There is nothing controversial about the history of Anioma people as the Igbo make us believe. No single ethnic nation can lay claim to the ownership of the region because the people are entirely distinct and distinctive like other ethnic groups in the country. Even the vast humans and personalities produced over the thing by the Anioma ethnic group cannot be overwhelmed by any single or group of ethnic groups because we deserve to be known as we desire.

Other ethnic groups apart from the Igbo have since recognized the Anioma as being distinct from what anyone can call "sub" A long time ago our fathers, the founder of Anioma realized the difficulty of going with any one group in the country because it would amount to marginalization and thought up the political idea of "Anioma" Anioma no matter what you think refers political and cultural quadrants of Aniocha, Ndokwa, Ika and Oshimili. A people are defined and made to be what they say are, in the light of this no group, large or small possess any moral right to re-define the social and political destiny of people. We, the people of Anioma are defined by our culture, tradition, history and geography and we cannot be geographically re-situated because we were in the first place made to naturally so by the almighty God.

We do know that Anioma people have the feature of diverse origins but we have become united by culture and history and nothing, I repeat nothing can change this development. The culture we have developed have now become distinct from those of others, and nothing can explain this in the contrary. No individual or group of people can write our history better than us because we understand ourselves better than them from the outside do. We inhabit the West and they inhabit the East, we are situated in the South-south geo-political zone today as defined by the Federal Government of Nigeria, while they inhabit the South-East geo-political zone. We have since sacrificed a lot to them, while we have benefited nothing from them.

We are in the eyes "fake Igbo" while they are their eyes "core Igbo," they call themselves "Igbo" and call us "Delta Igbo" In 1967, they did not consider at all that we were Igbo when Republic of Biafra was declared, Bifra started from Onitsha and ended just before Cameroon but when more men were needed to fight, we hurriedly became Biafrans. When the issue of State creation in Nigeria re-surfaced we once again became South-southerners which we truly are. This is enough to let us stay on our own, every Anioma person(s) who continue to attend Ohaneze Ndiigbo and try to force it on us should first of all open the agenda of Ohaneze and tell us their plans for us.

They use linguistics to want to force us to agree that we are what they have devised as "Igboid" but we know that though Igbo language is intelligible to all in Anioma, more than half of the people of this ethnicity speak languages that are related to Edo, Igala, Idoma, old Yoruba etc which if expressed an Igboman from South-east will not understand. It is very vexation to remember that the people of South-east went to war with Nigeria in 1967 because they felt they were not Nigerian but Biafrans and today they try forcefully identifying us as Igbo only orally and on papers, and then denying us of this when it matters. Linguistics alone cannot justify the ethnicity of any group. Similarity in names too cannot justify homogeneity in ethnicity.

If you have ever heard of Ezechime, then realize that this Diokpa from Benin Kingdom now in Edo State is progenitor of many Anioma communities too numerous to mention here such as Onitsha in Present Anambra State, Onicha-Ugbo, Onicha-Olona, Issele-Uku, Issele-Mkpitime, Obamkpa, etc but the problem the people of Anioma have at the moment is that the ethnicity did not fit into the early ethnography's invention of ethnic identities in Nigeria. There are some towns and communities in Anioma whose history laid claim to originating from Igboland notably Ibusa and Asaba but not all Anioma people are Igbo. The Agbor (Ika) are far from being Igbo as their progenitor arrived from Edo may centuries ago to found the communities.

If the Igbo cannot help us realize our long sought dream of Anioma State, they should leave us alone and not bother us with whether we are Igbo or not, this is no longer important in our history since we have since revolved our own distinct kind of history, linguistic and culture, capable of advancing us. "Anioma people are now a special breed, endowed with intellectual gift... today, Anioma people are using that gift of intellect to make contributions to democracy and national unity in Nigeria and around the world. This commendation is a testimony of many of the contributions Anioma women, have made over the years in Nigeria and elsewhere (Challenges to Democracy and National Unity in Nigeria: The Case Study of Anioma People, Sadiq A. Abdullahi)  

We have been marginalized by the Federal Government and Igbo ethnic group who have constantly denied us of the creation of Anioma State, and our own neighbouring ethnic groups but we know that the visions of our leaders shall never be undermined. We have no inheritance in whatever ethnic group near or close that want us only in terms of population to politically score a point and seek to outsmart other ethnic groups in the country. And all of you who are seeking to reverse or turn back the hand of our history by writing our history in Wikipedia.org and else where we admonish you to keep away from seeking to attempt to turn back the hand of clock. Our own is our own, and your own is your own. Leave us alone and let us grow.