NewStats: 3,263,887 , 8,181,781 topics. Date: Sunday, 08 June 2025 at 03:59 PM 4l5g5c

richmond500:
shusssh... We in Rivers state knows this.
A man who could not promote civil servant but build 11 flyover around Obio-akpo, a man who left other places to be plagued with insecurities but built a mansion that sits on one full street.

Wike will never be allowed to the state Treasury again

I have no doubt you are somewhere in Obio Akpor typing this.

ideatoprince18:
..... Who is an Isoma man?.... I did not call Ikwerre people daft.... I called people who think like the way u think either Ikwerre or otherwise daft

You are completely inebriated for you to ridicule anyone who has a debatable opinion daft.

jmoore:


You go explain tire babablu bulabu.

Is Amaechi the whole of Ikwerre?

Many Ikwerre people believe they are part of Igbo.

So REST.

Before you people keep claiming Amaechi said he is Igbo. Today he has debunked that. You people should manage with Mbata.

ysth:
We no send Rochas message. Imo people didn't push him to run for president the way Wike was doing. Did you see Rochas buying 100 branded buses for just party primaries and paying delegates $50000 each to vote for him? Rivers people are too naive. Oil money is driving their politicians crazy

Ikwerre Men don't pretend with their intentions. They are bold and go all.out.for what they desire with no atom of gear or intimidation. See Wike see Amaechi.

justified007:




Did you know this same Amaechi was almost elected as the Ohanaeze president? I have never seen such level of desperation before

They took the position to him and he rejected it outrightly. He has just done that in the open.

Pacesetter123:

You are saying trash!
Name and language are the first symbols of ethnic/tribe identity.
If 90% of Spanish and Portuguese language are the same as you said,what does that tells you?
Doesn't that tells you that they are the same people from the same ancestry?
You should have asked yourself,why is the English language you compared there not the same with other two despite being in the same Europe? That shows the English people are not from the same origin with them.

Then coming back to Nigeria and to this thread proper.

If you come down to the part of S/S that I'm from, and somebody or even a child ask you, what is your name?
And you answer,my name is Nnadozie Emeka.The person wouldn't even bother to ask your ethnicity again,he/she will automatically call you an Igbo man.

But if you say,I am Balogun Adewale,the person will automatically identify you as a Yoruba.

And I strongly believe and I know so too that,if somebody go to a village in Ekiti for instance ,and mention his name as Emeka Chinedu,the first thing that will come to the Ekiti person's mind will be that the person is an Igbo man.
The same thing will happen if you go to Hausa land and say you are Ngozi Infeayi Okowa, you will automatically be identified by the Hausa man as an Igbo lady.

So in summary, your name and language is your identity.
You cannot bear Tunde Bukola Adeyemi and come from Kogi or Kwara or even Delta states and you tell us or Hausa man that you are not a Yoruba man.You will explain tire ,u no go fit convince us cos de evidence is clear.

In the same vein, you cannot bear Obi,Okowa, Amaechi,Emeka,Chukwuma,Amokachi as your surname and tell my people here or other people in Nigeria that you are not an Igbo man simply because you are from Delta or Rivers states.

So,if you don't want us to call you a Yoruba man bcuz you are from Kwara or Kogi,then stop bearing Adewale,Oyedepo, Adeyemi, Bukola as your surname and nobody will identify you with the Yoruba ethnicity again.

Also,if you are from Rivers or Delta and you want people to stop calling you an Igbo man,then stop bearing Emeka, Amaechi, Infeayi, Nyesom,Nnabueze,Okoro,Okowa ,Okocha as your surname and nobody will call you an Igbo man again.

Why are the Igbos not saying we the Effiongs,Basseys,Okons,Affiongs,Ekaettes,Ekengs, Ekpeyongs,Udofias,Akpabios,Akpans are Igbos despite being in the same S/S zone with the Ikwerres and Aniomas?
They can't cos our surnames are not the same.We can only see ourselves as brothers but from different ancestry with distinct surnames and language.

So enough of all this back and forth identity crisis from the people of that sides.
They are Igbos by names and language irrespective of their states or geopolitical zones.Else, they should stop speaking the same language of Igbo and bearing Igbo names.
Everybody should answer their Papa name.

