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emperorshaokahn:
lol,i can see you guys are getting scared already,we have not even started yet,if una like make una go tell niger delta avengers.

Scared of faceless court jesters. Drop the weed.

Alabo7978:
those clowns are yet to say anything every since I asked them those questions up there.
they probably might have drowned or something, or who knows the lies they are trying to concort in their Den of thievery.
they're really working hard in their mischievous WhatsApp group.

They are a bunch of interesting clowns. They created a closed group on Facebook to reclaim Bonny few months ago, guess it got bitched. These guys are just foaming, they can't do nada.

OfoIgbo:
So basically what you are stylishly saying is that the Opobo king never described himself as an Ijaw man.

Why then have you guys been mouthing off all over the place that King Jaja described himself as an Ijaw man?

I am FRANKLY saying he gave his answers in respect to the series of questions. There wasn't any part where he was asked about himself.

When he was asked about Jaja of Opobo, his answers was quite corresponding too.

I wonder why you guys are being restless over this, not that he made any mention of ibo because they were irrelevant to the interview.

emperorshaokahn:
so in essence,you cant show us the video where he called himself an ijaw man?.

I think I am talking to daft people here. Was he asked " are you Ijaw?.. was that any part of the question.

Maybe you show us where he referred to himself as ibo.

OfoIgbo:
I am asking you guys for the umpteenth time, show us a clear evidence where he said that he is an Ijawman. You are still here carrying on with your well oiled deception techniques. You are now dealing with a hardcore Igbo man

Hardcore ibo man with low I.Q. Stop Begging The Question.
He wasn't asked if he was an Ijaw man. His answer was framed along the question construct. His mode of answering was in order to any form of interview. If another interviewer had posed a direct question, he sure would have tailored his answers accordingly.

9Pluto:
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@Ekealterego
@Igboid
@Ofoigbo
@Bkayy
@Vintagepipes
@Omanambala
@ebufa
@EzeCanada

And other well wishers see @Slayerforever's number and join the group asap

So, because buhari called ibos " dot in a circle", you have been running helterskelter to manufacture a link to the coastline.

OfoIgbo:
I can describe an American attire by how I am dressed. That doesn't make me an American.

Even the interviewer was obviously on a mission to corner Opobo as an Ijaw territory. It was clear throughout the interview and in the mode of his questioning.

If I bring in a pro-Igbo interviewer, King Dandeson would have also admitted he's Igbo.

But I have already shown you a snippet, where he was describing Ijaws as THEY and THEM. 2:58 - 5:26

THEY/ THEM is immaterial to the identity of Opobo. He was on record saying Opobo are ijoid. The dressing is part of Ijaw culture for centuries, no matter how mischievous you may want to put it. And the dressing has been a cultural heritage of both Bonny/Opobo.

Igboid:
So it's okay to have people who speak Igbo, Ibibiod and Edoid as part of your ethnic group, just because they want to benefit from crude oil politics that Ijaws are in charge of.
Then get angry when people point out to you that your ethnicity is a fraudulent one, since it is not based on homogeneity of language, but on Political and economic benefits?

You see where the problem lies!

Until you limit your Ijaw ethnicity to just Izon and Ijoid language speakers and leave Igboid speakers (Bonny and Opobo), Edoid speakers (Epie-Attisa, Udekeme Engenni) and Ibibiod speakers (Obulom, Abua, Ogbia, Abureni, Andoni,etc) alone.

We will continue to call Ijaw what it is, which is a "political franchise".
It is the pure truth and we will not shy away from saying it.
You can cry all you like, but the truth must be said.

Biafra is politically a more bigger franchise to co-opt smaller ethnicities under an Ibo identity. I have seen many of these minorities come out and openly deny being biafra, much less being ibo.

In all intents and purposes, never have I witnessed Bonny/Opobo aborigines deny their being Ijaw, until such a time.

OfoIgbo:
Not very vehemently all through, because if you listen to this interview from 2:58 - 5:26, where he was asked about the Ijaws, he kept using THEY and THEM.

Watch and see


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCPKHyhdYD8

Can't you hear him describe Ijaw attire by how he's dressed.

Igboid:
Okay.
Facebook should be better.
That way we maintain a certain degree of privacy until we are all comfortable with each other, then we can move to WhatsApp group.

Slayerforever can make a new Facebook group with no IPOB nuances whatever.

If at this stage any Igbo man is still talking about any sort of union with Ijaws, then I don't know what to tell them.

