You are not exactly right. A man who knows his ancestry is telling you that he is not Igbo and you are saying another thing. Wike's father is alive and knows where they came from. Rivers State is far from been homogeneous.
Instead of beating about the conjectural bush, why don’t you prove him wrong by producing pre uncivil war document or clip showing the Ikwerre announcing to the world that they are not Igbo!?
The much i know of the pre war period was that some Ikwerre felt they were not given as much say and representation in governance, and that other sub-Igbo groups from other divisions within East Central State had more control and say over affairs in the region in general and Port Harcourt in particular than they did!
We don’t need fools like you in river’s state.
I know my culture and I know where my forefathers are from so go back to Benin or wherever you come from you are not in any position to speak for anyone in ph nobody knows you coward
VEHINTOLAR:
Any area where the Monday sit-at-home order is not observed cannot be considered Igbo land. Since the sit-at-home order is not observed in Rivers State, it follows that Rivers State is not part of Igbo land. As a result, the Ikweres are not Igbo.
Igbo people should stop imposing affiliations by force; it is unbecoming. The Ikweres have repeatedly stated that they do not identify as Igbo. Why is it so difficult for some people to respect their stance? If the Anioma, Ikwere,etc,claim they're not Igbo,why forcing 'Igboness' on them?
Igbo,leave the Ikweres alone!
Dude, for as long as chronic Igbo haters like you exist to drive a anti-Igbo narrative and sabotage Igbo economic, political and territorial interests, for so long shall Igbo like me and many others exist to counter your evil intentions! Get used to it!
We don’t need fools like you in river’s state.
I know my culture and I know where my forefathers are from so go back to Benin or wherever you come from you are not in any position to speak for anyone in ph nobody knows you coward
We don’t need fools like you in river’s state.
I know my culture and I know where my forefathers are from so go back to Benin or wherever you come from you are not in any position to speak for anyone in ph nobody knows you coward
I suspect he’s either Yoruba or Fulani! Dude thinks he can throw discerning minds off the scent of his true ethnic identity by choosing the Ogba moniker, but his intense hatred for Ndigbo and post history easily gives him away!
Enice:
Maybe you should comprehend before replying a poser. I said trade, war or religion.
So because Portugal established a settler colony in Brazil, the indigenous people are now Portuguese! Clap for yourself.
Also , Igbo is not spoken in ikwerre as a mother tongue! Lie!
Soon you'll call English a mother tongue in Nigeria
The indigenous population of Brazil are less than 3%. The vast majority (97%) are of African or European decent. Majority of the European (White) Brazilians come from Portugal. Just as majority of Australians come from UK
So what is the mother tongue of Ikwere people? I can tell you now that as an igbo man I can understand 'Ikwere' 100%
I won't respond to you again because your arguments are childish and I don't have time for inconsequential talk with a toddler.
Bede2u:
if you know of a local government in this our one Nigeria that speaks your language 100% and follows your customary practices but says they have 'nothing' to do with you, won't you find it strange?
That's what's happening here bro, nothing to do with oil or Biafra. I never hear say Enugu man steal Imo state oil. Even Ebonyi that accepts being Igbo said they are not part of Biafra. Ikwere can be Igbo and still refuse to be part of Biafra or share their oil with SE. We have more oil in SE than ALL ikwere local government areas combined, not to even talk about gas.
It's all fake a fake news from our embittered brothers.
But let's face the fact here, is it the Igbos that needed the ikwerres more or the ikwerres that needed the Igbos more??
Ikwerre claim is that they have oil which their brothers in Imo, Abia and Anambra have in abundance as well.
Northerners and their gangs has been taking advantage of niger delta oil with reckless abandon and they're just there looking and lazying around busy complaining Igbo this Igbo that.
I suspect he’s either Yoruba or Fulani! Dude thinks he can throw discerning minds off the scent of his true ethnic identity by choosing the Ogba moniker, but his intense hatred for Ndigbo and post history easily gives him away!
That guy is an imposter his been running around claiming ikwerre and ogba at this same time
I have told him to drop his location if his really from ph but his has not drop up till now.
