Ogidigan

palace politics..... someone doesn't seem to like the new oba......

Chie f priest ar usually diabolic, can't u refuse d suspension?

Sijo01:
No more business as usual! Oba ghato kpere, iseeee.

dem be dey run show b4

the eyes of the gods have spoken.. OBA A TO PE EII..ISE

rangerover suspension

Jeoma11:
Oba Itokpere

I follow u hail am oO

Our culture is going democratic. I never hear say person suspend chief priest, na the gods dey annoint chief priests. But this chief priest is corrupt, so men have to do the works of the gods,

The war has just began. Benin yansh about to open.

When they are all idle like statue,they will b quoting history scriptures to seek attention

The Isekhure presumed too much. The crown made his ancestors Chief priest and can unmake him. As chief priest he should know that the Oba himself is a deity. Oba gha to'kpere!!

See pics of Isekhure below;

Billyonaire:
Our culture is going democratic. I never hear say person suspend chief priest, na the gods dey annoint chief priests. But this chief priest is corrupt, so men have to do the works of the gods,

The war has just began. Benin yansh about to open.

Stop talking trash.

playerinc:
The Isekhure presumed too much. The crown made his ancestors Chief priest and can unmake him. As chief priest he should know that the Oba himself is a deity. Oba gha to'kpere!!

See pics of Isekhure below;

Doesn't the man have supernatural powers?

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This what happens when the chief priest uses the offering for the gods for MMM

I begin to wonder at times why the truth is so scarce.
Is it not true that the reason for this suspension of the high priest was because he was bold enough to tell the current Oba he couldn't preside over a meeting as far as his father Oba EREDIAWA II was still alive and that he being an Edaiken (title for a heir apparent then) should wait until he becomes the Oba before seeking to preside in a meeting as his boss is abi na was the reigning Oba Erediawa II.
Make the palace try talk true make we know wetin dey.

baby124:
This will be a spiritual battle except if the chief priest is a fake. He sounds like a fraud I must confess. Lmao. Running away from rituals but Available for your position to collect bribe.

No one wins a battle against the oba, his generation will be wiped out. Please where are any of the family members of the former military administrator of edo state, grp. Capt. Anthony Onyaregbulem? They are all gone, i mean his generation. The oba of benin is very strong

When people talk about ancestral spirits, they should picture the Bini monarchy. The spirits that have been around that throne since AD 12!!!
That is as "ancestral" as it gets.

His style of ruling is so wonderful,the way it sound be,i'am proud of you my King @dis moment in time,oba nogiemwan.ugha to kpere

riczy:
Chie f priest ar usually diabolic, can't u refuse d suspension?

haha...oba got more powers than chief priest.if u noticed the processiongs that occurred in Benin for weeks,u would realised that all spiritual powers of benin kingdom err instilled into oba...that's y oba is well respected.he controls witches and wizards

Billyonaire:
Our culture is going democratic. I never hear say person suspend chief priest, na the gods dey annoint chief priests. But this chief priest is corrupt, so men have to do the works of the gods,

The war has just began. Benin yansh about to open.

oba of Benin is more powerful than chief priest....

playerinc:
The Isekhure presumed too much. The crown made his ancestors Chief priest and can unmake him. As chief priest he should know that the Oba himself is a deity. Oba gha to'kpere!!

See pics of Isekhure below;

well said

Òba gha tòr òkperé, isé !!!, no longer business as usual

If the priest failed to perform final rites then technically speaking Erediawa has not been buried. A new priest should be appointed to do that and the errant priest exiled to Calabar as usual.

Obviously the Chief Priest via the gods isn't in support of the choice of Oba which explains his absence from the pre coronation and coronation rites. And it seems some ppl still feel d same way too for dem to actually go to him with a case already decided upon by the Throne. Dem comot am before him plan coup

Can our Benin people shed more light on why a certain individual who later became Benin's Chief Priest had to travel with Prince Oranmiyan from Ife to Benin City?

Does this not underscore the age -long fact that Oba of Benin is a descenant of O'odua, a fact Benin folks no longer want to hear but will rather distort?

