The Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole has said that it was a big privilege for him to present the staff of office to an Oba of Benin.

The governor made the statement when he addressed State House correspondents shortly after he paid a thank you visit to Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Recall that the historic coronation of Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo Ewuare II took place in Benin on Thursday with Nigerians and people of other cultures in attendance.

“On my part, I felt very privileged.
“In my eight years of stewardship in Edo State that assignment of having to hand over the staff of office to the Oba of Benin is the most singular important event that God has given me the privilege to preside,’’ Oshiomhole said.

He said that the first time in the 1930s when Oba Akenzua ascended the throne that same staff of office was presented by the Queen of England when the country was under British colonial rule.
He added that in a recent time, the other time the staff was handed to an Oba was in the 1980s through a military governor who was not an Edo indigene.

“This is the first time an Edo man, full-blood son of the soil, decked in Edo costume, presented the most important staff of office to the man we all celebrate as the Oba of Benin,’’ he said.

Oshiomhole said that the attendance to the event by the Sultan of Sokoto,Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III and a host of other traditional rulers from across the country, was “extremely significant’’.
He said the Sultan was not only of Sokoto but the head of the Islamic Council in the country and was at the ceremony as the utmost religious leader in Nigeria.

“To have the Caliphate across the Niger, extending that hand of fellowship and brotherhood and bringing the Durbar from the Caliphate to Benin to celebrate the coronation of the Oba was historic.

“Those royal handshakes and bonds not only speak to history that had existed before the political amalgamation of Northern and Southern Nigeria.

“It shows that our people, regardless of those interventions by the British authority, that the bonds have always been there and that even today those responsible for our tradition are doing their part to sustain those bonds.’’

He said this was so important at this time that the political class was preaching to primordial sentiments in a manner that threatened the country’s unity when they were frustrated.

“I think that royal handshake and bonding shows that at that level of leadership, Nigeria is one and we are committed to one and indivisible Nigeria and those royal fathers have led us by example,’’ he added.

The governor observed that one of the weaknesses of our country “`is that we don’t celebrate our tradition.
“What was unique was that the Oba observed all the cultural rites in the installation, including the most tedious of trekking certain distance to his palace.’’

He said that the exercise was to enable the monarch to place himself in the position of the common man in order to administer the domain well.

“Seeking for those traditions was extremely important because if you do not understand the pains the people under you go through you can’t have empathy and cannot do justice to them.’’
The governor commended the Bini people for behaving in a mature and orderly manner during the coronation of the Oba in spite of the large crowd.

He said the disposition of the Bini and the attendance of many from across the divide elevated Edo to an uncommon height adding that it could not have been better than that.


Source: http://nigeriabreakingnews.com.ng/it-was-great-honour-handing-staff-of-office-to-oba-oshiomhole/

It is truly a great honor. It might seem like a small non important act but it signifies a lot.

Oshiomhole said that the attendance to the event by the Sultan of Sokoto,Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III and a host of other traditional rulers from across the country, was “extremely significant’’.
He said the Sultan was not only of Sokoto but the
head of the Islamic Council in the country and was
at the ceremony as the utmost religious leader in
Nigeria.
“To have the Caliphate across the Niger, extending
that hand of fellowship and brotherhood and
bringing the Durbar from the Caliphate to Benin to
celebrate the coronation of the Oba was historic.

That Sultan of Sokoto is one of my most respected traditional rulers in this country, in short, the most respected after the Oba of Benin. Always easy going, hardly tribalistic and peace loving. I wish all Nigerian leaders were like him.

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Pastor Ize Iyamu is still crying over his election loss.

babdap:
Pastor Is Iyamu is still crying over his election loss.

Let him cry till eternity, he wouldn't set his foot in the Government House as our Governor. We've since rejected him and his looting gangs!

thesicilian:

That Sultan of Sokoto is one of my most respected traditional rulers in this country, in short, the most respected after the Oba of Benin. Always easy going, hardly tribalistic and peace loving. I wish all Nigerian leaders were like him.

sultan after who?









oba don brush teeth?

My outgoing governor, please go and sit down and stop looking for relevance

Hmn... Your excellency, it's time to take a loonng vacation with your beautiful wife.

impotent govnor shud just shut up...he s trying by all means to get favour from oba

black mamba

No be Oba teeth we dey see so....
Someone said on this forum that we can not see Oba's teeth or smiles due to tradition..
Nairaland with sabi-sabi....

At the end, we are all humans.

The senate should just scrap all these traditional kings :/

That was epic and I concur with him.
First time a civilian and an indegene is doing it.
It will go down in history even when he is not remembered as a governor.
He is really privileged

The Oba is glued to his seat...
See what Top Bond can do

iamswizz:
The senate should just scrap all these traditional kings :/

What is this one saying?


