pazienza:
[s]The COR movement was a movement for the creation of separate minority region from the then Igbo majority Eastern region by some members of the Eastern region minorities . Its an acronym for Calabar-Ogoja-Rivers, representing the minorities provinces in the now defunct Eastern region of Nigeria.


The Eastern region existed between 1939 to 1966. In its composition were Igbos, Ijaws, Ibibio, Annang, Ejagham, Oro, Agbo, Boki, Ugep, Ogoja, Ogoni, etc.
It was estimated that minorities on the whole constituted roughly 1/3 of the population of the region, while Igbos constituted 2/3 of the region total population.
The relationship between the Igbos and the minorities were relatively peaceful but not without intrigues. There were often innate fears and cries of Igbo domination by significant members of the minorities who usually called for creation of a minority region from the Eastern region. These demands led the colonial government to constitute the Willink commission of 1957 whose aim was to look into the grievances of the minorities and offer a recommendation.
The report of this commission can be found below this post.
The commission found no real marginalization of the minorities and maintained that Igbos have been fair in their dealings with the minorities, all the accusations brought to the commission by the minorities were found to have no substance and were dismissed. The commission noted that division of the Eastern region was not necessary.

Nevertheless, the yearnings of the minorities for a separate existence outside Igbo area of influence never died. It gathered pace once more when having lost out in Lagos, NCNC members found a way to replace Eyo Ita with Zik as the leader of the Eastern government. The aggrieved Eyo Ita left NCNC with both his Igbo and non Igbo supporters and founded a new party where he lost the elections to NCNC. However, rather than concede defeat, Eyo Ita embraced and vitalized the COR movement in retaliation. This rattled the Eastern region, but with NCNC party loyalists from COR areas like Mbu, Akpan, Ibanga Akpabio, Imoke against Eyo Ita, he soon ran out of steam and conceded defeat, while admitting that the people from COR didn't really want separation from the Eastern region.
Eyo Ita would later reconcile his differences with Zik and rejoined the NCNC.

To know more about Eyo ita saga :https://www.nairaland.com/2730983/see-no-wisdom-south-south/3

Appended to this post is a copy of Eyo Ita statement on his resignation from championing the COR movement.
This was sourced from Chibuzo Ihuoma collections via his blog: [/s]

strykr:
This is certainly a big eye opener. So, the eastern region was the most peaceful region then. Well, all we have suffered is expected when you lose a war.

Anyways, we can't have a new nation with any south south minorities. Their constant bickerings and self esteem complexes would slow down development for the first few years. We need a nation that would fire down from the word "go".. A homogeneous biafran country.

whirlwind7:


Hehehehe.
When you are at a loss of anything reasonable to say.
This same OP I have been following his posts for over 2 years? You're stark raving madd to say he is obsessed with SS or the Ijaws or any snotty group of twerps from whatever dark hole you crawled out from

What are you doing on the thread of a "hardcore Igbo man" that you despise?

You appearing on this thread shows you are the one obsessed with him. Otele

Tochi3:
History class 101.

You have done really well. Haters will not be

comfortable. Tribalistic bunch of haters .

You have historically destroyed their coven of lies and propaganda . Kudos.

SaintBishop:
The op is a hardcore igbo man. He's obsessed with south south people especially ijaws and I don't know why.

UdechiHD:
The OP is exposing all the lies you guys have continued to tell about the Igbos. Ndigbo must allow others be and fight for her interest.

Eastlink:
Truth be told Ndigbo have suffered in this country. Partly also caused by them.

Since the demise of Nnamdi Azikiwe we've lost our political expediency. Emotionalism introduced by recent Igbo leaders, MASSOB and IPOB has taken a toll on our pride.

First we must get it right political. The era of trying g to please others must seize henceforth. We did the nonsense with the Yoruba's in Abiola and Obasanjo and repeated the same to GEJ, yet these people would never pays us back in like manner. Igbo must get it right and all those who scorned her will come begging on their kness.

horsepower102:


This current generation must be the ones to change the course of our engagement with others is this one Nigeria.

We must sacrifice emotionalism and replace it with pragmatism and self interest.

We should stop treating our neighbors as brothers and simply see them for what they are; our neighbors.

Thank God pazienza.

Eastlink:
The era of pleasing others brought us scorn and insults.

The language Nigeria understands is ethnic patriotism. Which sane country would vote in a Buhari tell me? The Yoruba's are unapologetically ethnic champions and have remained so but only the Igbo's are claiming holy.

