is his dad? So if he is half Benin, so must be his dad.

His mom is Benin, not his dad. And the quote I posted above was actually written by his dad

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