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It’s best they stopped dragging the Late Clarke’s name into this issue because when people respond now, they will be the ones to say he’s been disrespected.

You are the people that caused this problem for Fubara by nudging him into an unprepared fight with the people that made him governor, with the promise that you will help him prevail when you make it an Ijaw issue.

You should just let the man rest in peace.

Idzitari1:
He look like embe

He already has a master’s degree in law…
You no go try pass waec first.
Tomorrow u go say na ojoro

Blizzy9ja:
Nobody is talking about how Wike's greed is plunging the PDP into the trenches

You have started talking about it na..
Is it because you are a “nobody”?

plumcomm:
only daft people keep saying this nonsense,even fubara cannot come out to say it.

It’s actually the reason it will be hard for Wike to forgive Fubara.

At the early stage of the problem between them which started when Fubara few weeks in office and I believe on the advice of certain people including a popular pastor in Port-Harcourt, wanted to build his own ‘structure’ by destroying the structure that he used to climb thereby rendering Wike and the people that helped to make him governor politically impotent, the rumour went out that it was because Wike was demanding a certain amount of money from the State coffers.

Tinubu’s first intervention was to direct some elders in the State to mediate between them. At the meeting, the first question Wike asked Fubara was if he ever asked him for a dime to which Fubara replied no, that the story wasn’t from him. He promised that he would issue a statement after the meeting to clear the air that Wike never made such demand but after the meeting, he never made any statement as promised but allowed the rumour to fester, implying that he was supporting the falsehood. It is the reason some elders refused to support him. Those supporting him are those that actually have axe to grind with Wike and some enemies he made even for helping to make him governor.

Fubara showed every sign of a very foolish ingrate.

I laugh at those who think Atiku the most selfish but short sighted and foolish politician in Nigeria will ever support any other candidate but himself in the name of coalition.

Oracle411:
I really want this guy impeached. He is too stupidly stubborn

I don’t want him impeached. I really hope they find a way forward without impeachment.

He’s extremely stupid but I think he’s more confused than being stubborn. He’s confused as to whether to obey the court or hope that people like Asari and that pastor that are giving him fake assurance can truly deliver.

He’s very desperate and easily manipulated by people around him who themselves are not smart.

Mercisharelove:
Wike written judgment ...

Justice Agim wike puppet

Hmmm…,now that Mary Odili and her husband are with Fubara, you buffoons no longer attribute Wike’s legal victories to her.

Ola9ja23:
Ipobidiens have started their nzogbu nzogbu war in PH

Mention one reason why they hate Wike? Bcs Wike delivered PH to our city boy but no Agulu fraudster 😊😀😊😊

They say that they want godfatherism yet when godfatherism was spending all his resources to ensure victory for his successor they were no where to be found.


Ipobidiens shall cry forever bcs we will never allow an igbo man to become Nigeria president.

If you like destroy your dot in a circle villages 😊😊😀😀😊😄

Also because Wike didn’t let them force their Igbo identity on him plus how he flushed them out of Rivers State. Let them cry more

You are posting something unrelated. Wike made this statement when Fara Dagogo who claims to be a militant and was arrested for threatening to burn down the state. Timi Frank, the Atiku lackey organized some group of people who claimed to be speaking for Ijaw to give Wike ultimatum to release Fara Dagogo. The circumstances and actors are different. The state house of assembly is acting as an arm or government. On whose authority was Timi Frank and his cohorts acting on?

SenatorCharles1:
Fubara lost the fight the day he succumbed to President Tinubu so called peace path. He got stabbed in the chest and hasn't been able to recover since then.

He already lost from day one because he started an unnecessary fight too soon against people (not only Wike) that made him governor.

He became very desperate, dishonest and even stupid.

Tinubu was just trying to help him with a soft landing which he accepted but later was advised by those claiming to be his supporters to jettison.

I still want them to resolve the issue without him being impeached but he’s such a stupid person that is easily manipulated by people.

Sheuns:


Fubara heart go don almost enter him mouth now. Impeaching him now will be easier. Except they choose not to.

I don’t like the way Fubara went about the whole thing from day one. Denigrating and unnecessarily trying to stab people that made him who he is today without sweating.

I will not support his impeachment. They should rather let him serve out his term as a lame duck hopefully he doesn’t display any of his senseless desperation like he did when they went to burn down the assembly building.

AyakaDunukofia:
I still remember all your robust blabbing prior to the election. I can understand why you're so diminished in the quoted comment.

Don't worry, A powerful Ohaneze edifice will soon be erected in Port Harcourt wherein all historical documents, cultural artifacts, photos linking the Ikwerre cosmology to the Igbo, would be exhibited to the world.