Igbos lost the plot with her shameless macabre dance and many of us are guilty. 2023 is around the corner and yet we still don't have a political roadmap.

A supreme leader is their destroying Igbo political future and our youths are their forming
IPOB touts online and offline. We must begin to get it right.

We must throw our individuality and work for our collective interest.

UdechiHD:
Pazienza is an idealist and it ends there.
I once told Pazienza far to convey his ideals on nairaland to reality but that never materialized. Charismatic and fearless people should begin to lead Ndigbo.

horsepower102:


I wish he could start a movement of his own compromising of true igbo intellectuals well versed in history to counter the nonsense happening.

Even a common website pazienza or a book. Please write a book for igbo children.

Eastlink:
Truth be told Ndigbo have suffered in this country. Partly also caused by them.

Since the demise of Nnamdi Azikiwe we've lost our political expediency. Emotionalism introduced by recent Igbo leaders, MASSOB and IPOB has taken a toll on our pride.

First we must get it right political. The era of trying to please others must seize henceforth. We did the nonsense with the Yoruba's in Abiola and Obasanjo and repeated the same to GEJ, yet their tribesmen would never pays us back in like manner.

Igbo must get it right and all those who scorned her will come begging on their knees. We must start using our thinking caps and be pragmatic.

The likes of MASSOB and IPOB offer nothing to Ndigbo. We must push them out for an hard core Pan Igbo group that looks after our interest first.

We must begin to vote in leaders that think Igbo first just as the Fulani's voted in a Buhari. Any lily livered Igbo politician who thinks others first etc must be destroyed politically.

UdechiHD:
Pazienza can surely write a book sure but he isn't cut out to lead. There was a time we talked about opening a WhatsApp group to push Igbo nationalism but it fell on deaf ear.
Sorry to say this, but Nairaland is where Pazienza charismatism ends.

Unless we translate this ideals to workable solutions offline, it would always end up as a waste of effort.

maestroferddi:
Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB certainly have nuisance value...

Nevertheless, their agitation for Igbo liberation lacks intellectual and strategic framework.

I have said it time and again that the Igbos, especially the intelligentsia, must rise up and fight their battles.

It was a deliberate state policy to unleash revisionism and demonisation on the Igbos immediately after the civil war... We know the authors and beneficiaries...

Now that the younger generation of Igbos have the privilege of access to the internet, it behoves them to study their history and retell it the way it should be retold.

TheGodlessGod:
So port harcourt was known as igbo Town? I'm so confused. I think Igbo leaders should come together and work with nnadi kanu.

Anyone that denies they are igbos in South south needs to be left alone. They should make a terrorial map of their sad republic.

If not then these minorities and even some external forces from larger tribe pretending to be from niger Delta will keep insulting the igbo race

horsepower102:


At this point, I don’t give a damn about port harcourt. The Igbos there don’t want to even identify as igbos so what’s the point. Let’s count our losses and consolidate our gains. We Have so much to be proud of. Forget Portharcourt.

TheGodlessGod:
but many do. Wike don't claim he's igbo but ameachi does.

That's why igbo leaders worldwide need to come together and let the people decide if they want to be part of igbo or not.

You can't be having an igbo name and denying you are igbo then you decide to commit crime .

horsepower102:


The problem I think which I clearly expressed to pazienza Is that a lot of igbos children are misinformed growing up. They Are taught see those who hate them for who they are as brothers. The are not alerted to the realities of their neighbors. It makes them willing to tolerate any insult that comes their way in the name of keeping the family together.

Well fck that mentality.

My only anger is that it took me years to realize this. This is why you still see some misguided IPOB members still including Tower of Babel in Biafra.

TheGodlessGod:
but many do. Wike don't claim he's igbo but ameachi does.

That's why igbo leaders worldwide need to come together and let the people decide if they want to be part of igbo or not.

You can't be having an igbo name and denying you are igbo then you decide to commit crime .

horsepower102:


IPOB will fail and eventually will loose support in Igboland. As some who used to support them, I have retraced my steps. Nnamdi Kanu is misguided. Sooner or later he will realize what a big mistake he is making including Tower of Babel in his biafran ambitions.

But I am glad for IPOB movement. It helped to expose a lot of things I would have never known about those surrounding us and their true intentions and feelings towards igbos.

horsepower102:


The real official ikwerre organization has made a formal statement that they are not igbos. There is nothing else to say.