Most of us call the Akwa Ibom people Calabar people here in Rivers are we right?

richie240:
sometimes Most times it's expedient not to interfere/dabble into igbo matters.

Are you aware that the president-general of Ohaneze is a fellow ikwerre-man just like Amaechi??

Don't let them use your head to play ball.
When it favours them they (ikwerres/nigerdelta igbos) will tell you "we are igbós", but when the narratives doesn't align with their aspirations, they'll deny their (igbo) heritage.

We think they are 'confused', but the contrary is the case: they are using the heads of gullible nigerians to play ball.
Their case can be likened to kwara indigenes waking up to tell the gullibles that they are not Yorubas simply bcus they were carved into north-central.

Mbata said his parents migrated from Igbo land to Ikwerre land. He has Igbo ancestry a d has the right to the PG of Ohaneze.

ideatoprince18:
..... Why do u people think like this? If a person from KOGI bears Funmi Adebayo, what do u think her tribe would be?

Ikwerre people that keeps saying they are not Igbos are just plainly daft. Wether ure Ikwerre ,Ohafia,Abiriba, Ohagwu,Ukwuani,Ndokwa, Mbaise,Owerri,Nsukka,Abakaliki, The brella that covers all is Igbo language. The only difference is that we speak a variation of same Igbo language.

Just like how Lions,Tiger,Cheetah,Leopard,are all Cats. You can't classify them under Dogs.

And an Isoma man like you have the effrontery to call freeborns like the Ikwerre people daft? No freeborn Ikwerre man will ever claim Igbo. Amaechi can't avoid to be called Isoma among the Ikwerres. He knows the insinuation.

Junior66:


This your example makes no sense. The Portuguese and the Spanish were original the same people, it is just geographical separation that changed their languages slightly. A Spaniard that has never heard Portuguese language in his life before will understand much of it once he listens to it. They both understand themselves to a very large extent similar to the way Igbos and Ikweres understand each other. The only difference is that the Portuguese and Spaniards have the same origin.

Even these your Ikweres likely have the same origin with the Igbos. At least you can't prove that they don't.

I'm an Igala observer from Kogi State.

If Ikwerres have the same origin with the Igbos does it make an Igbo man an Ikwerre person and vice versa?

Mrexcell:
Amaechi and wike thinks by denying being igbo will automatically give them an edge over other politicians in the ss/se and make the north and west them to become nigeria's president they don't even know that they still see them as igbos in their closets. The north and west will continue to use ikwerre politicians to achieve their own long term political goals just like they have been using igbo politicians like rochas, orji kalu, ogbonna onu, soludo etc.

No well-bred Ikwerre man will claim Igbo no matter whatever Politi advantage associated with it. The stigma associated with it among the Ikwerres is overwhelming.

ProudlyLagos:
Ndigbo themselves made themselves available to this politicians because they know how emotional this clan of people are and how to easily press their mumu button

I don’t know why a majority tribe will be in a desperate need for validation and forced attachments to a people who have made it clear severally that they don’t belong to your tribe and yet still can’t respect their wish and just let them be

This is a show of pure inferiority complex and they Should look inwards and work on themselves and ask why this people are rejecting them and not just the ikwerres

Ikwerres rejected Igbo identity from the first they had with them and that is the reason for the name Isoma. Ikwerres drew a line when they formed the Ogbakor Ikwerre in 1963. Igbos formed Ohaneze in 1965.

Agugbadin:
But why are Nigerians rejecting and not wanting to be identified or be associated with the Igbo tribe? can someone please tell us.

In Ikwerre land you are seen as a stranger to be very polite with such people. But down the heart of an average Ikwerre man which Amaechi is avoiding such insignia the person is called Isoma a name for someone who doesn't know tradition, custom and could be at best used as slave.

Kc3000:
The Ohaneze youth or whatever they are called did not watch the interview for themselves. They must have read mischievous headlines and fell for the propaganda. Amaechi did not deny being Igbo.

- He said he started to assert his Igbo identity because of the political marginalization of the Igbo.

- He said he did not claim Igbo because he wanted the Igbos votes.

