ALL OBAS OF LAGOS WERE YORUBA MEN NOT EDO MEN. BENIN PEOPLE SHOULD LEARN HISTORY AND STOP THE FASLE CLAIMS. AWORIS WERE THE FIRST YORUBA PEOPLE TO SETTLE IN LAGOS AREAS LONGTIME UNTIL 1472 WHEN RUI DE SEQUEIRA A PORTUGUESE SLAVE TRADER ARRIVED LAGOS AND THE BENIN PEOPLE WERE NOT COMING TO LAGOS UNTIL AFTER 1550 WHEN OBA ORHEGBUA OF BENIN BECAME OBA AFTER LEARNING HOW TO SAIL FROM THE PORTUGUESE IN LISBON. HE HAD GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PORTUGUESE SLAVE TRADER AND HE FOLLOWED THEM TO LAGOS DUE TO THE LAGOS ISLAND THE PORTUGUESE WERE USING AS THEIR PORT TO TRANSPORT THEIR SLAVES AND OTHER PRODUCTS THROUGH THE LAGOON.
IF WE YORUBAS WANT TO CLAIM LAND, WE WOULD CLAIM THAT BENIN BELONGS TO YORUBAS BECAUSE OWOMIKA ALSO KNOWN AS EWEKA THE FIRST OBA OF BENIN IS A YORUBA PRINCE,THE SON OF ORANMIYAN THE AKOGUN OF ILE IFE BUT WE DO NOT CALL ANOTHER MAN’S LAND OUR LAND. WE KNOW THAT THE OGISOS WERE KINGS WHO RULED IN EDO LAND BEFORE OUR PRINCE ORANMIYAN WENT TO HELP BENIN PEOPLE.
IT IS VERY WRONG FOR ANY TRIBE TO DO SUCH WITHOUT KNOWING THE HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE AND JUST ASSUMED BECAUSE NAMES WERE SIMILAR. THIS ERROR HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR SO LONG AND WE MUST CORRECT THE BENIN PEOPLE BECAUSE WE WELCOME THEM AS FAMILY AND WE DESERVE THE SAME RESPECT WE GIVE TO THEM AND ALSO FOR THE FACT THAT OUR PRINCE WENT TO THEIR LAND TO HELP THEM. WE SHOULD NOT BE FIGHTING OR ARGUING OR FORCING OURSELVES TO BE WHAT WE ARE NOT. WE NEED TO BE THE CLOSEST FAMILY AND NOT ENEMIES OR TRYING TO PROVE SUPREMACY IN ANY FORM.
PORTUGUESE NEVER CLAIMED LAGOS BUT THEY NAMED THE AREA LAGOS AND THE SON OF FIRST TRADITIONAL RULER ASHIPA A CHIEF FROM ISHERI,AN AWORI MAN HAD AN EDO WIFE AND A SON CALLED ADO WHO BECAME THE FIRST OBA OF LAGOS ISLAND ALSO CALLED THE ISLAND EKO. IT WAS FORMERLY CALLED IDDO FROM THE WORD IBUDO MEANING ABODE IN YORUBA.
OBA RILWAN AKIOLU WAS THE ONE WHO WAS TRYING TO BE ARROGANT TO THE HIGHEST RANKING OBA IN YORUBALAND. .."THE OONI OF IFE". OBA AKIOLU WAS WARNED BECAUSE HE WAS SHARING INCORRECT INFORMATION BY TRYING TO SAY HE BELONGS TO BENIN JUST BECAUSE HE WANTS TO PROVE A POINT.HE LATER APOLOGISED FOR SHARING SUCH INCORRECT INFORMATION.
I AM SURE OBA AKIOLU REGRETTED HIS ACTION BECAUSE ALL OBAS IN YORUBALAND ARE RESPECTED AND THEY ALL RESPECT THE AROLE OODUA...OONI OF IFE.
ALAAFIN TOO USED TO HAVE ISSUES WITH OONI OF IFE BEFORE THE ELEDERS STEPPED IN TO PUT ALAAFIN IN CHECKS BECAUSE ALAAFIN CLAIMED THAT ORANMIYAN CAME BACK TO ILE IFE TO BECOME A KING AFTER LEAVING BENIN KINGDOM AND ESTABLISHING OYO KINGDOM THAT LATER BECAME AN EMPIRE...HE CAME BACK TO RULE AS OBA IN ILE IFE BUT HE GAVE THE POSITION BACK TO OONI OBALUFON ALAYEMORE AND REMAIN A POWERFUL MAN UNTIL HE DIED.
