₦airaland Forum

arcnomec:
Don't come online and say what you don't know.I'm a native of Omoku in ogbaland,there is no such thing as Eze of ogbaland but OBA OF OGBALAND.Cause history account for our bloodline with the Benin's.So saying that it was recently changed is a slap on our traditional heritage.It has always and will forever be Oba of ogbaland.

Let me ask you,who was the first "Oba" of Ogba and who was the last before NNAM OBI?.
Also,tell the house who Eze Egi of Ogba (Eze Ogba Ukwu) is?

gidgiddy:
I'm an Igbo man. My aim is no longer regionalism. My aim is to get out of Nigeria, create my own country and administer myself. Regionalism is still a good thing though, but it will never happen in Nigeria. The last national conference held in 2014 is testament to that fact. To the average Notherner, there is no difference between regionalism and granting Oduduwa,Biafra and Niger Delta Republics.

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demslayerrz:
God forbid bad thing, we have nothing in common with Edo abeg.

kikikikikiki! yoruba people don suffer sha. they are now a sect other tribes now avoid like a contagious diseases, even by those they share historical semblance and traits with. Pathetic!
The Igbo nation has proven to be the most loved and envied ethnic group.

Dhugal:
Let me ask you,who was the first "Oba" of Ogba and who was the last before NNAM OBI?.
Also,tell the house who Eze Egi of Ogba (Eze Ogba Ukwu) is?

Akalaka was the first oba,having founded the present day ogba kingdom. Just for the record,NNAM OBI was never the second OBA in ogbaland.

Are you from the ogba extraction?

Incredibleme:
kikikikikiki! yoruba people don suffer sha. they are now a sect other tribes now avoid like a contagious diseases, even by those they share historical semblance and traits with. Pathetic!
The Igbo nation has proven to be the most loved and envied ethnic group.

Like seriously you think yoruba can't do without nigeria...what is there that edo has to offer that ondo can't tell me

arcnomec:
Akalaka was the first oba,having founded the present day ogba kingdom. Just for the record,NNAM OBI was never the second OBA in ogbaland.

Are you from the ogba extraction?

Akalaka was reckoned by oral history as the father of Ogba,not the founder nor "oba" of any Ogba kingdom.In any case,Ogba settled at it present site long after his death.Go back home and learn real Ogba history,not the recent concocted political 'history' you'd just vomited.Oba of Ogba,indeed

ki02020:
Like seriously you think yoruba can't do without nigeria...what is there that edo has to offer that ondo can't tell me

lol was jst stating some obvious facts. read the previous comments.

I love this post by Ahmed Musa Husaini so much that i have to share it. Abridged a bit though, to encourage more readership:

"It is easy to predict the future of this country if you follow discussions on social media. I don't know when and how we ended up with a generation of religious bigots and ethnic chauvinists masquerading as politically active, yet utterly misinformed citizens.

"Whenever religion or ethnicity is mentioned, common sense and logical reasoning are suspended. People no longer think, see or comprehend. Nigerians are not interested in the substance of one's claims or submissions, rather; in the identity of the individual making it.

"Under one Nigeria, a Christian has no right to intervene in a Muslim discourse and a Muslim has no right to intervene in Christian discussions. A northerner has no right to talk about southern problems and a southerner has no right to speak on northern problems. The unwritten rule is: you have the right to speak the truth only about your own, not others.

"We make more efforts promoting division than we make towards unity. We are only good at widening the chasm of distrust and disunity beyond what our collective national unity can withstand.

"But neither our intolerance nor our bigotry are able to solve the problems that inexorably bedevil us: poverty, unemployment, poor infrastructure, insecurity, exploitation and lack of opportunities that render us backward, undeveloped and without some dignity.

"By the time we succeed in balkanising this country into the ethnic and sectarian Bantustans that we envisage, how are we going to disarm the army of ethno-religious hatemongers that we created within our midst?

"Human diversity is humanity's greatest weakness and strength. Those who harness it prosper, those who squander it perish. The rise and fall of empires, civilizations and great nation-states is replete with such case studies.

"In short: there is a silent yet fierce struggle for the future of this country, and we are losing it for the simple reason of our own disunity and self-interest".

tysontim:
This is needed because IPOB claiming the whole eastern Nigeria and parts of North is just a pipe dream. The Oil in SS must be shared by all, I just pray they develop this oil producing communities because that is what matters. Now If there were to be Niger Delta Republic there will be program. Leaving the Igbos in SS is the same thing as leaving Igbos in charge Niger Delta country, blood is thicker than water. Leaving the Igbos in SS out of the Republic will give way to Ijaws to dominate the Minority and no one wants that. Continuing with Nigeria as it is, the country will still be stagnant or at worse move backwards.

