In his secession movement, late Isaac Adaka Boro declared a NIGER DELTA REPUBLIC for his Ijaw ethnic group that inhabits the southern tips of the Niger Delta region. From all indication, Isaac Adaka Boro perceived the Igbos and the Nigeriann society as persecuting his Ijaw peoples. In his definition of Igbos, the Ikweres of River state are included. Of course, that is natural. Ikwere tribe is one of the numerous tribes that constitute what is ethnologicaly defined as Igbo or Igboid.
The movement of Adaka Boro before his life was cuit short by the Nigerian forces in that war, was a true African renaissance movement. An Ijoid nation as envisioned by Boro is bound to protect the language of the Ijaw nation unlike the Ojukwu Biafra that is multi-ethnic, Adaka Boro’s Niger Delta was a homogeneous Ijaw nation. The people falsely including themselves into this Niger Delta today are many and that includes some Igbo tribes in today’s Rivers State mostly lead by some Ikwere youths fighting so hard b ut vainly to convince the rest of ‘Rivers’state that they are no longer the Igbo they are but ‘Rivers men and women. This is not entirely bad as every people have the right to say what and who they want to be. But at same time, it will be foolish for anyone to call Michael Jackson white when EVERY EVIDENCE indicates he is a negro.
The Niger Delta republic by Adaka Boro is much unaware of places called Cross River, Akwaibom, Edo and Urhobolands. Adaka Boro was definitive about his Niger Delta. If I was superstitious, I would have seen suprize and anger registerd on the face of his ghost seeing the way Igbos and Edo people are claiming and even trying to hijack the noble Ijaw nation he birthed. Tellingly, Isaac Adaka Boro have evry reason to avoid the Ikwere people in his Niger Delta. Whichever way one decides to look at it, whether they rename themselves Iwhuruohna or anything avilable to de-Igbonize themselves, one continues to see the Igbo in their language, cultures and traditional settings. Moreover, as Mr Irondi will inform us below, the Ikwere people openly and proudly identified themselves to be Igbo when it pays to be Igbo. Their Chiefs proudly attach Igbo to their names and everything they do.
The following link leads to Privy Council decision on Port Harcourt and the representatives of Ikwerre, Diobu or Port Harcourt and other Division with then Owerri Province.
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The following are from the above references. They clearly indicate that Ikwerre Chiefs, Ezes, Legislatures and Municipal councilors from time immemorial claim Igbo as their tribe. These Ikwerre Legislators, Parliamentarians and Municipal Councilors maintained that they are Igbo as the records indicate. I challenge Mr. Emeka Okala and Dr. M, D. Amadi to produce records with similar information in support of their claims.
In 1922/23 Port Harcourt in Ikwerre land became the
