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Protest Letter Against The Oluwo (emir) Of Iwo's Action. Cc All Yorubas by ERockson: 9:37am On Apr 02, 2018
As a true indigene of Osun state, l call on well born and well brought up Yorubas to put religion aside and ensure Oluwo of Iwo (Emir) is dethrone without further delay having discredited our culture and committed conspiracy against the land.
Logically, I may be wrong the position of Oba is vacant in Iwo land with this development.

On the other hand, State government should as a matter of urgency set up a group of medical psychiatrist to examine the state of mind of the 'Emir' of Iwo because I deduce he may need their help.
We call on Kingmakers in Iwo land to rescue their land without compromise, The Osun traditional council, The Osun State government, The Yoruba Traditional council , The OPC and other group in the Yoruba land to come in.

Note! Non Yorubas should keep off this thread as this is Yoruba matter that will be resolved by the yorubas irrespective of religion.

Click on like to signal your love for the Yoruba culture and protest against the Oba's action.

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Re: Protest Letter Against The Oluwo (emir) Of Iwo's Action. Cc All Yorubas by Odingo1: 9:40am On Apr 02, 2018
grin,It is too late, Fulani have conquered, he have full backing of Sultan of Sokoto, is like dethroning the Emir of Ilorin. grin

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Re: Protest Letter Against The Oluwo (emir) Of Iwo's Action. Cc All Yorubas by Preshy561(f): 9:41am On Apr 02, 2018
your Muslim brothers will come here to call you a wailer.

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Re: Protest Letter Against The Oluwo (emir) Of Iwo's Action. Cc All Yorubas by BishopMagic: 9:51am On Apr 02, 2018
Sultan of Sokoto went to Osogbo last year.

See how they elevated him above everybody including the Governor and another Oyoruba Oba who decided to wear a turban.

The Ooni of Ife was not invited by the Osun state govt because he is a christian.

Guy forget Oyoruba people. They are a race heading for extinction.

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Re: Protest Letter Against The Oluwo (emir) Of Iwo's Action. Cc All Yorubas by BishopMagic: 9:53am On Apr 02, 2018
ERockson:


Note! Non Yorubas should keep off this thread as this is Yoruba matter that will be resolved by the yorubas irrespective of religion.


lol.

I will just leave this here...

www.nairaland.com/attachments/6915214_dzrdgcowkaan11h_jpeg232418548176a02fb5f46ef8fd329f17

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Re: Protest Letter Against The Oluwo (emir) Of Iwo's Action. Cc All Yorubas by BishopMagic: 9:56am On Apr 02, 2018
If you idiots focused on your own problems rather than blame Igbos for everything maybe you would have seen this coming

[img]http://sallyember.files./2014/02/frog-heat-beaker.jpg[/img]

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Re: Protest Letter Against The Oluwo (emir) Of Iwo's Action. Cc All Yorubas by BornAgainMay: 9:59am On Apr 02, 2018
Conquered territory

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Re: Protest Letter Against The Oluwo (emir) Of Iwo's Action. Cc All Yorubas by TheKingIsHere: 10:02am On Apr 02, 2018
It is finished cheesy

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Re: Protest Letter Against The Oluwo (emir) Of Iwo's Action. Cc All Yorubas by BishopMagic: 10:04am On Apr 02, 2018
“I have decided to officially adopt emir title today because I want to emulate the attitudes of Northern Emirs.

They don’t begrudge themselves like Yoruba obas.

” It will surprise you to discover that for the past two years, there has not been meeting of Yoruba traditional rulers just because of enmities.

There is nothing strange in adopting emir title. I am the emir of Yorubaland,” Oluwo said.

Meanwhile, amid tight security presence, oba akanbi installed and turbarned an Islamic scholar, Sheikh Yahquub Abdul-Baaqi Mohammed as first Waziri of Yoruba land.

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Re: Protest Letter Against The Oluwo (emir) Of Iwo's Action. Cc All Yorubas by ERockson: 10:14am On Apr 02, 2018
Non Yorubas refuse to keep off this thread despite warnings from the op, I guess they fear the Emirship madness will soon find its way to Edo and Delta and consequently conquer their region, so they need to cry more than the bereaved.

