required to prove he belongs to the Igbo ethnic stock or to prove his ancestry? This pettiness of some Igbos who go to the extent of claiming that Governor Ifeanyi Okowa is not one of them is divisive and doesn’t help the Igbo strategic interest.
Yet, nobody has ever raised questions about their Igbo claims and they have continued to live, survive and progress as an integral part of the Igbo ethnic stock. It is therefore surprising that some would raise questions about the ethnic origin or ancestry of an Ika Igbo man or woman who is Igbo by consanguinity . Even where the Ika man or woman claims he or she is not Igbo, it still does not detract from that person’s natural bloodline or DNA.Ika Igbos are not alone.
Some people wonder why some Niger Delta Igbos do not want to be called Igbo. Two factors account for it: one is the ‘Abandoned properties’ saga, which occurred mainly in Port Harcourt and was engineered by the Ikwere Igbos of Rivers state who confiscated the properties of their hinterland Igbos and refused to release them since the end of the Nigeria-Biafra war end till this day.
Men like Okowa who stand firm in holding their Igbo identity with dignity and pride, should be applauded and not vilified or denied. What is more, Ifeanyi Okowa and others who hold their Igbo ancestry as a badge of honour do not need to prove their Igbo origin to anybody. People do not go about proving that they are Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba and so on. You live it as Ifeanyi Okowa has done, always dressed with his Igbo chief’s redcap to match.
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