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Nwaetche:
Excellent!

Actually many ikwerre see themselves as Igbo.

I am so happy now that you understand what our Amazon, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie spoke about on the dangers of single story in Ted talk some years ago. The story is very much applicable to how people form opinion of a group by listening to the vocal and privilege few.
https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story?language=en


I have a small experience to share with you.

Some years ago I went to Aberdeen Scotland for a Drilling Engineering course (Well control) and was accommodated free of charge by an Onitcha-Ugbo couple. We had just exchange pleasantry as black people in the sea of whites and me telling them my name and state of Origin.. Those days we do not have many Nigerians in Scotland as we have now.

They treated me like a close relation to my utmost surprise. The couple prepared Ugba and feted me mostly with Igbo delicacies which made me not longing to go home even after my course period.

He also made it a point of duty to take me to Igbo meetings where I met lot of folks from Ogba, Ikwerre, Owerri, Nsuka and Anioma. The president then was man from Rivers Igboid ethnicity if I remember correctly.
When i was leaving and I asked them why they were so nice to me, they told me that they took me in immediately I told them my name and that I was from ikwerre-Etchie LGA in Rivers. Ikwerre and Etchie used to be LGA in those days.

That singular experience completely changed my world view of who is truly an Igbo. It may interest you to know that the current Ohaneze President in South Africa is a prominent and highly successful Ikwerre young man from Ogbakiri. As you probably know, South Africa arguably has the largest concentration of Igbos in Africa after Nigeria and Gabon.

This is to show you that Ikwerre are not lazy and the Igbo Nation respect hardwork and will always support people with sterling qualities irrespective of the Igbo clan they come from. Another prominent Igbo son is Dr Ogundu. Dr. Ogundu is a highly successful Ikwerre man from Isiokpo based in US who has gone out of his way to help any Igbo that comes his way irrespective of the clan they come from.

These folks should be our role model.

One of the lingering distrust between our South East Igbos and other Rivers Igboid group especially the Ikwerres is the abandoned property.

I am one of those that will always tell our Igbo brothers not to blame Ikwerre for the Abandon property issue. Ikwerres are victims just as other Igbo clans. Many Ikwerre families from Isiokpo and Awarra also lost their properties. It is was a divisive and devilish scheme devised by Igbo enemies to completely destroy the fabric of Igbo society and set brothers against brothers.

My grandfather, a well know Chief in Etchie had a one-story building in Port Harcourt town that was confiscated without minding that he was from Rivers. The house in question I learned has been sold several times and is ironically owned now by an igbo man from Akokwa in Imo state.. The house was build with my mpa’s hard earnings as a colonial court clerk and a successful farmer.

My grand father’s sin was he refused to deny his Igbo heritage and fought against those that wanted to bring the fictitious and unfounded Akalaka/Benin heritage of Ikwerre and Etchie to cause confusion. His sin to them was unpardonable and he was fought by Igbo enemies within and without who went all out to destroy him.

Meanwhile, an uncle’s property in Jos was kept intact and returned back to him based on personnel recognition.

There were no David mark panel for Abandoned property anywhere in Nigeria except Rivers. It was a devilish master stroke that cracked the foundation of Igbo brotherhood and yang off Igbo clans that have access to sea and Oil.

Driving this home frther, our Ochie clan was desecrated, balkanised and was almost rendered impotent because of their stand in maintaining their unique Igbo identity. Go to Etchie today, despite the fact that it si a major oil and Gas producer, it has nothing to show for it. Our major road that leads from Etchie to Ulakwo in Owerri North in Imo State is classified as an inter-state road. Everyone believe that the Federal government deliberately left it to rot to publish Ochie for their Igbo loyalty.

Pease let me not waste your time further …


In conclusion, I will appeal to you not to join some few vocal but uninformed folks to further walk into the trap set by enemies of Igbo to destroy what is left. Our people have suffered a lot and we need to encourage one another and not apportion blame as we pick up our pieces and rise again from the ashes.


Mama Nwanne m.

May the Good Lord continue to Bless you for putting the effort of coming here to educate our younger ones and those seeking for learned answers on these issues. As a fellow Riversman I applaud your effort and ingenuity.

I always take my time off to advise younger folks who work for me or come to me and are of igboid rivers stock to never let greedy politicians and monarchs who for their selfish reasons have chosen to distort their peoples history to suit an agenda. When you take away a peoples yesterday, you take away a part of their soul, and complicate their tomorrow.

Many people ask me why wade into this issue if you are not from an igboid group, and my answer to them is that I am a Rivers man and a Nigerian, who wants a good and balanced society all round, for ourselves and our generations to come. The FACT remains any marriage or relationship built on lies and suppression will eventually collapse. I have travelled extensively across the world to understand that this strategy has never worked anywhere in history world over. Our country is a relationship of many ethnicities and tribes, trying to sow discord between or intra tribes for political or economic gains is a catalyst for disaster. We are not going to make the progress that we desire as a nation until we make every Nigerian understand that we are all in this together, that I am fighting for you and you are fighting for me.