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Re: Protest Letter Against The Oluwo (emir) Of Iwo's Action. Cc All Yorubas by darfay: 10:24am On Apr 02, 2018
BishopMagic:
Sultan of Sokoto went to Osogbo last year.

See how they elevated him above everybody including the Governor and another Oyoruba Oba who decided to wear a turban.

The Ooni of Ife was not invited by the Osun state govt because he is a christian.

Guy forget Oyoruba people. They are a race heading for extinction.

Seriously what is oyoruba. That is the lamest you could come up with
Re: Protest Letter Against The Oluwo (emir) Of Iwo's Action. Cc All Yorubas by BishopMagic: 10:30am On Apr 02, 2018
darfay:


Seriously what is oyoruba. That is the lamest you could come up with

The word "Yoruba" does not have any meaning in the language of the Okun People but traces it's origins from the mockery the Hausa/Fulani jihadist used in describing the once great race after they had sacked Oyo Ile (the capital of the old Oyo empire) and annexed Ilorin for the Sokoto Caliphate.

The word Yoruba is derived from the two words: Oyo and Oba and from the Hausa/Fulani dialect was pronounced "Oyoroba" and was a direct mockery of how they (Hausa Fulanis) captured Ilorin, killed Afonja and the Oba of old Oyo.

https://www.nairaland.com/4401170/how-did-olukumin-people-accept#65879456
Re: Protest Letter Against The Oluwo (emir) Of Iwo's Action. Cc All Yorubas by BishopMagic: 10:31am On Apr 02, 2018
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ERockson:
Non Yorubas refuse to keep off this thread despite warnings from the op, I guess they fear the Emirship madness will soon find its way to Edo and Delta and consequently conquer their region, so they need to cry more than the bereaved.
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You are busy fighting spectators while your own players are scoring own goals

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Re: Protest Letter Against The Oluwo (emir) Of Iwo's Action. Cc All Yorubas by BishopMagic: 11:26am On Apr 02, 2018
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ERockson:
As a true indigene of Osun state, l call on well born and well brought up Yorubas to put religion aside and ensure Oluwo of Iwo (Emir) is dethrone without further delay having discredited our culture and committed conspiracy against the land.
Logically, I may be wrong the position of Oba is vacant in Iwo land with this development.

On the other hand, State government should as a matter of urgency set up a group of medical psychiatrist to examine the state of mind of the 'Emir' of Iwo because I deduce he may need their help.
We call on Kingmakers in Iwo land to rescue their land without compromise, The Osun traditional council, The Osun State government, The Yoruba Traditional council , The OPC and other group in the Yoruba land to come in.

Note! Non Yorubas should keep off this thread as this is Yoruba matter that will be resolved by the yorubas irrespective of religion.

Click on like to signal your love for the Yoruba culture and protest against the Oba's action.


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Since Oba Akanbi decided to dump the traditions and culture of his ancestral throne for that of a Muslim title similar to what pervades in the Islamic fiefdoms of northern Nigeria, a lot of negative reactions have trailed the move. The Amir is not however facing condemnations only as he has also staunch supporters among his people who see Akanbi's declaration of all Yoruba land as an Emirate under his supreme authority as a welcome development. Akanbi's supporters, as you may rightly guess, are Yoruba Muslims.

Akanbi, did not only declare all Yoruba land an Emirate under his command but also put his purported first class title under the Supreme authority of the Sultan of Sokoto. He has not only abdicated his ancestral throne but swore subservience to Sokoto. His declaration of all Yoruba land being an Emirate under his control automatically transmuted all authority and sovereignty of Odua to Sokoto.

Akanbi's mainly naive Yoruba Muslim supporters, also stated that with this move, Emir Akanbi will be the office from which other Amirs will be appointed across the breath of Yoruba land and that in due time, the traditional stools of authority in Yoruba land will be phased out by the Muslim Emirship.

It is thus glaring that why these Muslim Yorubas support Akanbi's foolishness is driven by their own desire to see that all traditional and cultural stools in Yoruba land are replaced with that of the Islamic system thereby barring non-Muslim Yorubas from occupying any elevated position of power. But naively, these bunch of misguided fools fail to factor that the authority to appoint an Amir in Yoruba land will be decided by Sokoto and not by them.

