Ijaws vs Itsekiri

Dear Godspower Gbenekama weep no more: Things has changed in Warri kingdom and Nigeria

Since his majesty Ogiame Ikenwoli the Olu of Warri categorically told the federal government and the world that he and his people will not allow imposters and interlopers to steal the Itsekiri Homelands under the Crown, a lot of feathers has been ruffled within the camps of the customary tenants living within his domain especially in Gbaramatu. The painful aspect of the Olu statement is that the whole drama is coming at a time an unknown king and his co travellers were basking in the fake euphoria of seeing the vice president in Gbabor (Oporaza) with assurances that what their son could not achieve for them will be achieved under Buhari government few weeks after governor Okowa gave him a wood as staff of office. The Ijaws could not believe that despite their game to use the visit to make false claims, the Olu of Warri His majesty Ogiame Ikenwoli was waiting in his palace to put the nail of truth on the coffin permanently on the widely circulated fake claims of the customary tenants over the ownership of the land where the Ijaw maritime university is situated.

The Gbaramatu customary tenants who taught that the presence of some respectable Itsekiri chiefs from the Olu palace to that inglorious event was a signal that we have given them a nod to crown kings in our territory are shocked that it was only an act of magnanimity from their landlords. By now it would have dawn on them that the mere presence of our chiefs in that occasion has not change anything about who they are forever in that land. Customary tenants.

We read with much hysteria your false claim that Okerenghigho is not known to you in Gbaramatu kingdom.

Yes you are very correct because from time immemorial, there was NEVER a kingdom known as GBARAMATU in Warri kingdom. Gbaramatu kingdom is an artificial creation of politicians who deceived you into believing you can kill, commit genocide against your Itsekiri landlords and take over their land just by receiving a staff of office. We believe that your eyes are beginning to open to the deception Ibori and Uduaghan including Jonathan gave you some times ago.

In your watery article in Vanguard of 21/12017, you asserted that the Olu of Warri should stop telling the world the known truth about your status as a customary tenant in the place you now deceitfully call your home. You also claimed that the land where the so called Ijaw maritime university is sited belongs to your people and it was duely acquired under the administration of an Itsekiri man, ex governor Emmanyel Uduaghan and no protest was made by our demisee Olu, the Itsekiri people of Omadino and our revered monarch who according to you, was a prince then. You even went further to say Omadino community one of the oldest community in Africa belongs to the Ijaws. What arrogance and stupidity.

Just like a drowning man, you and your ungrateful people are now desperately looking for any evidence of any Itsekiri words, actions and visits to hang on to to justify your false claims as your kinsmen are currently quoting your one time respectable Itsekiri landlord out of context Chief Dore Numa of blessed memory in your various empty articles to buttress your points. How can a whole Chief Dore Numa the Itsekiri paramount ruler and British administrative agent for the province who signed major land treaties with the British government for economic purposes in Warri kingdom and beyond turn around and say his people including himself do not have any land. Your lust and taste for another man land without any document but by mere words allegedly spoken by one person somewhere without written historical facts or court judgements, is quite legendary . We wonder if your ancestors can make such inflammatory and provocative comments before Chief Dore Numa in his days and get away with it. Yesterday, it was your propaganda machine Gbaramatu voice quoting an unknown authority one Charles Pemu Eyemofe as reasons why you can now question our ownership claims. What you forgot was the fact that many Ijaws are answering Itsekiri names to be accommodated by our hospitable people and online platforms admins without their full knowledge. Godspower, the same way you are now using Uduaghan as reasons why the land on which the university stands should be given to you just by his mere presence as governor of the state. Godspower Gbenakama, you are only pretending not to know that the eight years of Uduaghan administration was a nightmare to the Itsekiri people as he did practically everything in connivance with your type in government to rob us of everything so that you people can keep his failed senatorial ambition alive. Uduaghan gave you staff of office, our Warri south west chairmanship position, followed you to that Ijaw university and finally moved the EPZ closer to you with you too claiming Kpokpo land of Ugborodo. Did you vote for him? No. Did you remove James Manager your son who have turned the position to his personal property? NO. We know very soon you will display the pictures of our politicians and chiefs including some our Itsekiri that came to that event where your brother was handed a wood as reasons why you now own our land. What a foolish way of reasoning in this 21 century.

You also went ahead to claim that the Olu presence in your Ijaw PANDEF meeting in Abuja was a sign that he endorsed your Ijaw agenda in the Niger Delta which your father EK Clark single handedly wrote from his bedroom. You must remember that our Olu presence in that meeting which was the last was to scuttle the whole arrangement which your likes and some disgruntled Itsekiris who were working hand in hand with you in the name of Itsekiri were trying to push forward as Itsekiri demands despite a warning from the palace that such people do not represent the Itsekiri people interest in the Niger Delta. We believe that was the last stroke that broke the camel back in your PANDEF.

Godspower, you will discover that since the Olu presence in that meeting, all your hidden agendas and expectations to use the platform to benefit from acts of criminality that those who made you chief has greatly been crushed. Your attempt to always ascribe and convert everything Niger Delta to Ijaw as again be punctured by our Olu presence at that your selfish PANDEF Ijaw cult

We must inform you that Abiteye, Uton Nana and Macaraba flowstations are all on Itsekiri homelands. Your kinsmen attempts to forcefully make Chevron rename the flow stations with Ijaw names has been successfully been rebuffed severally. There is no court judgement anywhere where Itsekiri and Ijaws were tied together as co owners of any land in Warri kingdom.

The Olu his majesty Ogiame Ikenwoli the Olu of Warri is the owner of all the land mass of Warri kingdom. As the sole authority and custodian of the Itsekiri people customs, tradition and history, the Olu does not need anyone permission before he will speak on any issue that concerns his kingdom and interest of his people.

Recall that you can not base your spurious claims of ownership of the maritime university on the secret transaction or acquisition which over 12 billion Naira was collected and shared amongst those who never knew such illegality will ever come to an end in Delta state and Nigeria one day.

Our Olu, his majesty Ogiame Ikenwoli the Olu of Warri is an Olu who is on ground with his people. The fact that the Olu promised to live in peace with those in his domain should never be misconstrued as a blank cheque for customary tenants in his kingdom to assume a position of authority which their forefathers could not attain.

This is a new Warri kingdom and Itsekiri Nation. Things have changed.

Ogiame suooooooooooo