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This article was written by an ikwerre igbo. Dear readers i will advice that you read the full article for proper understanding here


Three developments combined to
convince me that one of Ijaw’s agenda is to dominate, rule and colonize the Niger Delta.

The first was the discussion I had
with a fellow passenger (name withheld because I did not take permission from him to publish his name in this article) on 16th August 2013 when I was travelling from Lagos to Port Harcourt.
The topic was on the Jonathan-Amaechi face-off. My passenger-friend, I discovered later hails from Ijaw. In the course of the discussion, he said: “Ijaw is fighting for its own just like every other ethnic group is doing. No group would like to lose in a federation like Nigeria. To the Ijaw, we have Niger Delta.
Niger Delta belongs to Ijaw”. I was
miffed and I asked: “What about the rest
ethnic groups in the Niger Delta?” His response became more fierce: “If the big three (meaning Hausa-Fulani, Igbo and
Yoruba) could dominate and rule Nigeria, Ijaw can do same in the Niger Delta and in fact to me, the key agenda of the Ijaw should be to own the region.”

Another source of this unwholesome Ijaw agenda to colonize the Niger Delta can be found in an advertorial by the Ijaw National Congress INC (an umbrella organization of the Ijaw Ethnic Nationality) on page 50 of the Vanguard of Tuesday, May 14, 2013.
In the advertorial, the INC recommended a political restructuring of Nigeria into ten
ethnic-based regions with the entire Niger Delta, excluding Effik/Ibibio, labeled
Ijaw.

The third source was from the
article, “Boro and Jackson: Alliance
across the Atlantic” written by Professor G. G. Darah and published in The Guardian of 3rd- 5th June 2013. In me, the article provoked the following issues:
the continued glorification of Ijaw
imperialistic tendencies and attitudes in the Niger Delta and some lessons from the Ijaw-USA alliance idea. Before I respond to the implications of these evidences, it is proper to state that, like other minorities in Nigeria, Ijaw’s grouse with Nigeria has been that it suffers marginalization, environmental
degradation and development-neglect. These issues created the sentiments that had driven most ethnic agitations in Nigeria like the minorities agitations in
the 1950s including the Tiv riots, the agitation for the creation of the Calabar-Ogoja-Rivers (COR) State, the Isaac Adaka Boro revolt of 1966, the Ogoni Revolution that produced the quintessential Ogoni Bill of Rights in 1990, the Kaiama Declaration of 1998,
the Ikwerre Rescue Charter of 1999 etc. Even the big three ethnic groups of Hausa-Fulani, Igbo and Yoruba are also
not happy with Nigeria and this reflected in the formation of the Arewa Consultative Forum, Biafra/Ohanaze Ndigbo and Odua Peoples Congress (OPC) respectively. Ijaw has every right to canvass for the creation of Ijaw Ethnic Region to comprise all Ijaw natives scattered across Nigeria’s Atlantic coastal belt; but it is wrong to call such creation Niger
Delta (ND) because ND has been created already and it goes beyond Ijaw. This is where I have problem with the Ijaw imperial ambition. If Ijaw’s reason for such ambition has been as state above,
then it must be cautious and indeed have a rethink. In the year AD 2013, is Ijaw still marginalized, suffering environmental degradation and development-neglect? This should not be the case given that Ijaw son is the
President and Commander-In-Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Ijaw has got Bayelsa State since 1996. Ijaw’s daughter is the Minister of Petroleum Resources,
who should be in the forefront
addressing all neglect and development issues arising from oil and gas business in Ijawland. Ijaw is in charge of over 70% of the amnesty windfall. Ijaw is in
charge of the Federal Ministry of the Niger Delta Affairs. The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) is under the control of Ijaw. Put all these together one can say that Ijaw is already
enjoying her full resource control! Yet the Ijaw still is canvassing to implement its imperial ambition in the Niger Delta as shown in the three evidences stated earlier.
Let me remind Ijaw that in defining the Niger Delta, it was never meant to be Ijaw hegemony. From 1849 when it was part of the Oil Rivers to 1885 under Oil Rivers Protectorate and later in about 1897 under Niger Coast Protectorate, 1900 under the Protectorate of Southern
Nigeria, 1906 under the Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria and Nigeria in 1914, the Niger Delta was never contemplated to be an Ijaw colony. Even the ruling Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) political arrangement of Nigeria into six geo-political zones put Niger Delta in the South-South Zone and it was never carved out as an Ijaw’s
exclusive entity. To be sure, even the Isaac Adaka Boro’s secession bid, the Ogo