I can easily predict the bickering and skirmishes that will arise among Yoruba Muslims as to who is to be appointed as an Amir among them. It is from here they will carry themselves to Sokoto for the Sultan to deliberate and appoint among themselves a Muslim leader. In the future, the same Yoruba Muslims out of constant bickering and skirmishes over the Emirship tussle will demand Sokoto to appoint a Fulani to rule them and from there, the Yoruba culture will vanish and the people will forever be enslaved by Sokoto.

This is what will happen. And it will happen within 50yrs.
Re: Protest Letter Against The Oluwo (emir) Of Iwo's Action. Cc All Yorubas by ERockson: 12:32pm On Apr 02, 2018
BishopMagic:
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Since Oba Akanbi decided to dump the traditions and culture of his ancestral throne for that of a Muslim title similar to what pervades in the Islamic fiefdoms of northern Nigeria, a lot of negative reactions have trailed the move. The Amir is not however facing condemnations only as he has also staunch supporters among his people who see Akanbi's declaration of all Yoruba land as an Emirate under his supreme authority as a welcome development. Akanbi's supporters, as you may rightly guess, are Yoruba Muslims.

Akanbi, did not only declare all Yoruba land an Emirate under his command but also put his purported first class title under the Supreme authority of the Sultan of Sokoto. He has not only abdicated his ancestral throne but swore subservience to Sokoto. His declaration of all Yoruba land being an Emirate under his control automatically transmuted all authority and sovereignty of Odua to Sokoto.

Akanbi's mainly naive Yoruba Muslim supporters, also stated that with this move, Emir Akanbi will be the office from which other Amirs will be appointed across the breath of Yoruba land and that in due time, the traditional stools of authority in Yoruba land will be phased out by the Muslim Emirship.

It is thus glaring that why these Muslim Yorubas support Akanbi's foolishness is driven by their own desire to see that all traditional and cultural stools in Yoruba land are replaced with that of the Islamic system thereby barring non-Muslim Yorubas from occupying any elevated position of power. But naively, these bunch of misguided fools fail to factor that the authority to appoint an Amir in Yoruba land will be decided by Sokoto and not by them.

I can easily predict the bickering and skirmishes that will arise among Yoruba Muslims as to who is to be appointed as an Amir among them. It is from here they will carry themselves to Sokoto for the Sultan to deliberate and appoint among themselves a Muslim leader. In the future, the same Yoruba Muslims out of constant bickering and skirmishes over the Emirship tussle will demand Sokoto to appoint a Fulani to rule them and from there, the Yoruba culture will vanish and the people will forever be enslaved by Sokoto.

This is what will happen. And it will happen within 50yrs.

Ok
Re: Protest Letter Against The Oluwo (emir) Of Iwo's Action. Cc All Yorubas by BishopMagic: 1:34pm On Apr 02, 2018
ERockson:


Ok

How Yoruba Muslims Sacked Old Oyo And Will Do Same For All Odua

Ilorin was a small town in the Oyo Empire by the beginning of the 19th century. Afonja, Baale of Ilorin, who also held the title of Are Ona Kakanfo of the Oyo Empire, rebelled against his king, the Alafin of Oyo, in 1817. (There is no space here for the reasons for his rebellion). In order to sustain his rebellion, he was desperate to build a large and powerful army. To that end, he did a number of desperate things.

First, he invited the people of nearby villages to move to Ilorin and turn Ilorin into a large town. Many people so moved, but most refused.

Secondly, he reached out to many prominent friends all over the Oyo country, and invited them to come and live in Ilorin. Some accepted his invitation and came. Among these was a rich trader named Solagberu from Kuwo. Another was a man named Alimi, a Fulani man who had long lived in the Oyo country peddling charms from town to town. Afonja employed Alimi to make charms for him and his army.

Thirdly, Afonja decided to exploit a religious situation that was causing trouble in the country at the time. A Jihad movement had started in Hausaland in the north in 1804, generating wars and stormy Islamic evangelism there. It was started and led by an immigrant people called Fulani. The Fulani immigrants were few among the large Hausa nation, but very many of the Hausa who were already Muslims sided with the Fulani – and thus made it possible for the Fulani to defeat the ancient Hausa kings and make themselves rulers over Hausaland.