Congratulations to Oshiomhole for such an historical mark.

saint047:
My outgoing governor, please go and sit down and stop looking for relevance

What relevance again?

He was your governor for uninterrupted eight years!

And so?

jchima14:

The Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole has said that it was a big privilege for him to present the staff of office to an Oba of Benin.
The governor made the statement when he addressed State House correspondents shortly after he paid a thank you visit to Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Recall that the historic coronation of Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo Ewuare II took place in Benin on Thursday with Nigerians and people of other cultures in attendance.
“On my part, I felt very privileged.
“In my eight years of stewardship in Edo State that assignment of having to hand over the staff of office to the Oba of Benin is the most singular important event that God has given me the privilege to preside,’’ Oshiomhole said.
He said that the first time in the 1930s when Oba Akenzua ascended the throne that same staff of office was presented by the Queen of England when the country was under British colonial rule.
He added that in a recent time, the other time the staff was handed to an Oba was in the 1980s through a military governor who was not an Edo indigene.
“This is the first time an Edo man, full-blood son of the soil, decked in Edo costume, presented the most important staff of office to the man we all celebrate as the Oba of Benin,’’ he said.
Oshiomhole said that the attendance to the event by the Sultan of Sokoto,Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III and a host of other traditional rulers from across the country, was “extremely significant’’.
He said the Sultan was not only of Sokoto but the head of the Islamic Council in the country and was at the ceremony as the utmost religious leader in Nigeria.
“To have the Caliphate across the Niger, extending that hand of fellowship and brotherhood and bringing the Durbar from the Caliphate to Benin to celebrate the coronation of the Oba was historic.
“Those royal handshakes and bonds not only speak to history that had existed before the political amalgamation of Northern and Southern Nigeria.
“It shows that our people, regardless of those interventions by the British authority, that the bonds have always been there and that even today those responsible for our tradition are doing their part to sustain those bonds.’’
He said this was so important at this time that the political class was preaching to primordial sentiments in a manner that threatened the country’s unity when they were frustrated.
“I think that royal handshake and bonding shows that at that level of leadership, Nigeria is one and we are committed to one and indivisible Nigeria and those royal fathers have led us by example,’’ he added.
The governor observed that one of the weaknesses of our country “`is that we don’t celebrate our tradition.
“What was unique was that the Oba observed all the cultural rites in the installation, including the most tedious of trekking certain distance to his palace.’’
He said that the exercise was to enable the monarch to place himself in the position of the common man in order to administer the domain well.
“Seeking for those traditions was extremely important because if you do not understand the pains the people under you go through you can’t have empathy and cannot do justice to them.’’
The governor commended the Bini people for behaving in a mature and orderly manner during the coronation of the Oba in spite of the large crowd.
He said the disposition of the Bini and the attendance of many from across the divide elevated Edo to an uncommon height adding that it could not have been better than that.
Source: http://nigeriabreakingnews.com.ng/it-was-great-honour-handing-staff-of-office-to-oba-oshiomhole/

CecyAdrian:
It is truly a great honor. It might seem like a small non important act but it signifies a lot.

thesicilian:

That Sultan of Sokoto is one of my most respected traditional rulers in this country, in short, the most respected after the Oba of Benin. Always easy going, hardly tribalistic and peace loving. I wish all Nigerian leaders were like him.

Unblockable:

Let him cry till eternity, he wouldn't set his foot in the Government House as our Governor. We've since rejected him and his looting gangs!

right0100:
Captain oshiomole the man

Abugab:
That was epic and I concur with him.
First time a civilian and an indegene is doing it.
It will go down in history even when he is not remembered as a governor.
He is really privileged

I Concur.

Ok we hear.

SurePresident:
At the end, we are all humans.

The Oba of Benin is a god to us binis.

ajoskele:
What relevance again?

He was your governor for uninterrupted eight years!

that's the more reason why he should go and sit down and allow Godwin abaseki to start doing the talking

saint047:
that's the more reason why he should go and sit down and allow Godwin abaseki to start doing the talking

The last time I checked, Oshiomole is still the governor.

You are an Edo man, but not a Bini Man.

iamswizz:
The senate should just scrap all these traditional kings :/

The last Military Governor of Edo State placed the former Oba of Benin on house Arrest for some weeks. He lost his mother, his wife and two children in one week.he died some years later in mysterious circumstances.

ajoskele:
The last time I checked, Oshiomole is still the governor.

don't mind those children of hate, its relevance will receive another high after his tenure cos he will be the new minister of petroleum which Baba itself his holding now and because that is the organ of the economy he put be put to a no nonsense person who will preside that important ministry for uplift of the citizen by not the careless looting of one of our sister who was in the saddle recently.