Here is the solution


Foremost constitutional lawyer Prof. Ben Nwabueze has, meanwhile,
canvassed the regrouping of Nigeria's 36 states into six regions, as Senator Ike Ekweremadu suggested. The
proposed configuration, in a memorandum he submitted to the CDCC are:

Southern Region - comprising Akwa Ibom, Annang, Cross River, Degema,
Delta, Edo, Ogoja and Bayelsa communities, with the headquarters to be
mutually agreed upon.

Eastern region - comprising Abia, Anambra, Anioma (old Aboh and Asaba
divisions), Ebonyi, Enugu, Imo and Port Harcourt (old Ahoada and Port
Harcourt) communities with headquarters at Enugu.

Western Region - Ekiti, Kwara, Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Osun and Oyo states
- with headquarters at Ibadan.

Central Region - comprising Apa (Idoma), Benue, Jema'a (southern Zaria
- old Kachia, Jema' and Saminaka council areas), Kogi, Niger, Plateau
communities, with headquarters at Jos.

North-Eastern Region - having Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Katagun,
Taraba and Yobe communities, with headquarters at Maiduguri.

North-Western Region - comprising Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina,
Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara states, with headquarters in Kaduna.

That sounds good.

hasyak:
I love this post by Ahmed Musa Husaini so much that i have to share it. Abridged a bit though, to encourage more readership:

"It is easy to predict the future of this country if you follow discussions on social media. I don't know when and how we ended up with a generation of religious bigots and ethnic chauvinists masquerading as politically active, yet utterly misinformed citizens.

"Whenever religion or ethnicity is mentioned, common sense and logical reasoning are suspended. People no longer think, see or comprehend. Nigerians are not interested in the substance of one's claims or submissions, rather; in the identity of the individual making it.

"Under one Nigeria, a Christian has no right to intervene in a Muslim discourse and a Muslim has no right to intervene in Christian discussions. A northerner has no right to talk about southern problems and a southerner has no right to speak on northern problems. The unwritten rule is: you have the right to speak the truth only about your own, not others.

"We make more efforts promoting division than we make towards unity. We are only good at widening the chasm of distrust and disunity beyond what our collective national unity can withstand.

"But neither our intolerance nor our bigotry are able to solve the problems that inexorably bedevil us: poverty, unemployment, poor infrastructure, insecurity, exploitation and lack of opportunities that render us backward, undeveloped and without some dignity.

"By the time we succeed in balkanising this country into the ethnic and sectarian Bantustans that we envisage, how are we going to disarm the army of ethno-religious hatemongers that we created within our midst?

"Human diversity is humanity's greatest weakness and strength. Those who harness it prosper, those who squander it perish. The rise and fall of empires, civilizations and great nation-states is replete with such case studies.

"In short: there is a silent yet fierce struggle for the future of this country, and we are losing it for the simple reason of our own disunity and self-interest".

nonsense anything that ll bring this zoo(nigeria) to a total halt ,stand still is welcome by men ......every night and morning I pray that this zoo(nigeria) crashes and it must crumble

Incredibleme:
kikikikikiki! yoruba people don suffer sha. they are now a sect other tribes now avoid like a contagious diseases, even by those they share historical semblance and traits with. Pathetic!
The Igbo nation has proven to be the most loved and envied ethnic group.

Suffer how? Seems you cant read, I am Yoruba and have nothing to do with Edo. Yes Igbo nation are loved in Malaysia and all over Asian. Mschew

osabuohein:
it's your father that's a big dummy. Have you been to Edo before opening your stupid mouth to vomit rubbish. Edos have more in common with the Urhobos, Itsekiris, Ijaws and some part of Anioma land. They only SW states that shares something in common with Edo is Lagos. There's only one oba in SW and it's in Lagos. No other part of Yoruba land has an Oba. There's even an Oba in Ogbaland in Rivers and the people of Degema and some parts of Bayelsa has Edoid stock and origin in them cos they're bilingual in nature. If you don't have anything to say shut up or better still travel or use Google instead displaying your ignorance here.

My Edo brother, why don't you want to stay with we yorubas. What have we done to deserve this rejection from you?

