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EreluRoz:
It's like I'm not getting something clearly. Please what language does an Ika person speak? Even the king of Agbor bears an igbo name Keagborekuzi (that handsome king)

Ika person speaks Ika as a dialect. It's mixture of Igbo and Benin language, though the igbo language is predominant.

The problem Ika people have with Igbos is that the core Igbos dont regard Ika as part and parcel of their clans, even when it comes to political appointment, Igbos dont recognise an Ika position as Igbo slot.

Why the division

KINGTELLER:

Ika person speaks Ika as a dialect. It mixture of Igbo and Benin language, though the igbo language is predominant.

The problem Ika people have with Igbos is that the core Igbos dont regard Ika as part and parcel of their clans, even when it comes to political appointment, Igbos dont recognise an Ika position as Igbo slot. A typical Ika man knows the political land mass game the igbos are playing to acquire anioma and later subject them to neglect when it comes to political appointment

How will Igbos subject Anioma people to neglect?
Did Igbo subject Anioma people to neglect during NCNC period?
Ika people have identity crisis issue and that is not our problem,you guys should define who you are.

Yet your forefathers called their Kings either igwe,eze or obi like the foolish igbos.

They sold markets on same eke,nkwo,orie and afor with the bastards called igbos. Whether it's 4 or 8market days.

They not only bear names but say the same thing with the most impoverished tribe in Nigeria;igbos. Mmili as water,chineke as God,abuo(ibuo) as two,ato(Ito) as three,ano(ino) as four etc.

Why did God create ndi anioma as igbos or when murtala Mohammed massacred in azagba(asaba) what do you think he knew your father's didn't reveal to you? No matter how Anioma in Delta,Ikwerres,Etche/omuma,Ogba/egbema/ndoni,ekpeye in rivers deny themselves for Fulanis the worse it becomes for them.

The likes of Wike can try but Fulanis know you better than you try to deny yourself.

Thundafireseun:
Im not Igbo and I will never be Igbo ….

Majority of Anioma people have distanced themselves from Igbo people including me….

I’m proudly Anioma and what I speak is Aniontha

EreluRoz:
Urhobos are minority in Delta state. It is not an insult.

Urhobos are not minorities.

In Delta Central, they have 8LGAs, in Delta South, they have have 2 LGAS which they share with Ijaws and Itsekiri, and they're on the offensive side of pressing Southwards to collect their lands back from the Itsekiris who migrated into that area.

Delta State House of Assembly by LGAS.

Anioma 9 (all in Delta North)
Urhobos 10 (8 in Delta Central, 2 in Delta South)
Isoko 2 (all in Delta South)
Itsekiri 1 (all in Delta South)
Ijaw 1 (all in Delta South)

Delta North (9LGAs)
Delta Central (8LGAs)
Delta South (6LGAs)

Lateef73:

You are right. Their ancestors are from Benin including Ndokwa

Kontinu lying.

AcuraZDX:
Anioma People Are Igbos & We Have No Problem With Ohaneze Ndigbo —Izu Anioma

There's nothing like Animal as a tribe in Delta state.

Ojiofor:


How will Igbos subject Anioma people to neglect?
Did Igbo subject Anioma people to neglect during NCNC period?
Ika people have identity crisis issue and that is not our problem,you guys should define who you are.

If they have identity crisis issue let them be. No be by force.

As Ishemael in the bible left his father Abraham to form the Islamic race, did you ever see the Jews forcing the Arabs to become jews?

KINGTELLER:


If they have identity crisis issue let them be. No be by force.

As Ishemael in the bible let his father Abraham to form the Islamic race, you ever see the Jews forcing the Arabs to become jews?

Nobody is forcing you to SouthEast rather it is Anioma people voluntarily want to merge with SE.
We have been agitating for a sixth state within Southeast zone,in fact it will be a great sacrifice for us to secede the sixth state to Anioma.Nobody is begging you.We can go ahead with our Etiti state.

cassyrooy:
You're a poor little man, Ika-Igbo (Agbor) and Ile Ibinu were slated for war in 1897 when Britain made waste to Ile Ibinu Minorities under 2 days.

Ika-Igbo are not from Ile Ibinu, in fact, they were the raiding and retaliating power that made Ile Ibinu build their walls for protection.

Stop propagating nonsense to brainwashed and nubile folks.

