Stop identifying me with your cause, I’m a committed Nigerian – Ibori warns Biafra agitators
A former Governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori on Sunday warned all those
displaying his images during pro-Biafra protest to desist from such, stressing that he is a strong believer of united Nigeria where the rights of every citizen is held sacrosanct.
This is as the ex-Governor’s photographs, embossed on banners, were been reportedly held aloft by some of the demonstrators, as they marched for Biafra through several cities in many states of the South-East and South-South parts of the country.
Sounding this warning in a statement
signed by his Media Assistant, Tony Eluemunor, Ibori also stated that the peace enjoyed by the country for forty-five years after the civil war should not be broken by residues being dug up by some people to further divide the nation and betray efforts at national reconciliation and development. He maintained that this must not be
allowed.
According to the statement, “Chief James
Onanefe Ibori’s attention has been drawn to the way and manner his
picture has been misused by some people who are involved in street
demonstrations to drum up support for the establishment of the
state of Biafra.
“Ibori wants to make it clear that he is
absolutely, completely and entirely committed to the indissolubility of the Nigerian State, as stipulated unambiguously in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“He said that all through his life, he has
believed in a strong, united Nigeria where the rights of every
citizen is held sacrosanct, where no region of state or even Local
Government Area, is neglected or is made to feel alienated in
whatever way, no matter how infinitesimal.
“He therefore calls on those who have been misusing his name and picture – indeed his personality – in furtherance of a project he has never believed in at any time and in any way, to desist forthwith from using his picture and/or name during their demonstrations.”
The former Governor advised everyone who is in any way involved in the Biafran demonstrations to remember that “The world hailed Nigeria for the peaceful way the rather fierce Nigerian Civil War ended in 1970. It is worrisome that 45
clear years after the end of that war, its residues are being dug up to further divide us and betray our efforts at national reconciliation and development. This must not be allowed to continue.
“Nigeria has lived in peace in the past 45
years, and whatever challenges, disagreements even, that may have
re-surfaced, are not beyond our collective ability to resolve.
“I therefore call on all concerned, the
demonstrators and the leaders of the different strata of government
to identify the problems, determine the solutions, and turn the stumbling blocks into genuine building blocks for real nation building.
“Ibori pointed out that many other
countries including Canada, the United Kingdom and Spain, have sections agitating for various kinds of autonomy.
“But if those countries have managed to
keep such agitations at the level of peaceful discussions, Nigeria’s case should by no means lead to another national tragedy. Nigeria has split enough blood in internecine squabbles, he said, now is the time for genuine peace, national unity, and thorough-going, all-inclusive fast-paced development,” the statement concluded

juicee1:
freeglobe thinks we are fools who will burn down our region because of one silly person.

We are not ipob. We don't burn our region cos of a wild goose chase.

No mind those mumu. So make i go dey fight war just because dem kidnap one disgruntled old man wey him own pikin dey abroad. Make i go die wen i neva still fvck sade olorun maje.

simplycarro:

Where were they elected or selected as Yoruba leaders?
These are GEJ point-men in the SW that are still very bitter about their benefactor's electoral misfortune

they got disappointed when Yorubas didn't even bother about the sold-out old man and his stage-managed kidnap.

FreeGlobe:
ilekeh, superstar1, aresa, Aigbofa, mayoroflagos, mrmbam are you telling me you will allow joe igbokwe insult yoruba elders and leaders? He even called their names but couldn't mention the names of the igbo leaders he was talking about. get him!

The names he called are not those of Yoruba leaders but those of PDP rougues disguising as Yoruba leaders.

Yoruba ti gbon just beelo

juicee1:
who made them our leaders? Do you think the yorubas aren't wise enough to see through their shenanigans?

We all saw their exploits during the election period. They sold out a long time ago, that's why an igbokwe can ridicule them even with the backing of Yorubas.

Those men are thieves. Am even beginning to think maybe the kidnap was stage-managed by PDP, cos all they do now is resort to ethnic politics since the loss

Omo iyami, I have thought of that long time ago but thank goodness Yoruba race is just a unique one so so sensible and calculating that we just don't fall for anything.

