Christistruth02: Adaka Boro was the first to declare the Niger Delta Republic it was Ojukwu and Gen Ironsi that fought against it and Boro was sentenced to the Gallows ( the Coup plotters had still not yet been put on trial though the coup had happened before that )
when Ojukwu declared Biafra he should have left Boro's Niger Delta out of it
Please what is your tribe?
Oya deny your ancestors, like that Ijaw man was claiming Ikwerre to make no point.
Now reality have humbled him.
What is your tribe? We canot spend our lives talking shit everyday with a nonentity ewedu golloper somewhere in Ogun state.
Obaaderemi2: They voted for that Fulani because zik directed them to do so, the same way one hunchback in Finland tells you to sit down at home on Monday morning and you all say Yes, Sir!!
U will for the rest of your miserable life cry about Ojukwu, Nnamdi KANU, Simon Ekpa and who ever comes next to demand their rifghts or oppose oppression.
U will for the rest of your miserable life cry about Biafra.
Kreesxxx: RIVERS IJAW PEOPLES CONGRESS CAUTIONS IBOS AGAINST IRREDENTIST AMBITION INTO RIVERS STATE - RIVERS STATE NOT PART OF IGBOLAND
We, the Rivers Ijaw Peoples' Congress- the umbrella socio-cultural group of Ijaw people in the eleven Local Government Areas of Rivers State of Nigeria, have followed with keen interest, the recent irredentist posturing of some Pro- Biafra Ibo leaders, who have recklessly and provocatively declared Rivers State as the 6th Igbo State- in furtherance of their illusionary pursuit of a so-called Republic of Biafra.
The above declaration which was widely reported in some online media platforms on 12 January, 2025, was attributed to a certain Ohaneze Ndigbo activist, in apparent show of the expansionist ambition of the Ndigbo to extend their suzerainty over Rives State,by claiming Rivers State as the 6th Igbo State!
As a people of Ijaw ethnic nationality in Rivers State, among other sister ethnic groups, notably, Ikwerre, Ogoni, Eleme, Engenni, Ogba, and Ekpeye- we unequivocally state, for records purposes- that none of the ethnic groups in Rivers is part of the Ndigbo ethnic nationality; and have never, as a state, collectively, been part of Ohaneze Ndigbo of the Ibo people of South East Nigeria. This is, of course, without prejudice to individual association of certain indigenes of Rivers State with Ohaneze Ndigbo by acquiring personal membership of Ohaneze, in exercise of their Constitutional right to freedom of association.
It is both illogical and preposterous to equate such individual membership of Ohaneze with the ethnic identity of the entire Rivers state; and thus foist on the state an Igbo ethnic nationality.
We note, with a sense of history, that this is not the first time our Ibo neighbours have sought to expand their ethnic agenda into our territory. This unbridled political adventure dates back to the First Republic when the Ibo took advantage of their dominance of the NCNC to sponsor an Ibo candidate against our more qualified brother of Ikwerre extraction, Chief Nwobidike Nwanodi for election into the Federal House of Representatives; an election which Chief Nwanodi won, as an independent candidate, having abandoned the NCNC- Ibo platform and opted for an independent candidacy.
Similarly, as recently as the year, 2000, Ohaneze Ndigbo dragged the Rivers State Government to the Justice Chukwudifu Oputa-led Human Rights Violations Investigation Commission, claiming, inter alia, ownership of Port Harcourt; a provocative claim which they woefully lost.
We further recall, in retrospect, that as Ijaw people, our forebears, ably led by the vibrant and courageous nationalist, Chief Dr Harold Dappa-Biriye, OON, of blessed memory- were instrumental to the creation of states on 27 May, 1967, as a strategic way of freeing our people from the Igbo- dominance under the defunct Eastern Region government.
In responding to this irresponsible and provocative declaration of our state as the 6th Igbo State- we wholly associate ourselves with the earlier position of our parent body- the Ijaw National Congress (INC) in its response to this egregious act of insult to our collective sensibilities; and caution the Ohaneze leadership and its agents to cease and desist from instigating an ethnic crisis through the attempt to extend its expansionist mission to Rivers State
A word, we dare say, is enough for the wise as we trust the wisdom of Ibo elders, with whom we have enjoyed long historical relations as neighbours- to call their children to order.