Imposter claiming rivers indigene
That guy is an imposter his been running around claiming ikwerre and ogba at this same time
I have told him to drop his location if his really from ph but his has not drop up till now.
Imposter claiming rivers indigene
diamond68:
it's a question of displaced people assimilating into the bigger tribe. For example some Brazilians moved to Lagos state years ago and their future generation all speak Yoruba today and have Yoruba names. But will they be wrong to say I am not Yoruba I am Brazilian? Just cuz someone from ikwerre speaks igbo and has igbo name doesn't mean they are igbo
@diamond68
Just for further emphasis and clarity.
The vast majority of returnees from Brazil and Cuba to Lagos Island (Eko Island) from the mid-1800s were Yoruba people from the Bahia region in Brazil, then from Cuba, some Yorubas stayed back to take advantage of opportunities in business and other trades while others returned from Matanzas Province and Havana (Habana).
Many of them (such as the FIRST ever Nigerian Pounds Sterling millionaire, Candido Darocha was of Ijesa ancestry through his father who was taken as a war captive and got shipped on a Portuguese slave schooner to Bahia in Brazil in the early 1800s) were highly skilled people who had a high standard of living leading to them being very wealthy through international businesses, exporting and importing commodities with ships between Lagos Island and South America before 1900!
NOW, to the Ikwerre issue, the Ikwerre folks that I've known since the 1990s right from back when I worked with a major multinational oil and gas company in Port Harcourt ALL told me emphatically that they are NOT Igbos. I did ask them about why SOME similarities exist in their names and the interior Igbos and it turns out that acculturation took place. This isn't strange though because acculturations occur a LOT in the border areas where different cultures and ethnicities converge. The ONLY recognized Ikwerre sociocultural organization established since 1963, "Ogbakor Ikwerre Worldwide" ALSO rejected the Igbo tag and affirmed again in the video BELOW just this January 9 2025 that they are of Ikwerre ethnic nationality.
TODAY AT OGBAKOR IKWERE PRESS CONFRENCE! IPOB IGBOS WILL LEARN IN THE HARD WAY
Right in Kogi and Northern Edo States for instance, there are Ebiras and in parts of Akoko Edo (who are ALSO ancestrally related to the Ebiras of Kogi State) that are NOT Yorubas, BUT they understand Yoruba language in addition to their indigenous languages and some bear Yoruba names. There are Ebira communities (that share direct boundaries with the Okun-Yorubas of Kogi State) who speak and bear Yoruba names due to intermarriage and acculturations. You will NEVER find the rest of the core Yorubas of Okun in Kogi State, Kwara State and the entire 6 Western States of Nigeria forcing themselves rudely on the Ebiras and Akoko Edo people despite some shared similarities!
It's this FACT of historical acculturation that some of these ignorant younger Igbos don't get into their heads. Even the different Igbo subgroups in the core 5 Igbo-speaking states of today historically underwent acculturation and borrowed some cultural practices in the areas of loan words, foods, dressing, religion, etc, from their neighbors of different ethnic groups (Edo, Igala, Idoma, Ibibio, Annang, Ijaw, etc) along the border areas. The RED CHIEFTAINCY cap is NOT indigenous to the Igbos BUT was originally brought by the Igalas into the Nsukka area of Northern Enugu State within the last 500 years from where it was copied OR spread to other parts of Igboland that NEVER had direct with the Igalas. Igbo culture is also NOT monolithic but varies from one community to another with different dialects.I've seen viral YouTube videos of some irresponsible young Igbo of ipob threatening to wipe out and/or deport Ikwerres to Benin and take Ikwerreland for the Igbos which is highly irresponsible and further portrays Igbos as the aggressors who do NOT respect people's wishes. Similar video threats have been made by these irresponsible ipob boys to capture Ijaw areas such as Bonny Island and Edo State areas and include them in Igboland and they mean it! These acts of ipob Igbo aggression and toxic hate speech have led to Ijaws, Bini-Edos and Esan-Edo firing back (in recent videos I've seen threatening to deal with Igbos from henceforth).
