Changing the language of Opobo kingdom from Igbo to ijaw cannot erase the Igbo identity of Opobo.

Added: 2026-05-11

[00:00:01]um five points of this present administration.

[00:00:07]I made it public here on the 3rd of January that ban language will be vigorously pursued and revived.

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[00:01:42]Thank you very much for coming. The man that spoke in that video is called Alabu Charles Mark Purple Jaja. He is the king-elect of oppobo kingdom. He is the sixth king that oppobbo kingdom have produced. He said that they will introduce language in oppob.

[00:02:08]Ibane is a dialect of a language.

[00:02:12]Oppobo is an EO kingdom located in river states very close to the Atlantic Ocean.

[00:02:21]The language of Oppobo is Ebu. Majority of Oppobo people speak Ebu language. Now let's talk about the history of Oppobo.

[00:02:31]Who founded Oobo? Listen and pay attention.

[00:02:36]Aquar was born around 1820 in Amaybo, modernday southeastern Nigeria.

[00:02:46]Amaybo is an Ebo community located in Nemo state.

[00:02:52]By the age of 12, he was kidnapped and enslaved.

[00:02:58]rose through society, gaining a reputation of being honest and of keeping his word and becoming a successful businessman. His business dealings included working with the British. He was chosen as chief. He had the title of Jubo Juba which his kingsmen shortened to Jojo and Europeans shortened to Jaja.

[00:03:27]What they said there is the brief history of the man that founded Oobo kingdom in river state. The man that founded kingdom is called he is later called jaja.

[00:03:46]That king jaj ofobo that you are hearing now talk about this was how he founded. They said Jaja was originally born Jubu Juba born in Umudu Roa in Ibu land and sold at age 12 as a slave in Boni. He later took the name Jaja for his dealings with the British.

[00:04:16]He proved his aptitude for business at an early age earning his way out of slavery and was inculturated according to ibani rituals and eventually established himself as head of the Anna purple house as in business and politics. Ja became the head of Anapetal house, extending his activities and influence by absorbing other houses, increasing operations in the Hita land and augmenting the number of European contacts. Soon a power struggle ensued among rival factions in the houses at Bony leading to the breakaway of the faction led by Jaja. He established a new settlement which he named Oobo.

[00:05:10]He became king Jagger of Oppobo and declared himself independent of Boni.

[00:05:16]King Jaja an ebo man founded a new settlement and called it Oobo and became the first king of Oobo kingdom.

[00:05:30]Oppobo kingdom was founded in year 1870 by king jaja of oppobo.

[00:05:37]This new king of oppobo kingdom he traces his ancy direct to king jaja of oppob.

[00:05:46]Now king jaja bloodline 90 this king B.

[00:05:51]And the blood in this new king of oppobo is Ebo blood because their founder is Ebo and their origin is Ebo.

[00:06:03]after he was elected as the new king of Wubu kingdom. He's saying that he wants to make sure that Ian language which is an dialect he wants to make sure that it will be introduced in oppobbo children start to learn language for school so that with time the ebo language where oppobo people they speak go into extinction.

[00:06:33]His agenda is to wipe out the language of his ancestry.

[00:06:40]Can you imagine language where your papa they speak from immo state him ancestral home.

[00:06:49]Your papa come find new settlement call oppob the language where oppobo people they speak today now the language where their founder king jaja they speak. When King Ja founded Oppobo kingdom, he came along with other Ebo people that time for all those areas now slavery now be market for that place. Ebo people were captured and sold into slavery. So people for those place now they buy all those our e people. So when King Ja founded Oppo kingdom all those e people say they sell them into slavery. All of them come follow king jaja settle for oppob their language is language. So now why they speak that ebo language reach today.

[00:07:39]But some false historians will tell you that the reason why oppob is speaking language is because people in the southeast in those days are coming to trade in oppob.

[00:07:51]And that was why they no longer speak dialect. They are now speaking I language. Bunch of lies. The first king of Oppo kingdom is an Eu man. New settlement where him found. Now they talk say that settlement not be ebo settlements. Now his own bloodline that is now the king of oppobo kingdom is trying to erase the language of his father and replace it with language.

[00:08:19]The king of oppobo whether you like it or not you oppob people are fake people.

[00:08:24]Ej people don't see you people as ej people like I said whether you like it or not you people are fake this is what wik said the news was carried by daily post newspaper this is what wik said he said I was told to make re governor not someone from oppobo wicked slams fara listen pay attention on the minister of the federal capital territory FCT has said that the original people such as the calabaries kicked against him making siminal Fubara the governor of river state because he is from oppob people knows that oppob people are e people and not people from calabari they talk They don't want any man from oppob to be the governor of river state because they see oppobbo people as ebo people because oppob people are ebo people. Governor Fubara speaks Ebo language very well. He not learn from southeast. That is their language in Oppobo.