I have seen that this identity crisis created and perpetuated by the nigerian state is very a big issue in Rivers State, I am hopeful that the children of the upcoming generation in rivers state, and the nation at large will do better at fixing these issues. I encourage every learned and detribalized Rivers person to participate in these conversations whenever they arise.

I have been using nairaland since it was created, but only started commenting when I noticed agents of destruction and trolls were the most vocal on this site, leaving the unguided in Nigeria with nothing but negative voices to listen to.

At the OP Samyj247, With your list, your thread should say Igboid groups rather than Igbo groups in other not to cause conflict. There is a difference between both words. Igboid means having igbo ancestry, could have other ancestry as well, while igbo means its just igbo. Some of the Edo,Kogi and ijoid etc clans you listed there are fringe clans with not only igbo but other ethnicities as part of their ancestry and should be identified and respected as such.

For your header to be correct you would have to list clans that are purely igbo like Etche, Ikwerre, Egbema etc. IKwerre and igbos are the same people, their current identity crises is just political.

The fact that Peter Obi/Datti are coming out to run is a sign that God has not completely forsaken us in this country. Imagine how hopeless this would feel if this was only tinubu and atiku running. Please Lets forget Tribalisim, PO is light years ahead of the other candidates by every yardstick.

The simple common sense task of caring about the sensibilities of Nigerian as an acclaimed National leader is lacking in that Tinubu. This APC has always being a bigoted party filled with dimwitted politicians who are lacking of anything to offer to Nigeria besides Bigotry. And their hate an bigotry has sent the security and economy of this country downwards on free fall.

ALL THESE YEARS WE THOUGHT THE COUNTRY WAS BAD IN PAST GOVERNMENTS....WE COULD HAVE NEVER EVER IMAGINED THAT IT COULD BE THIS WORSE, THAT THIS COUNTRY WOULD BE RAN THIS FAR INTO THE GROUND. HOW DARE ANY OF YOU OPEN YOUR MOUTH TO MENTION APC for any reasons whatsoever. SHAME ON YOU ALL!!!

typing

Naira is now 683 to Dollar. Everything is in freefall, At this rate we may not make it to 2023 for the evil president to leave before we get to Venezuela status. May God help us all.

DeepThroater:
The homosexual mullato born to a Jewish wh0re?

Do these people even know that prior to Joe Biden , Obama had held the title as the worst and most despised president in US history ?

The Dollar is now 683 to the naira as at today, You kids can continue dancing kpam kpam golo with your for future collecting peanuts to come and campaign and enthrone another failure. The end of this initial capitulation will be 750 to the naira in the coming weeks.

A person like Peter Obi together with Yusuf coming out to contest at a point when all facets of this country is collapsing in free fall might just be sign that God has not completely forgotten this country. Yet some of you are tone deaf.

Yup...As it is supposed to be. Nice one PO

Fellow Nigerians,

There is power in a Name.
Please always make sure you name your child a name that will guide and protect the destiny that you wish for them.
Most times when nature wants to give you a sign, Nature uses Natural ways to communicate with you, random acts of nature is where to look at if you want to see if YOUR GOD is talking to you. Things like random animals, weather, random responses from people next to you.

Do you know that Tinubus full Name is Ahmed Bola Asiwaju Tinubu. To choose an acronym for his campaign he could have choosen ABAT or TABA or AABT etc. Rather they removed one of his name and are going with BAT. This is not a mistake but rather a big Sign from Nature. Lets get into that name BAT.

A bat is more like a dog with wings, that is only when active in the night, feeds on a mosquito that sucks human blood and sleeps upside down. Bats have been associated with abomination since the beginning of time. Europeans know it as the origin of Vampires. In modern medicine, bats are known as the source of incurable venerable diseases of pandemic proportions, the coronavirus that has wiped out almost 10 million people in 2 years.

This country has had a rough 8 years and a man who chose to call himself a BAT is planning on taking over. Please open your eyes, the catastrophe that is about to befall us will be of Pandemic Proportions. Nature has given you a sign and warned you. Will you listen?

My God, Just Imagine how hopeless these people feel. One day you are a passenger going to look for your daily bread in this already difficult country. Next morning you are a prisoner with no possible hope of coming out. Kill you the Kidnapers refused, Yet they keep you in a condition worse than an animal, every morning you are tortured and flogged. Whatever good you have done in this planet before now is useless, No government or God can save you. My God, None of those victims will come out and remain normal.