The REAL FACTS that I've gleaned from the Ikwerres is that the FEW among them who are claiming to be of Igbo origin are of Aro (Arochukwu) descent who settled in their midst in between the 1700s to 1800s during the infamous slave trade. It turns out that the Aros settled in many interior Igbo communities and other areas such as Bonny Island in Ijawland from where they organized the notorious slave trade (where many interior tribes now referred to as collectively as Igbos) were captured and brought to the Atlantic coast to be sold to the White men who bought the enslaved people while the Ijaws made money by acting as the middlemen in the trade based off of what the Aros brought to them. The Trans-Atlantic slave ship records and other advanced archival documents that I've read since the 1980s show that 80% of the "Eboes" Igbos shipped out of Bonny Island were females while the rest were males. Jaja of Opobo himself was sold as a slave from the Igbo interior in the early 1800s (he was from Amaigbo in Imo State) and was brought to Bonny Island where he was acquired by his Ijaw master and made to undergo Ijaw initiation rites to become Ijawnized after he became a free man.However, an internal political war in Bonny led to Jaja (and others of different pure Ijaw and Ibo slave ethnic origins) to flee to Ibibioland (Ikot Abasi) in 1870 where he and his fleeing team were given land in Ikot Abasi (Opobo). As a matter of fact, the advanced history books state that Jaja would have been killed, but his British trader friends that he knew from Bonny saved him by repelling the better armed political rivals from Bonny Island who chased Jaja and his team to where they fled to.
The Aros actually worked in partnership with their allies from Ohafia and Abam (all in today's Abia State) to raid for many captives in the Igbo interior who were sold as slaves in Bonny, and other slave ports of the Ibibio and Efiks. This is the reason why Asari Dokubo who identifies as an Ijaw today emphasized in some of his videos that his direct male ancestor Ediabali (an Abam man) was part of an Aro team (or contingent) from Obosi that got retained by the Ijaw ruler who needed his services in the Palace.
Cc: @Pinkyruledworld
I copied you after seeing your earlier convo here. I hope you find this post useful too.
Somebody like sabinus identifies as Igbo and so many other out there why all this propaganda just to divide us…Enemies of ph are the ones pushing all this propaganda going to ph to do all this paid interviews.
Can’t imagine people from far away trying to tell us our history there is an agenda behind all this.
The vast majority of returnees from Brazil and Cuba to Lagos Island (Eko Island) from the mid-1800s were Yoruba people from the Bahia region in Brazil, then from Cuba, some Yorubas stayed back to take advantage of opportunities in business and other trades while others returned from Matanzas Province and Havana (Habana).
Many of them (such as the FIRST ever Nigerian Pounds Sterling millionaire, Candido Darocha were of Ijesa ancestry through his father who was taken as a war captive and got shipped on a Portuguese slave schooner to Bahia in Brazil in the early 1800s) were highly skilled people who had a high standard of living leading to them being very wealthy through international businesses exporting and importing commodities with ships between Lagos Island and South America before 1900!
Now, to the Ikwerre issue, the Ikwerre folks that I've known since the 1990s right from back in Port Harcourt ALL told me emphatically that they are NOT Igbos. I did ask them about why SOME similarities exist in their names and the interior Igbos and it turns out that a cultural ion took place. This isn't strange because acculturations occur a lot at border areas where different cultures and ethnicities converge. The ONLY recognized Ikwerre organization since 1963, "Ogbakor Ikwerre Worldwide" ALSO rejected the Igbos tag and affirmed just this January that they are of Ikwerre ethnic nationality.
Right in Kogi and Northern Edo States for instance, there are Ebiras and in parts of Akoko Edo (who are ALSO ancestrally related to the Ebiras of Kogi State) that are NOT Yorubas, BUT they understand Yoruba language in addition to their indigenous languages and some bear Yoruba names. There are Ebira communities (that share direct boundaries with the Okun-Yorubas of Kogi State) who speak and bear Yoruba names due to intermarriage and acculturations. You will NEVER find the rest of cite Yorubas of Kogi, Kwara and the West of Nigeria forcing themselves rudely on the Ebiras people despite some shared similarities!