[00:09:44]Other people are saying that Oppobo people are fake people. That is why I said that whether the king of OPO like it or not, if he like make he turn the language of Oppobo kingdom to language, they remain fake people. They will never be seen as swan people by other people because other people know say people not be people but they want to make sure that the language of OP will change so that that place go they identify as territory.

[00:10:18]Maybe they call that territory be people want but to see those oppob people as one of their own lie because they know say this people himself will tell you that king jaobo is an ebo man and not an he tell you himself is an e man his greatgrandfather is from he was captured and sold into slavery to all those areas After some time his greatgrandfather became free. Today asari do a descendant of a slave boy is now the king of lm calabari king kingdom in river states is the same with oppobo kingdom of oppob capture from Io state slavery today king jaja of oppobo founded a kingdom in that river states That is the same way asari do's family was captured from anra state obsi taken tool land today is the king of lm calabari king kingdom.

[00:11:36]So many kings in land you see today they of origin. So many of them are e people that were sold into slavery later in the future they become kings.

[00:11:48]All those committee where they see so many of them are of EU origin. When white people came to the Niger Delta, they said that majority of the tribes in the Niger Delta that is all those all those calaba side all those side and so on. Say they are mostly of E origin. So many of them when not speak today for that place say people be their origin is land is an example the king of popo why do you want to change the language of your father from ebo to he get any people they threaten you to make sure say you change the language of oppob are they threatening you to change your language the king of oppo what you did is very shameful they very Who not know say king Jaja ofu now of I origin everyone knows that king jaja is an ebo man as he settle for oppobo kingdom other ebo slaves joined him there he of origin and oppob is still speaking that ebo language till date their culture and tradition is ebo why is it that you that have ebo origin you that trace your ancestry to king You are trying to change the language of your place to please people.

[00:13:14]You please people. They see you as ebo man. You are called a fake.

[00:13:20]Other people they see the present king ofu as an ebo man not as an man. So if you like change the language of to you people are fake people. You are e people. You can never be. If you like change your language to you can never be.

[00:13:36]And that is because the history is there. If I see a popo person my brother they see if I see people waiting e people if they speak people this thing they oppo people hand oppo people should rise up and tell this their king to leave the language that they speaking which is e alone.

[00:14:00]Now only a people go stop their king if their king start to go to the wrong direction language and say no say language e and not one evil thing about kingship say they don't talk say they don't talk and that is the reason why my community will tell you that kingship is an evil practice my community not They are always saying that kings are evil to the society.

[00:14:37]For example, say get king. Now the king just say eh we people we not be e people we bin people. I want to introduce bini language to women make our children start to speak e language make we start to speak bin language and because they share their king okay our king don't talk we love our e language we be e people but as our king say we be bin people make we accept no our king introduce bin language to our schools make our children start to speak bin communities where get king now those kind of things they they talk Kings are just like slave masters and their people are their slaves.

[00:15:19]This thing a fact any king for this life say he not impose anything on him people he they rule him people just like papa and children they live together that is what we call king the inland today they not they rule their people as slave and master they rule their people as one day but this oppob he wants to wipe out the language of his ancestry and impose the language on his people is very bad. King of oppo is very bad now.

[00:15:54]Bad thing you do. So who are you trying to please? Are you trying to please people? He get people they threaten you to change the language of oppob he get money when they give you to change the language of oppob you oppob people are fake. They are not happy that Fubara is the governor of river state. How many people stood with Fubara when they are fighting him to remove him as the governor of river states in the southeast are the people that stood with Fubara. The president of Senator he stood firm for Fub. He stand with football stand with and they defend him say nobody go remove him from being the governor of river state. Why senator do like that now? Because fubara is an e man. Some people are saying that fubara trace his ancou royalty trace to king jaja ofobu.

[00:17:03]Some people they thought say Fubara is not related to the palace of King Jaja Fobu but that Fubara trace his anc people that founded Oobu with King Jaja.

[00:17:17]That is what some people are saying. So even if Fubara they bear all those names he is of E origin. Fub speaks E fluently.

[00:17:33]hand like make sip then impose the language on you people they open they want change language because of say they practice kingship every pray for future come change identity just like the king of oppo kingdom they do so the most important thing here is that if The language of uobo to oppobo remains a community with EU origin. The palace of oppob is of ebo origin. So if they like may change everything about them to people. Other people will continue to see oppob people as fake but ebo people.

[00:18:23]Hey. Hey.