Some of the violent Jihadist preachers trickled south into the Oyo country. Everywhere they came, they were causing a lot of commotion by preaching violent and disrespectful sermons against the Oyo kings and chiefs, and against Yoruba culture in general. Yoruba people, with their tradition of religious tolerance, were alarmed; and angry crowds began to attack the preachers. Afonja decided to exploit the situation by issuing a general invitation to the Muslims to flee to him in Ilorin, promising to give them protection there. Thousands of frightened Muslims fled to Ilorin, and Afonja trained many of them for his army. (Afonja himself did not intend to convert to Islam, and he never did).

Fourthly, most rich Oyo families had Hausa, Nupe and Fulani slaves - used mostly in farming, trading, livestock rearing, etc. Most were Muslims.

Afonja decided to exploit this also. He issued a proclamation saying that if any slaves ran away from their owners and came to him in Ilorin, he would give them freedom and protection there. Large numbers of slaves, mostly Hausa, fled to Afonja, and he trained some of them for his army.

Afonja thus had his large town and large army. Most of his army’s commanders and soldiers were Oyo Muslims. A few of the soldiers were Muslim Hausa – all slaves recently set free by Afonja. But many of his Hausa soldiers were unruly. He warned or threatened them repeatedly, but with no result. When he at last decided to discipline them, they mutinied. Afonja was killed in the mutiny - in 1823.

Meanwhile, while Alimi had been making charms for the army, he had become a friend to many of the Oyo commanders who were Muslims, and these hadmade him Imam (Islamic teacher and preacher) for the Muslim community in the army. After Afonja›s death, the same friends gradually made their Imam the ruler of Ilorin. They also created some officers among the Hausa soldiers - for instance, Balogun Gambari. The powerful men doing all these things were Oyo.

That then is how Oyo people made a Fulani man the ruler of Ilorin. When Alimi died, his elder son, Abdulsalam, was elevated to his father’s position by his father›s powerful Oyo Muslim friends. Adulsalam had lived in the Jihad in Hausaland and had only recently come to live with his father in Ilorin. He knew that the Jihad had made the Fulani the rulers of Ilorin - with a Fulani Sultanate based in Sokoto and quasi-independent Fulani Emirs in the separate Hausa kingdoms. So, after he was made ruler of Ilorin, he sent to Hausaland to announce that he had established an Emirate in Ilorin and to ask that his Emirate should be accepted as part of the Fulani Sultanate.

In this way, Ilorin became a Fulani Emirate, ruled by a Fulani family.

Ilorin was, in population, still an Oyo town - probably over 95% Oyo in population. And Ilorin was never conquered or even invaded by any Fulani army. Those influential Oyo men who made Alimi and his son the rulers of Ilorin did so out of fervour for their Islamic faith.

When the news of the happenings in Ilorin spread all over the Oyo country, people were shocked to hear that Ilorin people had made the family of an obscure Fulani charm peddler their rulers. Therefore, people formed armies to go and subdue Ilorin and flush out the Fulani impostors. None of these invasions of Ilorin succeeded. The invading armies were poorly organized, and, moreover, the old Afonja army defending Ilorin was just too powerful. In fact, in the end, the Ilorin people, in order to ensure perfect protection for their fervently Muslim town, decided to go out and conquer most of Yorubaland (all the way to the sea coast), and make all of it a Muslim empire ruled from Ilorin.

Their army marched out in about 1838, conquering town after town towards the south, and causing mammoth streams of refugees. Till today, most Yoruba people still call this Ilorin invasion a Fulani invasion of Yorubaland. But it was not a Fulani invasion at all; it was an attempt by the predominantly Yoruba Muslim people of Ilorin to conquer and Islamize the rest of Yorubaland.

The victorious Ilorin march southwards ended suddenly in 1840. The refugees who had gathered in the Egba village of Ibadan had quickly become a large town. Their army marched out and met the Ilorin army in Oshogbo in 1840, and totally destroyed them, capturing many of their commanders. From then on, the power of Ilorin was more or less over, and Ilorin never dared again to face the Ibadan army in battle.

