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According to Bini folklore, Izoduwa was a Bini Chief who abhorred injustice and had the courage to criticize an Ogisos who ordered that he should be led into the forest and killed. The executioners who were sent to do the job knew he was right and decided to spare him by slaughtering a goat and staining their marchets with goat blood as a proof. They warned the said Izoduwa never to say where he came from because the then Ogiso would definitely execute them when he learns that Izoduwa was spared. This is the origin of the claim by Oduduwa that he climbed down a chain from the sky. The people believed him.

Later in life when the last Ogiso Ogiamen was deposed, Bini was without a viable leader and they were exposed to attack within and outside the kingdom. They elected to have another king but not the Ogisos again. This was when they learned that Izoduwa was not actually killed as alleged but was living someplace else and has formed a prospering kingdom. When they got to Ile ife where he had established his base, he recognized them and welcomed them. They demanded that he followed them to be their king. This request was turned down and he opted to send his son Oranmiyan to be their king. The said Oranmiyan was not familiar with the culture of the Binis and found it difficult to rule. This same Oranmiyan gave the present name Ile iibinu which was corrupted to Bini. He decided that a person born and brought up in Bini land and familiar with their culture was what they needed. The son he had with a Bini woman became the first Oba. Oba Eweka the first.

There were about 33 Ogisos kings and a period of interegnum before the first Oba of Benin who happened to be a grand son of Oduduwa who was from Benin according to documented Benin folklore. Although the Yorubas claim that they were existing before the arrival of Oduduwa, there has been no concrete evidence to justify that claim. Igodomigodo as Benin was then known has a rich history dating back to 3rd century AD. Benin kingdom extended past the present day Republic of Benin. Although the present day Republic of Benin was bearing the name Dahomey, they learnt of their true identity hence the change of name to Republic of Benin. One writer rightly identified the origin of the Obaship of Lagos (Eko) and the Oba of Lagos has not denied this. The Bimis founded many kingdoms and the Yorubas might be one of the big ones.

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Men, there is no competition here. Uduaghan is the undisputed king of laggards! The governor of Akwa Ibom state was there and what he saw relative to the inflow of allocation shocked him and he said it. There is seemingly more money available to Oshomole to work than Uduaghan. It is open sacrilege out there at Asaba.

Great Ogbolu never lost any of those elections. He was rigged out by PDP rigging machine. The guy here who insinuated that Ogboru lost elections might have been living in the moon. We as Deltans know better.