Is this how you intend erasing the footholds of Ijaw that has existed for more than 200 years in Bonny/Opobo

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9Pluto:
Imagine being told to stop speaking your language based on a false narrative. That is why we need to put all this out there because most of them don't even know.

@Slayerforever, do the needful asap.

What are you putting out there?.. Hugh Crow's inferences?. A slave merchant who was a captain of one of the largest human vessels that ever sailed on the Atlantic.
According to the OP, over 900,000 ibo slaves alone were shipped off the coast, little wonder he took a special curiosity in the ibos.

It was quoted in one of the snippets that the ibos were said to be relatable to the slave merchants. It tells why Crow would be more fondly of the ibos than other tribes of Bonny.


He even took out time for a long list of ibo women, trust me, he would have had a swell time drilling the juice out of his sex slaves in cold nights on the sea.

RobbStark:
Cry baby.
I dey Opobo why not come visit and ask all of us to leave the town for you.
Miscreant.
I agree you guys won online but the real winners are in the towns, come n chase us away.
Stone

Online Opobians, Lol.

yorubademon24:
ijaws don't own shit! stop projecting your endless tearz on me. you and alabo having crying after y'all asses were bleeped with lubricants on this thread.

since you both can't cum up with logical rebuttals and historical evidence by neutral observers on bonny island to ascertain ypur claim on bonny it has resulted to cheap insults.. our victory have long being sealed on this thread so wat-eva pain induced tantrums you are throwing at us is worthless.

the ijos are done for believe me, we now hold the key to reclaim our lands. u will understand the implications of documented history very soon.. watever that was done in bonny and opobo will be undone very soon when they get to know about their rich heritage. u can keep coping.

Lol.. Go to Bonny and Opobo and dress up the Amayanabo in isiagu as your Ezes in Alaigbo.

ebufa:
you slithering snakes, still enjoying the full benefits of your promiscuous relationship with your Fulani masters, I do not blame you,its the clueless and floundering ikwerres I blame more sef! how a people can be so intent on political self-immolation is beyond me! are ikwerres not in charge in the brick house, why will they allow Ijaws to keep surrounding them ..........it seems the fear of igbos is universal in that rivers state except for perhaps this same bonny and opobo and obigbo axis...........we need to protect our people sharp sharp....wither ohaneze!

Guess where the next Governor of Rivers is coming from. Your guess is as good as mine.

Vintagepipes:
.......How is Akwette wrappers and English bowler hat and shirt Ijaw?

Barbot explained in details how the indigenes of the coasts wear, "Old sailors and English imported hats.

That is not an Ijo dressing, that is the dressing style for all coastal people including Efik.

Those are 100% Produced in Abia state. This is Abia and Anambra produced wrapper the women were wearing.

yorubademon24:
so western clothing style are now Ijaw right dumbo. ijo history is well documented your people had no skill or watsoever in producing cloths. the ijo boat dwellers solely depended on akwete cloths made by Ndoki Igbos...

Dry up your tears. I guess when ibos came, they forgot their clothes and culture attire in amaigbo and were forced to make do of foreign attire.

We are still waiting when the royal palace in Bonny and Opobo will start wearing isiagu. Abi e never due to dey wear ibo isiagu and throw away Ijaw identity?

Hope ibos are taking notes of the names I have been dropping both in Bonny and Opobo. Those names are the people that matter and they don't sound an inch close to ibo.

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike on Wednesday received the Golden Key to the city of Opobo as the first governor to drive into the Ancient Island.

Amayanabo and Natural Ruler of Opobo Kingdom , King Dandeson Douglas Jaja who presented the Golden Key of Opobo Kingdom thanked the Rivers State Governor for constructing the road that has opened the kingdom.

He said: "Opobo people are happy that you have constructed this road into our town. This is a historic moment that the Rivers State Governor is the first to drive into the kingdom".

He prayed God to continue to bless Governor Wike and lift him up to greater heights for improving the area.

"This is the Golden Key into the Historic city of Opobo . With this key, you are now a citizen of Opobo. You have all the rights of an Opobo citizen ", he said.

Also speaking, Alabo Godwin Omoni Bupo said since 1870 when Opobo Town was founded, no governor has driven into the Ancient Island.

He said: "By this singular act, you have made history which cannot be equalled. We remain grateful to you for keeping your promise to our people that they would drive home in December 2018".

He noted that the new road is already positively impacting on the economy of Opobo Kingdom as wholesalers have started moving wares into the town.

