With Elimination of History from our current Educational Curriculum,it may not be a coincidence with the current political undertone from The region that conquered the Old Hausa states and annexed them to achieve the"act of dipping Quran into the sea" .





THE OSOGBO WAR OF 1840


After the Fulanis systematically captured and made Ilorin their territory, they sacked the old Oyo Empire in 1835/1636 .

They were still not satisfied with their victory; they wished to extend their rule deep into the heart of Yoruba land. Thus in 1840, they set to capture Osogbo , a Yoruba town. The Fulanis, under the command of Ali , the Hausa balogun of Ilorin, laid siege on Osogbo.

When the king of Osogbo realized that the Ilorins were too strong for the Osogbo army, he summoned the Ibadans for help. Ibadan immediately sent some auxiliaries to Osogbo under the command of Obele alias Mobitan , and Alade Abimpagun. As this force could not stop the Ilorins, another contingent was sent to Osogbo under a more experienced leader. But still the Ilorins won every battle and gained more ground.

When Ibadan realized that the Ilorins were becoming more threatening to Yoruba land, they sent a large and stronger force under Balogun Oderinlo to crush the intruding forces and Jammas of Ilorin . When Oderinlo and his men arrived at the battlefield, they realized that things had gone worse than they thought.

They could not show their faces in the open field for the fear of the Ilorin horses, and for about 20 days after their arrival at Osogbo, they could not fight outside the town thickets. Oderinlo suggested that Elepo, a brave Ibadan warrior was badly needed at the war-front. Elepo had been rejected by the war-chiefs of Ibadan for his actions at the late Agbamaja expedition.

As soon as the message from Oderinlo reached Ibadan, the Bashorun wished he could send Elepo to Osogbo but could not go against the wish of other war-chiefs. The Bashorun gave Elepo a cow to worship his god, Ori , and pray for the victory of Ibadan at the war-front.

At the war-front, the Ibadan could not attack the Ilorins during the day because Osogbo was practically in a plain and the Ilorin horses might have advantage of them with disastrous results.

They decided to attack at dusk when the Ilorins would no longer be able to use their horses. About 2:pm, the well prepared Ibadan army left the gate of Osogbo for the battlefield. They were to keep a strict watch and arrest anyone suspected to be a spy.

About a mile from the Ilorin camp, they halted and arranged the order of the attack.

The Osogbo army and the earlier auxiliaries were to handle the center of the battlefield, chiefs Abitiko and Labuju were to command the right wing, Balogun Oderinlo with the rest of the Ibadan war-chiefs were to form the left wing of the army. The Ilorin camp was then attacked at midnight. The watchword was “ Elo ni owo odo? ” (How much is the ferry fare?).

The reason this watchword was chosen was because the river Osun had to be crossed in entering Osogbo from the south, and anyone who could not tell this was likely to be an enemy.

Stampede engulfed the Ilorin camp as the Ibadan army set it on fire. The Ilorins could not offer the slightest resistance; they were smoked with the gunpowder of the Ibadan guns.

This attack was a success for the Ibadan. Some Ilorin war-chiefs were captured in the attack. Prominent ones were:
1. Jimba the head slave of the Emir;
2. One of the sons of Ali the commander in chief;
3. Chief Lateju;
4. Ajikobo the Yoruba Balogun of Ilorin.
The first two were released while the latter two, being Yoruba by birth, were regarded as traitors and were executed. This was a huge victory for the whole of Yoruba land. After the Osogbo victory,
Ibokun, an Ijesa town not far from Osogbo was taken by the Ibadans for being an ally of Ilorin.
After this war, Ìbàdàn later became a force building a formidable war machinery than later prosecuted many other wars with resounding victory.
Notable among the wars was the KIRIJI WAR where the Ibadan warlords formed a historic alliance with the Igbajos. Even though Igbajo became the war front for many years that the war lasted, it was never captured by the raging Ekiti parapò warriors. Rather it was a place where many of them met their Waterloo.
Notable among the warriors were Fabunmi Okeemesi, Ogedengbe Agbogun gboro of the Ijesas, Apasikoto pasigegele of Igbajo and Latoosa of Ibadan to mention a few. There were many more great warriors of the time.
It's worthy to note that the KIRIJI WAR was the last war in Yoruba land. It's also recorded as the longest native war between in Africa.
Since then the Yoruba people have continued to build strong bonds among themselves and they have sustained the peace.

We must continue to tell our children the history of the Yoruba people and the bond which our father had built so that we can continue to see ourselves as one. If the Ibadan people can sacrifice their lives for the people of Osogbo in other to safe other towns and villages in Yoruba land and in essence the carnage of innocent people were prevented, then, we the modern Yorubas have no reason to divide ourselves for political reasons or any reason at all.
As many forget so fast who we really are ,it is imperative that we don't lose touch with the past and like the Adage in Yoruba say "bomode o batan,yio ba arooba,arooba si re,baba itan" and an English man once said" the Further backward you can look,the farther forward you can see"
This is the Tale about an encounter of two divergent tribes occurring over 200_400 years ago and still repeating itself,doing so at our own very Eyes, they know your in the South that is why they are still using the divide and rule Tool because they know a united South is a bad luck for them




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I am ready to fight....

+1... 1835-1836.

Kiriji war. Ehm

lol u guys keep talking abt ur victory against the fulanis in 1850 oshogbo war..

but why do u guys keep excluding the bloody mugbamugba war? or are u guys ashamed to tell the world how the fulanis severely dealth with the yorubas wen dey tried to reclaim illorin nd more towns were seized nd a particular oba had to run for his life..

yoruba people sef...

unshakablejihad:
lol u guys keep talking abt ur victory against the fulanis in 1850 oshogbo war..

but why do u guys keep excluding the bloody mugbamugba war? or are u guys ashamed to tell the world how the fulanis severely dealth with the yorubas wen dey tried to reclaim illorin nd more towns were seized nd a particular oba had to run for his life..

yoruba people sef...

it is said that history is written by the Victor. that mugbamugba war was not written about or was edited to suit their ego, pride and history, is their own way of claim victory. Don't be surprised if the kwara emirates have their own version the the truth that have also been edited out to suit them

when it comes to history, truth is relative to those in power and authority

unshakablejihad:
lol u guys keep talking abt ur victory against the fulanis in 1850 oshogbo war..

but why do u guys keep excluding the bloody mugbamugba war? or are u guys ashamed to tell the world how the fulanis severely dealth with the yorubas wen dey tried to reclaim illorin nd more towns were seized nd a particular oba had to run for his life..

yoruba people sef...

It's tempting but misleading to judge the historical events of centuries ago with the contemporary political sense.

The wars were fought between City-States and Kingdoms not really an inter-tribal wars.


There were soldiers of the same ethnic groups on both sides of the divides.

In the Ilorin Emirate ( originally set up as multi-ethnic MUSLIM Theocratic State) as then and up till now, Fulanis were and still a minority ethnic group, even at this there were many Yoruba towns, for certain reasons that were Military allied of the Ilorin Emirate.


To present the wars and outcomes of these wars as solely Fulani Vs Yoruba wars is a total distortion of History.

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