The Nigerian civil war is over. Our people are back home. There's nothing minions like you and Wike can do about it

Which election are you talking about?

You just appointed an Ikwerre consultant to head your Ohaneze social club and you are so shameless about it.

We dey wait for your edifice anywhere near Ikwerre land.

Very repulsive shameless idiots with no self worth.

Common smell commot Mek I see road.

Hankim:
Keep crying

Remain shameless and global irritants.

Igbo people keep foooling themselves everyday and night tufia!

Tochitee:
Yorubas is taking over the world! There is one small tribe in Nigeria that hate themselves just because they could not attain the height and standard Yorubas have set for themselves! THANK GOD I’M YORUBA! if I come another world I will pick Yoruba over every other tribes!

No need making everything tribal.

I think she’s from Delta. I remember one Eshalomi that was contesting to be governor of Delta in the 90s most likely her dad.

God bless Nigeria

How is uche Secondus Wike’s right hand man?
They fell out since Wike facilitated his removal as the PDP national chairman and refused to compensate him by accepting his demand to make his Nephew Tele Ikuru to become his successor instead of Fubara. They all know what they are doing.

Kilometres:
Your head dey pain you.

A minister build gwarinpa and maitama?

The bitter fellow never reach Abuja before o… Na for Okigwe e dey for Ipob camp

biafRATS and ipobidunces are very bitter as always. Wike carry go!

Mrfeel:
But Asari was your hero when he was insulting igbos calling them their slaves not knowing you were the igbo slaves he was talking to , ikwerres are the igbos ijaws captured into slavery just like jaja of opobo and his people

Is that so??

Asari please press their muuumu button again and become another saviour for them.

Konquest:
I will deal with some specifics here and give succinct keypoints with CLEAR videos and Weblinks as evidence. I CLEARLY stated in an earlier thread post on the page before this one that both Ebiras and Akoko Edos (Akoko Edos are ancestrally largely related to the Ebiras of Kogi State) of Northern Edo State share common land boundaries with the indigenous Okun-Yorubas of Kogi State and Akokoland in Ondo State. These ethnic groups speak Yoruba language and some bear Yoruba names due to acculturation and intermarriages with the Yorubas who are more than 60 million people worldwide, BUT you will NEVER find Yorubas claiming them in bogus expansionism because the Ebiras and Akoko Edo have their own distinct languages and cultures! There are many cases of ACCULTURATIONS around the North and South of Nigeria and the world.

First off, I lived in Port Harcourt and worked with a major multinational oil and gas company back in the 1990s right into the 2000s. So, I'm well-informed about the historical geopolitical dynamics of Port Harcourt and Rivers State. My first contact with Ikwerre folks was back in the 1980s with 2 buddies of mine who are individually prominent or well-known today from a very prominent Ikwerre family in PH. ALL the Ikwerre folks that I knew in PH told me they are NOT Igbos and I did ask how they came to bear Igboid names and some similarities in culture. Acculturation was the reason given

An Ikwerre friend of mine who's based in Lagos (He's now in his early 70s) told me just over a decade ago that he is Ikwerre NOT Igbo, though he's married to a woman from Imo. He told me how Nigerian Federal troops liberated Ikwerres from the repression of secessionist rebels because he was right in Port Harcourt region as of May 1968 when the city was liberated. On the other hand, a young man I knew in PH back then in the late 1990s who wasn't even from Rivers State but originally from Imo State got so impulsively irritated and volatile while angrily insisting that Ikwerres are "Igbos." Even after I left Port Harcourt and Rivers State down the road, I never forgot Rivers State and the intelligent, beautiful Ikwerre, Okrika, and Ogoni friends and other who left positive imprints on my mind. So, contrary to that last paragraph you IGNORANTLY posted, I very well have a RIGHT to "INTRUDE" into the issues and history of the Ikwerre people. YOU DON'T tell me what to get involved with or NOT! Right from 1981 till date, I've had a vast body of knowledge of advanced Nigerian history with massive collections of rare historical and archival materials in my home library and some of them are rare history books purchased in England (including old colonial records published before 1900)

Historically, as far back as 1956, the Ikwerres along with other ethnic minorities were part of the "Calabar-Ogoja-Rivers Movement" (OR COR Movement) demanding for a separation from alleged Igbo domination in the Old Eastern Region. The Southern Cameroonians NEVER hid the fact that they left the Old Eastern Region for Cameroon in 1963 because of perceived Igbo domination of other groups. As of 1963, the Ikwerres FINALLY established a new umbrella socio-cultural group named "Ogbakor Ikwerre Worldwide" with E. J. A Oriji as the pioneer Chairman and CLEARLY emphasized that they are NOT Igbos but of the Ikwerre ethnic nationality. This was way back in 1963 before the exactly 30 months Nigerian Civil War ever started in July 1967 to January 1970. (This wasn't a case of "denial" after the Civil War ended as alleged by highly ill-educated young groups of ipob Igbo members online and offline). It happened in 1963 right BEFORE the Nigerian Civil War. As of today, the Nigerian constitution recognizes the Ikwerre ethnic nationality as a distinct group in Rivers State.