There is nothing like Ika Igbo.

Thundafireseun:
Im not Igbo and I will never be Igbo ….

Majority of Anioma people have distanced themselves from Igbo people including me….

I’m proudly Anioma and what I speak is Aniontha

Bayelsa state is bigger than the so called anoima so it won't work

KINGTELLER:

Ika person speaks Ika as a dialect. It mixture of Igbo and Benin language, though the igbo language is predominant.

The problem Ika people have with Igbos is that the core Igbos dont regard Ika as part and parcel of their clans, even when it comes to political appointment, Igbos dont recognise an Ika position as Igbo slot. A typical Ika man knows the political land mass game the igbos are playing to acquire anioma and later subject them to neglect when it comes to political appointment

Ika people don't want to remove their pseudo-Bini colonialist tag, stay pure that's what Ndị Igbo want.

PlayMaker14:
We are pure Igbo, nothing like "Delta Igbo"

Pure Igbo and proud.


Proud Issele-Uku Son.

You're a settlers from south east,no Igbo tribe in Delta state.

[quote author=chucky101 post=131667959]Who is/are Izu Anioma and who elected him/them to speak for the Anioma people. We are not Igbos. Every state in Nigeria is made of several ethnic groups that speak different languages, the states were not created based on language. The days of Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba are over, it marginalises other prominent ethnicities, hence the identification as geopolitical zones. The Aniomas preference is to form a brotherhood with Itshekiris, Ijaws, Urhobos and the other ethnicities that make Delta a wonderful, important and welcoming state.

All those agitating for Anioma are power hungry and selfish individuals looking to create a puppet state they can control. It will never happen!






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After a 6th state for the southeast area gets created, of the agitation for Anioma state in the Southsouth shall be ed by all Igbos. As for the idea of creating Anioma as sixth state for the southeast, it cannot happen. The idea sells only among the uninitiated in the southeast and the Anioma Igbo proponents of the idea. The idea of Anioma state as 6th state for the southeast defeats the whole objective of asking for a sixth state in the southeast zone.

Bendeco2020:
Tell them

Propaganda century has gone.

Igbos will not be meek again to anyone trying to cause division or cede our territory to another region.

Every lie or propanda has expirerly date

Igbo are found in south east not Delta state or Niger delta

PlayMaker14:
We are pure Igbo, nothing like "Delta Igbo"

Pure Igbo and proud.


Proud Issele-Uku Son.

Oga speak for your self. We Ika are not Igbo.

cassyrooy:
Ika people don't want to remove their pseudo-Bini colonialist tag, stay pure that's what Ndị Igbo want.

All these are assumption, Ika as a clan has written its history and 1million review of your opinion can't change it

Stephench:


There is nothing like Ika Igbo.

Here, look at 165 and tell us what you know about Ndị Igbo.

KINGTELLER:

Ika person speaks Ika as a dialect. It mixture of Igbo and Benin language, though the igbo language is predominant.

The problem Ika people have with Igbos is that the core Igbos dont regard Ika as part and parcel of their clans, even when it comes to political appointment, Igbos dont recognise an Ika position as Igbo slot. A typical Ika man knows the political land mass game the igbos are playing to acquire anioma and later subject them to neglect when it comes to political appointment

Ika is not a mixture of Igbo and Benin language but simply Igbo that developed some new words with Benin as next door neighbours. Igbos recognized both Emefiele and Okowa as great Igbo sons.

KINGTELLER:


All these are assumprions, Ika as a clan has written its history and 1millions review of your opinion can't change it

Not Benin handed-down history

Stephench:
The reason Ika and Ndokwa people have greatly withdrawn from this Anioma nonsense is because of some Aniocha Oshimili people. When Ika wants to release statement or discuss about their identity and politics, they restrict it to Ika, when Ukwani wants to do same, they restrict it to Ndukwa but some overzealous Oshimili people keep trying to impose their identity on everyone trying to createa new ethnic group that has never existed. Anioma has never been an ethnic group but a group of related ethnic groups that are completely independent and autonomous.

