chukzyblingz:
you became insulting the moment you said elders of an ethnic group is living in self denial. From all your write ups I can see you know a whole lot about igbo but you don't know anything about Ika/Anioma or Edo. 80% Of Ika surnames are Edo. that plows bears an Igbo name doesn't make him Ignoring same way. I can give you a list of a thousand prominent men from Ika, 80% of them have Edo surnames, about 10% have real ika names and the rest are igbo names. Talking about names of towns, Okay share more names with Edo more than they share with any other groups. there are many owas in edo, Emuhu, Ute, even Agbor in an U r hobo land. Majority of ika village names are Edo and all our street and chieftaincy titles are Edo. You're highly hypocritical. Claiming to be liberal while denying any link between Anioma and Edo. even the blind can see the similarities but from all you wrote their is no single similarities. and which stupid study did you carry out and what nonsense facts are you talking about
like I said, you don't know anything about Anions neither do you know anything about Edo. stop fooling yourself on the internet

oweniwe:


It when they want to share positions or you are inspiring to go higher, but need their support .... That is when you will encounter such slights.

Pat Utomi had a good taste of that when he was campaigning

chukzyblingz:
it's funny when you people come out here to talk about names. Do you know the number percentage of Okay people that bear Edo names? I'm not saying Ika is Edo, but that's our origin. bearing Edo names doesn't make us Edo same way bearing Igbo names doesn't make us Igbo. for your information their is no chi in ika language what we believe in is ehi, and any true Ika name starts with ehi. Chukwu is sometimes used as God but it's borrowed from Igbo, Ika word for God is Oselobue

Sammy888:

Your lie get no limit. Our Ijmb dept chemistry lect has ch in his name chimezie. SE igbos have their own variant as Osebuwa

Sammy888:

the truth is that Utomi a rare igbo word caused the confussion. Let Ifeanyi Okowa present. Dont use the mishap associated with one person as criteria. Una doo

Sammy888:

Big lie!! 80% of there names and surnames is pure Igbo. Their stress and intonation is what differs. Only the name of their villages sounds edoid/yoruboid/igala-like while some also sound Igbo. I am from Anambra, attended Agbor college of education. I can understand agbor/ika by 60% but cannot speak it. They seem to have few exotic words outside the central Igbo. Our Ika lecturers all have igbo names.

chukzyblingz:
strange that you agreed on the Edoid sounding names of Ika villages.

chukzyblingz:
Utomi is not an Igbo word.

Sammy888:

Lie Well bro. The man himself complained bitterly that Utomi is Igbo. Its rare comprehension is the point here. Uncommon names like this are seen In Ebonyi and Igbo Rivers. Thanks but are sure you are an anioma person. Anyway anything can happen in Nairaland

chukzyblingz:
strange that you agreed on the Edoid sounding names of Ika villages.

Sammy888:

Lie Well bro. The man himself complained bitterly that Utomi is Igbo. Its rare comprehension is the point here. Uncommon names like this are seen In Ebonyi and Igbo Rivers. Thanks but are sure you are an anioma person. Anyway anything can happen in Nairaland

RedboneSmith:


Utomi is from Utomwen and means longevity in Edo.

chukzyblingz:
are you ok at all? Must Igbos steal every word they come across? The man never said his name was Igbo. Utomi is an Edo word which means the same thing in Edo and Anioma languages.

chukzyblingz:
are you ok at all? Must Igbos steal every word they come across? The man never said his name was Igbo. Utomi is an Edo word which means the same thing in Edo and Anioma languages.

Sammy888:

go and read the man's post campaign article and speech and know where edo come join. Be reasonable bro. He approached his brothers Ohaneze ndigbo who mistook him for an alien for his uncommon name for election support.

chukzyblingz:
why can't use your brain? What's the Igbo meaning of Utomi?

Igboid:
Oga if you are from Ozanagogo which is an Edoid town in Agbor don't lump other people into your Igbophobia!

Oga Chukzyblinz you didn't reply this post, are you from Ozanogogo?

chukzyblingz:
why can't use your brain? What's the Igbo meaning of Utomi?

SlayerSupreme:
My sister as soon as you mentioned denial,I instantly knew it was an Ika issue. My sister they're not Delta Igbos. Delta Igbo is different from Ika/Kwale. Don't taint the Igbo nation. Delta Igbos are predominantly in Oshimili and Aniocha LGA. The ones who are Ika,Ukwuani,Ndokwa are descendants of Benin outlaws/slaves who have mingled and bred with unfortunate Igbos. Hence,the product cannot be said to be Igbo. Thanks.

Nomswag:
proundly an ukwuani boy.......i cant imagine my self being called an igbo man.

IkpuMmadu:


Who even cares about ukwuani ? What are you coming to the table with
Population...nowhere
Ego....no where
Resources...mbanu

Onye ka IBU? the

AlNur:
This is the reason I don't give a toast about these people. They bring nothing to the table, why accommodate another parasites??

chukzyblingz:
Why do you argue about what you know nothing about? Agbor people bearing names starting with chi doesn't make it an Ika name.

AlNur:
This is the reason I don't give a toast about these people. They bring nothing to the table, why accommodate another parasites??

chukzyblingz:
why can't use your brain? What's the Igbo meaning of Utomi?

Afam4eva:
The only thing worse than people who deny being Igbo are those who force them using insults, intimidation and cyber bullying. If Igbo was a company, we would have definitely filed for bankruptcy because of the annoying idiotic elements we have in our midst who have even made being Igbo a herculean task. They couldn't even sit and read what Ishilove wrote initially and digest him like regular humans. Tufiakwa unu.

Ishilove:

Please direct me to what I initially wrote. I can't find it neither can I remember it.

Ishilove:

Don't let my father hear you. He will break ya head hecause he has declared to all and sundry that he is Ukwuani, not igbo.

But if we are to look at it holistically, the Ukwuani are part of the Igbo although we have long since denied this.

What is identity? "We see ourselves as multitudes' wrote the psychologist Walt Whitman. In other words, in that innate part of our psyches, we are who we say we are, even if it is different from how the world sees us.

Take for example, in a plane full of white people, you and another fellow are the only black people on board, you will find yourself subconsciously gravitating towards that black person because a bond has been formed based on your racial identities. The plane passengers see two black people, the black people each other as 'brothers'.

Same with the Ukwuani. They have long rejected the ethnic nomenclature 'Igbo', even if the facts state otherwise. A core aspect of us have embraced the notion that we are a separate ethnic group and thus, we are who we say we are.

Afam4eva:




https://www.nairaland.com/3170789/delta-igbos/1#46661635