-He said one has to be Ikwerre first to be Igbo.

-He said many Ikwerre deny being Igbo, but he belongs to the faction that affirm their Igboness.

-He said it did not make any sense that Ikwerre has so much in common with other Igbo yet some say they are not Igbo.

I pity you. Amaechi categorically said he is not Igbo but Ikwerre. For the avoidance of doubt check when Amaechi visited the Deji of Akure, he told him he is Ikwerre and kit Igbo. It is online.

ysth:
😂😂😂😂, the north respects Wike, and he was disappointed by his main man Tambuwal? Did you ask yourself why Tambuwal decided to Atiku at the dying minute, same Tambuwal, Wike gave 500million after a market fire in Sokoto. .. Ask yourself critical questions. Rivers politicians think they are smart by spending billions for the north to them but they keep running away from their own shadow.

Your smartest brother Rochas did more for North with Imo State money for whatever you claim Wike or any other Rivers governor did.

Tranquill:
When Amaechi was addressed as “Our Igbo son” in Abia State by the then Ohaneze president Joe Irukwu, during the reception in honour of Arunma Oteh, he promptly took the mic and said “I am a proud Ikwerre son and not Igbo. This was over 15 years ago. At a radio Station in Lagos when he was governor, he was asked if he was Igbo and he said No.

Igbo people continued to call him an Igbo man so when he was campaigning for Buhari against Jonathan he used that advantage to tell the crowd that he was more Igbo than Jonathan and Igbo people started cheering him. Is there any where in the world where someone would overnight say he belongs to an ethnicity that he never identified with and then you take that as indelible fact?

Only Igbo people would see someone whose mother, father, none of the siblings is Igbo but assume that person can become Igbo overnight. If this is not stupidity of the highest order then I don’t know what it is.

Bros God bless you. When Amaechi was campaigning to be the president he visited the Deji of Akure and told him he is not Igbo but Ikwerre. Amaechi has always made it clear that he is Ikwerre and not Igbo. Igbo by all means just want.to wear the attire and toga of Igbo. They hate Wike because he said he is Ikwerre and not Igbo. They claimed Amaechi as theirs. Now they have heard from Amaechi.

jmoore:


Ogbakor Ikwerre means what?

Ogbakor means gathering in Igbo language.

They should have used Rumugbakor Ikwerre.

Have you heard of mutual Intelligibility of Language before? Understanding a language doesn't make that language yours. Thus phenomenon is not only among the Igbos and the Ikwerres. There are other languages all over the world. It is just that Igbos have simply refused to listen. Amaechi has said it severally that he is not Igbo. It is a disdainful for any Ikwerre man to accept being Igbo. Mbata the PG of Ohaneze is today called Nye ISoma among the Ikwerres. It is a name reserved only for the Igbos. It is derogatory to call an Ikwerre man Nye Isoma.

Ayemileto:


So, you believed that you posting your Dad's picture on your status, is the reason why he died almost 2 years after the status post? ,

Bros a lot of things followed after that. It might just be coincidence. I have seen old people in my place once a birthday party is done for them or their is another tradition I won't mention here once that is done they don't live long after that.

I knew he would soon depart as BrainJotter reminded everyone including good and bad people last year that he was still alive.
My dad wasn't sick until I posted his picture on my status celebrating his birthday. He didn't see 24 months afterward.
Sometimes let the legend be. Don't bring them to social media.

He was sacked because he went against the rules of Tottenham. He won trophy.

rofanx13:
Muslim is a religion of peace. Unfortunately, extremists have made it synonymous to religion of terrorism.
It's pathetic. All these countries are Muslim countries.
We need a world devoid of terrorism

The peace in Islam is an irony.

Antoeni:
Stop Sounding Stupid, Be Reasonable For Once

You are abusing Hoebi not me.

Antoeni:
Wike Will One Day Look Tinubu in The Eyes And Pour Him Spit in The Face, For Now He is a Necessary Evil & Asset to To Tinubu/ APC

Tinubu is not vying for any other position after his eight years. So the probability of running in friction with Tinubu is zero. Think about Hoebi your mentor dishing lies here and there.

