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Those claiming that they are not Igbo, why do you not begin by challenging hundreds of Igbo history books and thousands of articles in various academic journals that grouped you under the Igbo people?
For instance, Elizabeth Isichei, writing about Porthacourt, among other things, said, “The area was the main farmland for several kindreds of the Diobu clan, a branch of the southern Ikwerre Igbo.” [History of the Igbo people, p. 200.]
Before you begin your propaganda that Professor Elizabeth Isichei was bought over by “southeasters” to do her research, remember that she is married to a man from Asaba, where many are still denying their Igbo identity.
Again, those that claim to have originated from Benin, why have you also not challenged all the history books and academic articles that told the history of Benin without including you?
Why have you also not challenged all the census conducted in colonial times that counted you as Igbo?
Why have you not challenged the signatures of your people who attended all the meetings, especially the one in Aba, as the discussion on the approval of Igbo orthography was going on?
As you are denying your Igbo identity, are you aware that thousands of documents in the National Archive of Enugu, Onitsha Catholic Archdioseasn archives, Propaganda Fide Archives Rome, Holy Ghost Fathers archives Dublin, Ireland, and Paris, France; the archives in Bammingham, UK, etc. identified you as Igbo?
If you are serious in your fight of denying your Igbo identity, you must put up serious effort. Begin now to challenge those facts on paper, or else you may be making matters worse for your unborn generation.