Good comment. I was perplexed seeing people calling Anioma an ethnic group.. What the heck is that. The Ika and Ndukwa people are seeing the game plan and they will not succumb to that fallacy

Don1987:
I am Ika man from Ekwuoma, an Igbo man to the core not a womanizer. I don't see anything Linking me with Benin. If there is any I believe my language would have been Benin despite the proximity. The only and only language similar to Ika is Igbo. Although few migrated from Benin which they met people already settled and accommodated them. That is not a enough reason link us with the Benin

Chukwu gozie gi maka eziokwu aaaa

KINGTELLER:


Good comment. I was perplexed seeing people calling Anioma an ethnic group.. What the heck is that. The Ika and Ndukwa people are seeing the game plan and they will not succumb to that fallacy

anioma isn't an ethnic group but am acronym

PlayMaker14:
We are pure Igbo, nothing like "Delta Igbo"

Pure Igbo and proud.


Proud Issele-Uku Son.

Why are our Yoruba brothers very bitter about Anioma having a state and relating with our kit and kin across the Niger River, the Ooni will travel to Brazil and Caribbean, Benin Republic and Togo and claim them as Yorubas but cannot allow allow Anioma people to have an identity as a sub-Igboid group like Owerri, Aba or Nsukka man with whom they share a lot of affinity with them.

Its like some tribes in Nigeria doesn't want Anioma to progress because identifying as Igbos will give Anioma the population and numbers and stronger voice to be forceful in pushing their desires for an equitable country 🤔
Now I know that subjugation of Anioma and Igbos in Nigeria is a deliberate policy which they are afraid is beginning to crumble

Abagworo:


Ika is not a mixture of Igbo and Benin language but simply Igbo that developed some new words with Benin as next door neighbours. Igbos recognized both Emefiele and Okowa as great Igbo sons.

Exactly, the Benin captured some Ika-Igbo towns so they had to use that relatively Pseudo-Bini heritage to survive.

Abagworo:


Ika is not a mixture of Igbo and Benin language but simply Igbo that developed some new words with Benin as next door neighbours. Igbos recognized both Emefiele and Okowa as great Igbo sons.

loan words from Benin not that they are Benin

Benin borrowed words also from Igbo also same with Urhobo

PlayMaker14:
We are pure Igbo, nothing like "Delta Igbo"

Pure Igbo and proud.


Proud Issele-Uku Son.

Oga adili gi mma

cassyrooy:
Here, look at 165 and tell us what you know about Ndị Igbo.

Bros, welu nwayo. There are about 60 million Igbos worldwide, so what makes you think the Igbo has interest in looking for other people to become Igbo? Divided you fall. Why make Ika-Igbo a non Igbo group? What do you gain from being a tiny ethnic group in the middle of very large ethnic groups? Nothing.

KINGTELLER:

Ika person speaks Ika as a dialect. It mixture of Igbo and Benin language, though the igbo language is predominant.

The problem Ika people have with Igbos is that the core Igbos dont regard Ika as part and parcel of their clans, even when it comes to political appointment, Igbos dont recognise an Ika position as Igbo slot. A typical Ika man knows the political land mass game the igbos are playing to acquire anioma and later subject them to neglect when it comes to political appointment

Ika isn't a mixture of Ika and Benin dialects please Ika is Igbo with small Benin loan words

An average Ika will understand central Igbo

But will never understand Benin language

Dpharisee:

Why are our Yoruba brothers very bitter about Anioma having a state and relating with their kit and kin across the Niger River they travel to Brazil and Caribbean Benin Republic and Togo and claim them as Yorubas but cannot allow allow Anioma people to have an identity as a sub-Igboid group like Owerri or Nsukka man who share a lot of affinity with them.

Its like some tribes in Nigeria doesn't want Anioma to progress because identifying as Igbos will give Anioma the population and numbers to be forceful in pushing their desires for an equitable country 🤔

Just see.

Uchasa:


Lol, you're not from Anioma.

You're from Igbo not from Delta state,no Igbo in Delta state

babtoundey:


Even in Nigeria...

There's a tribe in Kogi state that claim claim they are not Yoruba even though they answer Yoruba names and share similar language and culture with the Yorubas. What more, they have Ife origin just has every other Yoruba group. Yet they never for once agreed to be Yoruba. They have chosen their identity and are satisfied with it.

they are the Okun people and Kabba they near Yoruba names but they claim they sent Yoruba but we know that they are yoruba


Ijebu people also some claim they don't believe in that their oduduwa ish and they aren't Yoruba also...