kel4soft:


How can you say, it was founded by an Igbo man? The history you guys wrote doesn't is distorted. When he moved with his followers? Who re his followers? He is Igbo not denying that fact, but an adopted slave by the Bonny King same can be said of all immigrants in foreign soils. Having said that, he never regarded himself as an Igbo man, but an Ibani man to the core, it was the civil war that broke in Bonny out between him and his group (chiefs war canoe houses) and Oko-Jumbo (an Igbo slave too) who opposed him. He escaped with these same Bonny Chiefs to Obolo land (Andoni). The king of Andoni welcomed them and gave them land accross trans-ocean, the present day Opobo.

I'm not leaning towards Ijaw. Beside, do you know my lineage is not Jaja and so why should I claim what am not?

Oga, no need to argue with anybody. Make we de see abeg

My dearie sister abeg forget all these claims and claims, it does not worth the energy, whatever that does not get you richer does not worth dragging. Ok, what shall it profit you now if we all agree and conclude that Opobo or Bonny were founded by Igbo..of course nothing? So let us deal on profitable issues. Let us allow Rivers people and other minorities be. So far as Wike led administration is concerned I love Rivers State. Figure it out..

- Chino

biafranqueen:
thank you my Dear I am so surprised at the ignorance I have been reading lately, but it is good to know who is hating on the downlow.

kel4soft:


You summarised to suit your ego. Clap for yourself. Opobo was founded not as an Igbo nation, we had different culture from Igbo bar the language which is still been an issue with the people of Bonny. So Bonny is still an Igbo land since Jumbo houses are Igbo slaves. Please go and read history of Opobo Kingdom written by her indigene not what one man at Arochukwu wrote.

I am telling what is going to be. The more you Ijaw people try to challenge the Jaja ownership of Opobo and Jaja throne authority, like you recently did, the more you push Jaja descendants and descendants of Igbo slaves in Opobo towards their Igbo origin.

Better stop your Ijaw expansionism agenda now, and accept the hybrid nature of Opobo as a meeting point between Igbo, Ijaw and Ibibio cultures, just like Cyprus is to Greece and Turkey.

biafranqueen:
thank you my Dear I am so surprised at the ignorance I have been reading lately, but it is good to know who is hating on the downlow.

Thank your God you didn't quote me. The only one that is ignorant is your people that will cook history for self attachee.

willow0802:


Can you please shut up...if your father didnt tell u about opobo, i'll tell ya. from ur post im sure u re ijaw... no true opobo/bonny man will never deny his igbo lineage. Even the present jaja, THEM NEVER BIRN AM WELL. Na joke I dey o

An opobo man posted this on naij.

opobo is igboland founded by an igbo man , yes! Part of the grand design to severe the Igbo ties is not unconnected with the long kingship tussle that greeted Opobo at the demise of her last Amanyanabo. As we all know, there was a gang up by some chieftaincy houses of Ijaw origins in Opobo to unseat the Jajas. But after 30 years of legal battle, the Nigerian Supreme Court, on the 23rd of April, 2003, ruled that “Opobo is not a traditional town as we know it. It is a Settlement founded by King Jaja, and remains his estate and that of his descendants” Led by the legal giant, the late Chief G.C.M Onyiuke (SAN), the Jajas' authority over Opobo was permanently signed and sealed.
It was after the landmark ruling that the family established a foundation in honor of their patriach and quickly appointed Anyim Pius Anyim, the then Senate President, as the life Chairman. Thus, the success or otherwise of de-tonguing Opobo - from Igbo to Ijoid Ibani - will largely depend on the acceptance of the Jaja dynasty. Opobo was founded on Igbo language. And King Dandeson Douglas Jaja, the man I saw at Peter Obi’s farewell gathering at Awka, does not appear like someone who would play with history and tradition.
Opobo is one settlement that will be difficult for revisionists to undo as all documents signed by King Jaja himself on behalf of his estate were well secured. And which helped the surviving off-springs reclaim their father’s settlement in the Supreme . Therefore, it is only the Jaja family that can determine the cultural identity of Opobo.
In August 2014, at the Elekahia Stadium, Port Harcourt, Hon. Dakuku Peterside representing Opobo told the “unification” gathering of Ohaneze Ndigbo that “I’m a full blooded Igboman….My town, Opobo, was founded by an Igbo, the mighty King Jaja...”


iJAW SEF, UNA TOO DO! SHUOO

Ignorance is bliss they will come here and quote you without historical facts. Don't they know who drew the map lines? Thanks for sharing.

