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DomPerignon:


Wike ?

What happened to Wike?

FYI, the north respects Wike for standing up for Rivers , SS and southern interests.

😂😂😂😂, 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.

DomPerignon:


Amaechi used your heads play ludo

You see, the problem with them is that they think they are smart and everyone around them is foolish but what they call smartness is dishonesty, insincerity, deception and craftiness. They end up being the foolish ones.

Before the APC primaries, they were thinking that Amaechi would become the party flag bearer so what did they do? On every Igbo platform and even here on nairaland, they started pushing out and propagating that incident where Amaechi told their Ohaneze president at the event in Abia State that he is not Igbo but a proud Ikwerre man.

They were doing that to undermine and demonized him so that their people would not vote for him since they never see beyond ethnicity. Immediately Tinubu won, they stopped pushing that story and expected him to PitObi. Even at the PDP primaries, Anambra delegates voted Atiku 100%, most Imo delegates voted Atiku and no one made noise about it, no one was called a betrayal or traitor. But Kano and some other States in the North and South West gave Wike 100% of their votes.

Later the people whose main hobby is to insult and disparage Wike started singing “ your BROTHER PitObi” and when Wike did not, we started hearing betrayal, hatred and all what not.

All the Ikwerre is Igbo noise is not that the bitter and hateful people believe so, love or ever want to see Ikwerre person progressing nationally but it’s all about their Biafra so that they can claim that Portharcourt and Rivers State is their territory and nothing more.

Let them continue fooling themselves but they can’t fool anyone else.

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.

Start by telling us why Igbo delegates ed Atiku and Igbo people expected Wike to PitObi.

Aneachi is politically dead
Is he who dey want to use for coalition hahaha

All this long epistle because of amaechi assertion of being Ikwerre? Ohaneze ndigbo should have ignored him. Igbo people are bigger than that.

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GeneralPula:
Amaechi is just using these ones head to play Ludo..

Dem be headless mob..

If you can listen to yourself! Did APC get 8% in southeast in 2015?
He lied to himself!

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 Igbo 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.

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.

There was never a time igbo people betrayed jonathan. You people mistake few polictical allies to an entire race or ethnic nationality, is an indepth level of ignorance, as there are thousands of igbos who do not share same sentiment with what he said .

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

zero8zero:

“we are waiting for Amaechi in 2027 when he will come to any state in the South-East to open his lies-filled mouth. He will hear from us at the appropriate time, because we know he shall surely need Ndigbo again.

Lies.

Ndigb0 is a dot. Nobody needs their 5℅ votes to be President of Nigeria.

zero8zero:


https://dailypost.ng/2025/06/06/amaechis-not-igbo-comment-treacherous-ohanaeze/

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

floss:



Leaders come from the citizens, since Nigeria doesn’t have good leadership, it shows the citizens are the problem, you can’t be expecting a saint to come from the den of thieves

Leave Nigerians make them dey play o my brother.
They want a saint to just emerge out of a den of thieves , just like that o

We are all stealing , only those who get caught are thieves

Until we acknowledge and begin to take steps to corrects this,na so things go remain.
Even in the house of God , them dey steal so religious leaders are not the solution
But Societal self awareness and consciousness will change the society
But are we ready for that yet?

But he still couldn't get up to 10% votes for Buhari in same Abia state during the elections.
Perhaps his alleged false igbo claim was not effective enough

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.

[/color]so this means that if you wanna secure ndigbo votes, just appeal to their ethnicity like Amaechi and Jonathan did[color=#770077]

zero8zero:


https://dailypost.ng/2025/06/06/amaechis-not-igbo-comment-treacherous-ohanaeze/

zero8zero:


https://dailypost.ng/2025/06/06/amaechis-not-igbo-comment-treacherous-ohanaeze/

Now na by force to be ibo😂🤡

They have been used and dumped as usual.
This is what you will always get when you allow your emotions and sentiments to control you instead of facts and logic.

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.

You just reminded me of ‘comical Ali’ Saddam Hussein’s information minister. Even when everyone could see the allied forces bombarding Baghdad just 100 meters from the presidential mansion, he said it was just some Iraqi military men doing training.

Oga just accept reality and move on. Everyone must not be Igbo.

Putindbutt:

Unity beggars

😂😂😂 you know them well, yet they will turn around and point their hypocritical fingers accusing others of begging for unity.

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.

They are Unity beggers. They love overlooking facts and logic while holding on to sentiments and emotions.

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.