MrAdetunjiBayo:
My Edo brother, why don't you want to stay with we yorubas. What have we done to deserve this rejection from you?

its just greed and out of wishful thinking that they wud be one day recognized as Niger deltans just because of oil.
edos and yorubas that share same history, almost same language, almost same monarchy system, etc.
They dont want yoruba but they want ikwerre, ogba, degema etc...
People dat if they come together wudnt understand hoot from each other and d rest, they said ikwerres and d rest migrated from benin so shud be in d same country with them, but onitsha people who migrated from Benin should not, doesnt that tell u sth?

This seems good

issues of state police and resourse control needs to be thrashed out too.

This is the only option to save the country
i once made a thread about it two yrs ago

however whoever proposed the merger of edo with yoruba people didnt do a good job.
They had already made a resounding rejection of such an arrangement in mid west referendum. They are not even one.

BTW a we seem to forget that any restructuring must involve a well monitored referendum.

The foundation for Nigeria's failure was laid by the military that created states, lumping distinct groups together through pronouncement from far away Abuja.

ts no surprise every tribe is avoiding d yorubas even northerners, yorubas hv this attitude of being selfish, and extremely tribalistic, as far as the shit doesnt affect them if others like let them be dieing its not there business, if yorubas and north were to form a nation today, and north is having trouble with Ghana, even if the fault is from Ghana, the yorubas wud claim in different if north like let them die as far as no yoruba region is being affected they re ok.
imagine them forming a country with Benin, all the aggression of omo igbo leaving wud be poured on them.

Its all a pipe dream sha, d ikwerres I know wudnt want to form any union with igbos as they are intimidated by them and tend to be unsecured around them.

Ikwerre and igbo situation is wats playing out between edo/yoruba ryt now.
even some ikwerres beleived dat d similarities in there language with igbos were forced on them by igbos as a result of there proximity to each other, just imagine the rubbish, calabar people dat has been in the eastern region were not influenced to adopt igbo language, even small ogoni no adopt igbo language, but ikwerres did out of wishful thinking.

Lastly smhw am surprised SE people are advocating for regionalism, be careful of what you wish for, the SE is the most disadvantaged region, north has a lot to hold onto in the enactment of regionalism, so does the Sw and ss, all Nigeria ever did, the marginalizations, the lack of federal presence, the criminal ceding of resourceful parts of igbo land to other regions, the fact that not a singly federal parasatal e.g Neco, airforce, npa, nddc, etc are in the entire se as a whole tells alot...

This well thought out plan, if actualized will effectively kill breakaway attempts by Igbos. 2ndly it will make Nigeria to become a strong & prosperous federation because pipeline bombing & militancy will stop. IPOB & massob will sheath their swords & protests. North will become productive through agriculture & solid minerals. East will unleash its industry & commerce. West will leverage on Lagos to become an economic powerhouse. Anybody who is against this plan is wicked & an enemy of progress. We must fight to actualize this great idea or else we all perish in the coming economic psunami.

madenigga:
Its all a pipe dream sha, d ikwerres I know wudnt want to form any union with igbos as they are intimidated by them and tend to be unsecured around them.

Ikwerre and igbo situation is wats playing out between edo/yoruba ryt now.
even some ikwerres beleived dat d similarities in there language with igbos were forced on them by igbos as a result of there proximity to each other, just imagine the rubbish, calabar people dat has been in the eastern region were not influenced to adopt igbo language, even small ogoni no adopt igbo language, but ikwerres did out of wishful thinking.

u had to quickly change your position having predicted the out look and possibility of a clear edo rejection. You have resorted to your normal ikwerre hate igbo.

Let me tell you, upland rivers issue is non debateable. Only that of Bonny and opobo cos bonny is a traditional ijaw settlement with with Igbo indegenes.

Infact am sure you'll get stunned if 'south south' minorities are asked if they'll like to form their seperate region or stay with Igbos via a referendum. Most of them dont know themselves individually. Ibibio has nothing in common with itshekiri. Those groups see Igbo as their rallying point. I only prefer an exclusive Igbo region for political stability and understanding.

madenigga:
Lastly smhw am surprised SE people are advocating for regionalism, be careful of what you wish for, the SE is the most disadvantaged region, north has a lot to hold onto in the enactment of regionalism, so does the Sw and ss, all Nigeria ever did, the marginalizations, the lack of federal presence, the criminal ceding of resourceful parts of igbo land to other regions, the fact that not a singly federal parasatal e.g Neco, airforce, npa, nddc, etc are in the entire se as a whole tells alot...