It's this FACT of historical acculturation that some of these ignorant younger Igbos don't get. Even the different Igbo subgroups in the core 5 Igbo-speaking states of today historically underwent acculturation and borrowed some cultural practices in the area of loan words, food, dressing, religion, etc, from their neighbors from different ethnic groups along the border areas. The Red CHIEFTAINCY cap in NOT indigenous to the Igbos BUT was originally brought into the Nsukka area of Northern Enugu State within the last 500 years from where it spread to other parts of Igboland that NEVER had with Igalas. Igbo culture is also NOT monolithic but varies from one community to another.I've seen viral YouTube videos of some irresponsible young Igbo of ipob threatening to wipe out or deport Ikwerres to Benin and take Ikwerreland for the Igbos which is highly irresponsible and further portrays Igbos as the aggressors who do NOT respect people's wishes. Similar video threats have been made by these irresponsible ipob boys guys to capture Ijaw and Edo State areas and include them in Igboland and they mean it! These acts of ipob Igbo aggression have led to Ijaws, Bini-Edos and Esan-Edo firing back (in recent videos I've seen threatening to deal with Igbos from henceforth).
The REAL FACTS that I've gleaned from the Ikwerres is that the Few among them who are claiming to be of Igbo origin are of Aro (Arochukwu) descent who settled in their midst in the 1700s to 1800s during the slave trade. It turns out that the Aros settled in many interior Igbo communities and other areas such as Bonny Island in Ijawland from where they organized the notorious slave trade (where many interior tribes now referred to as collectively as Igbos) were captured and brought to the Atlantic coast for sale to the White men who bought the enslave people while the Ijaws made money by acting as the middlemen in the trade based off of what the Aros brought to them. The Trans-Atlantic slave ship records and other advanced archival documents that I've read since the 1980s show that 80% of the "Eboes" Igbos shipped out of Bonny Island were females. Jaja of Opobo himself was sold as a slave from the Igbo interior in the 1800s (he was from Ama igbo in Imo State) and was brought to Bonny Island where he was acquired by his Ijaw master and made to undergo an Ijaw initiation rites to become Ijawnized after he became a free man. However, an internal political war in Bonny led to Jaja (and others of different pure Ijaw and Ibo slave ethnic origins) to flee to Ibibioland (Ikot Abasi) in 1870 where he and his fleeing team were given a space in Ikot Abasi (Opobo). As a matter of fact, the advanced history books state that Jaja would have been killed, but his British trader friends that he knew from Bonny save him by repelling the better armed political rivals from Bonny Island who chased Jaja and his team to where they fled to.
The Aros actually worked in partnership with their allies from Ohafia and Abam (all in today's Abia State) to raid for many captives in the Igbo interior who were sold as slaves in Bonny, and other slave ports of the Ibibio and Efiks. This is the reason why Asari Dokubo who identifies as an Ijaw today emphasized in some of his videos that his direct male ancestor Ediabali an Abam man who was part of an Aro team (or contingent) from Obosi that got retained by the Ijaw ruler who needed his services in the Palace.
The vast majority of returnees from Brazil and Cuba to Lagos Island (Eko Island) from the mid-1800s were Yoruba people from the Bahia region in Brazil, then from Cuba, some Yorubas stayed back to take advantage of opportunities in business and other trades while others returned from Matanzas Province and Havana (Habana).
Many of them (such as the FIRST ever Nigerian Pounds Sterling millionaire, Candido Darocha were of Ijesa ancestry through his father who was taken as a war captive and got shipped on a Portuguese slave schooner to Bahia in Brazil in the early 1800s) were highly skilled people who had a high standard of living leading to them being very wealthy through international businesses exporting and importing commodities with ships between Lagos Island and South America before 1900!
Now, to the Ikwerre issue, the Ikwerre folks that I've known since the 1990s right from back in Port Harcourt ALL told me emphatically that they are NOT Igbos. I did ask them about why SOME similarities exist in their names and the interior Igbos and it turns out that a cultural ion took place. This isn't strange because acculturations occur a lot at border areas where different cultures and ethnicities converge. The ONLY recognized Ikwerre organization since 1963, "Ogbakor Ikwerre Worldwide" ALSO rejected the Igbos tag and affirmed just this January that they are of Ikwerre ethnic nationality.
