₦airaland Forum

step1:
very insecure people indeed. Just like their previous Oba. I am of bini origin in lagos but ......

Deadlytruth:
You are obviously a typical uneducated Yoruba bigot on an expansionism mission that has already failed. The guy schooled you. Live with that.

Much as you don't have to be Edo before you can know about Edo, you however can't know Edo more than the Edos themselves. I may have a lot of literature about Yorubas at my disposal online but that will and can never make me more knowledgeable about Yorubas than a Yoruba person born and bred in Yoruba land. So when an Edo person born and bred in Edo State speaks you listen and learn from his first hand knowledge rather than insist on the incomplete and inaccurate knowledge you gleaned from online articles and books written by non-native scholars like you. You don't claim you know me more than I know myself. That is absurd and moronic.

So you went all that length to resist the Izoduwa story which appears to you as a Binis' attempt to impose their own version of your identity on you yet you are here at the same time trying to impose your own concocted idea of Akoko-Edo people's Identify and history on them even when an Akoko-Edo person is here refuting it all and telling you the fact as a native? Is that not hypocritic? See your life?

Sorry for you. I am an Akoko-Edo person born and brought up there and still live there. You are hallucinating. Almost all Akoko-Edo towns and villages are inhabited by ancient Bini Migrants. Most of their languages and dialects share a lot of words with Bini Language. Ibillo people are part of the ethnic group called Okpameri which is the largest in Akoko-Edo. Other Okpameri towns are Lampese, Bekuma, Imoga, Kakumo, Somorika, Ekor, Ilepi, Ugboshi Afe, Ugboshi Ele, Makeke, Anyauza, Ogbe, etc. None of them was founded by any Yoruba historical figure. They all migrated from Benin at different times.
The next largest tribe is the Uneme tribe which has towns and villages like Uneme-Nekhua, Uneme Erhurhu, Uneme-Akpama, Uneme-Osu, Ekpedo, etc. None of them was founded by any Yoruba. Unemes are metal smiths till today - a skill they carried from their ancestral Benin home. Their language is almost purely Benin.
Igarra is just the largest town but not the largest tribe. In fact Igarra is the third largest tribe in Akoko-Edo. So your assumption that the largest size of Igarra automatically translates to largest tribe status for them showcases your stark ignorance about Akoko-Edo and further proves that you are on an expansionism mission which will surely fail.
Other Akoko-Edo settlements are Okpe, Ijaja, Enwan, Akuku, Ososo, Egbigere, Sasaro, Ushi, Anyaran, Ojirami, Ojah, Atteh, Ikpeshi, etc.They are all together fifty six in number. None of them has any history of being founded by Yorubas.
Akoko-Edo is in Edo State while Akoko-Ondo is in Ondo State. So I am left wondering what you mean by your claim that they are together. Akoko-Edo was cut into Midwest along with other Edoid tribes because they were clearly not Yorubas and had nothing in common with them otherwise they would have been left in the Western Region during the creation of Midwest.
As for the Yoruba factor about which you exposed immense ignorance, here is the truth, kiss it for once:

The geographical area currently known as Akoko-Edo was initially known as and called Igarra-Edo by the colonial authorities which observed that nearly all the inhabitants are Edoid in language and traditions. The inclusion of Igarra root in the name was on account of the level of primacy which Igarra exhibited among the other settlements even though Igarra was not the largest tribe nor the second largest. However with time and more enlightenment the other tribes began to agitate that the name Igarra-Edo was not truly representative of the actual diversity of the area. But neither did any other single tribe have a simple majority to confer on it the status of overwhelming majority. This led to a logjam which in an attempt to resolve the different tribes, including the Igarrans themselves, had to agree to pick a neutral name to replace Igarra in the name. Owing to historical familiarity with their Akoko neighbors through trade interactions over centuries coupled with the fact that they were already placed in the newly created Western Region, they thought it strategic to adopt the Akoko root and moreso to gain political relevance within the Western Region given the fact that qualification for entitlement from the Regional government was not much by merit as was by real or apparent majority membership.
That was how the people came to use Akoko and not that they we're Yorubas.
However with the creation of Midwest, the Yoruba factor became unnecessary and began to die a natural death. For the teaching of Local Language, schools reverted to teaching the mother tongues of the villages in which they were located and the use of Yoruba language in communication became progressively discouraged and resented. In the end the only Yoruboid village that ever existed in Akoko-Edo and was actually founded by Yorubas was encouraged to get themselves carved into Ondo State. And this was done in IBB's 1991 States creation and boundary adjustment as the village in question called Imeri located on the Northwestern end of Akoko-Edo was carved into Ondo State.
Thereafter Akoko-Edo has become devoid of all traces of Yoruba.

OlaoChi:
ok so let those that have something to teach teach

OlaoChi:
Do you have the intellectual standing and expertise to prove them lies? or you just say so because you do not like it

ayyoshert:
Uwa is used in the ancient Yoruba and still used in Ife,

What the fvvck is this one even saying!