Full article africanheraldexpress.com/blog8/2013/10/04/niger-delta-as-ijaw-colony-a-word-of-caution/

my concern is not about the other ethnic nationalities in the niger delta but on igbos of which i am.
We have observed this agenda both on nairaland and offline, and ss igbos will continue to resist it both online and offline.

explorer250:
Full article africanheraldexpress.com/blog8/2013/10/04/niger-delta-as-ijaw-colony-a-word-of-caution/

my concern is not about the other ethnic nationalities in the niger delta but on igbos of which i am.
We have observed this agenda both on nairaland and offline, and ss igbos will continue to resist it both online and offline.

Guy just ignore them.
let them b d first to hit us b4 we hit them back in a harder way.

Xpaz:
Guy just ignore them.
let them b d first to hit us b4 we hit them back in a harder way.

they started this siege the undermine the igbo nation. We have to put them in their place. Igbos and ijaws are not mate for them to use us as a willing tool to achieve their selfish political aims,little wonder some of them were calling for niger delta with them as the head. We are the majority in the niger delta not them,therefore,south south igbos will resist any attempt to rob us of our identity and use us as a willing tool.


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Xpaz:
Guy just ignore them.
let them b d first to hit us b4 we hit them back in a harder way.

they started this siege to undermine the igbo nation. We have to put them in their place. Igbos and ijaws are not mate for them to use us as a willing tool to achieve their selfish political aims,little wonder some of them were calling for niger delta with them as the head. We are the majority in the niger delta not them,therefore,south south igbos will resist any attempt to rob us of our identity and use us as a willing tool.


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Ijaw as big as they are cant control the ibibios who are so reserved in attitude but like a tiger when its tail is touched.in terms of population they ibibios are on the advantage.look at how to know the darring ethnic groups in Nigeria..check out states that has the highest cult activities in their campuses like Unical..calabar (efik/ibibios),Uniben..binis,Ekpoma..Edo's,Esut..IBO's,..none in yorubaland and north entirely which shows you how darring the people of that area can be.Ijaws are just making noise.Nddc is governed in turns

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@poster
Your article answers a lot of the questions of the Niger Delta today.

Across the the river, Ijaws are locked in communal land dispute with the Edos for Gelegele land, they are at war with the Itshekiris, and Urhobos over ownership of some part of Warri metropolis. The Ogonis are not comfortable with Ijaws, ditto Ibibios, and Efiks.

Now you understand why the Igbo is such a major obstacle to the Ijaws.
These are people whose ancestors were the real riverine and coastal people moving from camp to camp according to the Ocean waves and the season, now they have settled in-land, and making a stake at other people's land from east to west.
Unfortunately, may Igbos, Edos, and even Urhobos from the area are not quick to see where the Ijaw is coming from: they're bringing piracy in-land!

After convincing Ikwerres to deny being Igbos, next they target Edo to assimilate to their ways, and so on!

fuckerholic:
Ijaw as big as they are cant control the ibibios who are so reserved in attitude but like a tiger when its tail is touched.in terms of population they ibibios are on the advantage.look at how to know the darring ethnic groups in Nigeria..check out states that has the highest cult activities in their campuses like Unical..calabar (efik/ibibios),Uniben..binis,Ekpoma..Edo's,Esut..IBO's,..none in yorubaland and north entirely which shows you how darring the people of that area can be.Ijaws are just making noise.Nddc is governed in turns

So it's cultism you can use to measure the strength of an ethnic group? Kai Nairaland, Lol.

Pls allow me to meddle in this jiggery-pokery battle of supremacy among the Niger Deltans. You see, where I come from, we are kings by birthright and therefore, just like in Moscow - we do not play.

Now; I have no grouse about what transpires between the Ijaws, Ogonis, Ibibios & the Efiks since they are all family in the South-South Geo-Political zone, but what I cannot understand is Y the Igbos, whose Geo-Political zone is 6000Nautical miles away in the South-East, would board an Ekene-Delichukwu bus to the South-South and be dragging the indraggable with indigenous owners of the land just like they're doing in Lagos.

