Olumide Akpata is here using his native language to promote his candidacy!
But Chinedu must not care about yoruba language because yoruba language is not important to him. Ensiere!
Johnmark: "The “first Oba of Lagos” has only one parent, therefore he has ONLY Ẹdo-Bini ancestry per this Channels TV interview of Oba Akiolu".❌
CommonSense: "The 'first Oba of Lagos' has two parents & thus hails from both, surprisingly. lool"
Historical Facts: "Ọba Ado's father = Yoruba from Isheri. Ọba Ado's mother = ẸdoBinin (daughter of the then Benin ọba). Thus Ọba Ado (son of Aṣipa of Isheri and AWuse of Benin) who was born and raised in his mom's homeland is ALSO partly Bini.
The INTERVIEWER's question at that point of the interview was to know "the relationship between the Bini & the Èkó people". Ọba Akiolu's response was thus focused on Bini side of Ado's ancestry.
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The ẸdoBenin Ọba beget AWuse
And she (AWuse) beget Lagos Ọba (Àdó)
Thus Ọba Àdó is a 'male descendent' of the then Ọba of Benin. Ọba-Akiolu is correct on this one, you are just a airhead, but that’s fair, you’re Igbo.
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𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲-𝟭: Rev. Buckley Wood, “Historical Notices of Lagos, West Africa”, (Exeter: Townsend, 𝟭𝟴𝟳𝟴)
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𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲-𝟮: Sir Burns (GCMG), “History of Nigeria”, (𝟭𝟵𝟮𝟵): Acting Governor of Nigeria, 1942; Deputy C.S. to the Government of Nigeria, 1929 to 1934.
"The first Oba of Lagos was a descendant of the Oba of Benin...if you want to be made Oba of Lagos (be you anything), we first have to acknowledge the Oba of Benin"
- HRH Rilwan Akiolu, Oba of Lagos
Oba of Benin supremacy over Lagos is ratified. Therefore, it was the Benin
@Sir_Lammy@OduduwaGlobal You are not serious tell me any part of Yoruba land that is not welcome all Nigeria so what is Ur excuse you want to discuss with the king u are using English e beru oloun e yi Yoruba but
Etí-Ọ̀sà•
The Bini ‘Ẹ̀tín-Òsà’ is often thrown around by the fiction-mongers.
These two are not only different in meaning but also in pronunciation.
For starters, think of how ‘house’ & ‘hose’ are unrelated. Got it? Good!
They are more unrelated than that as is to be seen.
𝗘̀𝗞𝗢́— 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝘁𝘆𝗺𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆‼️𝗔 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻⚠️ 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁-𝟮‼️
See 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁-𝟭 (Quoted) for the background details.
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The smallest meaningful component-parts of the Yorùbá term ‘𝗲̀𝗸𝗼́’ are: 𝗸𝗼́ (verb) & 𝗲̀ (noun-prefix).
As such, ‘𝗲̀𝗸𝗼́’ is a
𝗘̀𝗞𝗢́ — A 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Series⚠️ 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁-𝟭 of 𝟮‼️
The place name 𝗘̀𝗸𝗼́ is found all over Yorùbáland:
For example, on Monday morning 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟮𝟲𝘁𝗵 𝟭𝟴𝟯𝟬, R. & J. Lander stopped briefly near an 𝗘̀𝗸𝗼́ town in the countryside of Ọ̀yọ́-Ilé (Ọyọ empire’s capital).
From their description, this 𝗘̀𝗸𝗼́ (“Eco”) town was not too far from Ṣakí (“Chekki”); not too far from Kòso (“Coosoo”), Ìgbòho (“Bohoo”), & Ọ̀yọ́ itself.
For the actual report, see 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲-𝟭 from Richard & John Lander, “Journal of an Expedition”, 1 (1832).
Others are found in present day Osun, Oyo, Delta & Lagos states— each of which is a Yorùbá town.