Responding, Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike expressed happiness that he has made history as the first governor to drive into Opobo Town.

While thanking the Opobo Council of Chiefs for the recognition, Governor Wike assured them that his administration will diligently fund the project to complexion.

"This road has gone beyond the level of abandonment. We will source for funds and drive it to complexion", he said.

The governor said that King Dandeson Douglas Jaja insisted that he drove into the Ancient Island, instead of flying in a chopper to the area. He said he felt fulfilled helping the people actualize their dream.

"I give God the glory that during my time, Opobo people can drive into their beautiful kingdom. Sir Peter Odili started this road, but could not complete it. The immediate past administration could not complete it. We are happy that we are the administration that will complete the road", he said.

Though the Opobo axis of the Ogoni-Andoni-Opobo-Nkoro Unity Road is yet to be completed, Governor Wike has driven the project to 85percent completion.

He assured the people that he will complete all aspects of the road by May 2019.

Simeon Nwakaudu,
Special Assistant to the Rivers State Governor, Electronic Media.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1620839301393588&id=672482079562653

Jaja of Opobo; Everything ijaw


Look at the his wives' neck; everything ijaw.

Dressing and culture: Everything ijaw

Omanambala:
Please , stop being a nuisance here, oga. I have followed this thread with open mind to be enlightened and there was no place on the works by any Whiteman that visited the Niger Delta in precolonial state Ijaw inhabited Bonny or they were present.

You know danm well you have lost the argument a long time ago and your presence here is simply clutching at straws. There court of law that will cede Bonny to Ijaw with all these evidence. This thread has been exhausted.

Lol.. to your ignorant self, this thread of selective bias, selective snippets, selective narratives, selective reasoning, is Your proof at winning in the court of law.
This thread has been exhausted on whose side?, I guess on the side of the ibo settlers in bonny.

Tinubu is an household name from Southeast to Northeast and from Southwest to Northwest.

9Pluto:
Another obvious blight on the quality of Nigerian education. I suggest all history departments in most of this schools should be shut down and their professors sacked for a start. They are not what a penny. To imagine that I was the one teaching my neighbor history, that is someone that has a B.Sc in History.

I am just wondering, in a world without internet what was Alagoa referencing.

I make bold to state that Professor Alagoa is an academic fraudster.

Lol. Britannica is an academic fraudster, Cambridge University is an academic fraudster?

Keep Cherry picking the narratives that suits you. Exactly what you guys have been doing from page 1 till page 53.

Vintagepipes:
.....Politically? How? Don't overinflate your ego..

......All these groups are pandering because of the money and oil politics.

.....When they don't need you anymore and are done using the IYC for their aim, they will dump you like a bad habit.

Who is the current chairman of both Bonny and Opobo?.. Ijaws.
State house of rep members are ijaws.
More crucially, the ruling houses are ijaws.

Eastlink:
[/b]This is the angle the INC are harping on to gain a sort of emotional foothold on the riverine communities.[b] Using such events to merge land grabbing tendencies. And we know that politics in Rivers state has been turned into a upland vs riverine affair all thanks to Ikwerre vs Kalabari political battles.

@bold was your earlier comment about ijaws being emotional

Eastlink:
Exactly. Igbos are emotional while Ijaws are practical. Ikwerre stubbornness in River state is the gulf that has kept the Igbos at bay.

Seems you're confused.

Eastlink:
Exactly. Ikwerre stubbornness in River state is the gulf that has kept the Igbos at bay. Truth be told, Igbos must get her politics right. Quit enthroning Ikwerre Governors in Rivers start. Ikwerre must be returned back to their pre-2007 political conundrum to get back their senses. Nnamdi Kanu once boasted that he made Wike Governor and I won't despite that because I noticed IPOB propaganda in 2015 against Buhari that made a lot of non-indigene Igbos vote for Wike against Dakuku Peterside of Opobo. Kalahari/Okrika had already thrown their weight behind Wike, but for Ndigbi not supporting Peterside was a great injustice.

It is non of ijaws' business what ikwerre who have denied being ibos, got to do with themselves... Whether it is Wike, Amaechi, Odili, Dakuku or Princewill, Bonny/Opobo are politically in firm grips of ijaws.

9Pluto:
This is exactly what this thread is about.
This last attempt at erasing 200years old history.
Notice the criminal inference that the igbo language was due to commerce and religion.