HIS DESCENDANTS CONTINUED TO RULE IN OYO AS ALAAFIN THE OBA OF OYO KINGDOM...AJAKA RULED AND SANGO ALSO RULED BUT HIS RULE WAS NOT TOO LONG BEFORE AJAKA CAME BACK TO THE THRONE..SANGO'S MOTHER WAS FROM NUPE LAND AND HIS NAME WAS CALLED TELAOKO, WHO HAS POWERS LINKED TO ONE OF THE YORUBA ORISAS CALLED SANGO AYILEGBE ORUN.
ODUDUWA IS NOT FROM MECCA LIKE SO MANY WRITERS HAVE WRITTEN NONSENSE BEFORE WE STARTED DOING OUR RESEARCH.
ISLAM CAME TO OYO AFTER 1550 AND IWO AROUND 1600...THESE WERE THE FIRST MOSQUES. ...ISLAM GREW IN OYO AND LATER IN ILORIN AND THIS IS THE REASON MANY WERE WRITING STORIES THAT LAMURUDU CAME FROM MECCA BUT THERE IS NOTHING CALLED LAMURUDU IN OUR HISTORY. LAMURUDU SIMPLY MEANS THE ENTIRE BLACK RACE.
ODUDUWA DID NOT COME FROM THE FAMILY OF NIMROD LIKE MANY HAVE WRITTEN NONSENSE AS WELL.HISTORY OF YORUBA IS FAF FAR OLDER THAN THE STORY OF THE BIBLE AND QURAN.
YORUBA PEOPLE IS ONE OF THE OLDEST TRIBES IN THE WORLD WITH A WELL ORGANIZED TRADITION AND SPIRITUALITY CALLED IFA OLODUMARE.WE YORUBAS FOLLOW IFA AND THAT IS WHY WE HAVE ISESE.
THESE ORISA NAMES ARE YORUBA NAMES;
ESU
OBATALA
ODUDUWA
ORUNMILA
OGUN
SANGO
OSUN
OYA
ORISA OKO
EGUNGUN
AND MANY MANY MORE.
AFTER ORANMIYAN CAME TO BENIN...BENIN PEOPLE TOO STARTED WORSHIPPING YORUBA DEITIES AND THAT IS WHY THE NAMES ARE YORUBA NAMES LIKE OGUN,SANGO BUT EDO AND URHOBO HAS AIYELALA WHILE THE IGBOS HAVE MAMMY WATER AND OTHER TRIBES HAVE DEITIES OF THEIR LANDS SIMILAR TO YORUBA ORISAS BECAUSE WE ARE ALL ABORIGINAL PEOPLE WHO PRACTICE TRADITIONAL SPIRITUALITY FROM OUR ANCESTORS BEFORE FOREIGN RELIGIONS CAME AND MANY BEGAN TO PRACTICE THE FOREIGN RELIGIONS TOO.
ALL TRIBES HAVE DIFFERENT NAMES OR SIMILAR NAMES FOR THEIR DEITIES IN DIFFERENT AFRICAN SOILS.
YORUBA HISTORY IS NOT JUST ABOUT EKALADERHAN...YORUBA HISTORY IS VERY VERY ROOTED AND VERY DEEP NOT JUST ASSUMPTIONS.
AT NO TIME IN HISTORY WAS ANY BINI MAN RULED LAGOS ISLAND AS OBA. BUT THE BENIN PEOPLE USES TO COME AND GO DUE TO THE BUSINESS OF OBA OF BENIN WITH THE PORTUGUESE.
PAST OBAS (KINGS) OF LAGOS:
ASHIPA (1600–1630)
OBA ADO (1630–1669)
OBA GABARO (1669–1704)
OBA AKINSEMOYIN (1704–1749)
OBA ELETU KEKERE (1749)
OBA OLOGUN KUTERE (1749–1775)
ADELE AJOSUN (1775-1780 & 1832-1834)
OBA ESHILOKUN (1780–1819)
OBA IDEWU OJULARI (1819–1832)
OBA OLUWOLE (1836–1841)
OBA AKINTOYE (1841-1845 & 1851-1853)
OBA KOSOKO (1845–1851)
OBA DOSUNMI (Docemo) (1853–1885)
OBA OYEKAN I (1885–1900)
Oba ESUGBAYI ELEKO (1901-1925 & 1932)
Oba IBIKINLE AKITOYE (1925–1928)
OBA SANUSI OLUSI (1928–1931)
OBA FALOLU FOSUNMU (1932–1949)
OBA ADENIJI ADELE (1949–1964)
OBA ADEYINKA OYEKAN II (1965–2003)
Oba RILWAN AKIOLU (2003–till present)
ALL OBAS OF LAGOS WERE PRACTICING AFRICAN TRADITIONS UNTIL THE TIME OF OBA IBIKUNLE AKITOYE FROM 1925 TO 1928 WHO WAS THE FIRST CHRISTIAN OBA.