The more reason igbos need a separate natio alone.

@uduak2016, Igbos being together with their Ibiobio, Efik & Anang cousins in the same region would have been a great idea considering their cultural, physical, close afinity & other similarities but in the context of this regionalism, other parts of Nigeria will be afraid of such region because to them, it will be like a disguised Biafra. Edo should be aligned with the Yorubas, I dont understand the way they are running away from them as if they are ebola. This arrangement might be Nigeria's last saving grace against a looming balkanization. There could be a caveat whereby 50% of oil revenue goes to the producing regions while the other half goes to the centre. Nigeria will become prosperous & strong because infighting, sabotage, ethnic strife will be drastically reduced. The NW & NE will be free to have sharia & islam as they want. There will be healthy rivalry like in the 1950's & 60's. WE MUST ALL SUPPORT THIS PLAN TO SAVE NIGERIA FROM A NASTY BREAK-UP!!!

tysontim:
Port Harcourt is only living in past glory, the current system in Nigeria will soon turn it to Warri, it is Lagos that has everything in Nigeria that is the truth. Any region that gets PH did not get a big thing. but any Region that gets Lagos gets the IGR of most African countries. Even if Lagos were to be a no mans land Geographical it is still in the west, you cant wish it to the North or East.

and who says Lagos is a no man's land

osabuohein:
I don't care or give a damn if they carve akoko edo out of Edo state. What do they contribute to the IGR of Edo state anyway? My main point is that people should stop lumping Edos and yorubas together. Edos are Edos and yorubas are yorubas.

And who is begging the Edos to join the yorubas? what do the, edos have to offer? apart from prostitution and black magic? You and your isolated people go look for ally *taya* Am very sure no tribe will want to be together with your unproductive asses. The edos are and will never be our problem.

tysontim:
This is needed because IPOB claiming the whole eastern Nigeria and parts of North is just a pipe dream. The Oil in SS must be shared by all, I just pray they develop this oil producing communities because that is what matters. Now If there were to be Niger Delta Republic there will be program. Leaving the Igbos in SS is the same thing as leaving Igbos in charge Niger Delta country, blood is thicker than water. Leaving the Igbos in SS out of the Republic will give way to Ijaws to dominate the Minority and no one wants that. Continuing with Nigeria as it is, the country will still be stagnant or at worse move backwards.

Here is the solution


Foremost constitutional lawyer Prof. Ben Nwabueze has, meanwhile,
canvassed the regrouping of Nigeria's 36 states into six regions, as Senator Ike Ekweremadu suggested. The
proposed configuration, in a memorandum he submitted to the CDCC are:

Southern Region - comprising Akwa Ibom, Annang, Cross River, Degema,
Delta, Edo, Ogoja and Bayelsa communities, with the headquarters to be
mutually agreed upon.

Eastern region - comprising Abia, Anambra, Anioma (old Aboh and Asaba
divisions), Ebonyi, Enugu, Imo and Port Harcourt (old Ahoada and Port
Harcourt) communities with headquarters at Enugu.

Western Region - Ekiti, Kwara, Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Osun and Oyo states
- with headquarters at Ibadan.

Central Region - comprising Apa (Idoma), Benue, Jema'a (southern Zaria
- old Kachia, Jema' and Saminaka council areas), Kogi, Niger, Plateau
communities, with headquarters at Jos.

North-Eastern Region - having Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Katagun,
Taraba and Yobe communities, with headquarters at Maiduguri.

North-Western Region - comprising Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina,
Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara states, with headquarters in Kaduna.

This arrangement no go work. If Aboh, Asaba and P/h can be lumped together with the East because of their whatever.. .. then what stops Warri, some parts of Delta state, Akoko Edo, Jebba, some parts of Kogi etc to be annexed to Western region?

Abi dem no get blood line with the westerners again?

We must share it equally. Habi i lie!

ridwanayo:
That dude is from edo,check his past comment,he is one hell of a senseless hater,but what's ur obsession with yoruba's,its childish

Seems you are new on Nairaland and don't know this people. I know one that opened an account since 2013...on that account, he portrays himself consistently as Igbo until he forgot one day to post his true yoruba post on that Igbo moniker, he thought it was the yoruba moniker.lol. behold, Rose2015 nabbed him, disgraced him and he had since disappeared. So we know them! Like we say, every day for the thief, one day for the owner. We will catch this one.

