Welcome to Wado City formerly known as Warri...
When we Finally rename the Urhobo Terrories of the Present day Warri city to WADO CITY.
Then we will make Further changes.
The Present Warri-Effurun Sapele road that runs from Roundabout in Uvwie land to Ibo market Roundabout, will be the longest Road in WADO CITY.
We will change that Name to Mukoro Mowoe road.
Airport road the second longest Road in WADO CITY we will change to Felix Ibru road.
Deco road we will change to David Ejoor road.
McDermott will be changed to Salubi road.
All those roads with British names in our Territories will be changed to Urhobo heroes.
WADO CITY is our land it is our city
Why should some one coming from Lagos and will end in Effurun say he is going to Warri??, Is Otokutu WARRI??
Any Urhobo land or territory in all the Urhobo areas associated with the word Warri must be changed to WADO.
We Urhobos cannot say we are Warri people when the Gazetted Traditional Ruler of Warri Kingdom is Olu.
The Supreme court gave a Judgement in 1974 in Idudun versus Okumagba
It says " Ginuwa when trying to form kingdom , went as far as Ijalla where he lived and died, that there is no evidence to show that whatever kingdom Ginuwa founded EXTENDED to OKERE".
Today the Kingdom Ginuwa founded is called Warri Kingdom by the Government of NIGERIA
And Okere Urhobo is now in Warri city.
What kind of contradiction is that ??
This is the confusion.
We waited for Government to solve this Problem by Accurately reflecting the status of the Kings in Warri city by not attaching any title of the 3 kings to the name Warri, instead the people of that king should be the Title. We have waited for more than 60 years.
So When you say Orosuen of Okere Urhobo kingdom, we know he rules the Okere Urhobo people of Warri city.
When you say Ovie of Agbarha Ame kingdom.
We know he rules the Agbarha Ame people of Warri City.
But when you say Olu of Warri, what does it mean??
It means he rules the whole of Warri city,
If that is true, then it means he also rules the 2 kings of Okere Urhobo kingdom and Agbarha Ame kingdom both in Warri city.
But if you say No that is not what it means,...It only means that the Olu only rules the Itsekiri people of Warri city and other Itsekiris forming the Warri Kingdom.
Then only one logical conclusion can be gotten from this.
That the Word Warri TRADITIONALLY is Itsekiri.
Because if Olu of Warri is synonymous with Olu of Itsekiri, then Warri is Itsekiri.
And if Urhobos are not Itsekiris, then the only wise thing to do is to change the name of your territory from Warri to WADO.
Urhobo Wadoooo.
© Ejiro Imuere