In the following years, Ibadan became the most powerful state in Yorubaland, and established control over the Oshun valley, Ife, Ijesa, Ekiti, Akoko, Igbomina and parts of Iyagba. Ilorin continued to be ambitious to control some territory in its immediate neighbourhood – in nearby Igbomina and Ibolo (especially Offa); but they feared Ibadan. In 1877, the Ekiti, Ijesa, Igbomina and Akoko revolted against Ibadan’s rule, and the Kiriji War started, keeping all these peoples and Ibadan busy until 1893. Ilorin took advantage of this and established some feeble control over parts of Igbomina and Ibolo.

However, at home in Ilorin itself, a proper Emirate could not develop. The powerful Yoruba war chiefs wanted to re-establish the traditional Yoruba political system whereby the chiefs in a kingdom select their king. The Emirs resisted. By 1895, the chiefs were winning the contest grandly – a situation which forced the Emir Momoh to commit suicide after setting his palace on fire. The victorious chiefs then installed Sulaiman as Emir. This was the situation when the forces of the British Royal Niger Company came and conquered Ilorin in 1897.

In the years that followed, it was the British that established Ilorin as a full-fledged emirate, making the Ilorin Emir like the Emirs of Hausaland. The Emir then took advantage of that to establish all sorts of Emirate-type control over Ibolo and northern Igbomina.

In short, Ilorin was never conquered (was never even invaded) by the Fulani. Ilorin is more than 90% Yoruba in population. The Igbomina, Ibolo, and Ekiti of Kwara, because they have hated the imposture of the Ilorin Emirs since the beginning of British rule, tend to be usually cool towards Ilorin. Rather it was the treasonable ambition of Afonja and the Yoruba Muslim converts who handed Ilorin to the Fulanis.

Today, the same group are at the forefront fighting to ensure that all Yoruba land falls to Sokoto.
Re: Protest Letter Against The Oluwo (emir) Of Iwo's Action. Cc All Yorubas by JikanBaura(m): 10:41pm On Apr 02, 2018
BishopMagic:


How Yoruba Muslims Sacked Old Oyo And Will Do Same For All Odua

Ilorin was a small town in the Oyo Empire by the beginning of the 19th century. Afonja, Baale of Ilorin, who also held the title of Are Ona Kakanfo of the Oyo Empire, rebelled against his king, the Alafin of Oyo, in 1817. (There is no space here for the reasons for his rebellion). In order to sustain his rebellion, he was desperate to build a large and powerful army. To that end, he did a number of desperate things.

First, he invited the people of nearby villages to move to Ilorin and turn Ilorin into a large town. Many people so moved, but most refused.

Secondly, he reached out to many prominent friends all over the Oyo country, and invited them to come and live in Ilorin. Some accepted his invitation and came. Among these was a rich trader named Solagberu from Kuwo. Another was a man named Alimi, a Fulani man who had long lived in the Oyo country peddling charms from town to town. Afonja employed Alimi to make charms for him and his army.

Thirdly, Afonja decided to exploit a religious situation that was causing trouble in the country at the time. A Jihad movement had started in Hausaland in the north in 1804, generating wars and stormy Islamic evangelism there. It was started and led by an immigrant people called Fulani. The Fulani immigrants were few among the large Hausa nation, but very many of the Hausa who were already Muslims sided with the Fulani – and thus made it possible for the Fulani to defeat the ancient Hausa kings and make themselves rulers over Hausaland.

Some of the violent Jihadist preachers trickled south into the Oyo country. Everywhere they came, they were causing a lot of commotion by preaching violent and disrespectful sermons against the Oyo kings and chiefs, and against Yoruba culture in general. Yoruba people, with their tradition of religious tolerance, were alarmed; and angry crowds began to attack the preachers. Afonja decided to exploit the situation by issuing a general invitation to the Muslims to flee to him in Ilorin, promising to give them protection there. Thousands of frightened Muslims fled to Ilorin, and Afonja trained many of them for his army. (Afonja himself did not intend to convert to Islam, and he never did).

