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3 unusual facts about Ikwerre people


Alabo Graham-Douglas

This was a reversal of his position in 2003 when he had said the Ikwerres from Rivers East should take their turn after Peter Odili.

Elechi Amadi

Born in 1934, in Aluu in the Ikwerre local government area of Rivers State, Nigeria, Elechi Amadi attended Government College, Umuahia (1948-1952), Survey School, Oyo (1953-1954), and the University of Ibadan (1955-1959), where he obtained a degree in Physics and Mathematics.

George Thompson Sekibo

In January 2008, Sekibo raised concern that the Rivers State governor Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi was potentially causing tension between the Okrika and Ikwerre communities by his ultimatum to the Okrika community to produce warlord Ateke Tom.



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