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MelesZenawi:
I said you not to be blamed....at all. Na the new moniker dancing uclad here since. NOV 3 should be blamed.

I guess you are Igbo, I love the Igbo people.

There is a parable that says, if a goat stays outdoor for a very long time and no one comes to look for it, the people that doesn't own it will claim ownership.

Many of our Idu children scattered all over Nigeria are been wrongly claimed by other people. In the south west, south east and even northern Nigeria. I don't blame them, we the Ogisos, the custodian head of our history has failed to do our job. Hence, the reason am here.

Like what Jesus said, I am only sent to the lost sheep of Igodomigodo.

Atigba:
Why are you insulting me, can't you reply message without insult. I am old enough to be your father.

As I said before, the Onitcha people are from Benin City geographically, they migrated from Igodomigodo around 15 century and they have never denied that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onitsha

Also, the Oguta people in Imo State are from Igodomigodo, they don't deny it either. They always reject that they are Igbos. Go and ask Charley boy why he is always holding queen Idia head, a status. He knows where his ancestors are from.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eze-Igwe

You said your mum is from Enugu, it is a shame you don't know your history. Our children Eze family in Igodomigodo migrated to form Enugu centuries ago.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/journalofhistory./2015/03/08/history-of-enugu-ezike/amp/

Mind you, I have meant personally with the kings in the places I mentioned to you above, non of them had denied their root.

As for Nnadi Azikiwe, he once attest that he is from Edo State. There is no arguement about that. In Igodomigodo the cradle of civilisation of the whole of south south, part of south east and part of south west. We were cluster clans, different ethnic groups ruled by Ogisos. We are IDU people, the false narrative the Igbos are presently documenting that they are of Jewish heritage is burn out of low self esteem.

Number one, Oguta people don't deny being Igbos. I have a friend here from Oguta. He is always proudly Igbo and anti-benin.
Two, Charley boy holding idia statue doesn't make him a Benin. Show me a video where he said he is from Benin.

My school mate here loves the Ife arts, does it means she is yoruba?

Three, Onitsha are proudly Igbos. Eze Chima was an Arochukwu man

Atigba:
Why are you insulting me, can't you reply message without insult. I am old enough to be your father.

As I said before, the Onitcha people are from Benin City geographically, they migrated from Igodomigodo around 15 century and they have never denied that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onitsha

Also, the Oguta people in Imo State are from Igodomigodo, they don't deny it either. They always reject that they are Igbos. Go and ask Charley boy why he is always holding queen Idia head, a status. He knows where his ancestors are from.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eze-Igwe

You said your mum is from Enugu, it is a shame you don't know your history. Our children Eze family in Igodomigodo migrated to form Enugu centuries ago.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/journalofhistory./2015/03/08/history-of-enugu-ezike/amp/

Mind you, I have meant personally with the kings in the places I mentioned to you above, non of them had denied their root.

As for Nnadi Azikiwe, he once attest that he is from Edo State. There is no arguement about that. In Igodomigodo the cradle of civilisation of the whole of south south, part of south east and part of south west. We were cluster clans, different ethnic groups ruled by Ogisos. We are IDU people, the false narrative the Igbos are presently documenting that they are of Jewish heritage is burn out of low self esteem.