Guys, did you guys notice the criminal presence of no other than the ancient revisionists at this event? Professor Emeritus E.J. Alagoa

The man is on a mission. He should come to a live debate while he is alive.

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Ekealterego
Eastlink
Igboid
Ofoigbo
Vintagepipes
Slayerforever

Please, anyone with Barrister Uche Okwukwu's(from Elele) contact should hit me up.

Of course, the large population of ibo settlers influenced by trading and religion had an impact on the Ibani language. Although, ijaw towns of Abalama, finima, kuruama, etc speak purely Ibani language.

9Pluto:
Please, don't be unfortunate talking about Biafra here, Frank Opiho would explain better.

Bonny and Opobo igbos only need to understand why on how they found themselves on those two islands and stop listening to Alagoa and his ethnic disciplines.

Also stop mentioning the term minorities and be specific about your ethnic identity unless you are trying to hide something we already know. Afterall, everyone is a minority somewhere for example igbos in Akwa-ibom.

Is biafra no longer an ideology?

After all, minorities should know their place. Minority ibos in Akwa ibom should know their place same as the minority Kalabari in Oguta. Much as we demand minority ibos in Bonny/Opobo know their place.

Eastlink:
I’m aware this event took place during the tenure of GEJ and not recent. Secondly, the Chairman of Opobo/Nkoro LGA and the Perm Sec for information and culture are no longer in seat. Moreover, they acted in their capacity as politicians. This is the angle the INC are harping on to gain a sort of emotional foothold on the riverine communities. And we know that politics in Rivers state has been turned into a upland vs riverine affair all thanks to Ikwerre vs Kalabari political battle.

All that matters is that there is a political authority backing up the consciousness of the ibani-ijaws. As we speak, the current chairman of Opobo is an ijaw.
You are the ones being emotional while the ijaws are practical.

9Pluto:
I will make out time to put up one no matter how short (I could just edit this thread into an article). I have not done so before and do not really understand the process. You could put me through including, the best daily for visibility.

I did not even know such event is taking place, now that it has been exposed here. I am more vexed about the whole thing.

You think say na joke. I can't wait for the clashes between ijaws and ibos. The era of the Eastern region where you held absolute control and influence over the minorities is over. The minorities are today holding high their unique identities.

*If you are serious about it, call a press conference in Bonny/Opobo declaring them ibos.

* Go to Bonny/Opobo palace and present them the biafra flag and paraphernalia.

* Go to the schools, markets, towns and villages and sensitize them on their ibo origin.

* Issue an ultimatum to ijaws of Bonny/Opobo to relinquish their control of the structures they currently hold.

* Carry out No1,2,3,4 in no particular order and then we take you serious. No online chestbeating please!

I told you guys repeatedly that all you are doing here is just an academic exercise. Go to the field!

Eastlink:
Thanks for bringing this up. We appreciate you send more of this.

The bolded name will be called out in due time. Despite his old age, he still goes about enforcing his identity genocide. He won't complain of old age when called up to an an historical debate to provide facts to his bogus and fraudulent history on Bonny.

Oh, why did you enbolden Alaoga's name while leaving other personalities.
Why not call out the chairman of Opobo and the Perm Sec. of Rivers State ministry of information and communication.

Go back to my earlier comments where I stated that Ijaws control the structures of both Bonny and Opobo politically and culturally.

You only making noise online.

In his lecture, Amasenibo Eric G. Jumbo listed out the current threat to Ibani Language which include Commerce and Christian Religion.

Also speaking, Warisenibo Abinye Morgan Ogolo, challenged the people of Bonny and Opobo Kingdoms to make concerted efforts to stop speaking Ibo language.

This will help to rediscover Ibani Language so that it will take its rightful place despite the damage it has suffered over the years.

The Chairman of Opobo/Nkoro L G A, represented by the Council Secretary, Mr. Sunny J. Pepple, called on volunteer experts of the Ibani language to partner with the Council to revive the language.

The event featured dances, lectures and Ibani language competition among selected Secondary Schools with CSS Opobo emerging as winner while GGSS Finima and Bonny National Grammar School, emerged as runners up.

Dignitaries at the event include, Professor Emeritus E.J. Alagoa, Dr. Mrs Iyalla Amadi and the Permanent Secretary, Rivers State Ministry of Information and Communications, represented by Mr. Francis Alli among others.

http://www.riversstate.gov.ng/item/1117-chairmen-set-to-develop-ibani-language-curriculum.html