Abagworo:


Opobo was not Ijawland. It was founded by Jaja and his followers. However Jaja the leader was from Amaigbo in Imo State and Opobo was established with Igbo as 1st language.

Leaning towards Ijaw for convenience is understandable but do not distort a very recent and open history.

JAJA broke away with some IJAW chiefs and formed opobo as an extension of the ijaw kingdom jaja broke away from.

JAJA does not even see himself as an igbo man. He was sold into slavery and took the ethnicity of his masters.

TonyeBarcanista:

Oga, no need to argue with anybody. Make we de see abeg

tonye its not every silly post u must respond too, this guys ain't worth the trouble, they will never shift ground even if truth is in front of them but will expect you to, forget them let them wallow in. their ignorance.

I AM BACK FROM 7 MONTHS BAN .




IGBO land is not landlock

SpaceTour:
My dearie sister abeg forget all these claims and claims, it does not worth the energy, whatever that does not get you richer does not worth dragging. Ok, what shall it profit you now if we all agree and conclude that Opobo or Bonny was founded by Igbo..of course nothing. So let us deal on profitable issues. Let us allow Rivers people and other minorities be. So far as Wike led administration is concerned I love Rivers State. Figure it out..

- Chino

I have kept quite for one week now because as far as I'm concerned it is not by force to join alliance with any group of people. I study history for fun and the truth is the truth thats why I spoke up now because that is the real history. Yet and still we don't need or want any so called SS or Ijaw nation alliance that is what I have been saying all along, we should focus on Igboland and Igboland alone.

TonyeBarcanista:

Oga, no need to argue with anybody. Make we de see abeg

I just wanna remind you.

Opobo is one settlement that will be difficult for revisionists to undo as all documents signed by King Jaja himself on behalf of his estate were well secured. And which helped the surviving off-springs reclaim their father’s settlement in the Supreme . Therefore, it is only the Jaja family that can determine the cultural identity of Opobo.
In August 2014, at the Elekahia Stadium, Port Harcourt, Hon. Dakuku Peterside representing Opobo told the “unification” gathering of Ohaneze Ndigbo that “I’m a full blooded Igboman….My town, Opobo, was founded by an Igbo, the mighty King Jaja...



Dakuku is proud of his linage, why cant you let the opobo's accept their kit and kin in the hinterland, or are you guys on a quest to become nigeria's 3rd largest ethnic group, maybe the plan is to look for more territories and population. No wonder when an ijaw man calls south south or nigerdelta, he calls it as if the whole south south or southside is ijaw inhabited,.

pazienza:


I am telling what is going to be. The more you Ijaw people try to challenge the Jaja ownership of Opobo and Jaja throne authority, like you recently did, the more you push Jaja descendants and descendants of Igbo slaves in Opobo towards their Igbo origin.

Better stop your Ijaw expansionism agenda now, and accept the hybrid nature of Opobo as a meeting point between Igbo, Ijaw and Ibibio cultures, just like Cyprus is to Greece and Turkey.

You are an Idiooot I've now finally seen. Opobo is a full blown Ijaw land. Soil wise, culture wise and otherwise. As for the heir apparent only on King Jaja's lineage. There are things as an Opobian I'll not reveal here to your consumption cos you don't deserve it.

TonyeBarcanista:

Oga, no need to argue with anybody. Make we de see abeg

Brother these men tire me no be small. Dese there colonialism approach is just meh.

I hate some people trying to attach themselves to others, to me it is complex issue. As far as I am still an Anambran I care-less about any other place unless it is strictly business.

biafranqueen:
I have kept quite for one week now because as far as I'm concerned it is not by force to join alliance with any group of people. I study history for fun and the truth is the truth thats why I spoke up now because that is the real history. Yet and still we don't need or want any so called SS or Ijaw nation alliance that is what I have been saying all along, we should focus on Igboland and Igboland alone.

willow0802:


To be very sincere, you are not making any sense, sorry

You cannot decipher the truth, you have been programmed to lies.

King Jaja of Opobo
(1821-1891)

Born in Igboland and sold as a slave to a Bonny trader at the age of twelve, he was named Jubo Jubogha by his first master. He was later sold to Chief Alali, the head of the Opubo Annie Pepple Royal House. Called Jaja by the British, this gifted and enterprising individual eventually became one of the most powerful men in the eastern Niger Delta.

The Niger Delta, where the Niger empties itself into the Gulf of Guinea in a system of intricate waterways, was the site of unique settlements called city-states.