Fellow Nigerians, Make no mistake, the rise of Criminality, Kidnapping and Banditry in Nigeria is as a result of Massive Failure of this SATANIC APC Government. If you are living in Nigeria today you are NOT very far from this happening to you. One of my Apartment complexes in Abuja that has never seen armed robbery before has now been robbed twice by armed robbers in a month, the same with a similar property I have in Port Harcourt.

When society collapses, it becomes an issue of survival, the poor would eat the rich, it is already happening in our country. Those poor youths that you think would go and work hard doing menial jobs would rather just kidnap or kill you. This election we are coming into at the moment is like none before, We TRULY this time have no more room for Known Failures, we must get it right, the same criminals are parading themselves as people to be voted for. The only way you can fight these Bandits and Gunmen is by making sure that you do not sell your conscience and vote only Genuine people from top to bottom.

Those who have collected money from APC Politicians and come here to deceive nigerians with false statements and FAKE SPAM BOT Likes, Our God in heaven will judge you for the role you are playing in the destruction of this country.

jogojogo:
I guess Obi has what it takes to stop this
Stop the blackmail and deception

Why cant you people understand that the money that is supposed to go to our Security agencies is being looted, leaving the security agencies with lesser capacity to fight these criminals. Are these criminals Ghosts? Are they Gods? Give Nigerians a government that doesnt tolerate corruption. One were Military spending is not over inflated by ten times, so that our money spent only buys nothing = Give us a president that truly cares about this country and these criminals will cease to exists. How hard can it be for you to understand this?

My God, Just Imagine how hopeless these people feel. One day you are a passenger going to look for your daily bread in this already difficult country. Next morning you are a prisoner with no possible hope of coming out. Kill you the Kidnapers refused, Yet they keep you in a condition worse than an animal, every morning you are tortured and flogged. Whatever good you have done in this planet before now is useless, No government or God can save you. My God, None of those victims will come out and remain normal.

Fellow Nigerians, Make no mistake, the rise of Criminality, Kidnapping and Banditry in Nigeria is as a result of Massive Failure of this SATANIC APC Government. If you are living in Nigeria today you are NOT very far from this happening to you. One of my Apartment complexes in Abuja that has never seen armed robbery before has now been robbed twice by armed robbers in a month, the same with a similar property I have in Port Harcourt.

When society collapses, it becomes an issue of survival, the poor would eat the rich, it is already happening in our country. Those poor youths that you think would go and work hard doing menial jobs would rather just kidnap or kill you. This election we are coming into at the moment is like none before, We TRULY this time have no more room for Known Failures, we must get it right, the same criminals are parading themselves as people to be voted for. The only way you can fight these Bandits and Gunmen is by making sure that you do not sell your conscience and vote only Genuine people from top to bottom.

Those who have collected money from APC Politicians and come here to deceive nigerians with false statements and FAKE SPAM BOT Likes, Our God in heaven will judge you for the role you are playing in the destruction of this country.

This Abia Governor is not worth ten kobo online. Igbo people have finished this their own man with abuses. Surprisingly, P.O as humble as ever was willing to visit him.

typing

Interesting development

In all honesty Elrufai did a good job as FCT minister back in the days. Completely sanitized and cleaned up the place.

Wishful thinking maybe? How were the millions counted.

Fellow Nigerians,

There is power in a Name.
Please always make sure you name your child a name that will guide and protect the destiny that you wish for them.
Most times when nature wants to give you a sign, Nature uses Natural ways to communicate with you, random acts of nature is where to look at if you want to see if YOUR GOD is talking to you. Things like random animals, weather, random responses from people next to you.

Do you know that Tinubus full Name is Ahmed Bola Asiwaju Tinubu. To choose an acronym for his campaign he could have choosen ABAT or TABA or AABT etc. Rather they removed one of his name and are going with BAT. This is not a mistake but rather a big Sign from Nature. Lets get into that name BAT.

A bat is more like a dog with wings, that is only when active in the night, feeds on a mosquito that sucks human blood and sleeps upside down. Bats have been associated with abomination since the beginning of time. Europeans know it as the origin of Vampires. In modern medicine, bats are known as the source of incurable venerable diseases of pandemic proportions, the coronavirus that has wiped out almost 10 million people in 2 years.

This country has had a rough 8 years and a man who chose to call himself a BAT is planning on taking over. Please open your eyes, the catastrophe that is about to befall us will be of Pandemic Proportions. Nature has given you a sign and warned you. Will you listen?

typing

There is a saying in the olden days, I will beat sense into you. Since sense can be beaten into someone, its reasonable to say this current regime has beaten sense into Nigerians.

Dollar today is now N630, the speed at which we are going down is unbelievable, This administration is hitting both rich and poor, Dumb and smart, Christian and Muslim, North and South. 90 percent of Rich nigerians who invested their money in this country in the last 5 years have lost at least 80% of their projected growth.

