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Saturday, 13 February 2016

People are now telling their story, correcting the lies which was used in building the contraption called Nigeria just read below and educate yourself.

"We are not in Yorubaland. To be frank,
it is because many of them are not
willing to come up with the truth, the
word Oba is alien to Yoruba monarchy;
it is not part of their title from time
immemorial.
"For instance, the one they call the Oba
of Lagos, these are recent adaptations. In
the 50s, there was no Oba of Lagos, what
we had was the Eleko of Eko. That is the
title of the King there. In Ibadan, you
have the Olu Ibadan. You come to
Abeokuta, you have the Alake of Egba
land. You come to Oyo, you have the
Alaafin of Oyo. In Ilesha, you have the
Owa-Obokun of IIesha. So no Yoruba
monarch had as part of his titles the
word Oba except the Oba of Benin.
"That word Oba is indigenous to Benin.
It is only in recent times you find
everybody bearing Oba. When the
Western Regional conference of
traditional rulers took place in Benin
City in 1942, go and check the
attendance, there was no other monarch
in the whole of the Western Region then
that bore the title of Oba, except the Oba
of Benin.
"So it is an unnecessary excursion, an
unnecessary attempt to turn history
upside down by the Alake by classifying
the Oba of Benin as third in the
hierarchy of kings. "Our own traditional
history says that the Ooni of Ife was a
Benin Prince who wandered from here
to Ife, settled there and became the ruler
there. That is the position, if they don't
know, they should send people here; we
will teach them.
"We will show them landmarks. So this
is unnecessary misrepresentation of
history. Maybe the Alake wanted to
mention a different place and not Benin.
"The monarchical rulership in this part
of the world started from Benin during
the era of the Ogisos. It was the son of
the last Ogiso, Owodo, that wandered
from here to Ife and he became a ruler
there, carrying everything about the
Benin monarchical system to that place.
There is no basis for such classification.
"The Ooni of Ife by historical facts, is a
son of the Oba of Benin, so they are not
in the same class.