In the 2016 NL thread BELOW that was created by an Ikwerre NL member, he detailed out exerpts from a biography book about Captain Elechi Amadi, a Nigerian Civil War veteran who served in Nigerian Army's 3rd Marine Commando Division:

Ikwerres Went Against Igbo Colonisation In Elechi Amadi's Autobiography
=>https://www.nairaland.com/3493194/ikwerres-went-against-igbo-colonisation

=>https://www.nairaland.com/3493905/read-how-igbos-humilated-ikwerres


As of the commencement of the construction of modern Port Harcourt, it was located at Rebisi, but expanded to incorporate neighboring villages, which include those from Ogoni and Okrika villages. Lord Frederick Lugard founded Port Harcourt originally at the Ikwerre and Ijaw settlement areas previously called Rebisi. (Years later this place became the epicenter of clashes over land ownership and court cases). Umuahia and Enugu were also founded by Lord Lugard around the same time frame as Port Harcourt.

There's NO doubt, people such as Azuta Mbata and the lawyer Uche Okwukwu (who I see from his recent video interviews to be an irredentist based on some of his highly volatile or incendiary comments) align with an "Igbo" identity. I have it on record from direct Ikwerre sources that some of those who claim to be Igbo in Ikwerreland are either of Aro settler descent or have Igbo mothers which are responsible for them identifying as Igbos. The core OGBAKOR IKWERE Worldwide STRONGLY affirmed in the Press Conference video of January 9, 2025 that Ikwerres are officially and legally recognized as a distinct ethnic nationality and any attempt to violently undo that status quo by especially the ipob Igbo with the relentless expansionist agenda against the Ikwerres in PH and environs, and the Benin-Edos, the Esan-Edos, the Ijaws, etc, will be met with very severe consequences. We've seen some viral videos of highly irresponsible young ipob Igbo members openly threatening to include OR annex the homelands of the Ikwerres, Benin-Edos, Isan-Edos, Ijaw communities, parts of Igalaland, etc, into the rest of Igbo land claiming those land as Igboland. These have led to a strong backlash of videos from angry male and female Edos from Benin, Esan, and Ijaws vowing to deal with Igbos in retaliation for the relentless unprovoked aggressions and toxic hate speech henceforth. All these have definitely been triggered by the hate videos created and uploaded online by highly irresponsible Igbo ipob aggressors. Those who FAIL to learn from verifiable history will learn the very hard way. Period.

[b]I DON’T HAVE ISSUES WITH IGBOS, I’M AN UNREPENTANT IKWERRE MAN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnSjKvPfC2o?si=NqNLXachEE-qXmv5
BITTER TRUTH • Jan 20 2025

TODAY AT OGBAKOR IKWERE PRESS CONFERENCE! IPOB IGBOS WILL LEARN IN THE HARD WAY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUPHP2CqnhA?si=OEruUsEEfyhBEEjW
BITTER TRUTH • Jan 10 2025

AZUTA MBATA STRIPPED OFF IKWERRE TRADITIONAL TITTLES FOR ACCEPTING OHANEZE NDIIGBO OFFICE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meTU97WTUhM
BITTER TRUTH • Jan 2025


Last but not least, NO single Yoruba returnees and their descendants (from Brazil, Cuba, Sierra Leone, etc) to Eko Island (Lagos Island) OR Abeokuta from the mid to late-1800s bears a "Lebanese" name (sic) like you incorrectly stated in your post. What they have are Spanish surnames for returnees from Cuba, Portuguese-Brazilian surnames, British surnames for Yoruba returnees from the United States (such as the Vaughan and Jackson families) and Sierra Leone, the former British Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, etc.

As part of a wave of African nationalism, some Yoruba returnees from Brazil and elsewhere dropped their foreign names (such as the famous Prince of the Egba-Yoruba Royal family lineage of Abeokuta, Sir. Adeyemo Alakija, who founded Daily Times newspaper and he was the FIRST Nigerian to become a Queen's Counsel (QC) who dropped his old names after returning from his law studies in London to Nigeria in the 1910s. His former Brazilian name was Placido Adeyemo Asumpcao). Sir. Adeyemo Alakija is the direct patriarch of the lawyer, Modupe Alakija (the spouse of the Ikorodu, Lagos indigene and business mogul, Mrs. Folorunso Alakija).

