From the 1930s, the Igbo west of the Niger, the Enuani, Ika, Ukwuani, Ndi Osimili in the Asaba and Aboh divisions of the Western Region looked towards creating an administrative division for themselves which started out as the Western Ibo Province, later known as Anioma. [...]
... (Dennis Chukude Osadebay was instrumental in the creation of the pan-ethnic Ibo State Union which included the Western Ibo Union and Asaba Union. https://twitter.com/ukpuru/status/1038778224732459009)
... (The Igbo west of the Niger developed a minority consciousness which became materialised as 'Anioma' as coined by Dennis Osadebay, the founding father of the Anioma state movement.)
... (Prof. Chukwuka Okonjo is the Obi of Ogwashi-Ukwu and also the father of Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.)
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