Initially I thought Falae was misquoted when he said that, until there was no rebuttal from him.
Talk of someone suffering from senile delusion of importance.

Musiwa419:
No mind those mumu. So make i go dey fight war just because dem kidnap one disgruntled old man wey him own pikin dey abroad. Make i go die wen i neva still fvck sade olorun maje.

So I guess you have crowned Tinubu as the only yoruba leader?

sherrylo:


The names he called are not those of Yoruba leaders but those of PDP rougues disguising as Yoruba leaders.

Yoruba ti gbon just beelo

so who are the yoruba leaders? Tinubu?

Musiwa419:
No mind those mumu. So make i go dey fight war just because dem kidnap one disgruntled old man wey him own pikin dey abroad. Make i go die wen i neva still fvck sade olorun maje.

Wo, God bless you.

FreeGlobe:

so who are the yoruba leaders? Tinubu?

Ipob fool, Yoruba leaders are those elected to hold public office at the moment, in 4yrs time we will change them. Thats how we roll, nobody's manhood lives on here

FreeGlobe:

so who are the yoruba leaders? Tinubu?

That is none of your business!

Focus on your Biafra agitation.

The only visible leader of Biafra is busy languishing in a Nigerian police cell, who and where are the other Biafran leaders?

FreeGlobe:
ilekeh, superstar1, aresa, Aigbofa, mayoroflagos, mrmbam are you telling me you will allow joe igbokwe insult yoruba elders and leaders? He even called their names but couldn't mention the names of the igbo leaders he was talking about. get him!

Bruv (because I am 100% sure you are not a woman) let me tell you that Yorubas are not sentimental and senselessly clannish creatures you can rile up with your imbecilic taunts. Igbokwe did not insult Yoruba elders. He called out worthless Yoruba elders who are of no value to the very cosmopolitan and politically sophisticated Yoruba people.

Igbokwe shows he is an honorary Yoruba man with how he understands that Yorubas have no love or clannish tolerance for Yoruba leaders who are treacherous and are not 'omoluabis'. Yorubas do not defend the miscreants in their society merely because they share ethnicity with them. That is why Igbokwe is comfortable saying what he did. He understands Yorubas well enough to know we will not back rogues, misrulers and traitors merely because they are Yorubas like us. We will call them out and disown them.

kemback2220003:
Nobody takes joe igbokwe serious, how does he put food on his table? Anything that will make his paymasters happy, I only pity him. A LOYAL SLAVE.

if u see dis man house in Nnewi. you will wonder maybe dem no dey let am see anything until he sing real loud. disappointing for the Judas role he is playing

I love my tribe (yoruba),they get sense past all other tribe in d world.TO MY YORUBAS BRODA U MAKE MY DAY WITH UR COMMENT.PROUDLY YORUBA BOY.MAY GOD CONTINUE TO BLESS THE SENSIBLE YORUBA CITIZEN.

patmaine:



if u see dis man house in Nnewi. you will wonder maybe dem no dey let am see anything until he sing real loud. disappointing for the Judas role he is playing

hate him or like him,he get sense past ur Biafra leader Nnamdi kanu.May God continue to bless him.

We (yorubas)dönt tolerate nonsense.Afenifere doesnt represent us(yoruba)and they will neve represent us.

smemud:
We (yorubas)dönt tolerate nonsense.Afenifere doesnt represent us(yoruba)and they will neve represent us.

Confirma!!

Go and ask Tony Adefuye if in doubt.

He was stripped to his undies by Yoruba youths during the Abiola era.

It takes a lot to impress Yorubas. Go and ask Tinubu!

Warbegins1:


He is absolutely right!

Falae and Odunmakin are idiots per excellence

Bunch of old nitwits. Men without honour

In Yorubaland, we do not shy away from the truth.