God bless you for this. Let Igbo people continue foooling themselves all over the place by fabricating stories and making false claims online.

christistruth01:
They don't seem to want to understand that people don't need to be from the same Tribe to have a strong and very effective union

It’s simply because they are allergic to diversity, decency and respect for others so, they’d rather become repulsive irritants than face reality.

Kreesxxx:
Livingston Wechie needs to be invited by Ogbakor Ikwerre or reported to the police for making declaration capable of rabble-rousing and sedition.

The idi0t is seeking for attention and foooling Igbo people. Imagine that he’s in Imo State shouting “Ikwerre meka”

He’s too small for Ogbakor Ikwerre to waste their time on. Nkpolu Oroworukwo or Rebisi youths will take care of him in due course.

Mrfeel:
Why won't we invent new labels for people without identity? Benin runaway slaves can be named anything

Your history
Nigerian colonial history records that the name “Ikwerre” was given by the colonial administration when they wanted to acquire the Rebisi waterfront to build the wharf. Using an Ibo interpreter to talk to the illiterate Rebisi (Port Harcourt) chiefs, they asked them: Would you permit us to use the waterfront to build the wharf(Seaport)for ships to berth? And they answered: A KWERULEM , meaning – “We have agreed.”
What the white-man was hearing was “Ikwerre,” so he recorded it in the official gazette that the IKWERRE PEOPLE have agreed for the colonial administration to build the wharf. And since it was the official record of government, the name Ikwerre became the name of the Iwhnurohna people in all official documentations till date.

Igala slave sef dey follow talk. Abeg go find food chop.

Stolen:
your fada is the stupid for birthing a fool

Swin3 baby of a Swin3 daddy.
Smelly ting!

Throwback:
But Okiro himself is not Ikwerre, so why count him as Ikwerre when his is Egbema?

Or is it an Egbema person that will dictate to Ikwerre?

Having spent many years working in Rivers State, I never met a single Ikwerre who agreed to being Igbo.

NaMe4:
This man is part Imo and is declaring Ikwerre Igbo. Typical!

They can stay in their forest and make whatever idiotic declaration they like it only begins and ends there.

They can remain irredeemable irritants all they want Ikwerre people will never care about them.

Mek Okero come any Ikwerre village and make his declaration if he wants to be taken seriously.

allthingsgood:
What is ikwerre igbo
This one don miss road

Me I tire o..

Everyday this people invent new label for another ethnic group.

I just saw a list of Atiku boys in Rivers State.

Please what qualifies someone as an elder?

Is it age, wisdom, previous position or political affiliation?

Kreesxxx:
I heard he has Aros ancestry. Is this true?

Heard so but I am not 100% certain.

What I know for sure is that his mother is Igbo from Umuahia because I knew her while she was alive.

He grew up mixing more with his mother’s people. I know all his siblings ( two twin sisters and a brother) and even some of his mother’s relatives.

All the important women in his life that he has sucked their bress are Igbo women including his mother, his wife and his baby mama, the reason he is that way. He was my eldest bro’s school mate in OAU although he is much older because he had attended COE before going to Uni.

The truth is that no decent or reasonable person will take a character like that seriously. He’s the most dishonest and lying human anyone would meet, and also extremely dirty at the level of a pig. He would say something at 9am in the morning and by 12 noon he would deny he ever said it. People that know him from his home, secondary school County Grammar School, COE and OAU will verify what I am saying.

It’s only Igbo people that takes someone like Uche Okwukwu seriously to the extent of putting him at the top of their leadership. I really feel sorry for them and pray that they make him their president so their eyes go clear.

Ojiofor:
You are ignorant and knows nothing about how Ohanaeze as institution is governed.
First of all you must be a members of ohanaeze in your state before you can vie for any nationals post.
If you watch the second videos you will observe he went there with some prominent Ikwerre sons.
Anyway what is your business you are neither Igbo or from Rivers state.Come on 14th of this month a Rivers state Igbo man will be elected PG of ohanaeze ndi Igbo as required by the constitution which rotates offices among the 7 member states every 4 years.
On election day Rivers state people will full ground with their delegates likewise other member states.
You hate won't change anything.

Who cares?

I have suggested you make my bingo dog your PG or whatever that’s OK.

I think say na thirteen States ona dey.

Igbo people have become the butt of all jokes in Nigeria.