OBA SANUSI FALOLU WAS THE FIRST MUSLIM OBA OF LAGOS WHO RULED FROM 1928 TO 1931 WHEN OBA ESUGBAYI ELEKO WHO STARTED RULING FROM 1901 BUT WAS SENT ON EXILE IN 1925 RETURNED FROM EXILES TO TAKE HIS POSITION BECAUSE SANUSI WAS HIS COUSIN...OBA SANUSI LEFT THE THRONE FOR OBA ESUGBAYI AND OBA FALOLU ASCENDED THE THRONE FROM 1932 TO 1949 THOUGH SOME WANTED SANUSI TO TAKE OVER BUT HE REMAINED THE OBA.IN 1949 OBA ADENIJI ADELE ASCENDED THE THRONE UNTIL HE DIED IN 1964 AND OBA ADEYINKA OYEKAN II ASCENDED THE THRONE UNTIL HE DIED IN 2003 AND OBA RILWAN AKIOLU ASCENDED THE THRONE AND HE IS STILL THE OBA OF LAGOS TILL PRESENT.
DURIN THE TIME OF OBA KOSOSO WAS WHEN THE BRITISH NAVY BOMBARDED LAGOS IN 1851 BUT EUROPEANS HAVE BEEN BUYING SLAVES FROM THE OYO PORT LONGTIME. PORTNOVO AND WHYDAH WAS UNDER OYO EMPIRE AND THEY SOLD SLAVES TO THE DUTCH AND PORTUGUESE BUYERS. OYO EMPIRE WAS THE MOST POWERFUL EMPIRE FROM THE 1300 WHEN ORANMIYAN ESTABLISHED THE KINGDOM AFTER LEAVING BENIN BECAUSE OGIAMEN A PRINCE OF EDO PEOPLE DID NOT ALLOW HIM TO RULE OVER BENIN PEOPLE.THEY BUILD A PALACE FOR ORANMIYAN AT USAMA AS THE FIRST PALACE OF OBA OF BENIN. HE WAS GIVEN AN EDO PRINCESS CALLED ERINWINDE WHO GAVE BIRTH TO A SON CALLED EWEKA I...THE FIRST OBA OF BENIN. HE WAS A YORUBA SON OF ORANMIYAN. BEFORE ANY OBA IS CROWNED IN BENIN KINGDOM TILL TODAY,HE MUST SPEND 7 DAYS IN USAMA PALACE BUILT BY ORANMIYAN OUR PRINCE.
ORANMIYAN WAS NOT A SON OF ODUDUWA BUT A GRANDSON OF THE LAST OLOFIN ODUDUWA WHO WAS ALSO THE DESCENDANT OF ODUDUWA FAMILY OF ILE IFE.
ODUDUWA IS NOT A BINI PRINCE BUT A TRUE DESCENDANT OF HIS GREAT ANCESTORS CALLED ODUDUWA FROM THE FIRST IFE OODAYE A NATION THAT WAS UNITED DATED BACK FROM 100,000 BC MEANING BEFORE CHRIST. THE YORUBA PEOPLE CAME FROM KEMER LANDED AREA IN THE WEST OF AFRICA CALLED “UFE” WHERE ABORIGINAL PEOPLE OF SIMILAR CULTURES AND TRADITIONS EMMIGRATED TO DIFFERENT LOCATIONS LIKE LAND OF KEMET LATER CALLED EGYPT, NUBIA, SUDAN, MALI AND MANY MORE.
