Following the statement credited to the Alake of Egbaland, Oba
Adedotun Gbadebo that the Oba of Benin is the third in the ranking
of kings in the old Western region, the Palace of the Oba of Benin
has dismissed this as untrue.
The Esogban of Benin and Odionwere of the Kingdom (traditional
head), Chief David Edebiri, said
the Ooni of Ife was a son of the Oba of Benin, and that the stool of
the Oba of Benin could not be compared with that of any Yoruba
King.
Esogban,who is third in command in the palace of the Oba of Benin,
said: “We wanted to discard this report as something that was not
necessary at all. We do not see how the Alake of Egbaland suddenly
woke up to think that the Oba of Benin is also a Yoruba Oba. There
is no basis for such classification; Oba of Benin has nothing to do with
the Yoruba Obas. It is simply unnecessary, unless they simply want
to stir up an unnecessary controversy.
“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
Egbaland. 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.
The Oba of Benin is the only one that answers Oba, the rest don’t.
But today, we hear Oba here and there, they are all recent
adaptations. I am saying categorically that the word Oba is
indigenous to Benin and not to Yoruba nation.”





http://entertainment.vacancynigerians.com/2016/02/ooni-of-ife-is-too-small-to-oba-of.html?m=1

Who dem two elp African ignoramus amplified

How will this help poor Nigerians struggling to survive ?

Yoruba's are alien to Nigeria.
Ask them were they migrated from and they will start insulting themselves here in the name of argument.
Yoruba's has no history.
How can you say oduduwa your ancestor fell from the sky, is he Satan??
Smh

I love monarchy historian! given details 2 every ancient happenings!

this world don advance o, what is oba?? Tsw!! Make he go use the title slap 'bubu' e go suffer for kuje ...

People shld study n understand history, after all Wikipedia can help in ur researches efforts. Yoruba history is over 2000 - 1500 BC. After the migration of yorubans from Egypt their original source of migration shortly after Arabs invasion which saw the original black inhabitants migrated from Egypt to west africa amongst whom were the yorubas who inhabited Ile ife from whence Yoruba culture, arts n crafts were perfected. To prove this evidence, igala n other tribes arnd east west are part of Yoruba
Which migrated from Egypt. Emperical evidencea have shown similarities in many both Yoruba n Egyptian cultural identities. In many ways the yorubas have more in common than anyone with historic migration from Egypt. I will stop here bt I will open a new thread on this. So to put it straight, Benin was the third son of oduduwa whose name was eweka which I will also explain further in my thread.

jayonpoint:
People shld study n understand history, after all Wikipedia can help in ur researches efforts. Yoruba history is over 2000 - 1500 BC. After the migration of yorubans from Egypt their original source of migration shortly after Arabs invasion which saw the original black inhabitants migrated from Egypt to west africa amongst whom were the yorubas who inhabited Ile ife from whence Yoruba culture, arts n crafts were perfected. To prove this evidence, igala n other tribes arnd east west are part of Yoruba
Which migrated from Egypt. Emperical evidencea have shown similarities in many both Yoruba n Egyptian cultural identities. In many ways the yorubas have more in common than anyone with historic migration from Egypt. I will stop here bt I will open a new thread on this. So to put it straight, Benin was the third son of oduduwa whose name was eweka which I will also explain further in my thread.

Binis will disagree with you!

Problem is Nigerians don't care about history. ..they don't even teach history in schools, that's why people still say Oduduwa is from mecca, Yoruba from Egypt etc

we don't have any connection with arabs or Egyptians

now the esogban doesn't have knowledge of the topic he's trying to discuss. .. let the Oba of Benin say he is not a descendant of Oduduwa not a lousy chief

YourMrBoo:
Yoruba's are alien to Nigeria.
Ask them were they migrated from and they will start insulting themselves here in the name of argument.
Yoruba's has no history.
How can you say oduduwa your ancestor fell from the sky, is he Satan??
Smh

LOL.

That's classic.

Insult is inevitable in a dialogue where a discussant party lack constructive idea.