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This post intends to add a clarifying context to an older post (dated: Nov. 8th 2023) on this subject.
See ‘Highlights’ on my ‘Profile’ for the older post.
Despite this intended context, the following facts remains historically accurate as in the older post:
𝟭) Lagos traditions say that the Àwórì occupy Ìdó island, & Ọ̀tọ̀ (on that island) was the key town & seat of government in the area (under the Ọlộfin); while 𝗘̀𝗸𝗼́ (next to Ìdó island) is the Yorùbá name for their 𝗳𝗮𝗿𝗺. [Historians now set this in c.1000].
Refer to 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲-𝟮 for a documention of the Lagos tradition on this as published in year 𝟭𝟴𝟴𝟴 in the “Précis of Information Concerning the Colony of Lagos”: Intelligence Branch of British War Office.
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𝟮) To be very emphatic, this island beside Ìdó had received its name ‘𝗘̀𝗸𝗼́’ (literally: ‘𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻’ as is to be demonstrated in 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁-𝟮) before any human or group of people began to live on this farmland.
See 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲-𝟯 for this Lagos tradition as is seen in Alan C. Burns (GCMG) “History of Nigeria”, 1929.
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𝟯) Moreover, the 𝗘̀𝗸𝗼́ island was first inhabited by one of the Ọlộfin’s sons named Onîta (also called ‘Arómirẹ́’). He’s reputed in the Lagos traditions to have initiated this by setting up a 𝗳𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗽 (aka. 𝗳𝗮𝗿𝗺𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗱) for himself on this original plantation.
See 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲-𝟰 for this Lagos tradition as is seen in Loṣi, “History of Lagos”, (Tika-Tore, Lagos 1914).
In other words, the part of Lagos island known till date as 𝗘𝗿𝗲́𝗸𝗼 (literally: ‘𝗳𝗮𝗿𝗺𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗱’) can be traced back to that act by Onîta-Ògbógbódí (‘Arómirẹ́’).
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𝟰) In the 1500s, 𝗘̀𝗸𝗼́-island slowly took the shape of a trade magnet of sizeable importance (thanks to European coastal trading activities) drawing in non-Àwórì immigrant trade groups, such as some Ìjẹ̀bú, Ìlàjẹ, Ìkálẹ̀, Itsẹkiri, and Bini trading groups.
Each trade group sought permission to land from the Àwórì, & a piece of the Àwórì 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 (𝗘̀𝗸𝗼́) was respectively allotted to each group for 𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗽.
Refer to: Alan Burns (GCMG) “History of Nigeria”, 1929, page 43. See also: “A History of the Yoruba People” (Amalion 2010), p. 222 by S. A. Akintoye.
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Given the events and timelines highlighted from 𝟭 to 𝟰 above, it is now very clear that the etymology of the name ‘𝗘̀𝗸𝗼́’ could not possibly have derived from the name of Onîta’s (aka. Arómirẹ́’s) ‘𝗲𝗿𝗲́𝗸𝗼’.
Again, the reason is simple: the name 𝗘̀𝗸𝗼́ applied first to the island, while the name 𝗘𝗿𝗲́𝗸𝗼 appeared later-on on the island starting with Arómirẹ́’s act.
Also going by the events and timelines, the Benin & other immigrant trade groups encountered this name 𝗘̀𝗸𝗼́ (fully: 𝗘̀𝗸𝗼́'𝗼𝗿𝗶́-𝗼𝗺𝗶, lit. “Èkó on waters”: Alli, in Asaju, “Lagos and Its Environs”, 2006:51) on this island as an existing centuries-old name.
As such, versions of the name began to appear in the lexicons and accounts of the out-groups. The European reports show it as: Ichoo, Curamo, etc.
The Ìjẹ̀bú accounts have it as Èkó & Èkõrómi. The Ijaw oral traditions report it as Iko and Ụkụrọama.
The Bini group wasn’t an exception: its lexicon & accounts received it as Eko (short), Korame (full).
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