NewStats: 3,265,487 , 8,186,917 topics. Date: Sunday, 15 June 2025 at 09:17 AM 2i4a1r

Very good we are patronising our own.

emperor863:


You don't even know the import of what you wrote. People's of kwara, kogi and Delta states individually demanded to be regrouped with the Yoruba. In the case of those you claimed to be Igbo, they refuse to identify with the afghanistEasterns.

You see the difference now, there is no coercion in statehood. They simply do not want to be with the cave men.

Is that too difficult to understand?

it is Igbos that have not individually demanded abi? The same Kwara and Lagos that have consistently denounced being with Yoruba people. Continue being delusional.

Peterobiisathie:
IPOBidients are in severe pains

better start praying he doesn't make a more serious "dobale"

And they want to force them by fiat.

AfonjaScud:


The people of Rivers and Anioma have consistently averted they do not belong to mainstream ibo and should be left alone by those seeking attached by force.

When the 1966 coup was termed ibo coup, ibos were quick to deny Kaduna Nzegu as ino but Anioma.

Conversely, it is arrant nonsense to say people in Kwara, Kogi amd Itshekiri, who have always claim their yoruba kinship are FORCED to the SW.
Even any dunce in nigeria knows this is not controversial except mischief makers.

people who type incoherently like this don't deserve my response.

Jessewizy:
Update;

It is over!

Resolutions:

1. Appeal deemed properly filed. Respondents are ordered to file their responses within 72 hours.

2. Stay of proceedings of lower court granted by the Court of Appeal.

3.Parties ordered to maintain status quo prior to orders of lower court, pending appeal!

Congratulations Amaewhule and of the House of Assembly.

No specific order vacating the injunction.

This is how Tinubu wants to do his restructuring. By sponsoring his e-rats to be selling false narrative ahead of his forcefully annexure of Igboland and it's resources.

Tinubu is fooling himself. Okachichwu dibia a known clown has now become "we".

Tinubu doesn't know how fluid the atmosphere has become in the country to be sponsoring such crap in the name of restructuring.

Konquest:

If you are smart enough, you would have seen where I indicated that the so-called draft might even be REJECTED right in the bolded segment of the first paragraph. My first or initial deep thoughts when I analysed the article posted by the OP was that if this article is true and NOT embellished, the gentlemen should have harmonised his views with other ethnic nationalities' leaderships to tly come up with a DRAFT instead of it being from a person from one section of Nigeria. For a multi-ethnic country where infantile and primordial sentiments rule, a significant number of people easily read all kinds of variegated meanings to every move made by others who are NOT from their own geographical OR ethnic spaces.

That's why I reckoned that other ethnicities or groups in the different regions of Nigeria must also come up with their own harmonised views on the issue of where they want to be istratively grouped which many have already done in the past. It's just a question of dusting up what they already have in their archives. Period.

it should have been drafted that way at all. Spare me the jargons.

Konquest:

If YOU had read the article with an open mind, and without emotions, you would have seen where it was stated that it's just a DRAFT subject to "additions and subtractions." It's NOT a final document. The whole thing might even be rejected!

Even the man's CLEAR reference in the draft to the Itsekiris and the Yoruba-speaking parts of Edo would be subject to their choice [NOT an imposition]. So, it is left for other ethnicities to unanimously make their own representations to be grouped together based on their own choices just like the man who did the draft said the Itsekiris would do. During the GEJ 2014 National Conference, the Itsekiris and Yoruba-speaking areas of Kwara and Kogi States decided they wanted to be with their kith and kin in the West of Nigeria. The Ijebu-Yorubas and Ilaje-Yorubas of Ogun State and Ondo State are directly related to many Itsekiri communities because it was from those Ijebu and Ilaje communities that many Itsekiris of today ancestrally descended from over 600 years ago. The language dialect that Itsekiris of Delta State speak is understandable to many Ijebus, Ilajes, and Ikale subgroups of the larger Yoruba people historically. The oil and gas-rich Ilajeland in Ondo State and the oil and gas-rich Itsekiriland share direct boundaries as cousins. Every year when the Yoruba intelligentsia and all Obas have their usual big meetings of Yoruba descendants, the past Olus of Warri usually send some of their High Chiefs such as High Chief Ayomike and others to attend and this also includes the attendance by Oba's of Yoruba towns and cities such as Porto Novo (Ajase), Ketu kingdom, etc, in Benin Republic and Togo Republic.