From the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, Bonny, like the other city-states, gained its wealth from the profits of the slave trade. Here, an individual could attain prestige and power through success in business and, as in the case of Jaja, a slave could work his way up to head of state. The House was a socio-political institution and was the basic unit of the city-state.

In the nineteenth century—after the abolition of the slave trade in 1807—the trade in slaves was supplanted by the trade in palm oil, which was so vibrant that the region was named the Oil Rivers area.

The Houses in Bonny and other city-states controlled both the internal and external palm oil trade because the producers in the hinterland were forbidden to trade directly with the Europeans on the coast; the Europeans never left the coast for fear of malaria.

Astute in business and politics, Jaja became the head of the Anna Pepple House, extending its activities and influence by absorbing other houses, increasing operations in the hinterland and augmenting the number of European contacts. A power struggle ensued among rival factions in the houses at Bonny leading to the breakaway of the faction led by Jaja. He established a new settlement, which he named Opobo. He became King Jaja of Opobo and declared himself independent of Bonny.

Strategically located between Bonny and the production areas of the hinterland, King Jaja controlled trade and politics in the delta. In so doing, he curtailed trade at Bonny and fourteen of the eighteen Bonny houses moved to Opobo.

In a few years, he had become so wealthy that he was shipping palm oil directly to Liverpool. The British consul could not tolerate this situation. Jaja was offered a treaty of "protection", in return for which the chiefs usually surrendered their sovereignty. After Jaja's initial opposition, he was reassured, in vague terms, that neither his authority nor the sovereignty of Opobo would be threatened.

Jaja continued to regulate trade and levy duties on British traders, to the point where he ordered a cessation of trade on the river until one British firm agreed to pay duties. Jaja refused to comply with the consul's order to terminate these activities, despite British threats to bombard Opobo. Unknown to Jaja, the Scramble for Africa had taken place and Opobo was part of the territories allocated to Great Britain. This was the era of gunboat diplomacy, where Great Britain used her naval power to negotiate conditions favorable to the British.

Lured into a meeting with the British consul aboard a warship, Jaja was arrested and sent to Accra, where he was summarily tried and found guilty of "treaty breaking" and "blocking the highways of trade".

He was deported to St. Vincent, West Indies and four years later, he died en route to Nigeria after he was permitted to return.

Ironically, Jaja's dogged insistence on African independence and effective resistance exposed British imperialism and made him the first victim of foreign territorial intrusion in West Africa. The fate of Jaja reverberated through the entire Niger delta. Amazed at this turn of events, the other delta chiefs quickly capitulated.

In addition, the discovery of quinine as the cure for malaria enabled the British traders to bypass the middlemen and deal directly with the palm oil producers, thus precipitating the decline of the city-states.

King Jaja's downfall ensured a victory for British supremacy, paving the way for the eventual imposition of the colonial system in this region by the end of the century.

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FYI only so some can educate themselves.

As for me let them keep PH Rivers Delta whatever. Like Truckpusher said he would rather deal with Yoruba and Hausa/Fulani then Igbo, we are happy to oblige them by all means. Even those Ijaws that got money from GEJ after the Delta militancy, refused to do one thing for their own people. They only agitated for their pocket leave them and let us see.

SS and their identity crisis.

TonyeBarcanista:

Oga, no need to argue with anybody. Make we de see abeg

Enjoy your poverty . cooking with charcoal and your keke napep . drinking from the same river where you poo and urinate .




vast oil well with chronic oil pollution keep singing Nigeria .

kel4soft:
Mek God punish your mouth if you call my place an Igbo land. U don call us mba mirin and lazy folks finish. Just shut up OP. Go back to your history.

As Obama is the President of the United States of America. Does it make US a Kenyan soil?

No be everything you go de argue.

naijapips02:


JAJA broke away with some IJAW chiefs and formed opobo as an extension of the ijaw kingdom jaja broke away from.

JAJA does not even see himself as an igbo man. He was sold into slavery and took the ethnicity of his masters.

Silly. Jaja didn't see himself as an Igbo man, and you think it was a coincidence that he subtly created an Igbo speaking Opobo to send a message to future generations.
I know you Ijaws have weird theories on how Opobo ended up Igbo speaking today. The fact that Jaja an Igbo man played a fast one on your Ijaw people is an angle you won't accept.
Of course Jajas had to blend into Ijaw ways to maintain Peace and stability in the place, but it would be silly of you to believe that Jaja never considered himself an Igbo, if he didn't, why do you think he retained his connection with Amaigbo his home town, and never stopped telling everyone he came from there.