YOU THIS INDOMIE KIDS UNTIL YOU TRADE YOUR FUTURE FINALLY TO THE SUPREMACIST BEFORE YOU WILL COME BACK TO YOUR SENSE AND I DOUBT.

samobaba:
This is a masterpiece. Eni ija o ba ri lo n pe ra re lokunrin. (It's only a man who has not been encountered with battle, that can call himself a man. This agitation should be thrown away let's work together to make Nigeria great again.

Dog...continue licking and lets see where you will end up..

Warbegins1:


That is none of your business!

Focus on your Biafra agitation.

The only visible leader of Biafra is busy languishing in a Nigerian police cell, who and where are the other Biafran leaders?

Lol, at least he is still alive, Remember Abiola??

basilo101:

Lol, at least he is still alive, Remember Abiola??

Yes Ooo

I remember him. He dined and wined with the political elite and unfortunately he was betrayed by members of the same cabal he belonged to

He was not the leader of Yorubas. He got the same number of votes from the SW as he did in the NW, SS and NC.

Your Nnamdi Kanu is revered by Igbos. What are you going to do to stop him reciting Sai Buhari every morning after enough flogging by the Zoo policemen and "women"?

Joe Igbokwe an igbo man with untypical igbo sense.A rare breed among the igbo race.he stood firmly for what he believed even in the face of insults and persecutions from his fellows.he stood for common sense revolution over money,he believed in strategy over energy,gains over grains. Live what you believe my brother, joe.Enjoy the fruits of your labour.
The truth has spoken! No lie only truth!

Zinicc:


Dog...continue licking and lets see where you will end up..

Wait I don't understand your problem at all. What brought about that Dog of a word. If I check your age you can't be beyond 18- 35. Your parent in the east will never want to see anything called war not to talk of civil war. What have you seen in life to determine your agitation. If you don't believe in Nigeria, then whatever investment you and your folks have in Nigeria should be sold early as not to forfeit them.
A word is enough for the wise

Someone has to speak the truth even in the face of intimidation and rejection...

Joe Igbokwe Take A Bow And Go! The Truth Has Spoken! No Lie Only Truth!

smemud:
I love my tribe (yoruba),they get sense past all other tribe in d world.TO MY YORUBAS BRODA U MAKE MY DAY WITH UR COMMENT.PROUDLY YORUBA BOY.MAY GOD CONTINUE TO BLESS THE SENSIBLE YORUBA CITIZEN.

Yes the Yorubas have sense no doubt. It's just unfortunate that their sense is not as high as the sense of self determination. Just like Joe Igbokwe

[quote author=FreeGlobe post=39818128]
so who are the yoruba leaders? Tinubu?

TINUBU IS NOT FIGHTING TO BE A YORUBA LEADER NEITHER IS HE BORTHERED TO BE ONE.HE IS A YORUBA REVOLUSIONIST AND NIGERIA'S LIGHT-BEARER
TINUBU TAKE A BOW AND GO!
THE TRUTH HAS SPOKEN! NO LIE ONLY TRUTH!
.

BIAFRANS can attest that TOO MUCH OIL SOUP DAMAGES THE BRAIN BEYOND REPAIR......... joe igbokwe is a good example of why we should avoid OFE MMANU
o kwa nu OFE MMANU bara igbokwe núburu ya gbarie ya isi oooooo

samobaba:

Wait I don't understand your problem at all. What brought about that Dog of a word. If I check your age you can't be beyond 18- 35. Your parent in the east will never want to see anything called war not to talk of civil war. What have you seen in life to determine your agitation. If you don't believe in Nigeria, then whatever investment you and your folks have in Nigeria should be sold early as not to forfeit them.
A word is enough for the wise

I have seen your type in many places and all my life I have positioned where they belong..
Frustration, misery and agony are all the signs you are displaying and it was because people like you that I must do everything possible to liberate...the zoo have eating your brain...that you now find it sane to turn the cane onto your own mother while she is only trying speaking out for you....
Oya take one sense; if you are educated and your perants are not does not give you any right to go about calling them illiterate...it's now up to you to share what you learnt with them and direct their dumb thoughts...

I doň't believe ín Zoogeria, even the zoo doesn't believe in itself.
A country of insane citizens..