This is the history of Eze Chima


Eze Chima - Aro & Benin
Whenever Onye Onicha (Onitsha) in Anambra State comes up with the tale of their town originating from Bini (Benin) and loathes you with that condescending tag of “Nwa onye Igbo”, all in the bid to establish that ndi Onicha are not originally Igbo, argue him/her to thorough scrutiny and cross-examination with the below. Many Igbo born between 1970s and now hardly know this and may never get to know. Please, share more to people in that age bracket. Read:
“Chima: The Aro Native Doctor
Eze Chima was an Aro native doctor. In pursuance of the role of the Aros in the Atlantic Slave Trade quoted…from Michael Crowder’s story of Nigeria, Chima left Arochukwu to Benin to set up as an agent of the Aro Long Juju, for the usual purpose of collecting slaves from Benin.
Whenever, in the olden days, a native doctor travelled to a place, he by custom would, on arrival, report himself to the local chief or to the head of the society of native doctors of the land. He is either the guest of the head chief of the clan or puts up with head of the local society of native doctors. Accordingly, when Chima arrived Benin he reported himself to the Oba of Benin who accepted him as his guest. In time Chima settled down and set up practice as a native doctor and agent of Aro Oracle. He impressed the Oba of Benin so much with his magical art that he became very influential over the Oba. In consequence, the Oba installed Chima a chief in the palace of Benin. Thus the plain blunt and ordinary native doctor who left Arochukwu to establish an agency of the Long Juju, earned a chieftaincy title and became Chief Chima or Eze Chima.
Having found his feet firm in Benin, Eze Chima sent for his brother Ekensu and other relatives from Arochukwu, and also set up an Aro settlement in Benin similar to those Aros had set up within the description of Michael Crowder, in other areas throughout former Eastern Nigeria.
With the march of time, Chima’s practice in Benin expanded down to Niger Delta. Among the Urhobos and Itshekiris also the fame of the Aro Oracle spread and clients from those areas trooped to him to consult the Oracle. The greatest index of Chima’s influence on culture in Benin Kingdom is found in the fact that Benin people adopted the Igbo days of the week – Eke, Orie, Afo and Nkwo – on which Chima made one sacrifice or the other or observed his abstinences and spiritual disciplines, as names also of Benin week days. And till today the Binis have, as the Igbo, Eke, Orie, Afo, Nkwo – as names of their week days.
According to Mr Wellington Igunbor a Benin historian, who on the mother side, belongs to one of Benin’s traditional chieftaincy families (Chief Gaius Obaseki’s family – Gaius Obaseki who was the Iyase or Prime Minister of Benin in 1947) – the settlement of Eze Chima in Old Benin was established in the area through which Siliku Street runs in the present-day Benin city. As Eze Chima’s influence increased so did population of his settlement expand. So influential was Eze Chima and so completely absorbed in the society was he and his clan that there was hardly a thing he and his people could not do on the basis of equality with Benin indigenes.
How Chima left Benin:
At the time Eze Chima lived in Benin, the mother of Oba of Benin was Asije. The Oba’s brother who also was the Oba’s War Lord was called Gbunwala. One day, Asije the mother of both the Oba and Gbunwala, the Benin War Lord went into a farm belonging to Eze Chima’s people and collected firewood. Eze Chima’s people then caught Asije the Oba’s mother, and beat her thoroughly for taking wood from their farm without permission. Back home, Asije reported to her children – the Oba of Benin and Gbunwala, the Benin War Lord, her bitter experience with Eze Chima’s people. Red with anger, Gbunwala, the Oba’s brother and War Lord, took some of his soldiers, went to Chima’s settlement, set upon Chima’s people – beat them thoroughly and killed some of them.
From that day, Gbunwala began to harass Eze Chima and his people. In the circumstance, Eze Chima decided to quit Benin with his people and return to the East whence he came to rejoin his Igbo kith and kin – or, in the alternative to find new settlements for himself and his people in places far and safe beyond the reach of Oba of Benin.
This story was told in Igbo Primer popularly known as “Azu Ndu”, approved by Government Education Department for infant classes of primary schools in the Igbo Provinces of then Eastern Nigeria, now Biafra, since the beginning of the 20th century.
On their way out of Benin, some of the Eze Chima’s people settled at Agbo (Agbor), 44 miles away from Benin City which they considered far, and out of reach, molestations and influence of the Oba of Benin and his brother, Gbunwala. Others went beyond this distance and settled at Isele-Uku, Onicha-Olona, Onicha-Ugbo and Obio. When they reached the West bank of the Niger, some took a canoe and paddled down the River to Abo and settled. Led by Oreze, the eldest son of Eze Chima, the balance of Eze Chima clan crossed the River Niger to the eastern bank and settled among Oze people – the original inhabitants of what is today the big and prosperous commercial and education centre in Biafra – Onicha (Onitsha). On page 73 of his story of Nigeria, Mr Michael Crowder believed that the migration of Onicha (Onitsha) people – this is of Umu Eze Chima clans – from Benin took place in the 17th century.
Benin-Igbo Exchange of Culture:
Having lived for some years in Benin as one of the chiefs of the palace of the Oba of Benin, Eze Chima, the Aro agent of the Aro Oracle in Benin and his people had learnt Benin chieftaincy institutions and titles and so adapted the Benin system to the administrative structures and customs of the place where they settled among other West Niger Igbo and in Onicha (Onitsha) on the east bank. But as Eze Chima took away from Benin a copy of their chieftaincy institutions, so did he deposit in Benin, and the Binis adopted it, Igbo weekdays – Eke, Orie, Afo, Nkwo – which are vital in the determination of appropriate days for abstinences , spiritual religious cultures of the Igbo and Bini too. In other words, the West Niger Igbo borrowed from Benin in chieftaincy, traditions, just as the Binis borrowed from the Igbo in religious traditions—through the agency of Eze Chima.”
End of quote!
(Reference is: Pgs 171-174 of THE IGBO AND THEIR NEIGHBOURS by Professor Adiele Eberechukwu Afigbo. Published in 1987).

