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ChiefOloye:
Are you sure you understand what read or you just allowed Sahara to use your head?
The Oba didn't say she is not Iyaloja, "Iyaloja" is a Yoruba word, the Benin variant is "iyeki" which implies that Mrs. Folashade could be referred to as Iyeki General, while she on the soil of Benin Kingdom. That's neither rejection nor confrontation, as Sahara wants you to believe, but a simple call for cultural respect and acceptance.

And on the same post you claim you read, the oba also denied her that last minute backdoor entrance, by telling her that each market is independent of the other, and therefore there can't be an iyeki General.

There can be only one iyeki in each market, and he or she is elected by the traders.

What is Iya Loja.?
Nonsense!!!!

Na u no come read well so na.the Oba said each Iyeki is unique to each market.so there's nothing like Iyeki general.so there's no general Iyeki for all market,the Iyeki in Oba market does not have jurisdiction in another market.

ChiefOloye:
Are you sure you understand what read or you just allowed Sahara to use your head?
The Oba didn't say she is not Iyaloja, "Iyaloja" is a Yoruba word, the Benin variant is "iyeki" which implies that Mrs. Folashade could be referred to as Iyeki General, while she on the soil of Benin Kingdom. That's neither rejection nor confrontation, as Sahara wants you to believe, but a simple call for cultural respect and acceptance.

Here is whom we can call a king, the custodian of the people's culture.

Now, compare him with the other two from southwest who are dragging each other's names through the mire for a woman's sexuality.

Truly, kingship is a joke in Yoruba land.

Oba gha tokpe'ere!

Iseee!

Oba with balls of iron.
If Nigerians are not careful, we'll be enslaved to serve Tinubu dynasty till the end of time..
Your mother na iyaloja general before her death now your daughter...
I beg make this people shift jare

My dear nairalander I believe you knowledgeable please kindly read the statement of the oba of Benin again for understanding.
It clearly states that nothing like iyaloja general and it is alien to the Benin culture, and that every market in Benin has an iyeki and there's nothing like iyeki general which simply means in plain terms one market leader can not control another market they are all independent of their own .
So don't start a narrative to endorse the criminality to perpetuate agberoism through market leadership

ChiefOloye:
Are you sure you understand what read or you just allowed Sahara to use your head?
The Oba didn't say she is not Iyaloja, "Iyaloja" is a Yoruba word, the Benin variant is "iyeki" which implies that Mrs. Folashade could be referred to as Iyeki General, while she on the soil of Benin Kingdom. That's neither rejection nor confrontation, as Sahara wants you to believe, but a simple call for cultural respect and acceptance.

And the 'first daughter' strikes again.

By the way, she never responded to the BudgIT expose below on how taxpayers were paying the bills for her guests:

https://www.nairaland.com/7938227/vps-office-pays-10m-hotel

ChiefOloye:
Are you sure you understand what read or you just allowed Sahara to use your head?
The Oba didn't say she is not Iyaloja, "Iyaloja" is a Yoruba word, the Benin variant is "iyeki" which implies that Mrs. Folashade could be referred to as Iyeki General, while she on the soil of Benin Kingdom. That's neither rejection nor confrontation, as Sahara wants you to believe, but a simple call for cultural respect and acceptance.

You have a comprehension challenge. Reread the article and come back with an informed contribution. The oba just cautioned Tinubu’s daughter that in Benin each market is independently headed by a leader called Iyeki, as against Iyeki-general ish that the usurper is attempting to impose.

All the markets in Benin do not have a centralized leadership structure. Each market leadership interacts with the palace individually. Have you learned something?

