Edo state belongs to Ijaw people, Binis are strangers from Egypt – IPDI
May 17, 2017
The Ijaw Peoples Development Initiative, IPDI, Delta State, has declared that Ijaw people had settled in the present-day Edo State before the Bini.
The group, backing their claims with historical facts, said that what was called Edo State today, belonged to the Ijaws.
They claimed that the Binis had come from Egypt after short stay in Sudan and Ile-Ife to occupy the Edo where they met original owners of the land, the Ijaw people.
In a statement by the National president of the group, Austin Ozobo, the IPDI challenged the Edo Forum of Patriots and Bini Solidarity Movement, both of which it said alleged that Bini owned Gelegele, an Ijaw community, with misleading information, to prove their case with historical facts. The statement reads, “Our attention has been drawn to statements credited to Edo Forum of Patriots and Bini Solidarity Movement, where they alleged that Gelegele, an Ijaw community, belonged to the Bini, citing some distorted and contorted black market court judgments. It is imperative to state that Bini is laying false claim to Gelegelegbene community.
“The community is owned by Ijaw of Gelegele. They are neither Benin visitors nor strangers. History has it that Ijaw first landed in Benin before the arrival of Edo- speaking people from Egypt after a short stay in Sudan and Ile-Ife.The aborigines of that land before the arrival of the Bini are the Ijaw of Olodiama, Egbema, Gbaraun, Okomu, and Furupagha clans in the present-day Ovia North, South-West and Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Areas.”
The group further quoted a renowned Benin traditional historian and member of the royal society of the House of Iwebo, Chief Jecob U. Egharevba of blessed memory, as saying unambiguously in his book, titled, A Short History of Benin (1968), Page 1: “Many, many years ago, the Bini came all the way from Egypt to found a more secure shelter in this part of the world after a short stay in Sudan and Ile-Ife, which the people called Uhe. Tradition says that they met some people who were in the land before their arrival...”
IPDI contended: “This implies that the Ijaw are the original natives of the current Edo State and not the Bini, who are non-natives of Edo state. Ijaw have their kingdoms which are different from Bini Kingdom. No Benin settlement is found among these aforementioned places. Ijaw are older than the Bini in current Edo State, but are being oppressed by the Bini for a very long time. “Perhaps, another historian, who bore witness to the invasion of Ijawland by the Yoruba new visitors is E. Alademomi Kenyo, who in his book titled The Origin and Title of Yoruba Rulers (N.D) Page 3, stated: ‘Up till time, the Oba (in Benin) and his people were pure Yoruba and did not understand the language of the aborigines, who usually salute themselves and the new people (the Bini) Adoo, Dolo .

Interesting.

Bini una see una life. Keep changing your history others will Change it for you

aljharem:
Bini una see una life. Keep changing your history others will Change it for you

The lies they have been trying to project gradually is beginning to SINK inside the Atlantic Ocean. BINI are ingrates. I expect the Oba BINI or his spokesman like Iyase etc to come defend this ALLEGATION.

Who are the IJAWS writing these? IPDI abi na IPAD? Unknow group of slaves with no sense of history, some bunch of ingrate who don't know where they sprang up from are spewing trash and some nincompoops are here hailing them.

No one will dignify these unknown faces with response cos they are NOBODY and they will remain UNKNOWN.

As for those who claim their fathers are from the sky or sudan or mecca keep deluding yourselves and keep trying to re-write history, the real historians know that without the Benin Prince who wandered into your lands there will be no you.