Atigba:
Why are you insulting me, can't you reply message without insult. I am old enough to be your father.

As I said before, the Onitcha people are from Benin City geographically, they migrated from Igodomigodo around 15 century and they have never denied that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onitsha

Also, the Oguta people in Imo State are from Igodomigodo, they don't deny it either. They always reject that they are Igbos. Go and ask Charley boy why he is always holding queen Idia head, a status. He knows where his ancestors are from.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eze-Igwe

You said your mum is from Enugu, it is a shame you don't know your history. Our children Eze family in Igodomigodo migrated to form Enugu centuries ago.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/journalofhistory./2015/03/08/history-of-enugu-ezike/amp/

Mind you, I have meant personally with the kings in the places I mentioned to you above, non of them had denied their root.

As for Nnadi Azikiwe, he once attest that he is from Edo State. There is no arguement about that. In Igodomigodo the cradle of civilisation of the whole of south south, part of south east and part of south west. We were cluster clans, different ethnic groups ruled by Ogisos. We are IDU people, the false narrative the Igbos are presently documenting that they are of Jewish heritage is burn out of low self esteem.

Finally, we the great Igbos from the East of Niger, west of Niger and riverine areas are Biblical Descendants of JACOB. BENINS and Igbos are not One. Subscribe to Murphy's YouTube channel "IGODOMIGODO WORLDWIDE" for More history.
You claimed to be Igodomigodo. Whereas IGODO in Igbo means Key. Tell me what Igodomigodo mean in Edo LANGUAGE.

You BENINS and Yorubas are one. Because Oduduwa was a blind Benin prince who settled in Ile ife and got his sight. Finish!

I will post the Benin-Yoruba-Egyptian origin.

https://m.facebook.com/story/graphql_permalink/?graphql_id=UzpfSTY1ODgxNjc5NDoxMDE1NTU5OTkwNDk3Njc5NQ%3D%3D



Benin/Egyptian relationship.

Igbos are not Egyptians nor Hamitic people.

Atigba:
Why are you insulting me, can't you reply message without insult. I am old enough to be your father.

As I said before, the Onitcha people are from Benin City geographically, they migrated from Igodomigodo around 15 century and they have never denied that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onitsha

Also, the Oguta people in Imo State are from Igodomigodo, they don't deny it either. They always reject that they are Igbos. Go and ask Charley boy why he is always holding queen Idia head, a status. He knows where his ancestors are from.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eze-Igwe

You said your mum is from Enugu, it is a shame you don't know your history. Our children Eze family in Igodomigodo migrated to form Enugu centuries ago.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/journalofhistory./2015/03/08/history-of-enugu-ezike/amp/

Mind you, I have meant personally with the kings in the places I mentioned to you above, non of them had denied their root.

As for Nnadi Azikiwe, he once attest that he is from Edo State. There is no arguement about that. In Igodomigodo the cradle of civilisation of the whole of south south, part of south east and part of south west. We were cluster clans, different ethnic groups ruled by Ogisos. We are IDU people, the false narrative the Igbos are presently documenting that they are of Jewish heritage is burn out of low self esteem.

I know Enugu Ezike people very well. You have to answer these questions for me;


1. A fulani in Abuja has his mother tongue and a borrowed language(Hausa) yet fulanis don't claim to come from hausa or vice versa. But in the East, if you claimed that Enugu Ezike are BENINS, how come they don't have Benin words in their Igbo dialect? How come those Enugu Ezike people have one mother tongue which is Igbo?

2. Why do they still bear Igbo names instead of BENINS? Why can't they give themselves names like Igbinosa, Osajie etc?

3. Why do they still accept being Igbo?

4. Enugu Ezike is an Igbo word and not Benin, why can't I find a Benin word there?

5. Why are they under IGBO Eze LGA?

6. You mean they just displaced their Benin tongue for IGBO language?

7. Why don't they have Igbo culture ?

Yeye tribe sub group

ChiSomtoChi:
Finally, we the great Igbos from the East of Niger, west of Niger and riverine areas are Biblical Descendants of JACOB. BENINS and Igbos are not One. Subscribe to Murphy's YouTube channel "IGODOMIGODO WORLDWIDE" for More history.
You claimed to be Igodomigodo. Whereas IGODO in Igbo means Key. Tell me what Igodomigodo mean in Edo LANGUAGE.

