From: AnunobyO@lincolnu.edu
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Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 09:45:17 -0600
Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - On the Matter of the Untimely Departure of Prince Abubakar Audu of Kogi State, "Igbo" Prince of Igala-land {RE: The ICON Gov. Audu is IGBO..true true
I am not posting my colors here but Ogbonicha, Alloma, and Ofu are Igbo sounding names and have meaning in Igbo too. I realize that the names may also be Igala and have meaning in the language. The Igbo and Igala have been neighbors for hundreds of years. Has there been cross-settlement among these neighbors in their communities over time? Yes. Has there been cross-assimilation in their communities? Yes. Do they share some vocabulary? Yes. Did they trade with each other? Yes. They have cultural links. Are there some Igbo today who might have been Igala originally? Yes. Is the opposite also true? Yes. I could go on.
Some communities in Anambra, Delta, and Enugu states have oral historical accounts of Igbo and Igala cross migration. There is a fully assimilated Igala settler community in Onitsha, Anambra State for example. Could Abubakar Audu have been an ethnic Igbo? May be. Was he an ethnic Igala? Possibly. Ethnic identity like citizenship it seems to me, is usually based on blood or acquisition in other words through ancestry or naturalization respectively. It is not clear which of the above applied to Audu. Should it matter what he was? Everyone must decide for themselves.
It is tempting to rely on local anthropologists and other experts to speak definitively on matters such as this one. In these days of ethnic chauvinism, it is doubtful that always allow all facts to come into play in their determination of what is the case. Remember the Benin- Ife debate? Which was the primogenitor? The Yoruba say Ife. The Edo say Benin. What does your truly say? It depends on who you talk with.
oa
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - On the Matter of the Untimely Departure of Prince Abubakar Audu of Kogi State, "Igbo" Prince of Igala-land {RE: The ICON Gov. Audu is IGBO..true true
Leye:
Obi Nwakanma is flat out wrong to say Ausu was Igbo. In fact, judging from the arrow of time and geography and history, the Igbo fellows Obi Nwakanma and Ken Asagwars are anthropoogically Igala, while Audu is not Igbo.
And there you have it.
Bolaji Aluko
On Tuesday, November 24, 2015, 'Leye Ige' via AfricanWorldForum <africanworldforum@googlegroups.com> wrote:
"Even without you adding those embellishment, most readers know the man was an Igala Prince from Kogi State. He couldn't have been Igbo. So, don't make a mountain out of a mole hill"---Mazi KC Prince Asagwara
Mazi KC Prince Asagwara,
Why don't you simply CORRECT Obi Nwakanma? You left his deliberate misinformation only to go after Prof Aluko? na wah!!!!
Leye Ige
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Subject: RE: [africanworldforum] On the Matter of the Untimely Departure of Prince Abubakar Audu of Kogi State, "Igbo" Prince of Igala-land {RE: The ICON Gov. Audu is IGBO..true true
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Date: Monday, November 23, 2015, 6:17 PM
Bolaji
Aluko:
There isn't that
much difference in the brief bio of the departed Prince
Abubakar Audu you provided from that of Obi Nwakanma
except the words, "was an Igbo". Other embellishment,
that is, "is indeed
"Igbo'' - ethnically, culturally or
politically?"
were added by you. Even without
you adding those embellishment, most readers know the man
was an Igala Prince from Kogi State. He couldn't have been
Igbo. So, don't make a mountain out of a mole
hill.
Cheers.
Mazi KC Prince
Asagwara
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Subject: [africanworldforum] On the Matter of the
Untimely Departure of Prince Abubakar Audu of Kogi State,
"Igbo" Prince of Igala-land {RE: The ICON Gov.
Audu is IGBO..true true
My People:
First, strange deaths
happen, and one of such is what happened to once-and-future
Governor Prince Abubakar Audu just when he expired upon
announcement of the inconclusiveness of his latest
governorship bid in Kogi State.