Igbos sold in far away places in New world did all they could to retain their Igbo identity, but in your Ijawtic mind, an Igboman sold into Ijawland just close to Igboland suddenly stopped seeing himself as Igbo.

Kam nukwa!

kel4soft:


Brother these men tire me no be small. Dese there colonialism approach is just meh.

We are our own people. We know who we are and we know our heritage. No outsider can determine for us. I have already made the position of our people and Rivers state very clear without sentiment.
The Status of Every Ijawland is non-negotiable.

To the ignorant folks, a google search will help

kel4soft:


You are an Idiooot I've now finally seen. Opobo is a full blown Ijaw land. Soil wise, culture wise and otherwise. As for the heir apparent only on King Jaja's lineage. There are things as an Opobian I'll not reveal here to your consumption cos you don't deserve it.

Opobo will be whatever the Jaja descendants want it to be. Opobo is a private estate of Jaja and his descendants.

The least the descendants of Ijaw subordinates of Opobo in Bonny that accompanied him to Opobo can do is jump into the atlantic ocean.

Get that clear. The more desperate Ijaws become to claim Opobo, the more you push Jaja descendants and descendants of Igbo slaves Jaja brought to Opobo towards their Igbo identity.

willow0802:


U this tanned yansh girl... u re yoruba, remember. ?. This thread is educational, and if you dont wanna get educated.. kindly fvck off!

This website is NL remember.....if you are want to live in your lies....there is always..... www. ......you can go there and lie to your hearts content...

pazienza:


Silly. Jaja doesn't see himself as an Igbo man, and you think it was a coincidence he subtly created an Igbo speaking Opobo to send a message to future generations.
I know you Ijaws have weird theories on how Opobo ended up Igbo speaking today. Jaja an Igbo man played a fast one on you Ijaw people is an angle you won't accept.
Of course Jajas had to blend into Ijaw ways to maintain Peace and stability in the place, but it would be silly of you to believe that Jaja never considered himself an Igbo, if he didn't, why do you think he retained his connection with Amaigbo his home town, and never stopped telling anyone he came from there.

Igbos sold in far away places in New world did all they could to retain their Igbo identity, but in your Ijawtic mind, an Igboman sold into Ijawland just close to Igboland suddenly stopped seeing himself as Igbo.

Kam nukwa!

But he joined the ijaws to fight against the igbos, no?

[b] Yes pazienza. But first of all, the effort to obliterate any thing Igbo is habitual with my Ijaw brothers.

King Jaja, for himself and on behalf of his lineage, clearly ESTABLISHED a dynasty in Opobo. So said Justice Niki Toby of the Supreme court of Nigeria in 2003 in his ruling.

Jaja on his establishment of Opobo, had 14 families in his entourage. They now constitute sections of Opobo town. These families were rather his vassals. In 1869, he clearly spelt out in the so called "Minima agreement" with these vassals that his new estate - Opobo - and its rulership must remain within his lineage.

So it happened that after the death of King Douglas Jaja 1980, the Ijaws wanted the throne! Apparently to better manipulate the place of king Jaja in Opobo history. Some of the members of these largely Ijaw families concocted a story that the current King was not the true son of his father and therefore should not succeed him. And in addition, claimed the "Minima Agreement" of 1869 vested the power to select the king of Opobo amongst them the 14 families and to which they had selected some one outside the Jajas.

Anyway, Opobo WILL continue to be the Crimea of Igboland, so long as the Jajas continues to Identify with AMAIGBO, as they have always been doing. Opobo na small matter.

http://news.biafranigeriaworld.com/archive/2003/jun/11/004.html FROM THE GUARDIAN

FULL TEXT OF THE SUPREME COURT RULING
http://lawaspire.com.ng/2014/08/chief-raymond-d-ogolo-ors-v-chief-paul-d-fubara-ors/ [/b]

biafranqueen:

FYI only so some can educate themselves.

As for me let them keep PH Rivers Delta whatever. Like Truckpusher said he would rather deal with Yoruba and Hausa/Fulani then Igbo, we are happy to oblige them by all means. Even those Ijaws that got money from GEJ after the Delta militancy, refused to do one thing for their own people. They only agitated for their pocket leave them and let us see.

Honestly, it is unfortunate that you of all people have condescended this low to believe whatever they've been spreading here to tarnish our image , our reputation and who we are ,even our value system but again I'm not disappointed at all as this have finally sealed my mind about you and your kind.
The people you considered as brothers and sisters made a statement that were sensitive and I replied accordingly to the pains and agony I was in that were of genuine concern and here you are; a big sister that was suppose to know better and call on both sides to sheath their swords and come back to their senses but here you are calling me out for simply reacting to something that doesn't protect my interest.
Thank you , I stand on everything I have said till death.

