Today's marks the 134 years anniversary of the exile of Africa's most prominent coastal monarch, King Jaja of Opobo.
Today reminds every Opobian the sacrifice Jaja paid to protect and keep the kingdom, he and other chiefs who exited Bonny in September 1869 strived to build.
It was today on the 21st day of September 1887 that King Jaja walked into the British gunboat, HMS Goshawk stationed on Opobo River by Consul Johnston,who was apparently doing the bid of the Liverpool merchants, who want to break Jaja's monopoly on the hinterland markets.
Jaja who was a middle man in the palm oil trade had insisted that various treaties and agreement had given him powers to control markets stretching from Ibuno to Ohambele, now in Abia State.
Johnston had earlier written to Jaja inviting him to a parley on the 18th of September but King Jaja had refused that he would only attend with a white friend but Johnston bent in his scheme to remove the king replied that," I have summoned you to attend in a friendly spirit. I hereby assure you that, whether you accept or reject my proposal, no restraint whatever will be be put upon you. You will be free to go as soon as you have heard the message."
It was today Jaja after the assurance of Consul Johnston attended with his followers at Harrison's factory; and Johnston landed with the officers of HMS Goshawk, which was on the river.
Suddenly and immediately Jaja and his group sat down for talk, the gunship turned and faced its artillery on Opobo Town.
Sensing that he has been lured, Jaja was weak and according to accounts urged his army which was also prepared for the worst not to attack the British. His fears were that Opobo would be destroyed and all his hardwork and vision will all be swept away. He conceded for the general good and preservation of his people.
After the consul read an ultimatum to the king that he was to leave Opobo at once, and go to Accra to be judged. He was given an hour to decide yes or no, if he said No, he was to be warred upon, declared an outlaw and a reward offered for his capture.
Faced with this alternative Jaja surrendered, and hence was moved to Gold Coast now Ghana tried and later exiled at St Vincent in the West Indies.
Jaja engaged some of the best lawyers at the time and his merchant friends mounted pressure on the British Parliament, and after five years of pressure and protest he was released to return home in 1891. And be died same year on his way home.
Rev M J Elliot, a Methodist Bishop and friend of King Jaja was one of those who saw Jaja shortly before he passed on at Tenerife Island, Spain recalled that, "We were both standing in the hotel facing each other, and on the mention of of the name Consul Hopkins, the kings eyes glistened, and placing a hand on each of my shoulders looking straight into my eyes he said with pathetic emphasis, "You knew Consul Hopkins? Ah, if Consul Hopkins had lived there would have been none of this palaver."
The late Lord Salisbury ,former Prime Minister of Britain at the time had described Jaja's exile as "a kidnap."
Alex Cowan, a merchant friend of Jaja lambasted the British for maltreating Jaja saying, "had he been sparred, his great influence together with his shrewd and sound judgment would have meant much to Nigeria in the years that followed. He was just such a man as Sir Walter Egerton, Sir Frederick Lugard and Hugh Clifford..."

Ezigbo nwa afọ Igbo.
As for your "Opobian", I don't think the people address themselves as such.
Which one come be Opobian?

BKayy:
Ezigbo nwa afọ Igbo.
As for your "Opobian", I don't think the people address themselves as such.
Which one come be Opobian?

They do.

Opobo kwenu!

Opubo-Ama, oba-ma, ibama.

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RobbStark:
Opubo-Ama, oba-ma, ibama.

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Shut up revisionist It is Ama-Opubo. Stop destroying the man's legacy landgrabber

SlayerForever:



Shut up revisionist It is Ama-Opubo. Stop destroying the man's legacy landgrabber

Do you know what it mean?? Or you copied it from Ijaw Facebook page.
Olodo

RobbStark:



Do you know what it mean?? Or you copied it from Ijaw Facebook page.
Olodo

Oya tell us what Opubo-Ama means

SlayerForever:



Oya tell us what Opubo-Ama means

Pay money I will teach you Ijaw language if you want.

Pls stop quoting me, I am very busy with something in this platform.
I am done going back n forth with you guys on the subject matter.

Good day

SlayerForever:



Oya tell us what Opubo-Ama means

Don't bother yourself. It means nothing in their language.
They turned the Igbo word upside down in 1972 to confuse both themselves and the Igbo natives of Ama-Opubo

RobbStark:



Pay money I will teach you Ijaw language if you want.

Pls stop quoting me, I am very busy with something in this platform.
I am done going back n forth with you guys on the subject matter.

Good day

Okay. We shall be seeing each other around then

SlayerForever:



Oya tell us what Opubo-Ama means

Ama means kindgom, Opubo means a great man, the name of the third son King Perekule I.

BKayy:

Don't bother yourself. It means nothing in their language.
They turned the Igbo word upside down in 1972 to confuse both themselves and the Igbo natives of Ama-Opubo

permit to say that you are stupid , what is actually wrong with you fools, I wake up everyday to see utter nonsense revisionism, that doesn't even make sense, you're not from a place and haven't visited it even, but you write nonsense about it daily, do you even have a purpose in life

nengibo:


Ama means kindgom, Opubo means a great man, the name of the third son King Perekule I.

Revisionism. All these convoluted talk to grab land. The name simply means Opobo Town finish!

Fraud. What is Perekule. Periwinkle ni.

BKayy:

Don't bother yourself. It means nothing in their language.
They turned the Igbo word upside down in 1972 to confuse both themselves and the Igbo natives of Ama-Opubo

The funny thing is that the Ubani king that bore the name Opubo, was also an Igbo man according to ancient records written by neutral European observers.