Where people drive on the larn/ped walk ways
Where ppl pee infront of the police station
Where ppl fight for fuel the have in abondant
Where governors jump traffic
Whére police collects N20 from everybody including you
Where hospitals go on strike and leave patients to die
Where school see students as customers
Where, policé, Military, Civil defence, Road safty officials and Uniform personel you can think of drive their cárs withour registration or even Plate No.
Where Yoruba hate Igbo and Hausa and I Igbo hates them too and Hausa kills all of us when they choose.
Where schools and hospitals look like shrines
Where the courts are bais
Where people still live on sands and stone as if they are Animals
Where children walk around the streets with plates in the name of religion
Where Education is all about certifícate because of Hausas
Where the government would rather kill it's citizen than pay him his entitlements
Where pensioners die misrably
Where you can't say 'I no my right' especially if you are the police station...then they will cautiously violate it and ask you to do your worst
Where all govt policies are ďirectly tergeted at extorting the citizens
Where it's citizen have turned to become a semi govt on their own, providing everything required to live comfortable on their own
Where a graduate like you lack common sense due to the stale education they plugged into your skull.

I can go on and on and on..........

Yes I don't believe in Zoogeria at all and I am ready to give my life to any course to break this sham/illegal contraption called Nigeria.

Zinicc:


I have seen your type in many places and all my life I have positioned where they belong..
Frustration, misery and agony are all the signs you are displaying and it was because people like you that I must do everything possible to liberate...the zoo have eating your brain...that you now find it sane to turn the cane onto your own mother while she is only trying speaking out for you....
Oya take one sense; if you are educated and your perants are not does not give you any right to go about calling them illiterate...it's now up to you to share what you learnt with them and direct their dumb thoughts...

I doň't believe ín Zoogeria, even the zoo doesn't believe in itself.
A country of insane citizens..

Where people drive on the larn/ped walk ways
Where ppl pee infront of the police station
Where ppl fight for fuel the have in abondant
Where governors jump traffic
Whére police collects N20 from everybody including you
Where hospitals go on strike and leave patients to die
Where school see students as customers
Where, policé, Military, Civil defence, Road safty officials and Uniform personel you can think of drive their cárs withour registration or even Plate No.
Where Yoruba hate Igbo and Hausa and I Igbo hates them too and Hausa kills all of us when they choose.
Where schools and hospitals look like shrines
Where the courts are bais
Where people still live on sands and stone as if they are Animals
Where children walk around the streets with plates in the name of religion
Where Education is all about certifícate because of Hausas
Where the government would rather kill it's citizen than pay him his entitlements
Where pensioners die misrably
Where you can't say 'I no my right' especially if you are the police station...then they will cautiously violate it and ask you to do your worst
Where all govt policies are ďirectly tergeted at extorting the citizens
Where it's citizen have turned to become a semi govt on their own, providing everything required to live comfortable on their own
Where a graduate like you lack common sense due to the stale education they plugged into your skull.

I can go on and on and on..........

Yes I don't believe in Zoogeria at all and I am ready to give my life to any course to break this sham/illegal contraption called Nigeria.

I PITY THE MAN WHO USED HIS MONEY TO SEND YOU TO SCHOOL.

am i the only one noticing that the writer did not talk about only the things he considers bad about the igbos but also the yorubas. but why are the yorubas focusing on the lines about the igbos ? tribal-inferiority complex is really real. yoruba people please grow sense and know that the people you always bother yourselves about do not regard or take you as anything.
and for the quoted writer, keep clapping for him, hope you know he is an IGBO MAN. osama-amrican-treatment i remember.

FreeGlobe:
ilekeh, superstar1, aresa, Aigbofa, mayoroflagos, mrmbam are you telling me you will allow joe igbokwe insult yoruba elders and leaders? He even called their names but couldn't mention the names of the igbo leaders he was talking about. get him!

sharap, u are u to tell us who is a yoruba leader and who are not to be a yoruba leader.Olu falai,yinka Odumakin and co are yoruba leader in your mumu mind.