What ancient dialect and what ife??

Norbe only ancient na 18AD

Stop making a fool of yourself trying to explain dumb lies to yourself and the end of the day a dirty lie is still a dirty lie

OlaoChi:
I followed the thread and have actually learnt some things from the Yorubas on here, you and the other guy on the other hand just attack and hate without actually contributing anything

ayyoshert:
Uwa is used in the ancient Yoruba and still used in Ife, Ekiti and Ondo dialects, it means wealth/prosperity.
I saw this thread as that which belongs for a matured mind deliberations and intellectual discourse but when it has gone down to the degrading norm this platform is known for, i beg to sign out.
Thanks to Macof i guess you are Ekiti, do try open a thread for us that will talk on our history and dialect, thanks to Scholes, 9jacool and others that gave knowledgeable insights.

historyworld031:
"you dey come from ife, you be yoruba, your oba be oduduwa son".
yoruba will always be backward, always trying to claim an other man's heritage.
I bet you that soon these natural 419ers will be talking about the bight of oyo or the bight of yoruba.
the village head of ife known as ooni of ife is already calling himself "his emperial majesty".
The funny thing is that the Edo don't give a hoot about yoruba, we even feel much more connections with igbo and kogi people, but yoruba just can't get enough of talking about s Edos.
Everyday a yoruba must claim something Edo.
They have claimed the title of our King "Oba".
They tried to lay claim to the Benin bronzes.
They tried to lay claim to Benin City.
They tried to lay claim to Edo-north.
They tried to lay claim to AKOKO-EDO people and their land.
They tried to lay claim to our King.
What kind of inferiority complex do these yoruba have ?
When my wife gives birth, I wouldn't be surprised if some yoruba come and claim my baby as his own, that is their tradition of claiming everything which belongs to Edo.
I am Edo. One people (Edo), one Kingdom (Benin Kingdom) and one king: Omo n'Oba n'Edo.

OlaoChi:
Why are you being a nuisance? Edo people are supposed to be better than this

ayyoshert:
that is what i am trying to say too,
i remember in '91 when we went for our Grand dad's funeral,
i was almost lost, i barely connected to the culture i saw,
but since then, though i was still young i started getting curious about Ekiti,
There was this drum in which the pattern of beating is not Yoruba at all, i remember my Dad saying they were ancient and the skins were humdan,
even the music pattern and rhythm sound strange, especially the traditional ritualistic type.
i cant count number of times when people ask after seeing my surname 'osatuyi' if i am Edo.
i really love to know more on the past with Ondo and Ekiti.
i want to believe poeple have been existing in these areas before waves of Ile Ife people came to mingle and mix up the tradition of the earlier aborigines of the place.

macof:
If you don't know the difference between Kingdom and Empire that's not my problem really

And I purposely stated 6 because parts of Orhiomwon belongs to Ika - Igbos

Rather than charge out on "ethnic defence mission" you should have stated what you think Bini kingdom comprises and prove how I'm wrong.

trustyshoess:
troll
gtfo my mentions

safarigirl:
OK....looks more like Calabar Carnival than a 20-century old festival.

trustyshoess:
Wales

trustyshoess:
igbabonelimin! I miss watching these guys live. It still fascinates me how fast they can go

drivepassi:
This Guy Again....

Chivasex:
oloshos headquarters

on display

hamzeiy:
If ijaws actually think they are the fourth largest tribe in the country, then they are suffering from self deceit, the only state the occupy fully is bayelsa a state not bigger than zaria local govt of kaduna state, sambiza forest is like 5 times bayelsa state, they are minorities in delta,rivers and ondo state i wonder where the got the fourth largest ethnic group from . My dear friends the bini kingdom are known through history. Other than oil no body would have known there is a tribe called ijaw in the first place

AdaFonju:
Edwin Clark is no ones bitcvt, can you explain what made him a bitcvt to an ika man, because I dont understand and don't go around posting ur usual gibberish, brings facts, ogbemudia on the other hand is an Ika man even the name is ika, ogbe mu(my house) dia(dey),
Unless you will say this is bini language too,

AdaFonju:
The answer was bxtxh since you refused to answer.
ogbemudia was an Ika whose ppl speak ika language and don't identify as anything other than igbo, anioma, ika or delta ibo , stop dis your stapler attitude and aspire to be something like the first bini president or vp or sp, leave this imaginary world you created in your head where bini is more than a measly 6 lgs in edo state,
So If the Ijaws constituting 10% of Nigerias population by national census, cia and other reliable population gathering link is small then your tribe bini is like a grain of sand on a beach(Nigeria).

AdaFonju:
Everyone knows ogbemudia of old bendel state was an Ika , and I can say that in Benin , Libya, Italy etc, Edwin Clark is no one's "bitch" in your own words , any discussion involving the Niger delta the first name to be called upon is Edwin Clark so what does dat make you and your people? "Insert word for feminine flea bag"