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.

you very right, another example is davido a Yoruba boy but recently also itted to have ibo blood because of his grandmother who happened to ibo

Ever since then the internet has had no peace, i start to wonder if davido is no more a yorubaman and automatically ibo and what’s the need in always trying to force people to identify with your tribe? I think they have inferiority complex issues

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

are you sure you really need an answer to that question? I am sure in your inner heart you already know the answer make I no chop ban this early cold morning

GeneralPula:
Amaechi is just using these ones head to play Ludo..

Dem be headless mob..

Amaechi is a bona-fide hee-bow They claimed and insulted us when in 2019/20 we tried to tell them what they are just discovering in 2025.

Let them manage him like that. AMAECHI is he-bow and has used their turn

This people should stop making this kinda news headline if he says his not Igbo let him be now haba!

Astute political analysis.

I sincerely wish Nairaland had more people like you. You're very intelligent. Very well captured Sir👌 👏

Tranquill:


You see, the problem with them is that they think they are smart and everyone around them is foolish but what they call smartness is dishonesty, insincerity, deception and craftiness. They end up being the foolish ones.

Before the APC primaries, they were thinking that Amaechi would become the party flag bearer so what did they do? On every Igbo platform and even here on nairaland, they started pushing out and propagating that incident where Amaechi told their Ohaneze president at the event in Abia State that he is not Igbo but a proud Ikwerre man.

They were doing that to undermine and demonized him so that their people would not vote for him since they never see beyond ethnicity. Immediately Tinubu won, they stopped pushing that story and expected him to PitObi. Even at the PDP primaries, Anambra delegates voted Atiku 100%, most Imo delegates voted Atiku and no one made noise about it, no one was called a betrayal or traitor. But Kano and some other States in the North and South West gave Wike 100% of their votes.

Later the people whose main hobby is to insult and disparage Wike started singing “ your BROTHER PitObi” and when Wike did not, we started hearing betrayal, hatred and all what not.

All the Ikwerre is Igbo noise is not that the bitter and hateful people believe so, love or ever want to see Ikwerre person progressing nationally but it’s all about their Biafra so that they can claim that Portharcourt and Rivers State is their territory and nothing more.

Let them continue fooling themselves but they can’t fool anyone else.

aribisala0:
In Spanish Language and Portuguese Language

The following words are examples the same

English Spanish Portuguese
Eat Comer Comer
Fish Pez Pez
Shop Tienda Tenda
Water Agua Agua


Spanish and Portuguese share almost 90% of their vocabulary REPEAT 90%


Because you as an Igbo person see what sounds or looks like your vocabulary does not mean the other person is speaking your language

A banana is not a type of plantain

The fact that Ogbakor means whatever in Igbo language does not mean i cannot mean the same thing in Ikwerre language or that if Ikwerre use it they must have borrowed it from you


These is a list of Yoruba words

Iba Fever

Okuta Stone

Afefe Breeze or wind

Apoti Box

Eti Nose

Ile House

Oka Corn
Enu Mouth

Apo Bag

Ile Ground

Imu Nose


There are very similar words in Igbo

What does that prove> That our ancestors were neighnbours . You cannot claim that because a word means the same thing in two different languages that one group owns it and the other is part of them

Ewure goat

Ibudo Settlement/ Small town

Eru Slave

Ibi Place

Bo Come

bo ibi Come here
bo wa ile (bowale) come home

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.

Okay

We always told them Amaechi and Okowa only became Igbo when they needed Igbo votes. But the emotional Igbos will never listen or learn

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

The men have permanent visa to prison.

The women - life time CAC registration for "bro-tell". They are known in most of Africa for this.

Children born in factories 🏭 are trained in centers of miracle...

You sef go wan associate with them ?

jmoore:


Ogbakor Ikwerre means what?

Ogbakor means gathering in Igbo language.

They should have used Rumugbakor Ikwerre.

I laugh hard when I read or hear all the 'Rumus... ' they use in place of 'umu'.

You know, it used to be Umuola, Umukurishi, Umuokwuta, and all the Umus which mean people of...
But because Ken Saro Wiwa was in friendship with Abacha and by extension the military government in power during the Nigerian Biafran civil war, a government in which he held a top position, he turned his people against the Igbos. We all know how they dealt with the Igbos during the war. Not only that, he got them to deny their Igboness by adding R to every Umu word, hence Umuola became Rumuola, Umukurishi because Rumukurushi, etc.
But at long last, we all know how Saro Wiwa ended..... executed by those he betrayed the Igbos to.

A big lesson to everyone.

We are not forcing anyone to be Igbo but betrayal has its consequences.

Everyone has freedom of association