While I'm not trying to incite hatred or violence against anybody, this Igbos habit of coveting & dominating other people's land must be nipped in the bud before it engulfs them.

Even if we're in a democracy where the highest number or opinion counts, must you always exhibit your empty chest beating in other people's region?

If there's any minority group in the Niger Delta to decry the maginalization or domination of the Ijaws or Ogoni, it shouldn't ever be the Igbos who are only migrants or tourists.

The Igbos need remind themselves constantly, of the factors that led to the complete mass extermination of the Jews by Adolf Hitler at the Auschwitz, Belzec, Sobibor & the Treblinka Nazi camps, if they do not ever want to experience such.

Remember when the gun starts roaring, even if the gorimakpa head of Ojukwu appears in the sky, none of you will remember Biafra

Let us therefore, be faithful to the doctrine of peaceful coexistence & respect ourselves - Nagode!

Zoharariel:
Pls allow me to meddle in this jiggery-pokery battle of supremacy among the Niger Deltans. You see, where I come from, we are kings by birthright and therefore, just like in Moscow - we do not play.

Now; I have no grouse about what transpires between the Ijaws, Ogonis, Ibibios & the Efiks since they are all family in the South-South Geo-Political zone, but what I cannot understand is Y the Igbos, whose Geo-Political zone is 6000Nautical miles away in the South-East, would board an Ekene-Delichukwu bus to the South-South and be dragging the indraggable with indigenous owners of the land just like they're doing in Lagos.

While I'm not trying to incite hatred or violence against anybody, this Igbos habit of coveting & dominating other people's land must be nipped in the bud before it engulfs them.

Even if we're in a democracy where the highest number or opinion counts, must you always exhibit your empty chest beating in other people's region?

If there's any minority group in the Niger Delta to decry the maginalization or domination of the Ijaws or Ogoni, it shouldn't ever be the Igbos who are only migrants or tourists.

The Igbos need remind themselves constantly, of the factors that led to the complete mass extermination of the Jews by Adolf Hitler at the Auschwitz, Belzec, Sobibor & the Treblinka Nazi camps, if they do not ever want to experience such.

Remember when the gun starts roaring, even if the gorimakpa head of Ojukwu appears in the sky, none of you will remember Biafra

Let us therefore, be faithful to the doctrine of peaceful coexistence & respect ourselves - Nagode!

As usual this ewedu guy sitting in his brown roof hut in Osun has jumped into the thread with their silly lies n propaganda to say there are no Igbos in SS

look at all the tribal and ethnic battle in this geographical expression called Nigeria, yet our President from daura said Nigerians wants to be one.

Zoharariel:
Pls allow me to meddle in this jiggery-pokery battle of supremacy among the Niger Deltans. You see, where I come from, we are kings by birthright and therefore, just like in Moscow - we do not play.

Now; I have no grouse about what transpires between the Ijaws, Ogonis, Ibibios & the Efiks since they are all family in the South-South Geo-Political zone, but what I cannot understand is Y the Igbos, whose Geo-Political zone is 6000Nautical miles away in the South-East, would board an Ekene-Delichukwu bus to the South-South and be dragging the indraggable with indigenous owners of the land just like they're doing in Lagos.

While I'm not trying to incite hatred or violence against anybody, this Igbos habit of coveting & dominating other people's land must be nipped in the bud before it engulfs them.

Even if we're in a democracy where the highest number or opinion counts, must you always exhibit your empty chest beating in other people's region?

If there's any minority group in the Niger Delta to decry the maginalization or domination of the Ijaws or Ogoni, it shouldn't ever be the Igbos who are only migrants or tourists.

The Igbos need remind themselves constantly, of the factors that led to the complete mass extermination of the Jews by Adolf Hitler at the Auschwitz, Belzec, Sobibor & the Treblinka Nazi camps, if they do not ever want to experience such.

Remember when the gun starts roaring, even if the gorimakpa head of Ojukwu appears in the sky, none of you will remember Biafra

Let us therefore, be faithful to the doctrine of peaceful coexistence & respect ourselves - Nagode!

pls sir are you saying that i am a migrant in my ownland? So as a person from oyigbo lga in rivers state, i am not allowed to complain about ijaw dominance in my geopolitical zone? Or are you saying that there are no indigenous igbos in south south?

Zoharariel:
Pls allow me to meddle in this jiggery-pokery battle of supremacy among the Niger Deltans. You see, where I come from, we are kings by birthright and therefore, just like in Moscow - we do not play.