Ama-Opubo basically is a settlement founded by an Igbo man Jaja, and named after an Igbo king of Ubani

This igbo people eeehh

nengibo:
permit to say that you are stupid , what is actually wrong with you fools, I wake up everyday to see utter nonsense revisionism, that doesn't even make sense, you're not from a place and haven't visited it even, but you write nonsense about it daily, do you even have a purpose in life

Then explain the screenshot below and tell me who is more foolish between me, you and your scam of a literal Shameless thief known as ALAGOA?

You know I don't move around without my receipts.

Explain to me why someone (Alagoa) from Nembe in Brass Country turned to emergency historian and started writing the history of people he neither share Ancestry or Culture with from 1970 (immediately after the fall of Biafra/Eastern Region)? It's like me as an Igbo man writing the History of Bini or Yoruba People in 2021
The same scam story that make you people appear like fools to reasonable people

SlayerForever:
Opobo kwenu!

Or should I modify to Umu Igwenga kwenu!


I fear this picture below

nengibo:


Ama means kindgom, Opubo means a great man, the name of the third son King Perekule I.

No be only king "perekule" na King Pericoma.
See how Alagoa have turned all of you to laughing stock.
You all forgot that the person in Question was well travelled and granted Interviews. Maybe you people think that all the historical evidences will somehow vanish because Alagoa wanted the next generation of Ijaw people to be a laughing stock

SlayerForever:



Or should I modify to Umu Igwenga kwenu!


I fear this picture below

That's the real name "Igwe nga"
Alagoa forgot to turn that one to "nga ìgwè" so that Ijaw people can make a mockery of themselves more

BKayy:

Then explain the screenshot below and tell me who is more foolish between me, you and your scam of a literal Shameless thief known as ALAGOA?

You know I don't move around without my receipts.

Explain to me why someone (Alagoa) from Nembe in Brass Country turned to emergency historian and started writing the history of people he neither share Ancestry or Culture with from 1970 (immediately after the fall of Biafra/Eastern Region)? It's like me as an Igbo man writing the History of Bini or Yoruba People in 2021
The same scam story that make you people appear like fools to reasonable people

I repeat again that you're a fool, what's my business with Professor Alagoa, are you too stupid to understand that the indigenous people are the custodians of the history and not you Biafra apologist

It's like me as an Igbo man writing the History of Bini or Yoruba People in 2021

You understand this and yet you write all this rubbish about Opobo and Ibani people in general, that you're not an indegene, are you not a compound fool

BKayy:

No be only king "perekule" na King Pericoma.
See how Alagoa have turned all of you to laughing stock.
You all forgot that the person in Question was well travelled and granted Interviews. Maybe you people think that all the historical evidences will somehow vanish because Alagoa wanted the next generation of Ijaw people to be a laughing stock

What is actual argument, that King Perekule didn't exist ?

BKayy:

That's the real name "Igwe nga"
Alagoa forgot to turn that one to "nga ìgwè" so that Ijaw people can make a mockery of themselves more

Nga Igwe

nengibo:

I repeat again that you're a fool, what's my business with Professor Alagoa, are you too stupid to understand that the indigenous people are the custodians of the history and not you Biafra apologist


You understand this and yet you write all this rubbish about Opobo and Ibani people in general, that you're not an indegene, are you not a compound fool

First paragraph; I am not moved by ego so your attempt to make me sat "I am above this let me allow you people mess with Opobo" No. If you want madness, we mad together. I am not a preacher of love.

Second Paragraph: incase you don't know, I am an Igbo man so I have every right to defend Igbo interest and Igbo territory in any form against Shameless scavengers. Unlike you (an Ijaw man) and the man that made you people to be a mockery (Alagoa from Nembe).

nengibo:

What is actual argument, that King Perekule didn't exist ?

Nothing like Perekule my fraudulent friend

Blackfire:
This igbo people eeehh

As in their stupidity and illetracy is legendary, na Nnamdi Kanu create all this nonsense revisionism, this is the reason no right thing Niger deltan will join Biafra, it is plausible idea if it's a country with common cause, but its motive is obviously acculturization and claiming of land

SlayerForever:



Nothing like Perekule my fraudulent friend

Yea, Nothing like brain in your head

nengibo:

What is actual argument, that King Perekule didn't exist ?

Read the shot below carefully.
The first one was how the name "Pepple" came about.

The second was about the ethnicity of the dude by a slave captain that met him.

He was not a myth. He existed in 19th century (not far ago)

BKayy:

First paragraph; I am not moved by ego so your attempt to make me sat "I am above this let me allow you people mess with Opobo" No. If you want madness, we mad together. I am not a preacher of love.

Second Paragraph: incase you don't know, I am an Igbo man so I have every right to defend Igbo interest and Igbo territory in any form against Shameless scavengers. Unlike you (an Ijaw man) and the man that made you people to be a mockery (Alagoa from Nembe).

Go and die mkpokoro nwigbo

nengibo:

Go and die mkpokoro nwigbo

Thanks for Yielding.
A thief always bows when the owner comes for his property.

BKayy:

Read the shot below carefully.
The first one was how the name "Pepple" came about.

The second was about the ethnicity of the dude by a slave captain that met him.

He was not a myth. He existed in 19th century (not far ago)

Their is no point arguing with a mad man
Go to this address(King Perekule Palace, Court Road, 503101, Bonny) and talk to the Amanyanabo of Bonny or the Amanyanabo of Opobo, and give him your screenshots to put in his historical archives