WarriAproko:
ibori political wing is broken in delta central currently if not the help of delta north and south

And u can't rule his foot soldiers out from delta north and south, it's all about d numbers

Marotzke:
you are correct my brother.
He was the same person that Ibori recommended and became the Principal secretary to President Umoru Year Adua.
Seasoned and experienced technocrat who is being mentored politically.
Between Refined gentleman Edevbie and Area scatter Omo Agege , Urhobo nation must choose who best defines their character.

Political calculations it will become clearer 2021

JasonScoolari:
Efewestern, many thanks for this brilliant research, I thought he's from Ughelli.

And as for that Omo-Agege, APC will use him as a trash can.

How e wan take start?
Sen.Ovie Omo-Agege,the Obaisi of Urhobo Nation is the 9th Senate President.

jared007:
i read this somewhere too that Ofoni is paternally ijaw and maternally urhobo. my question to u bro: Do the Ofoni people see themselves as partially Urhobos? or completely Ijaws?

Ofoni is 100% Urhobo community. Their historical root can be traced to Ughelli.
They are suffering from Identity Crisis. They bear Urhobo names and speak Urhobo language ,so what happened to the Ijaw paternal root they are claiming?

nengibo:
Ofoni people are under Tarakiri clan, do you honestly think he would win a senatorial election against other Ijaw people if he wasn't Ijaw, there is a high mixture with Urhobo due to marriage so the people tend to identify with both sides, the name Ofoni interestingly is Ijaw meaning bird

Big lie.Ofoni is Urhobo.It is because of this marginalization that has made this present Ofoni people to see themselves as Ijaws under Tarakiri clan.
How can a community be under a clan and don't speak the clan language nor bear the clan name?Does that add up?
Urhobo Nation must not sleep over this issue,we must let the Ofoni people know they are our kith and kin.

SoaringLife01:


Ofoni is 100% Urhobo community. Their historical root can be traced to Ughelli.
They are suffering from Identity Crisis. They bear Urhobo names and speak Urhobo language ,so what happened to the Ijaw paternal root they are claiming?

my brother thank u jare. i even have a book about the ofoni people yet one boy here in nairaland who claimed to be from ofoni brought the issue tarakri. ofoni people are also related to those ughelli people in patani.

Marotzke:
you are correct my brother.
He was the same person that Ibori recommended and became the Principal secretary to President Umoru Yar Adua.
Seasoned and experienced technocrat who is being mentored politically.
Between Refined gentleman Edevbie and Area scatter Omo Agege , Urhobo nation must choose who best defines their character.

i think u mistook mathew edevbie with his younger brother david edevbie.

Shuku0kukobambi:


I was in Jos during the 2001 crisis and I heard that the Ogbomosho elder who gave testimony during the commission of enquiry sitting testified to that. He said the Ogbomosho Yoruba came to Jos over 150years ago but met the Urhobo on ground there meaning they both got there before the fulani. Of course they all met the Berom man in his land

Don't know how true it is anyway but there are plenty Urhobos in Jos

you correct bro. urhobos are the first non indigenes to settle in jos(plateau) and ajegunle(lagos)

nengibo:
Ofoni people are under Tarakiri clan, do you honestly think he would win a senatorial election against other Ijaw people if he wasn't Ijaw, there is a high mixture with Urhobo due to marriage so the people tend to identify with both sides, the name Ofoni interestingly is Ijaw meaning bird

marginalisation is making them claim ijaw but yet they ve refused to teach their kids izon becos they know the truth.

MONITZ:


Lol,in as much as not a few people would want Ogboru to win so as to at least change the power players in the state I don't think it would happen because the factors against Ogboru are much.

He doesn't stay back and do grassroot mobilization after each electiral defeat,he goes away only to resurface when elections are just around the corner,also he's become too washed up as an aspirant to a lot of Deltans and his candidacy overtime has fatigued a lot of them so the love really ain't there anymore like it was on the first two occasions that he contested and a lot of people are still vexing because of what transpired in the presidential elections and Deltans might just vent their anger on him by way of protest votes except the APC would deploy federal might to countervail these odds..

you are making sense, like u said delta is a PDP state and I don't think they are willingly to change power to APC.