Now; I have no grouse about what transpires between the Ijaws, Ogonis, Ibibios & the Efiks since they are all family in the South-South Geo-Political zone, but what I cannot understand is Y the Igbos, whose Geo-Political zone is 6000Nautical miles away in the South-East, would board an Ekene-Delichukwu bus to the South-South and be dragging the indraggable with indigenous owners of the land just like they're doing in Lagos.

While I'm not trying to incite hatred or violence against anybody, this Igbos habit of coveting & dominating other people's land must be nipped in the bud before it engulfs them.

Even if we're in a democracy where the highest number or opinion counts, must you always exhibit your empty chest beating in other people's region?

If there's any minority group in the Niger Delta to decry the maginalization or domination of the Ijaws or Ogoni, it shouldn't ever be the Igbos who are only migrants or tourists.

The Igbos need remind themselves constantly, of the factors that led to the complete mass extermination of the Jews by Adolf Hitler at the Auschwitz, Belzec, Sobibor & the Treblinka Nazi camps, if they do not ever want to experience such.

Remember when the gun starts roaring, even if the gorimakpa head of Ojukwu appears in the sky, none of you will remember Biafra

Let us therefore, be faithful to the doctrine of peaceful coexistence & respect ourselves - Nagode!

foolish yoloba man .. Why not come to my home state Rivers and call me migrant ... Lets see if u will go back to ur abode in oshogbo with ur head intact

Worthy of note :


The attention of the Proudly Anioma-Proudly Igbo Group of Nigeria, a friendship/family group of Anioma people and their eastern Igbo kith and kin has been drawn to a “Press Release” written by some deluded individuals claiming to speak on behalf of the entire Anioma people. To begin with, it is important to note that the said group “Ndi-Anioma” as they call themselves is not the umbrella body of the Anioma people at home and in the Diaspora. This responsibility lies with the Izu-Anioma organization head by Brig. Gen Alabi Isama (rtd), the Ajieh-Osa, Anagba and Ochiagha of Utagba land. In the charter of Izu-Anioma, the Anioma people were not defined as an “ethnic group” but rather an umbrella body covering the people identified in the course of Nigerian nationhood as West-Niger Igbos, Western Igbos, then Midwest Igbos , Bendel Igbos and now its often called Delta Igbos. Anioma is a political identity covering the entire area and was coined by the venerable Chief Dennis Osadebay in the late 1970s. It is important as well to note that our leader, Gen. Isama has stated in several fora and without any bit of contradiction that Anioma people are Igbos. We of the Proudly Anioma-Proudly Igbo organization concur with his assertions. Therefore any claim, a self-seeking one for that matter by a group of political wannabes parading themselves as “the umbrella body of Anioma people” should not be taken by the general public seriously. Their rant is not worth a pinch of salt. We are aware that those parading themselves as “umbrella body of all Anioma people” have their loyalties tied to a particular political party in Nigeria. With such interests, their unfounded claims should not be taken by the public seriously.

As stated by one of our leaders Col Achuzie, the Ikemba of Asaba, we believe that the issues leading to the end of Biafran war and the pacification which followed thereafter has not assuaged a good percentage of the Igbo people of Nigeria that they have been fully integrated in the country. Many of them still feel they have been treated as second-class citizens and there are empirical evidences to suggest that some of these claims have some taints of truth and reality in it. Among some of the issues include the slicing off of some Igbo communities out of core Igbo states and merger to other states. We can give examples:

1. The area of Ndoki south covering the present Oyigbo (originally Obigbo) transferred from the old Aba division and lumped to Rivers State in 1976. Also, in the 1980s, three Ndoki villages namely Ohaobu, Mkpukpuaja and Ogbuagu villages carved from the then Imo State and lumped to Etim-Ekpo LGA of Akwa Ibom State. It is noteworthy to state that Oyigbo LGA apart from Oloibiri was the first place in Nigeria to produce oil and gas in commercial quantities (at Afam). Unlike Oloibiri which has dried-up since the 1980s, Afam and other Oyigbo oil-fields keep yielding vast quantities of petroleum.

