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Relocation of Delta State Capital: Anioma, Ndokwa and the Niger Delta Region

It is not only sad but mistaking andthe  criteria  necessary.
unprecedented that our Urhobo brothers with
whom we share one state could advocate forThe Anioma people have distinctiveness having
the relocation of Delta state capital frombeen westernized any historian of whatever
Asaba to Warri, Ugheli or any one "trueorigin can tell that common language is one
Delta" town as they put it, a developmentvalue which holds Aniomas together, a unique
they further claim the Delta state House ofbond that has united the people of this area
Assembly can handle in order to make itfrom time immemorial. Granted that the
peaceful one in so far the Aniomas decide tovarious Anioma towns and villages have
dialogue  it.diverse history of origin and development but
they  all  have  something  in  common.
This idea is still unwarranted and laughable
because it suggests that Asaba is not aSome people have argued that the Ndokwas
geographically located within the Delta ofshould not be referred to as part of Anioma.
River Niger or that the Aniomas are not partIn fact a particular school of thought went
of Niger Delta region. We leave thisfurther to state that the Ndokwas formed part
particular question to Geographers to answer.of the defunct old Delta province. It is an
If today Edo state, Akwa Ibom state, Crossincontrovertible fact that the Ndokwas have
River state, Abia State amongst others allhad more cordial relationship with their
form part of Niger Delta we wonder why areasAnioma brothers from time immemorial and
such as Ibusa, Asaba, Oko, Okpanam, Ndokwashare similar historical values, customs,
towns and villages all located few squareculture, tradition and linguistics. The
miles away and lying at the Delta of thisEkwumekwu movement is a well known resistance
river cannot be part of the Niger Delta. Willcarried out against the British imperialists
"Niger Delta" not now amount to merewithin the Anioma region and the
nomenclature only in existence for thecontributions of the Ndokwa people along side
description of Urhobo, Ijaw, Isoko andtheir brothers in this region is well known
Itsekiri  and  the  possession  of  oil?and recorded. We also know that it was the
loss of these wars that led the British in
Perhaps we forget too easily that at thattheir typical imposing manners to divide the
time there were two states in agitationAnioma region and place them under different
namely Delta state and Anioma and the thenprovinces. This they hoped would weaken
Military president, Gen. Ibrahim Babangidawherever they derived their sources of
decided to make something out of the twostrength from which they viewed as
states in proposal and the best he couldtogetherness. It is unnecessary to state here
arrive at was creating Delta state andthat one bad effect of this movement was the
situating the capital at Asaba. He might havepermanent loss of Onitsha, Obosi, Oguta and
tried hard to please these two blocs. Oneenvirons to the South-East geo-political zone
Urhobo indigene was to later describe thisas presently constituted. Even the Nigerian
act as a "creation of Delta state fromGovernment has failed to address this sad
Babangida personal bedroom" Will it not havedevelopment several years after independence.
pleased the Aniomas if Anioma state had been
created with the capital at Asaba? Is theWas it not chief Obafemi Awolowo who pointed
Delta south more dissatisfied that theirout that in creating states cultural as well
agitation was not met? If the Aniomas are soas linguistic affinities should first be
pleased with this development why has theconsidered above other factors? I refuse to
agitation for the creation Anioma stateaccept that tribally the Ndokwas are closer
continued even till this day? Today historyto the Urhobos, Ijaws, Itsekiris, and Isokos
is fast establishing that there is nothingbecause I know that mere communication cannot
wrong with the situation of Delta statetake place between these "true Delta states"
capital at Asaba because the town has met alland the Ndokwas.



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