Greed must really run in their DNA

ChiefOloye:
Are you sure you understand what read or you just allowed Sahara to use your head?
The Oba didn't say she is not Iyaloja, "Iyaloja" is a Yoruba word, the Benin variant is "iyeki" which implies that Mrs. Folashade could be referred to as Iyeki General, while she on the soil of Benin Kingdom. That's neither rejection nor confrontation, as Sahara wants you to believe, but a simple call for cultural respect and acceptance.

you are the one that didn't read well the Oba said each market has their own leader that there's nothing like Iyeki general in Edo State Each market has their own Iyeki

politicoNG:
https://saharareporters.com/2025/10/01/oba-benin-ewuare-ii-tells-tinubus-daughter-iyaloja-general-not-recognised-benin-culture

The Oba of all Obas has spoken

ChiefOloye:
Are you sure you understand what read or you just allowed Sahara to use your head?
The Oba didn't say she is not Iyaloja, "Iyaloja" is a Yoruba word, the Benin variant is "iyeki" which implies that Mrs. Folashade could be referred to as Iyeki General, while she on the soil of Benin Kingdom. That's neither rejection nor confrontation, as Sahara wants you to believe, but a simple call for cultural respect and acceptance.

Lol you're not serious. Keep twisting what Oba said. Una must find something to suit una story

Tareq1105:
It's the imagination of the Press during the 2023 election campaign. She never gave herself such title but the Press did as a way of demarketing her father.

Self-deceit
She was given iyaloja-General by Lagos state govt and she then extended it to the whole Nigeria by herself

The title "Oba" belongs to only one crown in this world, and it is the crown of Benin.
The yoruba monarchs copied it in the colonial era as a way to aggrandise their status and look like peers with the Oba of Benin. Yoruba like to copy culture, I don't blame them for that, but where I blame them is that they always claim to be the original and that the people they copied are the actual copiers because "oduduwa"...😅
Just for your sanity, I shall inform you that oduduwa never existed, it's just a made up story. Ife is not an old kingdom, it's younger than Lagos and Jebu which were both under Benin long before Ife even started to exist.

The British fought Benin, not Ife.
The bight was named after Benin and so was Benin republic, nothing was named after Ife !
The kingdom with the biggest throve of artefacts in Nigeria is Benin, not Ife !

Benin doesn't copy, we remain authentic, yoruba however, they create yoruba culture on the go, through copying of other cultures including Ashanti and Benin.
Look at the newly made crown your Oni keeps wearing, did you notice that it look like the crown of the only real Oba in this world ?

TempleHouse:
This Oba of Benin should be reminded that the appelate "OBA" is derived from Ile-Ife in Yoruba land.

He should not allow Yoruba people to invoke the spirit of Oduduwa to take his title from him.

He should thread with caution 🔥

Orunmila is still trying to pacify the god for him when he married the same twins which is abomination in Yoruba land.

Actually, the Oba is the only real Oba.
The title "Oba" belongs to him, just like the title "king" belongs to the monarch of England.
The strange thing in Nigeria is that some people (yoruba) would copy you and then they will swear that they are the original and you are the copy 😂

What is the title of the Ife monarch: Oni
What is the title of the oyo monarch: Alafin
What is the title of the french monarch: Roi.
What is the title if the Russian monarch: Tsar.
What is the title of the British monarch: king
What is the title of the Benin monarch: Oba.

The yarriba copied the title of the Benin monarch.

Okhuadams:
The Oba of all Obas has spoken

folake4u:

Seems you're Edo with Yoruba name

Or perhaps the name is a shared name between both people ?
Why always assume it belongs to your people ?

After all the culture copying your people have done, you still believe you own everything?

Kukutente23:
Seems you're Edo with Yoruba name

Our name is "Benin" , Benin republic copied our name, so please stop calling us "Bini" while you call Benin republic with our name.

illicit:
She is the iyaloja of the 36 states in Nigeria and the FCT

And Togo, Benin, Bini, Cuba, Oyotunji California...

It's Benin.
I think only southwestern monarchs would sacrifice their traditions to satisfy tinubu's daughter.

bjdon:
This is the difference between Bini and other places. No other monarch would dare speak to Tinubu's daughter like that

illicit:
She is the iyaloja of the 36 states in Nigeria and the FCT

And Togo, Benin, Bini, Cuba, Oyotunji California...