Right in Kogi and Northern Edo States for instance, there are Ebiras and in parts of Akoko Edo (who are ALSO ancestrally related to the Ebiras of Kogi State) that are NOT Yorubas, BUT they understand Yoruba language in addition to their indigenous languages and some bear Yoruba names. There are Ebira communities (that share direct boundaries with the Okun-Yorubas of Kogi State) who speak and bear Yoruba names due to intermarriage and acculturations. You will NEVER find the rest of cite Yorubas of Kogi, Kwara and the West of Nigeria forcing themselves rudely on the Ebiras people despite some shared similarities!
It's this FACT of historical acculturation that some of these ignorant younger Igbos don't get. Even the different Igbo subgroups in the core 5 Igbo-speaking states of today historically underwent acculturation and borrowed some cultural practices in the area of loan words, food, dressing, religion, etc, from their neighbors from different ethnic groups along the border areas. The Red CHIEFTAINCY cap in NOT indigenous to the Igbos BUT was originally brought into the Nsukka area of Northern Enugu State within the last 500 years from where it spread to other parts of Igboland that NEVER had with Igalas. Igbo culture is also NOT monolithic but varies from one community to another.I've seen viral YouTube videos of some irresponsible young Igbo of ipob threatening to wipe out or deport Ikwerres to Benin and take Ikwerreland for the Igbos which is highly irresponsible and further portrays Igbos as the aggressors who do NOT respect people's wishes. Similar video threats have been made by these irresponsible ipob boys guys to capture Ijaw and Edo State areas and include them in Igboland and they mean it! These acts of ipob Igbo aggression have led to Ijaws, Bini-Edos and Esan-Edo firing back (in recent videos I've seen threatening to deal with Igbos from henceforth).
The REAL FACTS that I've gleaned from the Ikwerres is that the Few among them who are claiming to be of Igbo origin are of Aro (Arochukwu) descent who settled in their midst in the 1700s to 1800s during the slave trade. It turns out that the Aros settled in many interior Igbo communities and other areas such as Bonny Island in Ijawland from where they organized the notorious slave trade (where many interior tribes now referred to as collectively as Igbos) were captured and brought to the Atlantic coast for sale to the White men who bought the enslave people while the Ijaws made money by acting as the middlemen in the trade based off of what the Aros brought to them. The Trans-Atlantic slave ship records and other advanced archival documents that I've read since the 1980s show that 80% of the "Eboes" Igbos shipped out of Bonny Island were females. Jaja of Opobo himself was sold as a slave from the Igbo interior in the 1800s (he was from Ama igbo in Imo State) and was brought to Bonny Island where he was acquired by his Ijaw master and made to undergo an Ijaw initiation rites to become Ijawnized after he became a free man. However, an internal political war in Bonny led to Jaja (and others of different pure Ijaw and Ibo slave ethnic origins) to flee to Ibibioland (Ikot Abasi) in 1870 where he and his fleeing team were given a space in Ikot Abasi (Opobo). As a matter of fact, the advanced history books state that Jaja would have been killed, but his British trader friends that he knew from Bonny save him by repelling the better armed political rivals from Bonny Island who chased Jaja and his team to where they fled to.
The Aros actually worked in partnership with their allies from Ohafia and Abam (all in today's Abia State) to raid for many captives in the Igbo interior who were sold as slaves in Bonny, and other slave ports of the Ibibio and Efiks. This is the reason why Asari Dokubo who identifies as an Ijaw today emphasized in some of his videos that his direct male ancestor Ediabali an Abam man who was part of an Aro team (or contingent) from Obosi that got retained by the Ijaw ruler who needed his services in the Palace.
it’s great history and information Chief. Great info. It’s appreciated. Always good to read historical facts. And so there is no reason for wike to be trying to deny his heritage. The Ikwerre tag obviously is a coalescing of different peoples. The man knows what he is and if he says he is not Igbo then he is not 🤷🏽♂️
Amaechi your brother has claimed he is an igbo man. While you are here claiming you are not for political expediency. The good thing is that anyone can claim to be anything he wants in today's world. You can even claim you are an animal. That's your business.