To APC and PDP, we no dey do again. Una don beat sense enter us.

Fellow Nigerians,

There is power in a Name.
Please always make sure you name your child a name that will guide and protect the destiny that you wish for them.
Most times when nature wants to give you a sign, Nature uses Natural ways to communicate with you, random acts of nature is where to look at if you want to see if YOUR GOD is talking to you. Things like random animals, weather, random responses from people next to you.

Do you know that Tinubus full Name is Ahmed Bola Asiwaju Tinubu. To choose an acronym for his campaign he could have choosen ABAT or TABA or AABT etc. Rather they removed one of his name and are going with BAT. This is not a mistake but rather a big Sign from Nature. Lets get into that name BAT.

A bat is more like a dog with wings, that is only when active in the night, feeds on a mosquito that sucks human blood and sleeps upside down. Bats have been associated with abomination since the beginning of time. Europeans know it as the origin of Vampires. In modern medicine, bats are known as the source of incurable venerable diseases of pandemic proportions, the coronavirus that has wiped out almost 10 million people in 2 years.

This country has had a rough 8 years and a man who chose to call himself a BAT is planning on taking over. Please open your eyes, the catastrophe that is about to befall us will be of Pandemic Proportions. Nature has given you a sign and warned you. Will you listen?

So if the company is no longer owned by the nigerian government, who owns the company now? Was the company sold? Can Nigerians be told the truth, something very fishy is within the details being given here.

Obojuju:
They should have simply cut the long story short by saying: Vote for Peter Obi/Datti Baba-Ahmed of Labour Party

Truer words never spoken.

Fellow Nigerians,

There is power in a Name.
Please always make sure you name your child a name that will guide and protect the destiny that you wish for them.
Most times when nature wants to give you a sign, Nature uses Natural ways to communicate with you, random acts of nature is where to look at if you want to see if YOUR GOD is talking to you. Things like random animals, weather, random responses from people next to you.

Do you know that Tinubus full Name is Ahmed Bola Asiwaju Tinubu. To choose an acronym for his campaign he could have choosen ABAT or TABA or AABT etc. Rather they removed one of his name and are going with BAT. This is not a mistake but rather a big Sign from Nature. Lets get into that name BAT.

A bat is more like a dog with wings, that is only when active in the night, feeds on a mosquito that sucks human blood and sleeps upside down. Bats have been associated with abomination since the beginning of time. Europeans know it as the origin of Vampires. In modern medicine, bats are known as the source of incurable venerable diseases of pandemic proportions, the coronavirus that has wiped out almost 10 million people in 2 years.

This country has had a rough 8 years and a man who chose to call himself a BAT is planning on taking over. Please open your eyes, the catastrophe that is about to befall us will be of Pandemic Proportions. Nature has given you a sign and warned you. Will you listen?

Fellow

typing

Fellow Nigerians,

There is power in a Name.
Please always make sure you name your child a name that will guide and protect the destiny that you wish for them.
Most times when nature wants to give you a sign, Nature uses Natural ways to communicate with you, random acts of nature is where to look at if you want to see if YOUR GOD is talking to you. Things like random animals, weather, random responses from people next to you.

Do you know that Tinubus full Name is Ahmed Bola Asiwaju Tinubu. To choose an acronym for his campaign he could have choosen ABAT or TABA or AABT etc. Rather they removed one of his name and are going with BAT. This is not a mistake but rather a big Sign from Nature. Lets get into that name BAT.

A bat is more like a dog with wings, that is only when active in the night, feeds on a mosquito that sucks human blood and sleeps upside down. Bats have been associated with abomination since the beginning of time. Europeans know it as the origin of Vampires. In modern medicine, bats are known as the source of incurable venerable diseases of pandemic proportions, the coronavirus that has wiped out almost 10 million people in 2 years.

This country has had a rough 8 years and a man who chose to call himself a BAT is planning on taking over. Please open your eyes, the catastrophe that is about to befall us will be of Pandemic Proportions. Nature has given you a sign and warned you. Will you listen?

ChangedMan1999:
I wish Obi will appoint one of this man children in his cabinet, when he wins.


The man's reasoning is straight.

Peter Obi is the candidate to Beat, I have looked at this from every realistic point, He will WIN this election, I used to be hopeful before, Now I am certain that he will win. And this country don Hammer be that!

I have always respected this man. Like the Greeks used to say, the greatest achievement any man can attain is to be remembered positively by generations long after he is gone. Nigerians will remember you Sir.

May God continue to bless you infinitely Sir!

Every sane Nigeria and good willing nigerian is Backing Obi + Datti.

Try this, Pick one of the top requirements you want for a Good President, then cross check to see if this your requirement is something beneficial to the growth and prosperity of this country, Peter Obi will check that box.

Awaiting the Debunking of this news by Ohaneze.