There is a Provision for amending every objective of the Constitution. There are also fundamental and directive Principles and Practices for carrying on any amendment. Let us carefully apply these rules TO GIVE FULL AUTONOMY TO THE 36 STATES GOVERNMENTS. I believe that the Legislature can do this fair and free and there after leave Mergers and Combinations to the whims and caprices of Governors and their legislatures.

uduak2016:
Seems you are new on Nairaland and don't know this people. I know one that opened an account since 2013...on that account, he portrays himself consistently as Igbo until he forgot one day to post his true yoruba post on that Igbo moniker, he thought it was the yoruba moniker.lol. behold, Rose2015 nabbed him, disgraced him and he had since disappeared. So we know them! Like we say, every day for the thief, one day for the owner. We will catch this one.

It's Rose2014 and by God, that lady is a badass investigator...she always sniffs them impostors out...lol

The use of Oba for King in Ogba is a post 1970 fabrication.

The word for King in Ogba, Ikwerre and even Ekpeye, who are all said to be descendants of Akalaka, remain the Igbo word "Eze".

What more? The name Akalaka itself is an Igbo name that means "Destiny", as the Palm creases which cannot be erased, so is Akalaka( Destiny), that's why Akalaka literally translates to "Palm creases" in Igbo language.

THIS 6 REGION WHICH WAS CREATED BY DICTATOR ABACHA IS VERY OK FOR NIGERIANS, MAYBE EXCEPT THE YORUBAS, WHERE KOGI AND KWARA WAS CEDED TO NORTHERN REGION, THAT WAS BAD THOU'.. BUT THIS WAS DONE TO ACCEPT ALL REGIONS TO BENEFIT FROM 6 STATES BLOC. APART FROM IGBOLAND WHICH HAVE ONLY 5 STATE, LOLS. LET THE REGION REMAIN SO, LET ALL MAN TO HIS TERRITORIAL H.Q. MAY OTHER UNKNOWN TONGUE AND TRIBE NOT BRING CONFUSIONS AND DISTRACTIONS, AND TOMORROW REGRETS TO ANOTHER. LET S/SOUTH BE. S/EAST BE TOGETHER WITH YOUR BROS, YORUBAS STAY AN LOVE YOUR KINSMEN. NO SENTIMENT. NIGERDELTANS ARE VERY OK THE WAY THEY ARE. MAYBE THE IGBOS AINT OK. (LET ME BELL THE CAT).THEY NEED ANNEXATION OF THER CLANS. SOMETIMES, IBGO PEOPLE CLAIMS WISER, DONT KNOW WHY? I HAVE NOT SEEN WHAT A PARTICULAR SOUTHERN TRIBE MAN THAT DOES WHAT ANOTHER CANT DO, ACADEMICALLY, MENTALLY, FINANCIALLY AND SPIRITUALLY-WISE. WHERE HAS ONE TRIBE GONE TO ON THIS PLANET THAT THE OTHER HASN'T GONE TO, ASK ME OR TELL ME..? SOMETIME AGO, IN LAGOS, DURING ONE OF THOSE AUGUMENT ABOUT BIAFRA BLA BLA BLA, AN EASTERNER QUIPPED THAT OJUKWU WAS THE FIRST REBEL IN AFRICA. ANOTHER BROTHER FROM THE WEST QUESTIONED, AND SO DOES WHAT, IF SO, HE MUST HAVE BEEN A STRONG, EBULLIENT AND INTELLIGENT DUDE (BACK THEN OOO), BUT WHY DID HE RUN AWAY TO IVORY COAST, AND GAVE THE POWER TO A CALABAR MAN, NAME FILLIPE EFFIONG.? CASE CLOESD......LET NIGERIA BE DIVIDED INTO NORTH AND SOUTH, THEN THE SOUTH WILL BE FURTHER DISSECTED TO 3, I MEAN 3 NATIONS. PERIOD. I CARE LESS ABOUT THE NORTH. IF AM TRAVELLING TO SEE MY SPOUSE'S PEOPLE WHO HAILS FROM ONITSHA, THEN I NEED A VISA TO TRIP OUT, LIKEWISE OTHER NON NIGERDELTA WILL DEFINITELY NEED TO PROCURE A VISA TOO......SAY GOODBYE TO A PLACE CHRISTENED .....NIGERIA