A Ghanaian lady told.me the reason she likes Nigerian guys. She said a typical Ghanaian will be interested in you but will stalk you for over 10 years without saying a thing. But a Nigerian would walk up to you and say his mind without fear or shyness.

gidgiddy:


There over 20 different dialects spoken here in Enugu State. If someone from Imo State came here, he will understand most of them with carefully listening, but will not know the difference. Only someone like me who grew in Enugu State will know the difference between Nsukka, Amaechi, Nike, Owa, Eziagu dialects

But they are all Igbo people. Nothing stops any of them from claiming to be some 'distinct' ethnic group, but that will be laughable because there is no difference with them and others except small difference dialectical pronunciation

How did you know that you are Igbo?

aribisala0:
Portuguese people understand Spanish that does not make them Spanish
That does not also make Portuguese a dialect of Spanish
Quit talking like an Illiterate

YOU claim to understand 80% of what they are speaking. Without any exposure to Ikwerre that is a lie
HOW MANY IGBOS UNDERSTAND EZZA FROM EBONYI
There is an Ikwerre Bible for a very good reason

Now let me burst your bubble

The EZZA people are a group that actually Identify as Igbo

But they do not speak Igbo they speak an Igboid language. It is NOT a dialect of Igbo but a language in its own right
Most Igbo speakers do not understand it

Just like Ikwerrre is an Igboid language

What that simply means is that both languages have an ancient root but they are so different from each other as bo be classified not as dialects of each other but languages

Why are they called Igboid because when the classification was done. The Igbo language had the largest number of speakers. in the language family That is the only reason . Nothing else

So back to the Spanish and Portuguese example they belong to a family called Romance Languages which includes Italian and French ~You can check this on Google
E,g
French: "tout" (singular) or "tous" (plural)
Spanish: "todo" (singular) or "todos" (plural)
Italian: "tutto" (singular) or "tutti" (plural)
Portuguese: "todo" (singular) or "todos" (plural)


That does not make them the same people

Stop teaching them. It is difficult to teach anyone who pretends not to understand just as it is difficult to wake anyone pretending to be asleep.

gidgiddy:


If Ikwerre was speaking a distinct dialect, nobody would understand except Ikwerre. But in a situation where me from Anambra will understand 80% of it, then what they are speaking is a not distinct, but a dialect. I even understand Ikwerre more than some Igbo dialects in Enugu Ebonyi and Abia.

Ikwerre are free to identify as Japanese if they want to, but the truth is that nobody has managed to identify any difference between those called Igbo and those called Ikwerre, except denial

When denial is the only thing you can show as what makes you "distinct", then you fool no one but your self

If you understand Ikwerre why can't see yourself as Ikwerre?
Meanwhile which Ikwerre dialect do you understand?
Ikwerres have over 12 dialects. Which one do you understand?

aribisala0:
Their language is not 70% Igbo That is not true

Ikwerre is a distinct language

Your logic about Benin is upside down

Ikwerre people do not identify as Igbos
They NEVER did
They used to sell Igbos whom they call Isuoma as slaves


There are many languages that are close or similar that does not make them dialects
Good examples are French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. They belong to the family of languages called the Romance family

Spanish people cannot say Portuguese people are Spanish because they bear names like Roberto, Eduardo, Maria, Anna, Ronaldo or Antonio

Bros you are well read. Igbos are one of the well traveled tribes in Nigeria. They recognised that the Spanish man differs from the Portuguese despite speaking similar language. This also includes Indonesia and Malaysia, Poland and Ukraine, Sweden and Denmark including Norway and Finland..Igbos see these people as different people but doesn't see it in their backyard because of if their annexation agenda. Similarity of languages despite being of different people is recognised in Linguistics as Mutual Intelligibility of Language.

gidgiddy:



Oh they are called Ikwerre?

There are Nsukka people

There Ngwa people

There are Abakaliki people

There are Onitsha people

There are Ohawfia people

So why do you group all these people together and call them Igbo?

Are you aware there's no difference between these people and those you call Ikwerre, in culture and language, except small difference in dialect?

Will it be safe to say that all those group you mentioned are Ikwerre people? If they have a lot in common with the Ikwerre people then they are Ikwerres.