YORUBAS DO NOT LIKE TO IDENTIFY AS MINORITY GROUPS. WHY?
Compared to the way the hausas have been forcing themselves on the
middlebelt minority groups for long, likewise the Igbos and the
Niger-deltan minority groups now sailing together, but for yorubas,
hardly do they try to associate with minority groups.
The whole of the Niger deltan region was not part with the south-east (igbos) since before independence, only the akwa-ibom/cross river/Rivers minorities area was part of the old eastern region under igbo rule. While the Bendel minorities region (Delta, Edo) were part of the western region under yorubas before a mid-western region was created for them later on.
By these, anyone would think that these Delta/Edo people will till date maintain a greater affiliation/ relationship with the yorubas, but nothing like that, instead their affiliation drives closer to the igbos.
A yoruba person will see an edo or deltan and he will call him 'omo igbo' (igbo man).
Really i think this a very big shame on yorubas. Most of them cannot differentiate between Niger-deltans & igbos just like hausas. Go to somewhere like Lagos, u will see that all Niger-deltans are adressed as igbos whereas they are not.
Even, if hausas will make this mistake, at least one will think that yorubas will not, considering the fact that part of Niger-deltans were with them together in the old regional system.
Culturally/historically, the Edo/Delta minority groups are far more related to yorubas than igbos (except for the igbo speaking people in parts of Delta), but still yorubas choose to identify them as igbos, distancing away from them.
This is why it is said that yorubas are very tribalistic.
This is just the same way the yorubas will still identify all northern/middlebelt minority groups as hausas except for the nupes & ebiras whom they are neighbours with.
Nupes are the are the only minority group with whom the yorubas maintain a quite good relationship with, but as for the ebiras, they are largely discriminated by yorubas.
See the way the igbos are giving their full backing to GEJ today who is from an ijaw minority niger-deltan group, identifying with him greatly, but many yorubas instead choose to be together with hausa-fulani northernerns. And the truth is that ijaws are not even more culturally or historically related to igbos than yorubas. But in the eyes of many yorubas, ijaws are the same with igbos. What a shame!
— The whole of the Niger deltan region was not part with the south-east (igbos) since before independence, only the akwa-ibom/cross river/Rivers minorities area was part of the old eastern region under igbo rule. While the Bendel minorities region (Delta, Edo) were part of the western region under yorubas before a mid-western region was created for them later on.
By these, anyone would think that these Delta/Edo people will till date maintain a greater affiliation/ relationship with the yorubas, but nothing like that, instead their affiliation drives closer to the igbos.
A yoruba person will see an edo or deltan and he will call him 'omo igbo' (igbo man).
Really i think this a very big shame on yorubas. Most of them cannot differentiate between Niger-deltans & igbos just like hausas. Go to somewhere like Lagos, u will see that all Niger-deltans are adressed as igbos whereas they are not.
Even, if hausas will make this mistake, at least one will think that yorubas will not, considering the fact that part of Niger-deltans were with them together in the old regional system.
Culturally/historically, the Edo/Delta minority groups are far more related to yorubas than igbos (except for the igbo speaking people in parts of Delta), but still yorubas choose to identify them as igbos, distancing away from them.
This is why it is said that yorubas are very tribalistic.
This is just the same way the yorubas will still identify all northern/middlebelt minority groups as hausas except for the nupes & ebiras whom they are neighbours with.
Nupes are the are the only minority group with whom the yorubas maintain a quite good relationship with, but as for the ebiras, they are largely discriminated by yorubas.
See the way the igbos are giving their full backing to GEJ today who is from an ijaw minority niger-deltan group, identifying with him greatly, but many yorubas instead choose to be together with hausa-fulani northernerns. And the truth is that ijaws are not even more culturally or historically related to igbos than yorubas. But in the eyes of many yorubas, ijaws are the same with igbos. What a shame!
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