Of a truth, Ile-Ife is the Source!!!

homesteady:


Doesn't the man have supernatural powers?

He was made to serve the king. His supernatural powers cannot in anyway be compared to those of the Oba.

Say baba.

Billyonaire:
Our culture is going democratic. I never hear say person suspend chief priest, na the gods dey annoint chief priests. But this chief priest is corrupt, so men have to do the works of the gods,

The war has just began. Benin yansh about to open.

The Oba can suspend anybody/any chief even if he's the chief priest if he goes against the tradition. In any case such duties attached to a position that is occupied traditionally by royal relatives can revert to another chief within the class of royal relatives (Ihogbe). It is even much easier in this case because those duties were once performed by Chief Ihama of Benin.
He can retain the title nominally.

Traditions and antecedents are there to follow. Even though detractors would relish a crisis, there is none over such a suspension. He will have to go and beg for forgiveness and if the Oba wishes, he can forgive him. QED.

emmasege:
Can our Benin people shed more light on why a certain individual who later became Benin's Chief Priest had to travel with Prince Oranmiyan from Ife to Benin City?

Does this not underscore the age -long fact that Oba of Benin is a descenant of O'odua, a fact Benin folks no longer want to hear but will rather distort?

Of a truth, Ile-Ife is the Source!!!

There is nothing new here.

The argument is not about Oba of Benin being descendant of Oduduwa through Oranmiyan. Nobody in Benin has ever disputed that. We have thrashed this matter over the years here on NL. Including during coronations of Ooni & Oba of Benin in the last few years.

The matter is that in Benin history, Oduduwa himself was an exiled Benin Prince called Ekaladerhan. Benin do not believe Oduduwa wandering from Arabia/Egypt/Sudan or even Israel as various Yoruba sources assert.

Another person that came with Oranmiyan from Ife is Oloton. Chief Oloton today is the keeper of royal ancestral shrine in Benin.
I think some of our SW people are sometimes too obsessed with claim that Benin people deny any relationship with Oduduwa that they do not actually even analyse what Benin people say about their history. I think attempt at political tribal/numerical supremacy is what some of you really demonstrate.
What irks many Benin people even more is some reckless utterance by some SW people that Benin people are descended from Yoruba. Even though philological and anthropological studies clearly prove otherwise.

Nothing new about a foreign raised prince taking courtiers from home with him if going to become King in another land. It abounds in history since antiquity. Whether it is Ptolemy I Soter (and other Alexandrian diodochi/successors) from Macedon becoming Pharaoh of Egypt, William of Normandy becoming King of England, Prince Iginiwuwa of Benin becoming Ogiame of Warri, Prince Ado becoming Eleko of Lagos, Austrian Prince Ferdinand Maximilian becoming Emperor of Mexico and so on. All went with courtiers from their homeland.

Benin people's culture, traditions and sense of history are too strong that not even America, or EU can impose any version of history on Benin.

The example laid down by Oshiomole in his last few days in office is now taking a firm root in Edo state. In reality, I am not in support of the garrulous actions credited to the traditional ruler suspended by Oshiomole, it was only the process of deposition that I found improper. While the allegations made against the suspended (or deposed?) Edo high chief appear to be quite damning, it would have been better if an inquiry is conducted before wielding the big stick. Otherwise, it resembles a witch-hunting against a member of the opposition party. In other words, it looks as if anyone who is not an APC member in Edo state had better resign honorably or be booted out of office by the powers that be. This will be another low in Nigeria’s political history because earlier Nigerian administrations had never resorted to witch-hunting of opposition party members employed in both public and civil service. This had never been the case since 1960 when the British colonialists forcefully amalgamated the hitherto independent nations into one.
Oshiomole’s successor, Obaseki did not waste time following his predecessor’s footsteps by sacking a permanent secretary without any sort investigation. And now the fever is spreading very fast with the new been a high chiefs in Edo kingdom. The kingdom claims that it is revising a re-organization that took place long ago in 1280 AD was in 2017 AD apparently because the incumbent high chief happens to belong to a rival political party, the PDP!
One might then ask:
Who is next in line?
Cry, the beloved country – Alan Paton.