IN MY RESEARCH, I FOUND THE TRUTH IN IFÁ AND ORUNMILA WAS THE FIRST HISTORIAN BEFORE THE GREEK, BERBERS, NOMAD, MONGOL, TURKIC AND MANY MORE. ORUNMILA ESTABLISHED THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE COSMO AND ALSO NARRATED HOW THE SOLAR SYSTEM WERE FORMED, A PROJECT I WILL BE PUBLISHING SOON. AKAMARA WAS DESCRIBED AS THE FIRST INSTRUMENTAL ENTITY WHO PREPARED FOR THE EMMERGENCE OF OLODUMARE THE OLOFIN ORUN, IN THE CREATION OF THIS UNIVERSE WITH THE HELP OF OBATALA, ODUDUWA, OGUN, SANGO AND OTHERS.
UFE IS THEREFORE THE ORIGIN OF LIFE AND EVERYTHING, WITH THE RECORDS OF CREATION AND ACTIVITIES KEPT SAFE AND SECURED IN IFÁ OLÓDÙMARÈ, SO THAT ALL OUR GENERATIONS TO GENERATIONS CAN UNDERSTAND OUR ORIGIN AND KNOW THE TRUTH AND OUR HISTORY WILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN BUT THEY STOPPED TEACHING US HISTORY AND FOREIGN RELIGIONS CAME LIKE A WAVE TO OVERSHADOW THE ABORIGINAL KNOWLEDGE OF IFÁ. IFA REMAINS THE ONLY SOURCE TO UNDERSTAND OUR ORIGIN AND BY CARRYING OUT CRITICAL REASONING BECAUSE MANY NATIONS HAD COME OUT OF UFE TO FORM BIGGER NATIONS.
IF YOU STUDY IFÁ VERY WELL YOU CAN CHECK ÒSÁ OGÚDÁ WHERE IT DESCRIBED HOW OBATALA, ORUNMILA, ODUDUWA WERE INVOLVED IN THE CREATION OF THIS UNIVERSE. HEAR WHAT IFÁ SAYS:
IRI TU WILI TU WILI
IRI TU WILI TU WILI
IRI TU WILI-WILI
KOO TU REKE-REKE
DIA FUN ORIGUN
TI NLOO S’EDA IBU ORUN ATI AIYE NI’GBA IJINJI
IRI TU WILI TU WILI
IRI TU WILI TU WILI
IRI TU WILI-WILI
KO TU REKE-REKE
ENGLISH TRANSLATION:
MAY THE DEW BURST OUT QUICKLY
MAY THE DEW BURST OUT QUICKLY
MAY THE DEW BURST OUT CONTINUOUSLY
AND BE SO VAST THROUGHOUT THE EXPANSE
THESE WERE THE DECLARATIONS OF IFÁ FOR ORIGUN
WHEN GOING TO COORDINATE THE CREATION, THE VAST EXPANSE OF THE UNIVERSE
IN THE VERY DAWN OF TIME
MAY THE DEW BURST OUT QUICKLY
MAY THE DEW BURST OUT QUICKLY
MAY THE DEW BURST OUT CONTINUOUSLY
AND BE SO VAST THROUGHOUT THE EXPANSE
AS YOU CAN SEE HERE,IFÁ THE ABORIGINAL SPIRITUALITY OF WE YORUBAS SPOKE ABOUT THE CREATION OF THIS UNIVERSE MENTIONING ORIGUN AND LATER MENTIONED OLU-IWA-AIYE ALSO CALLED OBATALA MEANING KING OF PURITY “OBA ÀLÀ”. YOU CANNOT FIND OUR HISTORY IN THE BIBLE OF QURAN BUT ONLY IN ODU IFA AND THAT IS THE REASON WHY MANY DO NOT KNOW HISTORY ANYMORE BECAUSE THEY ABOLISHED HISTORY AS A COURSE AND FAILED TO DEVELOP CURRICULUM THAT WOULD INCLUDE OUR HISTORY AS IT WAS TOLD BY ORUNMILA BARAMI AGBONIREGUN. OLU ISESE. THE FIRST PHILOSOPHER GREATER THAN SOCRATES,PLATO,ARISTOTLE AND FAR FAR GREATER THAN ANY OTHER PHILOSOPHER IN HISTORY LIKE OEDIPUS AND THE SPHINX AND MANY MORE. ORUNMILA WAS THE GREATEST AMONGST ALL PHILOSOPHERS BUT IT IS SAD THAT HIS RECORD AND PHILOSOPHIES WERE AFFECTED BY THE IMPACT OF THE FOREIGN BELIEFS AND RELIGIONS TRYING TO MAKE THEMSELVES KNOWN AND THEY KEPT IT GOING UNTIL THE TIME WHEN INTERNET IS NOW ACCESSIBLE BY EVERYONE AND WE CAN SEE THE LIGHT. IFA HAS BEEN PASSED ORALLY FROM THE BEGINNING BUT NOW IT HAS BEEN WRITTEN DOWN AND EVERYONE CAN LEARN OUR HISTORY THROUGH IFÁ AS THE RECORDS OF OUR ANCESTORS.