DENZELV:
THIS 6 REGION WHICH WAS CREATED BY DICTATOR ABACHA IS VERY OK FOR NIGERIANS, MAYBE EXCEPT THE YORUBAS, WHERE KOGI AND KWARA WAS CEDED TO NORTHERN REGION, THAT WAS BAD THOU'.. BUT THIS WAS DONE TO ACCEPT ALL REGIONS TO BENEFIT FROM 6 STATES BLOC. APART FROM IGBOLAND WHICH HAVE ONLY 5 STATE, LOLS. LET THE REGION REMAIN SO, LET ALL MAN TO HIS TERRITORIAL H.Q. MAY OTHER UNKNOWN TONGUE AND TRIBE NOT BRING CONFUSIONS AND DISTRACTIONS, AND TOMORROW REGRETS TO ANOTHER. LET S/SOUTH BE. S/EAST BE TOGETHER WITH YOUR BROS, YORUBAS STAY AN LOVE YOUR KINSMEN. NO SENTIMENT. NIGERDELTANS ARE VERY OK THE WAY THEY ARE. MAYBE THE IGBOS AINT OK. (LET ME BELL THE CAT).THEY NEED ANNEXATION OF THER CLANS. SOMETIMES, IBGO PEOPLE CLAIMS WISER, DONT KNOW WHY? I HAVE NOT SEEN WHAT A PARTICULAR SOUTHERN TRIBE MAN THAT DOES WHAT ANOTHER CANT DO, ACADEMICALLY, MENTALLY, FINANCIALLY AND SPIRITUALLY-WISE. WHERE HAS ONE TRIBE GONE TO ON THIS PLANET THAT THE OTHER HASN'T GONE TO, ASK ME OR TELL ME..? SOMETIME AGO, IN LAGOS, DURING ONE OF THOSE AUGUMENT ABOUT BIAFRA BLA BLA BLA, AN EASTERNER QUIPPED THAT OJUKWU WAS THE FIRST REBEL IN AFRICA. ANOTHER BROTHER FROM THE WEST QUESTIONED, AND SO DOES WHAT, IF SO, HE MUST HAVE BEEN A STRONG, EBULLIENT AND INTELLIGENT DUDE (BACK THEN OOO), BUT WHY DID HE RUN AWAY TO IVORY COAST, AND GAVE THE POWER TO A CALABAR MAN, NAME FILLIPE EFFIONG.? CASE CLOESD......LET NIGERIA BE DIVIDED INTO NORTH AND SOUTH, THEN THE SOUTH WILL BE FURTHER DISSECTED TO 3, I MEAN 3 NATIONS. PERIOD. I CARE LESS ABOUT THE NORTH. IF AM TRAVELLING TO SEE MY SPOUSE'S PEOPLE WHO HAILS FROM ONITSHA, THEN I NEED A VISA TO TRIP OUT, LIKEWISE OTHER NON NIGERDELTA WILL DEFINITELY NEED TO PROCURE A VISA TOO......SAY GOODBYE TO A PLACE CHRISTENED .....NIGERIA

Don't write in Caps........ You new to Internet world?

gidgiddy:
Even if the entire South unites with the Middle belt, it will still not meet the 'two third' benchmark needed to pass such a bill because the North will definitely vote massively against it. It is simply not possible

Yeah! You may be right but when Niger Delta avenger finished with Nigeria economy sources. And Buhari did see revenue to share to them no one would tell them not to accept..

uduak2016:
Now let's dissect the lumping. Look at the map before I begin...So you want to lump Akwa Ibom, Cross River, and then fly over Rivers and other SE states to then add Bayelsa and Edo? Is this how regions are created? What is the relationship in culture, blood/ancestry and geography/borders between Akwa Ibom, Cross Rivers and Edo, or even Bayelsa? NONE; besides we don't share borders with these people....you are trying to fly over Rivers and SE states to lump us with these people we don't know? May thunder strike you there. Nonsense!

When you choose to lump people together it's based on culture, bloodline, ancestry and geographical proximity as in borders...when it comes to all of these, Akwa Ibom and Cross River are more related and better lumped with SE states and Rivers...this is common sense if you look at the map! Edo share border with SW states and culture, so they should be lumped with SW...this is common sense!

If you you cannot resolve this, then Biiafra remains a viable option geographically as it takes all of the SE and SS minus Edo...trouble solved otherwise you are creating another stup$id confusion seen with the current geographical setup!

Uduak mbok so - song! Tell them abeg! We no gree for that kain arrangement.