You BENINS and Yorubas are one. Because Oduduwa was a blind Benin prince who settled in Ile ife and got his sight. Finish!

I will post the Benin-Yoruba-Egyptian origin.

I guess after a long flight from Oyo ile due to the heat released by Fulani and Nupe on Yari.ba.

ChiSomtoChi:
You BENINS and Yorubas are one. Because Oduduwa was a blind Benin prince who settled in Ile ife and got his sight. Finish!

I will post the Benin-Yoruba-Egyptian origin.

Which Oduduwa is a Benin priest. If u don't know what to say just keep quite and face your Igbo vs Benin Jargon's.

ChiSomtoChi:
I know Enugu Ezike people very well. You have to answer these questions for me;


1. A fulani in Abuja has his mother tongue and a borrowed language(Hausa) yet fulanis don't claim to come from hausa or vice versa. But in the East, if you claimed that Enugu Ezike are BENINS, how come they don't have Benin words in their Igbo dialect? How come those Enugu Ezike people have one mother tongue which is Igbo?

2. Why do they still bear Igbo names instead of BENINS? Why can't they give themselves names like Igbinosa, Osajie etc?

3. Why do they still accept being Igbo?

4. Enugu Ezike is an Igbo word and not Benin, why can't I find a Benin word there?

5. Why are they under IGBO Eze LGA?

6. You mean they just displaced their Benin tongue for IGBO language?

7. Why don't they have Igbo culture ?

To correct you I didn't say the Igbos migrated from Benin ethnic group, i said they migrated from Benin geographically. It is not only the Binis that lived in Igodomigodo, we were clans which Igbo is one of them.

Igbos and Benin has same culture, same week days like the Eken, Orie, Okuo and Aho. They celebrate new yam festival and masquerade, eat the same food.

Jacob has 12 children, they don't speak the same language. We are all Idu children.

So many Ezike people bears names like Osasuyi, same with Benin that bears Uwa, Okoro.

Migration makes language and culture evolve but the Ezike has never denied their root.

Till date different clans still live in Igodomigodo, and they don't speak same language. The Igbos, Ika, Igbankes, Esan, Afemai, Owan, Urhobo, Isoko, Ijaws etc.

Atigba:
To correct you I didn't say the Igbos migrated from Benin ethnic group, i said they migrated from Benin geographically. It is not only the Binis that lived in Igodomigodo, we were clans which Igbo is one of them.

Igbos and Benin has same culture, same week days like the Eken, Orie, Okuo and Aho. They celebrate new yam festival and masquerade, eat the same food.

Jacob has 12 children, they don't speak the same language. We are all Idu children.

So many Ezike people bears names like Osasuyi, same with Benin that bears Uwa, Okoro.

Migration makes language and culture evolve but the Ezike has never denied their root.

Till date different clans still live in Igodomigodo, and they don't speak same language. The Igbos, Ika, Igbankes, Esan, Afemai, Owan, Urhobo, Isoko, Ijaws etc.

You once said "...they migrated from Benin geographically..."

So what you are insinuating is that Enugu Ezike, Oguta etc are Igbos who once lived in the Benin Empire before migrating to South east?

Atigba:
To correct you I didn't say the Igbos migrated from Benin ethnic group, i said they migrated from Benin geographically. It is not only the Binis that lived in Igodomigodo, we were clans which Igbo is one of them.

Igbos and Benin has same culture, same week days like the Eken, Orie, Okuo and Aho. They celebrate new yam festival and masquerade, eat the same food.

Jacob has 12 children, they don't speak the same language. We are all Idu children.

So many Ezike people bears names like Osasuyi, same with Benin that bears Uwa, Okoro.

Migration makes language and culture evolve but the Ezike has never denied their root.

Till date different clans still live in Igodomigodo, and they don't speak same language. The Igbos, Ika, Igbankes, Esan, Afemai, Owan, Urhobo, Isoko, Ijaws etc.

Atigba. Enugu Ezike people are proudly Igbo and nothing can change that. That's one of my friend from Enugu Ezike. He is always Igbotic and Igbo in all ramifications.

Show me a post where an Enugu Ezike guy said he is Benin. Am waiting.