Yes, conspiracy theories
will abound, but this was how he was destined to
die....under wildly strange circumstances.
May his gentle soul rest
in peace.
And next comes Obi
Nwakanma, the Forrest Gump of Igbo-Nigerian history, who
strikes again, to disclose that the Igala Prince Au,du
Abubakar, from Ofu Local Government in Kogi State, is indeed
"Igbo'' - ethnically, culturally or
politically?
Odikwa egwu!
Well, this is a sad
departure...and an interesting (but dubious)
connection.....with lawyers (Keyamo, Emetulu, Okoi
Obla, etc.) taking over to test Nigeria's Constitution
once again....and a welcoming test for new INEC Chair Yakubu
Mahmood.
And there you have it.
Bolaji Aluko
Shaking his head
MAP OF KOGI STATE
QUOTE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abubakar_Audu
Early Life
& Education[edit]
Prince
Abubakar Audu, first Executive Governor of Kogi State was
born on 27 October 1947, to the family of his Royal
Highness, the late Pa Audu Oyidi, Orego Atta of Igala Land
and
the paramount ruler of Ogbonicha-Alloma in Ofu Local
Government Area of Kogi State.
He started his
education at the then N.A. Junior Primary School, Alloma,
and later N.A Senior School Ankpa, from where he proceeded
to Dennis Memorial Grammar School, Onitsha. He
later transferred to the Jos Commercial College where he
obtained both the GCE O and A level.[2]
UNQUOTE
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at
9:10 PM, Vin Otuonye <vincentotuonye@msn.com>
wrote:
Oke Agwo:
Now you know why Afis is happy that Audu is
dead. Is Ayo Ojuotele also jubilating?
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[africanworldforum] ||NaijaObserver|| The ICON Gov. Audu is
IGBO..true true
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I know that Audu spoke
Igbo fluently and in fact I know he grew up in Onitsha. I
also know that there are Igbo in Kogi who are indigenes of
that state but I never actually knew that Audu was one. Now
I know the reason for his warm welcome
to Umuigbo from the East.
Sent from my iPhone
Ejo ni Mushin -
Prince
On Nov 23, 2015, at 10:48 AM, 'vin Modebelu' via
AfricanWorldForum <africanworldforum@googlegroups.com>
wrote:
Audu was an Igbo
from Ogbe Onicha, Alaoma, Kogi state. Grew up in Onitsha,
studied briefly at Dennis Memorial Grammar School, and then
at a commercial school in Jos following the civil
war;
Dede
Rex
Thanks
again for making it known to a lot of people that
Kogi + Benue are
all IGBO.
This
Sharaka going on is nothing but Sakara.
When he
was in Washington DC, he never hid it from anyone who cared
to ask. He hosted the people who knew exactly what he was
all about.
His wife in Washington is there
to tell the tale.
Igala
are all IGBO. Enough said.
He is
at home in Kogi...in ALA-OMA.
Even
YakubuPE is Igala. he is IGBO too.
Sai
beleivers
....yesterdays
thoughts are today's news
will keep talking while relaxed....they are listening
indeed
... thick walls will fall
vin.....///
Rex Marinus
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Today at
10:17 AM
Audu was an Igbo
from Ogbe Onicha, Alaoma, Kogi state. Grew up in Onitsha,
studied briefly at Dennis Memorial Grammar School, and then
at a commercial school in Jos following the civil war;
and the rest is history.
He has done his bit on earth. I suspect his death would be
from a massive cardiac arrest. He looked quite unfit
and heavy, and his face showed signs of a possible, long
condition of diabetes/High BP. I will doubt that
anybody poisoned him. But of course, stranger things also
happen.
Obi
Nwakanma
On Monday, November
23, 2015 10:04 AM, "waleadeoye90@yahoo.com
[NaijaObserver]"
<NaijaObserver@yahoogroups.com>
wrote:
Re: Tinubu
Others, Kill Kogi Guber Candidate- Okorocha. My attention
has been drawn to the above story which is trending on
social media. When I first read the
concocted tale full of thrash and libel told by enemies of
democracy, my initial decision was to ignore it but on a
second thought I have decided to put the record straight.