Who you are will be always greater than your origin.
My position at all time.
I don't need to know you to know that you have achieved a lot or will definitely achieve a lot in this life. The easiest way to spot a man who will achieve big things is that he places the onus of greatness on himself.
In stark contrast, those who have no achievements or great aspirations tend to derive their sense of importance from external factors, like a sense of belonging to a group of other people who have done great things.
diamond68:
it’s great history and information Chief. Great info. It’s appreciated. Always good to read historical facts. And so there is no reason for wike to be trying to deny his heritage. The Ikwerre tag obviously is a coalescing of different peoples. The man knows what he is and if he says he is not Igbo then he is not 🤷🏽♂️
@diamond68
Absolutely well said. The original folks who constitute the Ikwerres claim NOT to be Igbos, but it's a historical fact that during the slave trade, some Aros and their allies settled among the Ikwerres and Ijaws to facilitate that insidious trade in human slaves who the Aros brought from the interior Igbo areas. The folks who descend from the Aros know themselves but are in the minority. The Ogbakor Ikwerre Worldwide which was founded in 1963 (before the 2 years and 6 months Nigerian Civil War of July 1967 to January 1970) have since 1963 emphasized that they are distinct from the interior Igbos and also affirmed in the January 9 2025 Press Release video right BELOW that they NOT Igbos but of the Ikwerre ethnic nationality which is known to the Nigerian constitution.
TODAY AT OGBAKOR IKWERE PRESS CONFRENCE! IPOB IGBOS WILL LEARN IN THE HARD WAY
Did you know that Alex Otti, the current Abia State Governor is also of Aro descent whose ancestor migrated from Arochukwu in Abia State and settled in the Aba region in the 1800s? He actually said this himself in an interview he granted to Punch newspaper in the 2010s when he wanted to contest under a different political party. He went on to say that their was some resistance to his becoming a Governor then because he was of Aro descent. He further claimed that the Aros and Ibibio migrants of centuries back in the Aba axis constituted about 10% of the population while the Ngwas who migrated from Mbaise in Imo State were in the majority in the Ngwa/Aba area.
I that interview because of my gravitation towards advanced world history for decades now and I have a fascination with how the Aros evolved (from the original Ibibio settlement of 400 years ago) and went about organizing small colonies in areas outside their enclave while engaging in the notorious slave trade of majorly Igbos of the interior and more.
The vast majority of returnees from Brazil and Cuba to Lagos Island (Eko Island) from the mid-1800s were Yoruba people from the Bahia region in Brazil, then from Cuba, some Yorubas stayed back to take advantage of opportunities in business and other trades while others returned from Matanzas Province and Havana (Habana).
Many of them (such as the FIRST ever Nigerian Pounds Sterling millionaire, Candido Darocha were of Ijesa ancestry through his father who was taken as a war captive and got shipped on a Portuguese slave schooner to Bahia in Brazil in the early 1800s) were highly skilled people who had a high standard of living leading to them being very wealthy through international businesses exporting and importing commodities with ships between Lagos Island and South America before 1900!
NOW, to the Ikwerre issue, the Ikwerre folks that I've known since the 1990s right from back when I worked with a major multinational oil and gas company in Port Harcourt ALL told me emphatically that they are NOT Igbos. I did ask them about why SOME similarities exist in their names and the interior Igbos and it turns out that acculturation took place. This isn't strange though because acculturations occur a Lot at border areas where different cultures and ethnicities converge. The ONLY recognized Ikwerre organization established since 1963, "Ogbakor Ikwerre Worldwide" ALSO rejected the Igbos tag and affirmed again just this January 2025 that they are of Ikwerre ethnic nationality.
TODAY AT OGBAKOR IKWERE PRESS CONFRENCE! IPOB IGBOS WILL LEARN IN THE HARD WAY
Right in Kogi and Northern Edo States for instance, there are Ebiras and in parts of Akoko Edo (who are ALSO ancestrally related to the Ebiras of Kogi State) that are NOT Yorubas, BUT they understand Yoruba language in addition to their indigenous languages and some bear Yoruba names. There are Ebira communities (that share direct boundaries with the Okun-Yorubas of Kogi State) who speak and bear Yoruba names due to intermarriage and acculturations. You will NEVER find the rest of cite Yorubas of Kogi, Kwara and the West of Nigeria forcing themselves rudely on the Ebiras people despite some shared similarities!