2. Egbema communities now in Rivers State. Egbema has 16 villages and out of these 16 villages , 3 namely Mgbede, Aggah and Okwuzi has the largest reserves of oil and gas in the community. This is apparently the reason they were lumped to Rivers while the other 13 villages were left in Imo State where they had to contend with more modest reserves of the commodity.
It is important to note that this “punishment” at least as perceived by many Igbos did not end up with the eastern Igbo people. The Aniomas or Western Igbos had to lose Ndoni area to Rivers State and Osekwenike-Onyah area to Sagbama area of Bayelsa State. Just like the other examples I gave, all of these areas are oil-producing. It is often claimed that the Nigerian Civil war was a war fought over oil and gas and the actions of the federal government just like these examples seems to reflect suggest that the federal government had intended to give a tag of non-oil producing to Igbo areas including Anioma. While it is interesting to note that parts of Igbo land has been excised and lumped to other states, a good part of Itsekiri land embracing what is defined as Ugbege area was lumped to Ondo State; A state where Itsekiri people are not indigenous. This is one just an example of the double standards in Nigeria which seem to swell such protests. It therefore lies with the federal government to initiate moves to douse such feelings of alienation or punishment for the war. A common song by Peter Tos , which has one of its iconic lyrics “Everyone is crying out for peace but no one for justice” brings to the fore what we are trying to pass across here.

Prof Chinua Achebe’s book “There was a Country” puts to rest any country called Biafra. There was indeed a country called “Biafra”. However, Col Emeka Odimegwu Ojukwu talked on a “Biafra of the Mind”. This “Biafra of the Mind” has in our opinion different dimensions to it. Biafra is a part of the history of Nigeria and there is no way we can forget about it collectively as Nigerians and more importantly as Igbos. Therefore, anyone in whatever guise declaring “Biafra died permanently in 1970 with the surrender speech made by Philip Effiong” is being comical. In the United States of America, people freely talk about the Confederate States of Southern USA and the old Confederate flag is embedded in the state flags of many Southern States because it is deemed as a part of their heritage. Telling Igbos and other Nigerians who suffered a lot to pretend that no Biafra of the Mind exists is a sheer display of wickedness and irresponsibility. There is nothing to ever stop a war which led to the death of one-seventh of the Igbo people and left much of Anioma land decimated.
Anyone who claims that a “few resentful people of South-East origin” are the ones behind the protests. We have seen some pictures of the protests and such pictures do not seem to suggest that the protests were the handiwork of a “few resentful people”. It seems to demonstrate a mass movement among the youths of the South-east region in particular and areas of the South-south as well. Protest like this as far as it is peaceful is a hallmark of a vibrant democracy. Laying accusing fingers on MASSOB is diversionary. The government must do the needful and address the grievances of these people no matter how “silly” it would seem. The idea of trying to separate Anioma from Biafra is laughable. In the 1960s when the Biafra war was fought, the Aniomas were drawn to it. The reason is not far-fetched; the war was perceived as a rebellion of Igbos and Aniomas being western Igbos were involved. This is not a peculiar case. From Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo were drawn into the conflicts between the Hutu and Tutsi.

This is sadly a feature of ethnic politics which manifests at times as war in Africa. Gen Obasanjo who was a major actor in the Nigerian Civil war and former president, did not hide his understanding that Aniomas are Igbos. In his Niger Delta Special Development Initiative of 2005, he had Imo, Abia and Anioma area of Delta removed as beneficiaries. Yet he had Ondo and its rocky capital city of Akure included as “part of the Niger Delta”. The said inventive maps claimed by these people who represent just themselves and no one else in Anioma is a proposal and it’s in tandem with International law and practices. It was the case with South Sudan. In the original proposal Southern Blue, Abyei and Nuba were proposed and this was adopted in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) of Sudan and South Sudan. Abyei was to decide after a referendum while Southern Blue Nile and Nuba would decide after popular consultation. Claiming that the “expansiveness of Biafra” has anything to do with oil is ridiculous.

Firstly the price of oil has crashed significantly and there is nothing to suggest that in future, oil will be “black gold” it used to be. Besides the southeast region even with the exclusion of the areas annexed and lumped to Rivers has some reserves of the commodity. Anioma herself also has oil. But anyone who thinks that the future of Anioma , the larger Igbo race or Africa lies in oil or other commodities has serious issues. The main drive of development is human capital no less no more. Igbos has this factor perhaps more than any other group in Nigeria.
It is also worthy to note that several Anioma people are well-disposed to the protests and the involvement of Anioma towns of Agbor and Asaba towns without any opposition in whatever guise confirms this point of view. This can be collaborated by the opinion of Col Joe Achuzie, the Ikemba of Asaba. The fact that our rulers and other leaders have kept a dignified silence to the matter would indicate that we are not hostile to such protests as far as its done peacefully and orderly.

