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Ariani:
What work exactly has IPOB done?

"Rabblerousing" ? MASSOB did more than that.
How exactly has IPOB enriched Igbo nationalism and advanced Igbo interests?

Under IPOB beggarly multi ethnic BIAFRA of tower of Babel.
Ndiigbo became object of rudicule to insignificant minorities who in real sense has nothing to offer offer us, if we get our house in order.
IPOB derailed Igbo nationalism.

You only think IPOB made headways because they came at the era of social media unlike MASSOB, so they had access to Internet to dispatch their agenda quicker and gather more followers far and wide than MASSOB could have ever dreamed of.

Idiko1:
Where is Bayelsa State?

Ariani:
For our IPOB brothers who think everything starts and ends with their "suplim lida", you all should try and read this thread:https://www.nairaland.com/500126/true-extent-alaigbo-igboland

I, like many Igbo nationalists here, was there at the beginning to the end of that thread. Of course I was under different moniker then.
Read carefully through that thread.

Because it would appear some of you are attributing the ground work of Igbo nationalists who went all over Nigerian forums, from Nigeriavillagesquare of those days, to bestnaijaforum, etc that held sway before nairaland took over, preaching the gospel of true extent of Igboland and arguing for Igbo only Biafra without Minorities, especially Ijaws, to MNK.

MNK only arrived to the scene in 2014 or thereabouts and only became active in 2015 following Buhari lack of tact.

And I can tell you that all MNK did was put a stop to the pan Igbo nationalism movement that was beginning to take hold then and replaced it with Babelian Biafra of "two wrapper" wearing tribes. MNK and IPOB only succeeded in derailing the pan Igbo nationalistic movement that was gathering pace, and replaced it with a shameful era of unity begging to minorities.

The only good to come out this now drawing to end MNK era, is that,many Igbos youths who know nothing about history of Ndiigbo and minorities in the East, were exposed to Igbophobia of minorities and now understand better why Igbo nationalists who are guided by history, insisted on Igbo only Biafra from the beginning.

So to an extent, MNK played a big role in this our struggle,but then his role must be put in the right context.

oyatz:
It's not in your place to decide who they are, this is left for the people of Opobo to decide and anyone who knows them well enough can easily see who they portray themselves to be.

Idiko1:
Shut up your putrid mouth. Which Dappa, war and canoe house? Who fights a war with mere canoe?

HornyTave:
are you talking of Ika and Anioma cause last time I checked, when they speak, a Bini man will understand small

theInterpreter:
who is the king of Badagry?
Who is the government of Lagos

Stop being dumb

OfoIgbo:
Of course he is playing a key role especially when it comes to firing up the Igbo base, as it were.

But he lacks c drain leadership qualities that disqualifies him from being the overall leader of the struggle. The council of elders would have been the ideal leaders of the struggle while Kanu man's the radio station and evangelism arm.
Th council of elders would have had more success in coming up or endorsing a proper roadmap to achieving Biafra, and ensuring the right people are in charge of the appropriate duties.
The council of elders would have covered IPOB with their personal honour which would have made it more difficult for IPOB members to be killed like rats with no consequences to the perpetrators of such crimes.

The council of elders would have attracted more international listening ears in the corridors of world power e.t.c

BKayy:
LOL
It is OK if you don't want to specify IPOB for some reasons which I don't know.
I won't coerce you.

But remember that we all witnessed MASSOB and Igbo territory was not their concern. The first person to break the barrier of Southern Nigeria being the barrier of Igbo land is MNK when he brought Umuezekoha of Benue state to peoples awareness. He made Ubani, Igwe nga/Opobo and Igwe Ocha/Port Harcourt a jingle although Port Harcourt never worked out.
Just for reference purposes.

slim75d:
you're getting something wrong, bonny existed before the trans atlantic slave trade just as it in kalabari they hard their chiefs and kings the ibos got to the island when bonny was made a slave port. At what time did the ibos starting rulling bonny

oyatz:
Bros, read wide and travel wide. There is no clear cut boundaries where one ethnic stop and another one start, there always areas of overlap. This is most obvious in Forested areas where people live in close proximity to each other and examples abound all over the world.