A simple google search, and above is what you see: Ijaws failed attempt at dethroning the Jajas and finally laying claim of Opobo.

It backfired, and they all currently remain customary tenants to the Jajas dynasty.

Even ikeja is igboland....some people can perform better than Alibaba

Truckpusher:
Honestly, it is unfortunate that you of all people have condescended this low to believe whatever they've been spreading here to tarnish our image , our reputation and who we are ,even our value system but again I'm not disappointed at all as this have finally sealed my mind about you and your kind.
The people you considered as brothers and sisters made a statement that were sensitive and I replied accordingly to the pains and agony I was in that were of genuine concern and here you are; a big sister that was suppose to know better and call on both sides to sheath their swords and come back to their senses but here you are calling me out for simply reacting to something that doesn't protect my interest.
Thank you , I stand on everything I have said till death.

you barcanista


you are very funny my foolish friend . You use to inbox your share nonsense to me .


you are paranoid bros but you a fool though . I regretted given you my "likes" . enjoy your chronic brain cancer

ok NAAAAAAAAAA


OJUKWU IS NOT AN IGBO MAN..

he is from...

naijapips02:


But he joined the ijaws to fight against the igbos, no?

There was no Igbos those days. It was all man for himself. Jaja fought with the Ndokis and Ngwas for the control of Imo river lucrative oil trade.

The Abohs terrorized the Ogbas and some Anambra communities for decades.

The Aros were a pain the in the ass for all other Igbo groups.

There was nothing like Jaja joining Ijaws to fight Igbos, rather Jaja was using Ijaws to fight his wars against the Ndokis/ Ngwas for the control of the Imo river.

And this was after both him and another Igbo leader in Bonny used their. Ijaw subordinates to fight each other in Bonny, before Jaja took his Ijaw subordinates and founded Opobo.

Kingsolex1:


tonye its not every silly post u must respond too, this guys ain't worth the trouble, they will never shift ground even if truth is in front of them but will expect you to, forget them let them wallow in. their ignorance.

Abegi, both of you are very silly, kingsolex, is opobo ijaw speaking or igbo?... is opobo's customs ijaw or igbo, bros abeg answer... I dey wait!

willow0802:


Can you please shut up...if your father didnt tell u about opobo, i'll tell ya. from ur post im sure u re ijaw... no true opobo/bonny man will never deny his igbo lineage. Even the present jaja, THEM NEVER BIRN AM WELL. Na joke I dey o

An opobo man posted this on naij.

opobo is igboland founded by an igbo man , yes! Part of the grand design to severe the Igbo ties is not unconnected with the long kingship tussle that greeted Opobo at the demise of her last Amanyanabo. As we all know, there was a gang up by some chieftaincy houses of Ijaw origins in Opobo to unseat the Jajas. But after 30 years of legal battle, the Nigerian Supreme Court, on the 23rd of April, 2003, ruled that “Opobo is not a traditional town as we know it. It is a Settlement founded by King Jaja, and remains his estate and that of his descendants” Led by the legal giant, the late Chief G.C.M Onyiuke (SAN), the Jajas' authority over Opobo was permanently signed and sealed.
It was after the landmark ruling that the family established a foundation in honor of their patriach and quickly appointed Anyim Pius Anyim, the then Senate President, as the life Chairman. Thus, the success or otherwise of de-tonguing Opobo - from Igbo to Ijoid Ibani - will largely depend on the acceptance of the Jaja dynasty. Opobo was founded on Igbo language. And King Dandeson Douglas Jaja, the man I saw at Peter Obi’s farewell gathering at Awka, does not appear like someone who would play with history and tradition.
Opobo is one settlement that will be difficult for revisionists to undo as all documents signed by King Jaja himself on behalf of his estate were well secured. And which helped the surviving off-springs reclaim their father’s settlement in the Supreme . Therefore, it is only the Jaja family that can determine the cultural identity of Opobo.
In August 2014, at the Elekahia Stadium, Port Harcourt, Hon. Dakuku Peterside representing Opobo told the “unification” gathering of Ohaneze Ndigbo that “I’m a full blooded Igboman….My town, Opobo, was founded by an Igbo, the mighty King Jaja...”


iJAW SEF, UNA TOO DO! SHUOO

thanx for educating me.