In a powerful and direct address, Ambassador Innocent Nduanya has challenged the people of Anioma in Delta State who deny their Igbo heritage, urging them to “stop rewriting history” and “stop running.”
Writing from the perspective of an Anambra indigene, Nduanya anchored his argument in historical struggle. He reminded Anioma communities like Ibusa, Asaba, and Ogwashi-Uku that they led the fierce Ekumeku resistance against British colonialism—an Igbo story.
He further pointed to the 1966 anti-Igbo pogroms, where northern forces “did not ask anybody for dialect” and targeted all easterners equally. “The suffering did not discriminate. So why are you discriminating against yourselves today?” he questioned.
Nduanya criticized what he sees as a politically convenient denial of identity, arguing that Anioma was “Igbo enough to fight the British” and “Igbo enough to be targeted,” but now some claim separateness during discussions on state creation and development.
His conclusion was a firm call: “Anioma is Igbo — not by choice, not by politics, but by blood, culture, struggle, and sacrifice.”
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