After reading a couple of pages on this thread, I noticed that some Ibos were also quoting you and blindly following your incorrect assumptions here and then started ing highly irresponsible insults at the man who made the supposed draft and Yoruba folks in general which to me amounts to emotional weakness... Is English comprehension such a difficult thing for some of you people of Eastern Nigeria Ibo descent?

you are being smart by half. There is no need to give proposal of the regions. You are not the military. Moreso having a member of an ethnic organisation of Yorubas speaking for all Nigerians. a bill in the Nass to give legal backing to the restructuring and then begin constitutional conferences of ethnic and religious representatives, which can last more than a year. Only a fool wakes up one morning and starts balkanizing ethnic groups like Berlin conference in the name of a "proposal"

Dey play

EmeeNaka:
Igbos must be very careful. Anyị ga-efi ịsaa n'anya maka na ndịa bu ndị atụọ n'ihu aghọrọ n'azụ.
Some of these statements are simply a way to scapegoat Igbo people. Restructuring of Nigeria is not to be done for Igbo people. It is for Nigerian goods. I don't trust Edwin Clark statement because it might be a setup against Igbo people.
It appear that anytime Nigerian want something, they will put Igbo people in the forefront and after Igbo people have lost their life, they will find solution and then blame igbos for it.
So, I kindly do not subscribe to Edwin Clark remarks where he seem to have made Igbo injustice the centre of his request.
Igboland is currently ing through a difficult phase and we do not want further aggravation.

But your history shows you are an Igbo hater?

An Afenifere chieftain made a rediculous restructuring proposal that forcefully put Lagos, ekiti, Oyo, Ondo, Ogun and Osun together including Yorubas in Kwara and Kogi into one region.

But he did not put Anambra, Enugu, Abia, Ebonyi, Imo, Igbos of Rivers and Anioma people into one region. Instead he balkanized them because he wants Igbos to lose control of their gas reserves. He even removed Ohaji/Egbema and carved them to south south.

Such unbridled covetousness, arrogance and hypocrisy!

If you put Itshekiri into a Yoruba region, you must create Ohimini state for Idoma and Igbos of Benue and put it in an Igbo region that includes all Igbo speaking people from South East, River state, Delta state, Igbanke and Isobos.

Putindbutt:

Why did he send Obire, his boy to clear the air?. they are cooking ned nwoko in delta right now. you won't hear his voice again for a long time.

So no heavyweight in particular? after all the noise you use to make, you have only ended up hoping on the reactions of Anioma people. What all Anioma people share in common is Anioma state aspiration. You should prepare to cry

Putindbutt:

Latest statement from Obire, an aide to senator nwoko.
You can see that obire was addressing the issue because anioma heavyweights are already flogging ned nwoko for his foolishness.

which Anioma heavy weight are you talking about that we don't know? You've been crying for 48 hrs since Nwoko announced the obvious. This is what happens when you become captive to your own propaganda. Prepare to cry more.

Mrexcell:
See how the yoruba man cunningly extracted some igbo communities in imo to add to another region he didn't even consider adding igbo speaking communities in the south south to the south east but added yoruba and sub yoruba communities in the south south and north central to the south west region in his first proposal. This is exactly what they have been wishing in their posts in this forum.

the proponent of the bill is simply an anarchist. Using a bill to exhibit petty covetousness. Imagine forcefully carving some people and giving some chance to go whear they want, while using language as a criteria for southwest. If I were a Yoruba, I would have started condemning this. This bill will widely promote mistrust and suspicion against Yorubas from other Nigerians. He even put Itshekiri in the southwest. The same warri where the three warring ethnic groups have scattered settlement.

the fadahunsi or whatever useless name he answers is a lunatic. He is too old live the fantasy he is living.
Does he even know that restructuring follows a criteria and history.

He might just be a nairaland urchin being given audience by a beleaguered president to express the traditional Yo**ba covetousness of Igboland and it's resources.

godwinngbede:
I will prefer we in southern Benue ( idomas) to the south eastern region. We have a good relationship with enugu in the border and Igbos in general. More so, south east has gas, they will be richer than the south south coupled with industrialization, science and technology, trade and commerce. I even love east more than North, this is because, there won't be religious war like the way north east and north west are accustomed to. They are christians like we, they dont kill in the name of god.

you people are not assertive like other groups. Did you not see how Anioma senator revealed the desire of his people to have Anioma state southeast. I am sure soon Igbos in rivers will .
You guys have a senator. You should campaign for an Ohimini state in the southeast. Nigeria will likely break up based on a new regional line.
Pazienza mrvitalis mreverest racoon Igboid Abagworo what do you guys think?