History doesn't care about your emotions. You can cry for all i care, but the truth is the truth.
Before the generalisation of the IGBO identity on the entire Easterners for its administrative convenience, the concentration of what is today IGBOs were people of Awka in Anambra down to the people hinterland of imo towards the imo river. These were the Isu people, and these were who our ancestors from this ANIOMA end, called the IGBOs, and the Ikwerre and ijaw people called the Isuoma, and these descriptives were used as a slur on them.
Abia was a proper Akwa cross people. From Aro to Old Bende to Ohafia, Umuahia were all of ibibio descent.
Enugu people are majorly of igala heritage and Jukuns.
Ebonyi people are of igala ancestry and the Orings.
The other part of Anambra, from Nri to Agwukwu to Onitsha.. and other riverine areas of Anam and Co are all of igala and Edo ancestry.
Some parts of Imo too are of, Aniocha heritage. The Ogute people. The Egbema people of Imo are of Ikwerre Heritage.
So, it is very much clear that the IGBOs like we know them today are just a cut and join British contraption. The only reason some of these none original IGBO groups, that are now identifying as IGBOs is simply because of lack of knowledge of their noble heritage and because IGBOs as fraudulently identify as the third majority ethnic Nigeria group. So, some of these folks want to keep falsely identifying as IGBOs so as to cling to that "igbo is a majority ethnic group" falsehood.
History doesn't care about your emotions. You can cry for all i care, but the truth is the truth.
Credit: Ndokwa Neku Union ( NUU )
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