WE HAVE 256 ODU IFÁ,16 MAJOR ODU AND 240 MINOR ODU AND WE HAVE ABOUT 1680 VERSES FOR EACH ODU. THIS IS A BIG INFORMATION TO BE STORED IN THE BRAIN AT ONCE. SO IT TAKES AWO IFA MANY YEARS TO LEARN AND UNDERSTAND ODU IFA. AND THE INTERPRETATION IS ANOTHER COMPLICATED EXCERCISE TOO. THIS IS THE REASON WHY WE HAVE BABALAWOS WHO HAD STUDIED AND QUALIFIED TO INTERPRET ODU IFA AND ALSO DO DIVINATIONS TO READ IFÁ DECLARATIONS. THIS IS OUR SPIRITUALITY AND OUR HISTORY AND THIS IS WELL DOCUMENTED.
WE WERE CALLED OMOLUABI NOT YORUBA, OMO OLU IWA BI MEANING THE DESCENDANTS OF OBATALA WHO WAS CALLED “OLU IWA AIYE”. OMO ODUDUWA WHO WAS CALLED ODUA, OLOFIN AIYE.WE HAVE PEOPLE OF SIMILAR CULTURE, TRADITION AND DIFFERENT LANGUAGES BUT WITH SIMILARITIES.
OUR ANCESTORS MIGRATED TO THE PRESENT DAY ILE IFE AFTER THE FIRST IFE WAS UNDER ATTACK BUT DUE TO OUR STRONG SPIRITUALITY WHICH IS IFA, WE WERE ABLE TO REUNITE WITH OUR PEOPLE.
THE PRESENT DAY ILE IFE HAS BEEN EXISTING OVER 5000 BCE BEFORE EDO PEOPLE STARTED RECORDING THE HISTORY OF THEIR KINGS CALLED OGISO. THE FIRST OGISO WAS CALLED OGISO IGODO AND HE STARTED REINING FROM 40BCE TO 12CE.
THE NOK PEOPLE HAS SOME SIMILARITIES WITH US TOO LIKE POTTERY AND IRON GOLDSMITH WORKS, CASTS, WEAVING AND MANY MORE. THESE ARE THE ANCESTORS OF THE HAUSA PEOPLE BEFORE THE FULANI CAME TO MIX WITH THEM.
IFE HAS BEEN RECORDING HISTORY THROUGH IFA WHICH IS PASSED ORALLY BEFORE 1000 BCE AND THE IGBO ALSO MOVED OUT FROM THIS REGION BECAUSE THE IGBO PEOPLE SPEAK THE KWA FROM KUSH NOT THE BIBLICAL KUSH. THE KUSH KINGDOM HAS BEEN EXISTING MANY MANY YEARS BEFORE THE JEWISH HEBREWS, BEFORE THE ISRAELITES STORIES, BEFORE ARABS BECAUSE THEY CAME FROM SEMITIC PEOPLE INHABITING THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA. THE PEOPLE WHO EMMIGRATED TO THE BABYLONIAL AREA.
EDO PEOPLE CAME OUT OF THIS REGION TOO AND RELOCATED TO SETTLE WHERE THEY WERE TILL TODAY WITH THE PRESENCE OF OGISO DYNASTY AND THAT IS WHY YORUBA, EDO, IGBO AND OTHERS HAVE SIMILARITIES IN CULTURAL PRACTICES.
YORUBA PEOPLE AND CLOSEST ETHNIC GROUPS:
AKU, IGALA, ITSEKIRI, NAGOS. TABO.
NOK PEOPLE: PLATEAU AND KADUNA AREA.
GBE PEOPLE: AJA. EWE. FON. MAHI. OGU.
KWA PEOPLE: IGBO. ADELE. AKEBU. ANII. GA. KPOSO.
NUPE PEOPLE: EBIRA. GBAGYI. NUPE.
EDO PEOPLE: BINI. ESAN. ISOKO. URHOBO.
GUR PEOPLE: BARIBA. LOSSO.