BINI ARE A PEOPLE WHOSE HISTORY IS ENSHRINED IN SLAVES. MOST OF THEM HAVE HAMITIC LINK. I JUST CAN'T STOP WONDERING WHEN EDO OF BINI EXTRACT WANT TO TELL THE HISTORY OF SOMEONE WHO DID NOT HAVE DIRECT CONNECTION WITH THEM. ORANMIYAN EXISTED IN between 10th —11th century. How come do these revisionists identify WHO ADIMULA( KNOWN AS O'ODUA) WAS, WHEN THEY DIDN'T EVEN MEET HIM IN THE FIRST PLACE? ADIMULA'S ORIGINAL STORY WAS THAT, HIS FATHER WAS KILLED IN BATTLE IN MIDDLE EAST. WHO ARE THE FAKE HISTORIANS WHEN IN FACT one of the most senior rank or POSITION OF IYASE OF BINI KINGDOM CAME INTO EXISTENCE AROUND 14th–15th Century? IYASE WAS A SLAVE TITLE. WHO ARE THESE FOOLS CALLING MY PATRILINEAL LINEAGE EKARLEHEDAN OR WHAT STUPID NAME DOES THE FEW USELESS EDO PEOPLE CALL HIM? THUNDER WILL FIRE YOU ALL.
MANY OF YOU THAT DON'T EVEN KNOW WHERE YOU CAME FROM. NONSENSE

IT IS BETTER YOU BETTER GO AND TRASH IT OUT WITH YOUR IJAWS ADVERSARY BECAUSE ONCE THEY START THEIR WAHALA, WE SHALL SEE IF EDO CAN WITHSTAND THEM. BUNCH PSEUDO EDO REVISIONISTS

IYASE WAS A SLAVE RANK. GO AND KISS THE LAGOON

EDO STATE: IJAW AT GELEGELE ARE TENANT TO THE BENIN PEOPLE
That Gelegele is a Bini community is a long settled issue. There are established, verifiable administrative inquiries by the then Midwest State Government and judgments from the High Court up to the Supreme Court in Lagos giving authority and power to the Binis over the land occupied by our forbears for centuries. Our claim to Gelegele and environs is neither fictional nor adventurous. The area was incontrovertibly founded by a Bini
Prince Ekaladerhan who escaped a royal death decree over 10 centuries ago particularly Ughoton Princess Kobe from Ughoton founded Gelegele after previous attempts to inhabit the swampy terrain failed the name Gelegele derived from the exclamation: “Gelegele emwan khian evbo” Our investigation showed that the first Ijaw man from undoubted history to setle in Gelegele was one Feti who suffered a misadventure in the near sea where torrential waves swept away his makeshift .home about 100 years ago.
He obtained permission from one Okunseri, the then priest of Ughoton, to settle there under traditional oath of allegiance. As time went on the Ijaw population in Gelegele grew but continually paid homage to the Binis nay the Oba of Benin, through Ughoton until late Oba Akenzua II, CMG, stopped them.
However, in 1969 the Ijaw who had prior knowledge of oil discovery in the land, rose against the authority which erupted in a crisis at a time a Bini man, one Ogbeifun Egharevba was Odionwere of Gelegele. An administrative inquiry was setup by the then Midwest State Government of Brigadier-General Samuel Osaigbovo Ogbemudia, headed by one Mr. S. Jamgbadi, a Senior
District Officer and sat at Ekehuan. A report was issued in 1970, and we quote inter-alia: “It is however established that the Ijaws have been resident in Gelegele for many years and that during these years they have acquired landed property and cultivated farms; but from the facts in evidence they qualify as TENANTS on the land - their-long period of occupation notwithstanding.
The matter went through the High Court of Justice and Federal Court of Appeal in Benin and the Supreme Court -in Lagos.
The Binis secured victory all the way. The following suit numbers are material evidences to buttress our claim to the land at Gelegele
and environs
1. High Court of Justice, Benin Judgment delivered on the 22nd December 1978 by .Justice. Ekeruche J in Suit No. B/I44/1970.
2. Federal Court of Appeal judgment delivered on the 16th December1981 by Abdul Ganiy Olatunji· Agbaja and 2 others in
Suit No. FCA/B/82/80.
3. Supreme Court unanimous Judgment delivered on the 19th ‘August 1983 by Muhamedu Lawai Uwais, former Chief Justice of the Federation and 4 others in Suit No. SC.131/1982.
Ijaws are only settlers on Benin land and have no legal, moral or historical support for their claims to be owners of where they find themselves.

aljharem:
Bini una see una life. Keep changing your history others will Change it for you

Actually you must be confusing Benin with "yoruba". The Benin history has been recorded by many sources including the british museum.
So it makes no sense to say that the Edos keep changing their history, their history is on papers which are several hundred years old.