WarriFirstBorn:

Urhobo village in Edo state? A whole village? Not even an edo community with some urhobos living in it, but their own village. I guess you know the implication of that. That means they will have their own traditional ruler then. Lol

Please mention the name of the village.

believe it or not there are urhobo village in Edo State you can check google and see for ur self

WarriAproko:
lol funny u. James manager can never be governor when delta central is there. The urhobos are majority and knows how to play the game. Do u think the urhoboa are the usokos.

What is usoko abeg?

Are you really from delta state?

jared007:
i think u mistook mathew edevbie with his younger brother david edevbie.

No David is the man.
I googled him.

darfay:




What is usoko abeg?

Are you really from delta state?

isokos I mean. Typographical error

darfay:




What is usoko abeg?

Are you really from delta state?

a full born delta if u don't know. In warri fully.

SoaringLife01:


Big lie.Ofoni is Urhobo.It is because of this marginalization that has made this present Ofoni people to see themselves as Ijaws under Tarakiri clan.
How can a community be under a clan and don't speak the clan language nor bear the clan name?Does that add up?
Urhobo Nation must not sleep over this issue,we must let the Ofoni people know they are our kith and kin.

Don't worry, we will do everything within our power to protect one of our own, these people can be funny, a man from Ondo that speaks izon is called an Ijaw man, but a man from Bayelsa that speaks an Urhobo Language isn't Urhobo, not because of anything, but because his land was carved into another state, such hypocrisy.

I will travel down to Ofoni and make a video interview with some of the locals, I'm also trying to create some awareness.

jared007:
marginalisation is making them claim ijaw but yet they ve refused to teach their kids izon becos they know the truth.

How can you teach your kids language you don't understand?, Ofoni is an Urhobo community, just so sad we are doing nothing to unite our brothers from the other side, we also have some Isoko communities in Bayelsa.

Efewestern:


How can you teach your kids language you don't understand?, Ofoni is an Urhobo community, just so sad we are doing nothing to unite our brothers from the other side, we also have some Isoko communities in Bayelsa.

i wonder if urhobo would ever unite. urhobos are suppose to be dominating two states comfortably but their lack of unity did not allow them claim lands throughout history.

Efewestern:


Don't worry, we will do everything within our power to protect one of our own, these people can be funny, a man from Ondo that speaks izon is called an Ijaw man, but a man from Bayelsa that speaks an Urhobo Language isn't Urhobo, not because of anything, but because his land was carved into another state, such hypocrisy.

I will travel down to Ofoni and make a video interview with some of the locals, I'm also trying to create some awareness.

Correct Oniovo. I want to write on this too for documentation purpose.
Do you know that the Apoi Ijaws of Ondo State don't speak Ijaw again,they now speak Yoruba language and bear their names.But,the Ijaws consider the Apoi-Ijaws as one of them( That is where Sowore hails from).
But Ofoni in this case ,speaks Urhobo language,bear Urhobo names.And they are claiming that they are under Tarakiri clan.All the other villages in Tarakiri clan speaks Ijaw language and bear Ijaw name.Why is Ofoni then different?
Thank God that you are in this too,we must not relent in telling the present Ofoni youth that they are Urhobos.

Efewestern:


How can you teach your kids language you don't understand?, Ofoni is an Urhobo community, just so sad we are doing nothing to unite our brothers from the other side, we also have some Isoko communities in Bayelsa.

Oniovo,we need modern age Mukoro Mowoe to unite all Urhobos selflessly.
In Ijaw Nation,the Epie language is far different from the main Ijaw language. And also the Ogbia language.But they are all under Ijaw Youth Congress( IYC ).
The Abua people of Rivers who speaks same language like the Ogbias don not hide the fact that they trace their roots from Ogbia and they are all in IYC.
Why should OFONI that speaks Ughelli dialect of Urhobo Nation not be part of UPU?

centboy123456:




believe it or not there are urhobo village in Edo State you can check google and see for ur self

Please, can you go the extra length to get us the name of the indigenous Urhobo village in Edo State. With this,it will be easier to fight that Urhobo should be recognized as ethnic tribe in Edo State and accorded all rights.