It is therefore not the responsibility of a faceless organization to claim to have “made a position”. Those who are making the position are just a group of politicians based mainly in the UK using their paid lackeys to make some noise for them. They hope in return for “loyalty”, the ruling APC would share some “cakes” for them. This we know very well. Let us state once again that these faceless people do not represent the Anioma people. Our prime organization is the Izu-Anioma. Before we conclude let us dwell a bit on the points they raised.

I have said it times without number that we the egbema's ,or the ikwerre ,Anioma people have nothing in common with an ijaw man or Bini man ... We are igbos ... So I see no reason why the ijaws will be dragging us into their SS republic stuff ... There is no part of rivers dat is an ijaw land ... And that's finally .... Bayelsa is the only state have have indigenous ijaw ... Ijaws should respect there host in rivers state ... Or one of this days we will chase them back to bayelsa

Ijaw people invaded rivers state after betraying the old eastern state during the civil war ..... Getting a portion of land in rivers state was the deal they made with the Nigerian Govt , in return for betraying the old eastern region ...

Ijaws are expansionist ...

Zoharariel:
Pls allow me to meddle in this jiggery-pokery battle of supremacy among the Niger Deltans. You see, where I come from, we are kings by birthright and therefore, just like in Moscow - we do not play.

Now; I have no grouse about what transpires between the Ijaws, Ogonis, Ibibios & the Efiks since they are all family in the South-South Geo-Political zone, but what I cannot understand is Y the Igbos, whose Geo-Political zone is 6000Nautical miles away in the South-East, would board an Ekene-Delichukwu bus to the South-South and be dragging the indraggable with indigenous owners of the land just like they're doing in Lagos.

While I'm not trying to incite hatred or violence against anybody, this Igbos habit of coveting & dominating other people's land must be nipped in the bud before it engulfs them.

Even if we're in a democracy where the highest number or opinion counts, must you always exhibit your empty chest beating in other people's region?

If there's any minority group in the Niger Delta to decry the maginalization or domination of the Ijaws or Ogoni, it shouldn't ever be the Igbos who are only migrants or tourists.

The Igbos need remind themselves constantly, of the factors that led to the complete mass extermination of the Jews by Adolf Hitler at the Auschwitz, Belzec, Sobibor & the Treblinka Nazi camps, if they do not ever want to experience such

Remember when the gun starts roaring, even if the gorimakpa head of Ojukwu appears in the sky, none of you will remember Biafra

Let us therefore, be faithful to the doctrine of peaceful coexistence & respect ourselves - Nagode!

Let all Igbos look at the bold part and remind themselves constantly of the perils they face in Nigeria.

As for you Awusa guy,Igboland is both SE and SS and nothing can change that. I know your people are planning another genocide on us but I assure you that this time,not only would it fail but we'd turn it into such an international crisis that by the time its over, there'd no country called Nigeria again.
You guys have ruled this country for decades yet your people are at the bottom of everything

cheruv:
Let all Igbos look at the bold part and remind themselves constantly of the perils they face in Nigeria.

As for you Awusa guy,Igboland is both SE and SS and nothing can change that. I know your people are planning another genocide on us but I assure you that this time,not only would it fail but we'd turn it into such an international crisis that by the time its over, there'd no country called Nigeria again.
You guys have ruled this country for decades yet your people are at the bottom of everything

we are watching them closely

Euro31:
I have said it times without number that we the egbema's ,or the ikwerre ,Anioma people have nothing in common with an ijaw man or Bini man ... We are igbos ... So I see no reason why the ijaws will be dragging us into their SS republic stuff ... There is no part of rivers dat is an ijaw land ... And that's finally .... Bayelsa is the only state have have indigenous ijaw ... Ijaws should respect there host in rivers state ... Or one of this days we will chase them back to bayelsa

Ijaw people invaded rivers state after betraying the old eastern state during the civil war ..... Getting a portion of land in rivers state was the deal they made with the Nigerian Govt , in return for betraying the old eastern region ...