Fourthly, most rich Oyo families had Hausa, Nupe and Fulani slaves - used mostly in farming, trading, livestock rearing, etc. Most were Muslims.

Afonja decided to exploit this also. He issued a proclamation saying that if any slaves ran away from their owners and came to him in Ilorin, he would give them freedom and protection there. Large numbers of slaves, mostly Hausa, fled to Afonja, and he trained some of them for his army.

Afonja thus had his large town and large army. Most of his army’s commanders and soldiers were Oyo Muslims. A few of the soldiers were Muslim Hausa – all slaves recently set free by Afonja. But many of his Hausa soldiers were unruly. He warned or threatened them repeatedly, but with no result. When he at last decided to discipline them, they mutinied. Afonja was killed in the mutiny - in 1823.

Meanwhile, while Alimi had been making charms for the army, he had become a friend to many of the Oyo commanders who were Muslims, and these hadmade him Imam (Islamic teacher and preacher) for the Muslim community in the army. After Afonja›s death, the same friends gradually made their Imam the ruler of Ilorin. They also created some officers among the Hausa soldiers - for instance, Balogun Gambari. The powerful men doing all these things were Oyo.

That then is how Oyo people made a Fulani man the ruler of Ilorin. When Alimi died, his elder son, Abdulsalam, was elevated to his father’s position by his father›s powerful Oyo Muslim friends. Adulsalam had lived in the Jihad in Hausaland and had only recently come to live with his father in Ilorin. He knew that the Jihad had made the Fulani the rulers of Ilorin - with a Fulani Sultanate based in Sokoto and quasi-independent Fulani Emirs in the separate Hausa kingdoms. So, after he was made ruler of Ilorin, he sent to Hausaland to announce that he had established an Emirate in Ilorin and to ask that his Emirate should be accepted as part of the Fulani Sultanate.

In this way, Ilorin became a Fulani Emirate, ruled by a Fulani family.

Ilorin was, in population, still an Oyo town - probably over 95% Oyo in population. And Ilorin was never conquered or even invaded by any Fulani army. Those influential Oyo men who made Alimi and his son the rulers of Ilorin did so out of fervour for their Islamic faith.

When the news of the happenings in Ilorin spread all over the Oyo country, people were shocked to hear that Ilorin people had made the family of an obscure Fulani charm peddler their rulers. Therefore, people formed armies to go and subdue Ilorin and flush out the Fulani impostors. None of these invasions of Ilorin succeeded. The invading armies were poorly organized, and, moreover, the old Afonja army defending Ilorin was just too powerful. In fact, in the end, the Ilorin people, in order to ensure perfect protection for their fervently Muslim town, decided to go out and conquer most of Yorubaland (all the way to the sea coast), and make all of it a Muslim empire ruled from Ilorin.

Their army marched out in about 1838, conquering town after town towards the south, and causing mammoth streams of refugees. Till today, most Yoruba people still call this Ilorin invasion a Fulani invasion of Yorubaland. But it was not a Fulani invasion at all; it was an attempt by the predominantly Yoruba Muslim people of Ilorin to conquer and Islamize the rest of Yorubaland.

The victorious Ilorin march southwards ended suddenly in 1840. The refugees who had gathered in the Egba village of Ibadan had quickly become a large town. Their army marched out and met the Ilorin army in Oshogbo in 1840, and totally destroyed them, capturing many of their commanders. From then on, the power of Ilorin was more or less over, and Ilorin never dared again to face the Ibadan army in battle.

In the following years, Ibadan became the most powerful state in Yorubaland, and established control over the Oshun valley, Ife, Ijesa, Ekiti, Akoko, Igbomina and parts of Iyagba. Ilorin continued to be ambitious to control some territory in its immediate neighbourhood – in nearby Igbomina and Ibolo (especially Offa); but they feared Ibadan. In 1877, the Ekiti, Ijesa, Igbomina and Akoko revolted against Ibadan’s rule, and the Kiriji War started, keeping all these peoples and Ibadan busy until 1893. Ilorin took advantage of this and established some feeble control over parts of Igbomina and Ibolo.