The classification of indigenous peoples in this country into what we now call ethnic groups was introduced by the British and it's a very recently fabricated stuff.

There are people today who identify as Ijaws but whose grandfather or great-grandfather came from Mbaise, Okigwe or Amaigbo. Similarly there are people today who identify as Igbos but their great-grandfathers came from Akure, Gboko, Bini, Agenebode, Ikot-Abasi, Agbor, Eleme or even Cameroon.

slim75d:
bro you can not be fubara and be ibo. What does fubara mean in ibo in ijo fubara means luck the full word is ibifubara meaning goodluck all this names ive written u can search them on facebook
pepple is a distortion of perekule just as opobo is a distortion of opubo, and jaja is to jubo jubogha the whitemen couldn't pronounce those names so they change it to what they can pronounce

Eastlink:
If you want to see such links type Opobo and Bonny Nairaland on Google and it will bring up old topics and arguments you never imagined. Search it on Google.

I even wrote one of my first thread on Bonny/Opobo Nairaland when I joined in 2015. It was a fall out of threads which gave false information from 2006 up till 2015 by the likes of Tonye and other INC/IYC guys. However other Igbo dudes with less information tried to correct that false information. There was also thread about Okrika too whom the Ijaws lied never spoke Igbo until one old Okrika Nairalander was invited and his comments was a shocker. Most of these threads are on the Culture and Travel section and some in Politics. Nairaland lost most of them during the hacking of 2015 but many still remained. Search the keywords on Google and attach Nairaland to it and you’ll see the threads.

You can also keep time to check outdated Forums like Naijabestforum and Nigeria Village Square to see old topics on Bonny/Opobo. You’ll also see argument on Ika Igbo origin and a lot of other Igbo tribes with identity crisis.

BKayy:
"E gbuo dike na ọgụ ụlọ... " you know the rest.
If you must criticise IPOB and her members, atleast don't go too far.
We all have our disagreements, me inclusive but let us not undermine their importance

theInterpreter:
do you know that Badagry belonged to Fon before

Now it I controlled by Yoruba


All these your "history no carry weight

BiafraInc:
Don't worry BASTARD, we have MAZI NNAMDI KANU, your nemesis that is doing the job of uniting we Igbos together and the message is sinking in like a sharp and hot knife over butter. By the time we finish with you bad belle Ijaws, you will understand the difference between "Boat" and "Both". Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has spoilt your job. My next job is now to go into Wikipedia and re-write all the mumbo jumbos you illiterate kai-kai drunkard Ijaws has been peddling about Igbo territories of Bonny and Opobo.

Eastlink:
Mods

slim75d:
the native ibo which the writer made reference to were ex ibo slaves and some free borns that reside in the island. Mind you okoloama(bonny) was a major port for slave trade ibos were the essential commodity, slaves (ibos), rejected by the whitemen were held back by there ijaw masters to man their war canoe, some were used as sacrifice to adum (god of the sea) some very loyal ones were made chief

slim75d:
now i see how retarded you and ur generation have been. Stop making noise on nairaland come to opobo wit ur ipob morons, we are about to celebrate our fishing festival u guys'll be good for sacrifice as usual it been long the water bodies taste d an ibo blood

Liebermantic:
Opobo and Bonny will never go along with Ijaw if Nigeria divides along Ethnic lines..
Opobo and Bonny kings and People were originally Igbo..The fake History of Origin started by Prof Alagoa of Nembe around 1972...The old documented History of Opobo and Bonny showed they are Igbo..
Ijaws should just go with Bayelsa State alone..No Ijaw in Rivers State

BiafraInc:
You are an Ijaw migrant into Opobo and at the right time, you will be ejected from Opobo back to Bayelsa if you don't want to live in peace with your Opobo Igbo hosts.