I laughed out loud when I watched the “core Nkanụ” video. Some younger folks may find it troubling. I know. In 1983, on my return from first ‘missionary journey’ to Europe, I was horrified by the presentation of a ‘kuturu’ man (leper) claiming on television to be the Lafia father of a gubernatorial candidate. It probably pushed me away from partisan politics and into labor union.

This one is ‘akamụ case.’ While some antediluvian, autochthonous, or indigenous communities existed, many Nkanụ communities were peopled by bush meat-seeking immigrants from Agbaja, Awgu, Adada, Arọ, Ịzaa (Ezaa), Ọhaọzara, etc. Hence the name, “Nke anụ dụ”: where games are abundant—a safari of sorts. These hunters and later farmers settled in lands around Nike, Emene, Owo, Ọkụnanọ, Akægbe, Ọzara, Obe, Agbaani, Akpụugo, and beyond. 

It is therefore surprising that some supposed son of immigrants drew a phantom line between “core” Nkanu and, maybe, “peripheral” Nkanụ! The Jew-Gentile dichotomy should stop. 

The public pronouncement of one red-capped and grey-bearded Chief Lucky Chukwu is pathetic propaganda. I celebrate my ancestry. Everyone does. USA President John Kennedy had Irish ancestry. Barack Obama has a Kenyan father and a Kansas mother. British PM Rishi Sunak has two East African parents of Indian extraction. Some Awka natives have Agbaja, Aro, Nkanụ, and Nsukka great, great grandparents.

I love history. I am proud of the origin of my great grandfathers. If one cell dropped in from Ịzaa (Ezza), hurray! Now we know that Peter Mbah is a direct descendant of Anụkaenyí n’Owo (a name conferred on him also as a title), I will love to know from whence the GREAT, GREAT GRANDFATHER of Chief Chukwu came. His claim of “core Nkanụ” because he is from Amaụrị near Agbāni is NOT enough to self-declare himself “core Nkanụ”—whatever that means!

Chief Peter Mbah should be proud of his “great, great, great grandfathers” from Akægbe, Agbaja, Awgu, Amaụrị, Ịgara, Izaa, Ọhaọzara… wherever. He is not running for the governorship of Nkanụ. His predecessors in the Coal City high office he seeks include Europeans of Anglo-Saxon and Celtic extractions, a Hausa-Fulani cattle merchant, an Ibibio-Efik professor, a Zungeru (Niger State)-born Onitsha man with Edo roots named Ibrahim at birth, a man from Ọhụhụ Umuahia in today’s Abia, another Zungeru-born Nnewi native, another Onitsha native born in Jos, a parade of military officers from Idoma, Tiv, Abia, Anambra, Enugu, Imo, Delta, Yoruba, Hausa-Fulani, etc., and Enuguites with sundry ancestry across the five zones: Agbaja, Adada, Nkanu, Ọgwụ, and Urban-042. 

If Ebeọnyị comes into the mix, bring it on!

Purposeless pathetic propaganda prevails: The political ‘blabber blue’! 🤣

#moe 
Nkwọ, Saturday, Jan 7, 2023
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