Let her go to Ariaria and Bakkasi market to inaugurate Iyaloja, let us see.

Owo mi da agberomudeen..

[quote author=ChiefOloye post=136981977]Are you sure you understand what read or you just allowed Sahara to use your head?
The Oba didn't say she is not Iyaloja, "Iyaloja" is a Yoruba word, the Benin variant is "iyeki" which implies that Mrs. Folashade could be referred to as Iyeki General, while she on the soil of Benin Kingdom. That's neither rejection nor confrontation, as Sahara wants you to believe, but a simple call for cultural respect and acceptance. [/quote
Stop twisting what the oba said just because you want to defend the monumental embarrassment that tinubu daughter suffered at the palace .

The Oba said each market in benin has its own leader and they don't interfere in each other business . He also went on to say there is. Nothing like Iyaloja general or Iyeki general. Meaning, tinubu daughter's title is inconsequential and alien to the benin traditional.

It's not recognized.

ChiefOloye:
Are you sure you understand what read or you just allowed Sahara to use your head?
The Oba didn't say she is not Iyaloja, "Iyaloja" is a Yoruba word, the Benin variant is "iyeki" which implies that Mrs. Folashade could be referred to as Iyeki General, while she on the soil of Benin Kingdom. That's neither rejection nor confrontation, as Sahara wants you to believe, but a simple call for cultural respect and acceptance.

Stop twisting what the oba said just because you want to defend the monumental embarrassment that tinubu daughter suffered at the palace .

The Oba said each market in benin has its own leader and they don't interfere in each other business . He also went on to say there is Nothing like Iyaloja general or Iyeki general. Meaning, tinubu daughter's title is inconsequential and alien to the benin traditional.

It's not recognized

There's no such thing as "iyaloja general of Nigeria". Tinubu need's to tell his daughter to stop playing.
You give yourself a non existent title because your father is president?
Tinubu need's to caution his daughter and stop this madness.

The Oba was talking about Benin, and he said there is no such thing as iyaloja general in Benin culture. If that exists elsewhere, then let it exist elsewhere, it just doesn't exist in Benin. In Benin we have iyeki and no iyeki general neither.

LagosOrigin:
Stop twisting what the oba said just because you want to defend the monumental embarrassment that tinubu daughter suffered at the palace .

The Oba said each market in benin has its own leader and they don't interfere in each other business . He also went on to say there is Nothing like Iyaloja general or Iyeki general. Meaning, tinubu daughter's title is inconsequential and alien to the benin traditional.

It's not recognized

It's Benin, not Bini.

Mindlog:
You are the one, low in understanding.

The Oba said the title, iyeki general does not exist in Bini culture, that each market has their own iyeki, not under another iyeki.

She gave herself that title in her social media and she presented herself as iyaloja general to the palace in the video.
Stop telling lies.

Tareq1105:
It's the imagination of the Press during the 2023 election campaign. She never gave herself such title but the Press did as a way of demarketing her father.

ChiefOloye:
Are you sure you understand what read or you just allowed Sahara to use your head?
The Oba didn't say she is not Iyaloja, "Iyaloja" is a Yoruba word, the Benin variant is "iyeki" which implies that Mrs. Folashade could be referred to as Iyeki General, while she on the soil of Benin Kingdom. That's neither rejection nor confrontation, as Sahara wants you to believe, but a simple call for cultural respect and acceptance.

You are actually slow. Let Tinubu's daughter call herself the Iyaloja of New York, it doesn't concern Benin people. Anybody can call him or herself anything. Her Iyaloja stops at lagos. She has no influence over any other markets outside Lagos.

What the Oba of Benin told her is that one person can't be the iyeki of the whole markets in Benin city (indirectly telling her that she can't be an Iyaloja of the whole markets in Nigeria since Iyaloja is a yoruba word. Who even gave her that title or that appointment?).

So, you guys can keep calling her whatever name she likes or wants to hear in lagos. No wahala. But in Edo state, like in every other states in Nigeria except lagos, no one recognizes her.