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The people of Eneka community in Obio/Akpor local government area of Rivers State has reacted to recent information making the rounds that Eneka people are Igbos. Eneka is the home town of the embattled President General of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Senator John Azuta Mbata.
In a press statement signed by the immediate past Chairman of Universal Basic Education Board (UBE), Very Rev’d. Dr Fyneface Akah JP. DSSRS, Mr. Chris Obasiolu, Mr. Ovunda O. Orji Esq, Mr. V. O. Chuku Esq, Mr. Clay Ogbonna Esq, Mr. Oscar Weli, Mr. Monday Ordu, Mr. Chris Ogbonna, Mr. Ovunda Waka, Mr. Chimenem Worlu, Mr. Innocent Ogbonna Esq and Mr. Emmanuel Onuma for and on behalf of The Body of Concerned Eneka people, they expressed their displeasure with utterances by some Eneka persons.
They reacted: "Receive this statement as a serious reaction to recent misleading, untrue and mendacious information to members of the public by certain persons in Eneka who in their self-seeking bid for validation as Igbos had made tendentious statement in the media conveying the impression that Eneka people of Apara Kingdom are Igbos.
"Consequently the Concerned Eminent Eneka Indigenes at home and abroad here and now express our displeasure with the current unguarded utterances and acts of lawlessness being endorsed by Eneka main Chief and others following the personal resolve of our Distinguished Senator John Azuta Mbata's exercise of his franchise to be a member of Ohaneze Ndigbo last month.
"We appreciate the genuine concern of Iwhuruohna traditional rulers, the Pan Iwhuruohna youths and Elders and other bodies for sustaining the Peace, Love and Unity our Fathers laboured for and bequeathed to us all.
They also said: "That as illustrious indigenes of Eneka, we frown at and do hereby disassociate ourselves from the Statement made by the Senator in his Television Spot Interview on Saturday February 1, 2025, that there are different categories of Iwhuruohna, urging those who claim Bini ancestry to 'go to Bini.’
"We again emphasize that this is the ill-conceived political agenda to forcefully assimilate the Ikwerre, Etche, Ekpeye, Ogba, Ndoni and other ethnic nationalities they unilaterally drafted into their unacceptable Map of Biafra. It is now clearer that the free donation of the highest Office of President General of Ohaneze Ndigbo to an Ikwerre man is for the sole purpose of gaining a re-entry to claim Port Harcourt as Igbo land.
Shockingly they now found an Eneka illustrious Son who willingly or otherwise accepted the bait set by Ohaneze Ndigbo by capitulating to the attractions of the overture in promises rejected by other kinsmen who were contacted before the Senator.
"We, the Eneka people are very unhappy with our paramount Chief Rowland Woko and all those who alongside with him are singing songs of divide and rule in Eneka today - all for the sake of stomach infrastructure.
"Evident now is that this whole blinding drive is political; as evinced in the Senator's promise of more infrastructural developments to Eneka people and also from remarks made by others who spoke to the Press in the same event, disclosing that very soon intention in the Senator's decision to accept the PG position will become clearer to those who are yet to understand him now.
"As concerned Eneka Natives, We reiterate the unflagging position of all well-meaning Chiefs, Elders and people of Eneka with the stance of Ogbakor Ikwerre Worldwide in this matter.
"It is now expedient to call on our dear Executive Governor of Rivers State, His Excellency Siminalayi Fubara KSC., GSSRS., all Law enforcement and Security Agents in the State as well as all opinion leaders of the Rivers tribes to rise to our early call to nip this expansionist tendency in the bud right now; this renewed cruise and push with a few individuals working on their behalf might affect the shared peace and unity existing among Rivers tribes as constituted from inception when Rivers State was created.
"Let it be known that the end of this neo-political moves by the political faction within Ohaneze Ndi Igbo will affect Rivers State greatly if allowed to fester.
"This re-entry design of a people having more than five decades of grievances against Rivers People, if left unchecked will blow adversely as an ill wind against all tribes including the Ijaws, Ekpeyes, Ogonis, Etches, Ogbas etc.
"Our rejection of this re-entry into Rivers State of politically motivated Igbo opinion leaders necessitated our standing hand in hand with the Ikwerre ethnic Nationality. It is said that “a stitch in time saves nine.” It is better to fix a problem as soon as it arises to prevent it from becoming a bigger issue.
"As Concerned Citizens of Eneka we maintain that Distinguished Senator John Azuta Mbata is on his own and that all residents in Eneka including HRH Chief Rowland Woko should, in the interest of common peace and the valued Unity for which Eneka is known, from making public statements which convey the impression that Eneka is now an enclave of the Ohaneze Ndigbo group in Rivers State.
"Failure of the High Chief to restrain himself and those with him in their unpopular pursuit, will be taken as calculated offense worth visiting with appropriate civilized response," they concluded.
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