However, at home in Ilorin itself, a proper Emirate could not develop. The powerful Yoruba war chiefs wanted to re-establish the traditional Yoruba political system whereby the chiefs in a kingdom select their king. The Emirs resisted. By 1895, the chiefs were winning the contest grandly – a situation which forced the Emir Momoh to commit suicide after setting his palace on fire. The victorious chiefs then installed Sulaiman as Emir. This was the situation when the forces of the British Royal Niger Company came and conquered Ilorin in 1897.

In the years that followed, it was the British that established Ilorin as a full-fledged emirate, making the Ilorin Emir like the Emirs of Hausaland. The Emir then took advantage of that to establish all sorts of Emirate-type control over Ibolo and northern Igbomina.

In short, Ilorin was never conquered (was never even invaded) by the Fulani. Ilorin is more than 90% Yoruba in population. The Igbomina, Ibolo, and Ekiti of Kwara, because they have hated the imposture of the Ilorin Emirs since the beginning of British rule, tend to be usually cool towards Ilorin. Rather it was the treasonable ambition of Afonja and the Yoruba Muslim converts who handed Ilorin to the Fulanis.

Today, the same group are at the forefront fighting to ensure that all Yoruba land falls to Sokoto.

grin OK
Re: Protest Letter Against The Oluwo (emir) Of Iwo's Action. Cc All Yorubas by Nobody: 4:31am On Apr 03, 2018
The word "Oba" was not used by yoruba untill the colonial era when the ooni of ife copied it for political reasons. Soon after every yoruba chief followed and copied the title. yoruba have their own titles such as: ooni, alafin, oluwo, alake... Could they leave the Edo title alone for god's sake ? Why do you guys keep making up silly stories and trying to pass them off as history ? Oyo and Oba making up yoruba is an other stupid ans silly story. The fact is you have no idea of what you are talking about. For your information, the word yoruba is derived from "y.a.r.i.b.a".
BishopMagic:


The word "Yoruba" does not have any meaning in the language of the Okun People but traces it's origins from the mockery the Hausa/Fulani jihadist used in describing the once great race after they had sacked Oyo Ile (the capital of the old Oyo empire) and annexed Ilorin for the Sokoto Caliphate.

The word Yoruba is derived from the two words: Oyo and Oba and from the Hausa/Fulani dialect was pronounced "Oyoroba" and was a direct mockery of how they (Hausa Fulanis) captured Ilorin, killed Afonja and the Oba of old Oyo.

https://www.nairaland.com/4401170/how-did-olukumin-people-accept#65879456

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Re: Protest Letter Against The Oluwo (emir) Of Iwo's Action. Cc All Yorubas by Nobody: 4:33am On Apr 03, 2018
oyo "empire", you've got to be kidding me. There was never an oyo empire. There was a small and young oyo kingdom which got conquered by the fulani. End of story.

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Re: Protest Letter Against The Oluwo (emir) Of Iwo's Action. Cc All Yorubas by Nobody: 4:40am On Apr 03, 2018
could you redact your write-up and take the word "Oba" out of it.
yoruba copying of Edo has gone far enough, just stick to your own titles, in this case it is oluwo !


ERockson:
As a true indigene of Osun state, l call on well born and well brought up Yorubas to put religion aside and ensure Oluwo of Iwo (Emir) is dethrone without further delay having discredited our culture and committed conspiracy against the land.
Logically, I may be wrong the position of Oba is vacant in Iwo land with this development.

On the other hand, State government should as a matter of urgency set up a group of medical psychiatrist to examine the state of mind of the 'Emir' of Iwo because I deduce he may need their help.
We call on Kingmakers in Iwo land to rescue their land without compromise, The Osun traditional council, The Osun State government, The Yoruba Traditional council , The OPC and other group in the Yoruba land to come in.

Note! Non Yorubas should keep off this thread as this is Yoruba matter that will be resolved by the yorubas irrespective of religion.

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Re: Protest Letter Against The Oluwo (emir) Of Iwo's Action. Cc All Yorubas by Nobody: 4:44am On Apr 03, 2018
80 years ago the ooni of ife stole the title "Oba".
Soon after all other yoruba chiefs followed the trend.
Now the oluwo of iwo is taking on the title of emir. What is the difference ?
yoruba are thieves, use your own f*cking titles !

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