The story which is written in poor English purported that
Gov Rochas Okorocha, the
Chairman of Progressive Governors Forum gave an interview
where he accused Tinubu of being behind the death of Kogi
state APC candidate, late Prince Abubakar Audu. Firstly Gov
Rochas Okorocha spent the better part of yesterday, Sunday
22nd November, 2015 till
about 7 pm chairing a stakeholders forum of South-East
Leaders and returned to Owerri same night, it is bewildering
where and when he gave the interview which thrended same
night on social media? Secondly, Prince Abubakar Audu is not
yet a member of APC Governors
Forum and Gov Okorocha could not have granted the interview
on that score. The family of Prince Abubakar Audu has not
blamed anyone for the death of their son neither is Gov
Okorocha a member of the Audu family. The story was written
as an interview Governor
Okorocha granted yet no medium was mentioned. Can one grant
interview to thin air? The purported interview is a wicked
machination of people who are envious of the towering
profile of Gov Rochas Okorocha and aim at bringing him at
loggerheads with leaders
of the Party especially Sen Bola Tinubu, a former Governor
of Lagos State and a man Gov Okorocha holds in very high
esteem. It is also remarkable that the story has no source
but emanated from the Facebook wall of a PDP apologist who
must have been paid by
her handlers to cause disaffection within APC family. The
story started by referring to Gov Okorocha as a former
Special Adviser to former President Obasanjo on Inter -Party
Affairs, an office he held several years ago indicating that
the authors do not know
him well enough. I wish at this point to remind the
harbingers of libelous, concocted and devious news on social
media that there is now a law on social media as the liberty
enjoyed casting aspersions on people has ended. God bless
Nigeria. Imo Must Be Better.
Ik Ogbonna, anipr Special Assistant to the Imo State
Governor on Information Communications
Technology.
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BlackBerry wireless device from MTN
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Subject:
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Tinubu Poisoned Audu – APC Gov. Okorocha | The
ICON
Absolute
rubbish from Okorocha .
Information
coming in from This Day suggests Audu was actually poisoned.
He did not die of a heart attack. Audu was rushed to the
hospital and repeatedly vomiting
blood which he then passed out and died.
Word going
around now is that Tinubu has a hand in his death. It is
said that Audu's poisoning was pre-planned in order to
impose Bola Tinubu's boy James Abiodun
Faleke from Okun-Yoruba – Abubakar Audu's running mate
– on Kogi. Although from Kogi, Faleke was a member of
theHouse of Representatives, representing Ikeja Federal
Constituency, Lagos.
MEANWHILE,
the Special Adviser on Inter-Party affairs to former
President Olusegun Obasanjo and Governor of Imo State, Mr.
Rochas Okorocha [above] has alleged
that the national leader of the All Progressive Congress
(APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu among others killed the
Kogi State governorship candidate, Alhaji Abulbakah
Audu.
Okorocha, who
accused the national leadership of the party, Tinubu, said
the sudden death must have been pre-programmed by the
mentioned.
He said:
"We are not unaware of their antics and plans to field
Audu's deputy, Mr. Abiodun Faleke, after the programmed
death his boss.
"Party
apart, we are all human beings and such plot against fellow
human is in itself inhuman and devilish."
Speaking on
phone with Mr. Okorocha shortly after the sad news, he
described the death of Audu as untimely and inhuman at this
moment for the national party, APC.
"How can we
be mourning the departure of a guber candidate in Kogi State
and Tinubu supporters are jubilating in Lagos?
"Do we
further need any interpreter to interpret how and where the
sudden death emanated from?
"No!
"Such is
how we could manage our intra-party clash of interests in
APC.
"It is
unfortunate," Okorocha said.
-Elombah
http://www.theiconng.com/tinubu-poisoned-audu-apc-gov-okorocha/
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