Y'all should stop forcing yourself into us. You guys claimed our brothers in mid western region, yet we agreed with you. You still want to claim SOUTH EAST again like how you claimed Benin republic, Togo and Ghana.

ChiSomtoChi:
Finally, we the great Igbos from the East of Niger, west of Niger and riverine areas are Biblical Descendants of JACOB. BENINS and Igbos are not One. Subscribe to Murphy's YouTube channel "IGODOMIGODO WORLDWIDE" for More history.
You claimed to be Igodomigodo. Whereas IGODO in Igbo means Key. Tell me what Igodomigodo mean in Edo LANGUAGE.

You BENINS and Yorubas are one. Because Oduduwa was a blind Benin prince who settled in Ile ife and got his sight. Finish!

I will post the Benin-Yoruba-Egyptian origin.

Igbos are not Jews, stop the inferiority complex. You can't 're write history to suit your religious dilusion.

You just confirm my claim by saying Igodo mean key. Igodo has no meaning in Bini, Esan language. Our Ogiso Igodo is from another clan, probably Igbo or Ijaw. Igodomigodo has no meaning in Bini and Esan as well, It has meaning in Ijaw. You see we were cluster clans in Igodomigodo, and kingship was rotational, one clan rule another also rule. The list of Ogisos that ruled Igodomigodo, some of the names don't have meaning in my dialet.

The Binis and Yorubas has kingship relationships but different people. Some of our Idu children are ruling in the south west, south east. See example below.

Atigba:
Igbos are not Jews, stop the inferiority complex. You can't 're write history to suit your religious dilusion.

You just confirm my claim by saying Igodo mean key. Igodo has no meaning in Bini, Esan language. Our Ogiso Igodo is from another clan, probably Igbo or Ijaw. Igodomigodo has no meaning in Bini and Esan as well, It has meaning in Ijaw. You see we were cluster clans in Igodomigodo, and kingship was rotational, one clan rule another also rule. The list of Ogisos that ruled Igodomigodo, some of the names don't have meaning in my dialet.

The Binis and Yorubas has kingship relationships but different people. Some of our Idu children are ruling in the south west, south east. See example below.

Igbos are Biblical Hebrew ISRAELITES. Finish! We are not BENINS nor Benin related.

ChiSomtoChi:
You once said "...they migrated from Benin geographically..."

So what you are insinuating is that Enugu Ezike, Oguta etc are Igbos who once lived in the Benin Empire before migrating to South east?

They once lived in Igodomigodo and migrated to the south east.

Benin is inside Igodomigodo

ChiSomtoChi:
Igbos are Biblical Hebrew ISRAELITES. Finish! We are not BENINS nor Benin related.

I am not against you claiming to be sons of Abraham or Israelite due to your religion but you can't change your history to suit your religion.

This is the similar thing few Yorubas that migrated to Igodomigodo is doing presently, they are trying to damage their history just to remain Igodomigodo. They are claiming the entire Yorubas migrated from them. Meanwhile, they are the one that migrated from Ife.

ChiSomtoChi:
Igbos are Biblical Hebrew ISRAELITES. Finish! We are not BENINS nor Benin related.

You are right, you are not Benin

You are IDU

ChiSomtoChi:
Atigba. Enugu Ezike people are proudly Igbo and nothing can change that. That's one of my friend from Enugu Ezike. He is always Igbotic and Igbo in all ramifications.

Show me a post where an Enugu Ezike guy said he is Benin. Am waiting.

Y'all should stop forcing yourself into us. You guys claimed our brothers in mid western region, yet we agreed with you. You still want to claim SOUTH EAST again like how you claimed Benin republic, Togo and Ghana.

Lol

I am not taken Igbo from you, you are Igbo no doubt but we are all Igodomigodo Idu children

Atigba:
If you have a superior information than what I laid down here, why not state it.

Igbos are our children and they are from Igodomigodo.

Igodomigodo is an igbo kingdom. Igbos migrated there a long time ago.

People from the igodomigodo kingdom are igbos.

Read the rest here.

https://igbodefender.com/2019/04/11/the-connection-between-ancient-benin-and-the-igbo-aborigines-of-ile-ife/

NairaHercules:
Igodomigodo is an igbo kingdom. Igbos migrated there a long time ago.

People from the igodomigodo kingdom are igbos.

Read the rest here.

https://igbodefender.com/2019/04/11/the-connection-between-ancient-benin-and-the-igbo-aborigines-of-ile-ife/

Nonsense

There is no tribe called Igbo

Atigba:
Nonsense

There is no tribe called Igbo

ok