It's this FACT of historical acculturation that some of these ignorant younger Igbos don't get. Even the different Igbo subgroups in the core 5 Igbo-speaking states of today historically underwent acculturation and borrowed some cultural practices in the area of loan words, food, dressing, religion, etc, from their neighbors from different ethnic groups along the border areas. The Red CHIEFTAINCY cap in NOT indigenous to the Igbos BUT was originally brought into the Nsukka area of Northern Enugu State within the last 500 years from where it spread to other parts of Igboland that NEVER had with Igalas. Igbo culture is also NOT monolithic but varies from one community to another.I've seen viral YouTube videos of some irresponsible young Igbo of ipob threatening to wipe out or deport Ikwerres to Benin and take Ikwerreland for the Igbos which is highly irresponsible and further portrays Igbos as the aggressors who do NOT respect people's wishes. Similar video threats have been made by these irresponsible ipob boys guys to capture Ijaw and Edo State areas and include them in Igboland and they mean it! These acts of ipob Igbo aggression have led to Ijaws, Bini-Edos and Esan-Edo firing back (in recent videos I've seen threatening to deal with Igbos from henceforth).
The REAL FACTS that I've gleaned from the Ikwerres is that the Few among them who are claiming to be of Igbo origin are of Aro (Arochukwu) descent who settled in their midst in the 1700s to 1800s during the slave trade. It turns out that the Aros settled in many interior Igbo communities and other areas such as Bonny Island in Ijawland from where they organized the notorious slave trade (where many interior tribes now referred to as collectively as Igbos) were captured and brought to the Atlantic coast for sale to the White men who bought the enslave people while the Ijaws made money by acting as the middlemen in the trade based off of what the Aros brought to them. The Trans-Atlantic slave ship records and other advanced archival documents that I've read since the 1980s show that 80% of the "Eboes" Igbos shipped out of Bonny Island were females. Jaja of Opobo himself was sold as a slave from the Igbo interior in the 1800s (he was from Ama igbo in Imo State) and was brought to Bonny Island where he was acquired by his Ijaw master and made to undergo an Ijaw initiation rites to become Ijawnized after he became a free man. However, an internal political war in Bonny led to Jaja (and others of different pure Ijaw and Ibo slave ethnic origins) to flee to Ibibioland (Ikot Abasi) in 1870 where he and his fleeing team were given a space in Ikot Abasi (Opobo). As a matter of fact, the advanced history books state that Jaja would have been killed, but his British trader friends that he knew from Bonny save him by repelling the better armed political rivals from Bonny Island who chased Jaja and his team to where they fled to.
The Aros actually worked in partnership with their allies from Ohafia and Abam (all in today's Abia State) to raid for many captives in the Igbo interior who were sold as slaves in Bonny, and other slave ports of the Ibibio and Efiks. This is the reason why Asari Dokubo who identifies as an Ijaw today emphasized in some of his videos that his direct male ancestor Ediabali an Abam man who was part of an Aro team (or contingent) from Obosi that got retained by the Ijaw ruler who needed his services in the Palace.
Insightful. Love to see people abreast with history and truth!
One thing I've learnt over time is history can never be hidden. It always manifests itself in various ways, even through the behaviour of individuals and people. It should be perceived as motivation for improvement rather than a burden.
You are not exactly right. A man who knows his ancestry is telling you that he is not Igbo and you are saying another thing. Wike's father is alive and knows where they came from. Rivers State is far from been homogeneous.
You are not exactly right. A man who knows his ancestry is telling you that he is not Igbo and you are saying another thing. Wike's father is alive and knows where they came from. Rivers State is far from been homogeneous.
they are originally south eastern migrants from all I can understand so far.
Wike, has never liked the Igbo. Obviously not him alone in ph as a whole. Claiming ph if Biafra should be is what they will not want. Another form of enslavement
