Vanguard (Lagos)
11 October 2008
WHEN Dr. Emmanuel Ewetan Uduaghan became the Governor of Delta State, last year, he was accepted with a "let's us watch and see attitude" by some Ijaw militants, who thought that an Itsekiri man would continue to oppress and not accommodate them in the politics of the state.
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I am surprised to hear that Gbanran people are in Delta State. When I was a Kid, my father took me around almost all Ijaw areas with his engine boat and told me that they (the Gbanrans)were my people. I am from Akassa at the tip Of Bayelsa State. What I am asking is, why are the Gbanrans in some state called Delta State? One more thing, why do some ishekiris and Urhobos answer Ijaw names if they are not our Children?