For: Rivers Ijaw People's Congress - RIPCO
Senator George Thompson Sekibo, CON, DSSRS, JP Leader Rivers Ijaw Peoples’ Congress
Hon. Rowland Sekibo Ph.D, DSSRS. Director General Rivers Ijaw Peoples' Congress
Hon. Erastus Awortu Ph.D, DSSRS Secretary Rivers Ijaw Peoples' Congress
For and on behalf of the Rivers Ijaw Peoples’ Congress
The 1951 election results revealed a country divided into regional party enclaves: the east dominated by Zik’s NCNC, the north by Ahmadu Bello’s NPC and the west by Awo’s AG. The western elections were, however, a close battle between NCNC and AG, and both claimed victory after voting-day. Most candidates had stood without party labels, resulting in a brief period of confusion regarding which party some elected members would represent. When it emerged AG had the majority, NCNC cried foul, claiming some members who pledged allegiance to it before the elections were lured by AG after the vote via corrupt methods. AG denied this, going on to form a regional government.
Additionally, AG embarked on a complicated political manoeuvre – clearly masterminded by Awo as a letter I uncovered in his personal archives revealed – to ensure Zik was not elected to the central House of Representatives from the western region’s House of Assembly, as used to be the practise at the time. This successful manoeuvring included turning some elected NCNC members against Zik with promises of well-paid political posts. In effect, Zik was forced to remain in the western assembly as an essentially powerless opposition leader, rather than head to the federal legislature to coordinate NCNC’s activities from there as his party had previously planned.
The bitter nature of the 1951 western elections and Awo’s subsequent scheming to ”sink Azikiwe in the Western House” as he described it, was bitterly remembered for years in NCNC and wider Igbo circles. Some point to this as the moment ethnic politics arrived Nigeria for good with the message for Zik being that he return to his eastern homeland and leave the west to be run by westerners. And indeed, in 1953, Nnamdi Azikiwe returned to the east, refocussing his political career in his home region.
U see Awolowo and Ahmadu Bello, they were the originator of Igbo domination and tribal bigotry in Nigeria.
Til this day, Igbo voted Obasanjo, Yaradua, Jonathan, rejected Buhari and Tinubu
It is time to return the favour by electing an Igbo, even if he win like Obi they will rig him out.
Awo’s Nigerian Tribune newspaper claimed Zik’s “political and social activities had this Ibo-domination inclination” for years. The paper also urged Zik, who was contesting a seat in the Yoruba-majority city of Lagos, to stay out of western politics since he did not belong to the region
An editorial in Tribune stated it was “an insult to all westerners” for Zik, an Igbo, to be contesting in their region. Why could he not go and contest in his eastern “homeland”? Meanwhile, AG campaign posters urged “true born” western Nigerians to vote AG because it stood for “western solidarity”.
The 1951 Nnamdi Azikiwe elections, Awolowo, just like his muslim brother Ahmadu Bello could not help himself from Tribalism.
In March 1951, Awo and his mostly Yoruba supporters established the Action Group (AG) party to prevent Zik from winning the western election, and in effect becoming the most powerful political leader in the entire southern Nigeria. Accordingly, the main themes in AG’s campaign messaging that year were opposition to Zik, the idea the west should be for “Westerners”, and the threat of “Ibo domination.”
All of them were crying Igbo domination yet today, let the Igbo go they are still holding Nnamdi Kanu
Odin13: Zik went to try his luck in a tribalistic region .. and myopic Awolowo showed him the true meaning of the word “ Yoruba “
… and that’s it .
History ***
When Zik won election as Prime Minister, they rigged him out, started cross carpeting from one party to the other as they do now and that was the beginning of Nigeria decline.
It was Ahmadu Bello lead Fulani that started election rigging, which trigger coup that killed him and others invlved.
Fast forward to 2023 they repeated it again with Peter Obi
Samantha125: But I just told you that majority of white South Africans signed a petition against the whole nonsense... So your point is still invalid.
If you want to believe a small group of white South Africans over the majority, go ahead... But keep me out of it.
We black South Africans are not bothered by anything... So bye.
lol
Not so fast, that idea is what they pass to their children so it is not just one person.
Anyway, watch this 1957 School debate you will here the SA say it again and hear the Nigerian boy defending you as we usually do, making enemies for ourselves because of you.
even the video picture show her getting mad at Nigeria, only Nigeria stuck their neck out for your ass.