OTHER SLAVERY EMMIGRATION OF AFRICANS:
AFRO-EUROPEAN (GREEK AND OTHERS)
AFRO-BRAZILIANS (SPANISH/PORTUGUESE)
AFRO-AMERICANS (AMERICAN SOIL)
AFRO-CARIBEAN (ISLANDS FOR LABO)
AS YOU CAN SEE. YORUBAS HAD LONG HISTORY. IGBO HAD LONH HISTORY. EDO HAD LONG HISTORY AND OTHER TRIBES LIKE THE AKAN WHO WERE KWA PEOPLE SEEN IN GHANA, IVORY COAST AND IN TOGO ALL THESE PEOPLE CAME FROM THE FAMILY OF NIGER-CONGO FAMILY. THESE ARE THE PEOPLE SETTLED CLOSED TO RIVER NIGER AND RIVER CONGO.
AFRICA IS SO WIDE AND SO MANY TRIBES DO NOT EVEN KNOW WHERE THEY COME FROM BUT WE ARE BRINGING THE WORLD CLOSER TOGETHER.
ODUDUWA WAS NOT BINI PRINCE BUT THE BENIN PEOPLE BELIEVED THEY HAD SEEN THEIR FAMILY AND WANTED ODUDUWA OF THAT TIME TO RULE OVER THEM BUT THE GRAND SON ORANMIYAN WAS THE AKOGUN OF ILE IFE AND HE CAME TO BINI KINGDOM TO HELP THEM RULE JUST LIKE YORUBA LAND IS WORKING AND PEACEFUL BUT THEY RESISTED HIM AND HE LEFT HIS SON THERE,WHO LATER BECAME THE FIRST OBA OF BENIN. AROUND 1200 CENTURY. THIS WAS THE ONLY TIME EDO KING USED THE TITLE “OBA” A YORUBA TITLE BECAUSE EWEKA IS A YORUBA SON.
OGISO WAS THE EDO TITLE USED FOR ALL EDO KINGD FROM THE TIME OF THE FIRST OGISO IGODO WHO WAS THE FIRST KING OF THE EDO PEOPLE ON RECORD. THE LAST OGISO OWODO WAS BANISHED AND HIS SON TOO RAN AWAY BEFORE HE WAS BANISHED WHEN HE WANTED TO KILLE HIM. THE LOST SON CALLED EKALADERHAN OR IZODUWA OR IMADODUWA HAD A SIMILAR NAME TO THE ODUDUWA FAMILY AND THIS WAS THE REASON WHY EDO PEOPLE THOUGHT THEY HAVE FOUND THEIR LOST PRINCE WITHOUT KNOWING THE HISTORY OF THE YORUBA PEOPLE WHOSE ODUDUWA FAMILY HAD BEEN IN EXISTENCE OVER 100000 YEARS BCE AND ALL THE DESCENDANTS ALSO BEAR ODUDUWA AND ODUDUWA WAS NOT THE FIRST ANCESTOR OF YORUBA PEOPLE. OBATALA CAME TO IFE BEFORE ODUDUWA.
THE PROBLEM EDO PEOPLE HAD WAS THE FACT THAT THEY JUMPED INTO CONCLUSIONS WITHOUT KNOWING THE HISTORY OF YORUBA PEOPLE BUT BECAUSE THEY SAW SIMILARITIES IN OUR CULTURE THEY ASSUMED ORANMIYAN IS WAS THE SON OF ODUDUWA AND STILL THEIR CHIEF OGIAMEN DID NOT ALLOW ORANMIYAN TO RULE OVER BINI PEOPLE. BUT LATER HIS SON WAS ALLOWED TO RULE WHEN THE LAND WAS STILL TROUBLED AND NO PEACE UNTIL EWEKA WAS INSTALLED AS THE KING.