Ijaws are expansionist ...

some people want to make us minority

IGBO Speaking SS esp Ikwere will see hell in the hand of Ijaw.... but we Aniomas are sticking with our IGBO SE Brothers

Wonderful Article@explorer250.
There is absolutely No Way our Anioma leaders will agree to these so called Niger Delta Republic.. Not even the Efik/Ibibio will love it.
We will love an Anioma state in a Federalised Nigeria.
My opinion.

Ugomba:
There is absolutely No Way our Anioma leaders will agree to these so called Niger Delta Republic..

Wait Mr. Anioma! Can you expatiate on the above?

Zoharariel:
Wait Mr. Anioma! Can you expatiate on the above?

can't you understant English or what?

explorer250:
pls sir are you saying that i am a migrant in my ownland? So as a person from oyigbo lga in rivers state, i am not allowed to complain about ijaw dominance in my geopolitical zone? Or are you saying that there are no indigenous igbos in south south?

The problem with Igbo of south south is that of identity crises. While some of these people will deny there igboness, many will grudgingly acknowledge they are Igbo. An igbanke man once lived in my fathers compound in okere warri ,while this man complains of Bini marginalisation , he would tell stories of Igbo as a language started dying away after the civil war. Through him I got to know that idahosa, ogbemudia and co were igbanke and had igbo names and spoke igbo well but all that changed when igbos lost the war. That's exactly the issue with igbos of south south. Be they from obiaruku, ndoni, etc he,ogba, ahoada etc. While they may want to shy away from their igboness , those of us in the south of delta see them as igbos. I remember when Odili was running for the presidency, EK Clark was the first to identify him as Igbo and while he should not be supported. The truth of the matter concerning the Ijaw issue, theirs a sudden awakening of ijaw consciousness starting from 1993 and that led to the Warri crisis of 96 to 2001. As u may have known, igbos were behind the plot for the creation of bayelsa state in 96 by abacha and this greatly reduced the influence of ijaws in rivers state but at same time gave them a place they are proud to call there own. When bayelsa became the rallying point of all ijaws, they became the face of Niger delta and by so doing, perceive other Niger deltans as irrelevant when it comes to Niger delta affairs.

warripekin:
The problem with Igbo of south south is that of identity crises. While some of these people will deny there igboness, many will grudgingly acknowledge they are Igbo. An igbanke man once lived in my fathers compound in okere warri ,while this man complains of Bini marginalisation , he would tell stories of Igbo as a language started dying away after the civil war. Through him I got to know that idahosa, ogbemudia and co were igbanke and had igbo names and spoke igbo well but all that changed when igbos lost the war. That's exactly the issue with igbos of south south. Be they from obiaruku, ndoni, etc he,ogba, ahoada etc. While they may want to shy away from their igboness , those of us in the south of delta see them as igbos. I remember when Odili was running for the presidency, EK Clark was the first to identify him as Igbo and while he should not be supported. The truth of the matter concerning the Ijaw issue, theirs a sudden awakening of ijaw consciousness starting from 1993 and that led to the Warri crisis of 96 to 2001. As u may have known, igbos were behind the plot for the creation of bayelsa state in 96 by abacha and this greatly reduced the influence of ijaws in rivers state but at same time gave them a place they are proud to call there own. When bayelsa became the rallying point of all ijaws, they became the face of Niger delta and by so doing, perceive other Niger deltans as irrelevant when it comes to Niger delta affairs.

God bless you are a true son of his father and that of niger delta

explorer250:
pls sir are you saying that i am a migrant in my ownland? So as a person from oyigbo lga in rivers state, i am not allowed to complain about ijaw dominance in my geopolitical zone? Or are you saying that there are no indigenous igbos in south south?

Before now, most non SS/SE zones, particularly Yorubas, thought there were only 3 tribes in Rivers state, Okirikas, Ijaws and Ogonis. When some people like the Etches and Oyigbos started mentioning that they are indigenous Igbos in Rivers, they were labeled "Igbo Migrants" from the SE. Jokers!

kingzizzy:
Before now, most non SS/SE zones, particularly Yorubas, thought there were only 3 tribes in Rivers state, Okirikas, Ijaws and Ogonis. When some people like the Etches and Oyigbos started mentioning that they are indigenous Igbos in Rivers, they were labeled "Igbo Migrants" from the SE. Jokers!

okrika is Ijaw