SoaringLife01:


Correct Oniovo. I want to write on this too for documentation purpose.
Do you know that the Apoi Ijaws of Ondo State don't speak Ijaw again,they now speak Yoruba language and bear their names.But,the Ijaws consider the Apoi-Ijaws as one of them( That is where Sowore hails from).
But Ofoni in this case ,speaks Urhobo language,bear Urhobo names.And they are claiming that they are under Tarakiri clan.All the other villages in Tarakiri clan speaks Ijaw language and bear Ijaw name.Why is Ofoni then different?
Thank God that you are in this too,we must not relent in telling the present Ofoni youth that they are Urhobos.

What an eye opener Oniovo, never knew sowore is from Apoi-ijaw, yet his name sounds yoruboid, but somehow somehow the Ijaws will still claim them to be one of their own, but are fighting tooth and nail to deny Ofoni their true identity.

I will need to contact you when I'm ready for this research, our fathers failed in Uniting the Urhobo nation, we shouldn't fail our children. The Urhobo is what we truly have, it's our identity.

Urhobo, Ovuo'vo.

jared007:
i wonder if urhobo would ever unite. urhobos are suppose to be dominating two states comfortably but their lack of unity did not allow them claim lands throughout history.

The Urhobos are very accommodating, and that's a major blow on us, check out our lands that was forcefully taken in Warri, the Ijaws are now trying to pull another stunt in Aladja.

Efewestern:


What an eye opener Oniovo, never knew sowore is from Apoi-ijaw, yet his name sounds yoruboid, but somehow somehow the Ijaws will still claim them to be one of their own, but are fighting tooth and nail to deny Ofoni their true identity.

I will need to contact you when I'm ready for this research, our fathers failed in Uniting the Urhobo nation, we shouldn't fail our children. The Urhobo is what we truly have, it's our identity.

Urhobo, Ovuo'vo.

Oniovo,we are in together.

marc55:

Stop saying what you dont know. Speaking a language doesn't mean some1 is automatically an indigen of a place.
Ofoni is a true son of tarakiri. Urhobo is just the language of the woman that bore those children for tarakiri.
If today i speak hausa, does that automatically make me an hausa man?

Urhobo is not a borrowed language in Ofoni, so spare us that analogy of yours. right from day one, people have migrated from various places, so because an Urhobo princess married Takari that automatically makes Ofoni an ijaw group?, do you know how close the Urhobos and Itsekiri's were in the old?, they married each other, lived among themselves, yet they maintained a unique language up till date.

What makes one a part of an ethnic group?, if not language and culture. keep denying your heritage, while reality keeps staring at you, and facts still remains you are an Urhobo man.

Aside ofoni, we also have some isoko communities in Bayelsa, what will you then say about that?, tarakiri grand kids adopted someone else's language, lol joker.

SoaringLife01:


Please, can you go the extra length to get us the name of the indigenous Urhobo village in Edo State. With this,it will be easier to fight that Urhobo should be recognized as ethnic tribe in Edo State and accorded all rights.

Ikpoba Okha (in Edo State)

WarriAproko:
a full born delta if u don't know. In warri fully.

Sorry there is nothing like usoko in delta state

Efewestern:


Urhobo is not a borrowed language in Ofoni, so spare us that analogy of yours. right from day one, people have migrated from various places, so because an Urhobo princess married Takari that automatically makes Ofoni an ijaw group?, do you know how close the Urhobos and Itsekiri's were in the old?, they married each other, lived among themselves, yet they maintained a unique language up till date.

What makes one a part of an ethnic group?, if not language and culture. keep denying your heritage, while reality keeps staring at you, and facts still remains you are an Urhobo man.

Aside ofoni, we also have some isoko communities in Bayelsa, what will you then say about that?, tarakiri grand kids adopted someone else's language, lol joker.

You know he is not from ofoni right?

SoaringLife01:


Big lie.Ofoni is Urhobo.It is because of this marginalization that has made this present Ofoni people to see themselves as Ijaws under Tarakiri clan.
How can a community be under a clan and don't speak the clan language nor bear the clan name?Does that add up?
Urhobo Nation must not sleep over this issue,we must let the Ofoni people know they are our kith and kin.

what does ofoni mean in urhobo

Efewestern:


The Urhobos are very accommodating, and that's a major blow on us, check out our lands that was forcefully taken in Warri, the Ijaws are now trying to pull another stunt in Aladja.

you need to grow beyond this tribal wars, Delta people seem to always have these backward tribe vs tribe mentality every time