Plans by some Shuwa Arabs, an ethnic group from Borno, to crown Idris Adanno as the Sultan of Shuwa Arab of Edo State, is generating palpable tension across Benin Kingdom.

The coronation ceremony is slated to hold on Saturday, 21 August, 2021, at Rialto Hotel, Eyaen, a suburb of Benin City.

The hotel is owned by a Duke in Benin Kingdom, HRH Osazuwa Iduriase.

Invitation card to the coronation ceremony, sighted on Facebook, has triggered some outrage.

Adam Harun after he was turbaned


The new invitation to instal second Sultan of Shuwa Arabs in Edo triggers furore

Prominent Benin youths who reacted on Facebook, condemned the planned coronation of a Sultan within the ancient Kingdom.

But unknown to many people in the state, the Shehu of Borno on 4 August this year, turbaned Adam Harun and gave him the same title.

Benin people are now just being aware of the latest move, which is indicative of a schism in the Shuwa Arab community in the state.

In his reaction, the President of Benin Solidarity Movement (BSM), Elder Curtis Eghosa Ugbo, said Benin indigenes will do whatever it will take to resist what he described as “evil act” by persons who are bent on fomenting trouble.

“This will never happen in Benin Kingdom, we are Benin,” Ugbo added.

Also reacting, the Coordinator-General of Great Benin Descendants (GBD), Imasuen Izoduwa said the organization would meet and lock up the hotel-venue of the coronation, for allowing “such nonsense” in the land.

“We will meet later today so we can lock up that hotel by tomorrow or next for allowing such nonsense in our land. Enough is enough, I will no longer take any of this in our Kingdom,” he said.

Comrade Amos Ehinomen Uagbor said: “Is this obtainable elsewhere ?
We should now have OBA and Sultan in Edo state ? Infact, the venue should be sealed`’.

Efforts to reach mobile phones numbers on the card for a reaction failed, as calls made to them failed to connect.

P.M.News believes that the planned installation of Idriss Adanno as Sultan of Shuwa Arab may be a response to the turbanning of Adam Harun for the same title by the Shehu of Borno.

On 4 August, the Shehu of Borno, Dr Alhaji Abubakar Ibn Garbai Al’amin Elkanemi, performed the ceremony in Maiduguri.

That some Shuwa Arabs are staging another show, less than three weeks after, is indicative of a division amidst the Shuwa Arabs living in Edo State.

Omihanifa:
What will Nigerians not see or hear

What another tribe from the South can't try in the north, Northerners will be doing it in the south

Sirjamo:
Igbo have igwe, Yoruba have Oba in Kano and almost all the northern states.

If we conduct an empirical research on religion and ethnic tolerance in Nigeria, only Yoruba will beat the north. The South east and South South are more clannish than the north.




I AM DONE TALKING

stonemasonn:
To me the problem is the word Sultan....A Sultan is like an emperor. Although a Sultan in this context may just mean head of Shuwa Arabs in Benin (or Nigeria). But I think the title Sarkin Shuwa Arab should be enough.

AntiBeEmCe:
Recently, fulanis have taken over Benin. Everywer you go, you would see all those their shanties; the whole place looking sooo dirty and overcrowded. Plus, most Edo pple are muslims.

So in other words, since they kept quiet and allowed these parasites swarm their lands because of mosques, they should keep quiet and accept the sultan in peace.

Soon, they will be completely conquered like illorin. End of story.

Jerryherd:
Although it's a meaningless coronation without any relivance under Edo State Laws or Nigerian law

But Sultan under which Sultanate? Last time I checked Benin is a Kingdom under Oba of Benin

stonemasonn:
To me the problem is the word Sultan....A Sultan is like an emperor. Although a Sultan in this context may just mean head of Shuwa Arabs in Benin (or Nigeria). But I think the title Sarkin Shuwa Arab should be enough.

emmanuel1277:

Most Edo people are Muslims
Fool

AntiBeEmCe:


Eyahh... it's paining you? Go nd die if you don't like it. Also...ur father is d proper f0ol...go and ask him. N0nsense.

letu:
A high sounded call which supposed to be enough for you wake up from your sleep/slumber, well you still choose to go back to sleep by being a typical African person that you are, Edo Land and Yoruba Land has always been part of the Nigerian Islamic sultan and the oba of Bini along with his counterpart the Islamic King of Auchi and also the Yoruba Oba's all of them are aware of this simple truth, it's just that is no longer hidden that's way some traditionalist from the Oba of Bini palace trying to make noise so that it will look as if this is there first time of hearing such a thing.
First and second Pictures (Sultan of Edonistan Emirate/State)
Now here comes the Sultan of Edonistan Emirate/State

Third and fourth pictures is the Sultan of Yorubanistan
Capital Lagos.

And another thing is the question why the Shuwa Arabs it's so because the Shuwa Arabs are both Loyal to the Fulani Sokoto Caliphate and also Loyal to the Shehu of Bornu.

Omihanifa:
What will Nigerians not see or hear

What another tribe from the South can't try in the north, Northerners will be doing it in the south