EKALADERHAN RAN AWAY THROUGH OWO A CLOSER YORUBA TOWN TO AKURE AND LATER TO IKERE EKITI THROUGH THE FOREST AND WHEN I STUDIED AND DID RESEARCH I DISCOVERED THAT EKALADERHAN BECAME KING IN IKERE EKITI, A TOWN CLOSED TO ADO EKITI IN MY STATE EKITI STATE. HE IS FROM BENIN AND HE IS THE OGOGA OF IKERE EKITI. HE IS THE ONLY BINI PRINCE WHO TOLD THE YORUBA PEOPLE IN IKERE EKITI HE WAS A PRINCE FROM BINI AND THEY MADE HIM A KING BECAUSE HE WAS A GREAT HUNTER WHO KILLED A BIG ELEPHANT AND THAT WAS HOW HE STAYED IN YORUBLAND AND REFUSED TO GO BACK HOME BUT SOME BENIN PEOPLE HEARD OF HIS NEWS THAT HE HAD BECOME A KING IN YORUBLAND. HE MET A RULER IN IKERE CALLED OLUKERE AND THAT IS WHY WE HAVE TWO KINGS IN IKERE EKITI TILL TODAY BUT THE GOVERNMENT RECOGNISED THE TITLE OF OGOGA AND MADE OLUKERE A PARAMOUNT RULE AND THEY HAVE BEEN GOING BACK AND FORTH TO SETTLE THE CASE IN COURT TILL TODAY. THIS IS NOT TO JUST WRITE OR ASSUME BUT THIS IS FROM YORUBA HISTORICAL FACT FINDINGS. IT WAS DURING MY RESEARCH WORK THAT I ALSO DISCOVERED THAT OLUKERE FROM OLOJE FAMILY WHO WERE DESCENDANTS OF ILE IFE HAS BEEN RECOGNISED AS A KING OBA OLUKERE OF EREJA. SO NOW WE HAVE TWO KINGS IN IKERE EKITI. ONE FROM BINI WHO IS OGOGA AND ANOTHER IS OLUKERE WHO WERE THE PURE YORUBA ABORIGINAL PEOPLE OF IKERE EKITI BUT THE BINI PEOPLE ARE NOT WRITING IT IN THEIR HISTORY AND I THINK WE HAVE TO NOTIFY THEM TO DO THEIR RESEARCH VERY WELL AND NOT JUST ASSUME,IN ORDER TO DOCUMENT PROPER HISTORY AND RELATIONSHIPS WITH YORUBALAND.
THERE WAS ONE OGISO CALLED ODUWA LONG BEFORE THE LAST OGISO WAS BANISHED AND SO MANY SIMILARITIES IN OUR LANGUAGES BECAUSE WE CAME FROM SAME REGION FROM KEMET BEFORE RELOCATING TO DIFFERENT LOCATIONS THROUGH MIRGATION.
I AM NOT THE ONE TO WRITE EDO HISTORY BUT I AM EDUCATING OUR PEOPLE THAT WE YORUBAS, EDO, IGBO ARE UNIQUE ABORIGINAL PEOPLE AND NO TRIBE IS SUPERIOR OR INFERIOR. WE SHOULD RESPECT ONE ANOTHER AND VALIE OUR OWN HISTORY RATHER THAN ASSUMPTIONS WITHOUT ANY PROOFS.
DO NOT FORCE YOURSELF TO BE A YORUBA TRIBE JUST BECAUSE YOU WANT TO BE. YORUBA PEOPLE HAVE STRONG SPIRITUALITY AND TRADITION THAT IS RECOGNISED AS THE OLDEST IN HISTORY DUE TO THE IFA SPIRITUALITY PASSED ORALLY FROM GENERATIONS TO GENERATIONS.
WE WERE NOT CHRISTIANS NOR MUSLIMS BUT ABORIGINAL PEOPLE BECAUSE FOREIGN RELIGIONS ONLY CAME DURING THE AD NOT BCE. WE MUST VALUE OUR ANCESTORS AND KNOW THAT WE HAVE GODS IN AFRICA AND WE ARE UNIQUE PEOPLE.
WE YORUBAS BELIEVE IN OLÓDÙMARÈ.
EDO BELIEVE IN OSANOBUA
IGBO BELIEVE IN CHUKWU
HAUSA BELIEVE IN UBANJIGI
THESE ARE THE REAL GODS AND NOT YAHWEH OR ALLAH OR OTHER FOREIGN GODS. BUT THE FOREIGN GODS ARE UNIQUE TO THEIR OWN PEOPLE TOO.
LES’S RESPECT ONE ANOTHER AND LETS LEARN HISTORY MORE INSTEAD OF FIGHTING.
WE ARE ONE BIG FAMILY IN OUR RESPECTIVE LOCATIONS NOT LIMITED TO NIGERIA BUT GHANA, IVORY COAST, SIERRA LEONE AND MANY MORE.
AWOLOWO SANGOBOLANLE OBAKOLAWOLE ESUBIYI ABOLARINWA AJETUNMOBI.
IRE OOOO!
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