Dear brethren,

We the Itsekiris have a proverb that say, if a man puts a lie in front of his mouth, the truth will come out through the sides of the same mouth. The dialogue about WARRI continues to shock many of our neighbours as, they begin to learn more about the Itsekiri history.
A history many of their parents refused to tell them. The Urhobos and Ijaws have written about how they founded their various communities like Ughelli, Orerokpe etc and the ones Ijaws founded in Bayelsa. But no Ijaw or Urhobo historian, have ever written a history of how they founded Warri, and their kingdoms which they claim to be there. You can verify on Google or anywhere.
Can you own a land without having historical evidence of how your ancestors founded it?
This is where they often go mute.
Only the Itsekiris have a documented history of how they founded Warri. The Benin people are also a custodian of this Itsekiri history.

Now, we want to delve a little into Itsekiri history, and bring out an ancient encounter that saw how Ode itsekiri (Big Warri) became the capital of Warri Kingdom.

Olu Ginuwa the 1st left Benin , a proud prince on his way to go found his kingdom. On his way,along with his entourage, he encountered the Ijaws and even dwelt with them. He then married an Ijaw woman called Derumo.
But Derumo was a woman with a quick tongue. Then one day,feeling secured in the midst of her brethren, she used her tongue too freely on Ginuwa. And Ginuwa killed her. She had not yet had any children for him.
Her death provoked her Ijaw kinsmen into an altercation with the Benin Prince and his entourage. For this reason, Ginuwa left and continued till he got to Ijala, after a brief stay at Amatu, a barren island.
By this time, he had become the father of two sons. IJIJEN and IRAME.
Olu Ginuwa joined his ancestors at Ijala, and his heir succeeded him, and became known as Olu Ijijen. It is for this reason all Olu's of Warri are buried at Ijala. And Olu Ijijen succeeded his father, while still a very young man

After Olu Ijijen (1510-1525) the first warrior king of Warri, had taken the oat and pledge of allegiance and loyalty from the Itsekiri people, he decided to take a tour of the various Itsekiri towns. This was what brought him to Ode-Itsekiri. As at this moment, Ode itsekiri had not yet been chosen as the capital of the kingdom. But when he got there, the women of ode itsekiri greeted him with long faces and without fanfare, as it had been in the previous Itsekiri communities he had first toured. And all around, he heard the people murmuring in whispers around him.
When he inquired what the problem was, he was told that the people were grumbling that they can not be paying tax to two tax masters.
Because a certain man called Olague had put a burden of huge taxes on the Itsekiris of ode itsekiri.
Olu Ijijen then asked the people, to take him to the man they called Olague. When the Olu got there, he met Olague and said to him, I am Olu Ijijen,ruler of these lands, and i hear you collect tax from these people. By whose authority do you collect tax from them?
But Olague gave no reply. He entered his quarters and commanded the Mahin warriors with him, to kill Olu Ijijen and the Itsekiri warriors that had come with him.
And this was how the war began between the Itsekiris and Olague with his Mahin forces. One of Olague Mahin warriors shot Olu Ijijen with a poisoned arrow on his shoulder, just above his chest.

But the rugged young king, bleeding,with the arrow still pinned on his chest, along with the Itsekiri warriors with him, fought back and chased Olague and his Mahin forces out of Ode itsekiri. This was how the war between the kingdom of Warri, and Olague with his Mahin warriors began. It would later include the Aworis and the Benin people in alliance with Warri kingdom.
On several occasions previously, Itsekiri youths in Ode itsekiri had rebelled against Olague because of his high handedness and heavy taxes. But Olague had them killed by his Mahin warriors,and he caught many of those who tried to escape, tied them together and set them ablaze before the town, despite the pleas and cries from their parents.
Olague was a cruel and ruthless tyrant who held the people in his grip with an Iron fist. And the Itsekiris of Ode itsekiri lived in fear of him.

After Olu Ijijen had chased Olague out of Ode itsekiri, the people of Ode itsekiri began to rejoice. This was how the appellation "OGBOWURU" which the Itsekiris use to hail their king came into existence. The young king had become like a super star. The young men of the town brought out the drums and gongs and played joyful rhythms,as the elderly men and women celebrated their libration. The young maidens took to the streets of Ode itsekiri dancing and singing, chanting the name of the young king. Calling him OGBOWURU, meaning, CONQUEROR.
But behind all these celebrations going on in the capital, the young king, surrounded by his warriors and medicine men, lay dieing, slowly from the injury of the poisoned arrow, as his medicine men worked tirelessly trying to save his life.The injury also prevented him from having a heir and also, prevented him from continuing his tour of other Itsekiri communities as he had earlier planned. He had to remain in Ode itsekiri to prevent Olague from ever returning, as other Itsekiris from other communities poured into ode itsekiri to come be around their ailing king, and to increase the Itsekiri war force, incase Olague returned to try and re-take the town. This was the foundation of how ode itsekiri became the capital of Warri.

But Olu Ijijen never recoverd from the injury. Before his death, he requested that he be buried at Ijala beside his father, Olu Ginuwa the 1st.
He eventually died in 1525 and his remains was taken to Ijala and laid by his father. As it has been the tradition of the Itsekiris to bury their kings at Ijala, even till today. His younger brother ascended the throne, and was crowned, Ogiame, Olu Irame. And because Olu Ijijen had died on the soil of ode itsekiri, it became sacrosanct that Ode itsekiri should never fall to Olague or any foreign enemy.
And Olu Irame had to rule the kingdom from Ode itsekiri and swore vengeance on Olague. So began the tradition that all Itsekiris kings must be crowned at Ode Itsekiri This was how ode itsekiri became the capital of

Our neighbours who claim to own Warri should also present their own history of how their ancestors founded Warri.

Ogbowuru!
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Fitcorper come and read

EreluRoz:
Fitcorper come and read

Come if you mention me again, I go tie you flog.

What an interesting read, but like you said no matter how sweet the lie sound it is still a lie. The truth will always come out. Truth remains Warri does not belong to the Itsekiris. These are the tribes in Warri (Urhobo, Isoko, Ijaw, Itsekiri, Okpe) and each of these tribes have their respective dominant areas in Warri kingdom. Big Warri is where the refinery and npa together with naval is situated and like I said earlier all these were made possible due to political decisions. During the Warri crisis the then governor Ibori supplied the Itsekiri with arms and ammunitions to fight the Ijaws. The ijaws were helped by the Urhobo generals if not e for b annihilation. All these happened because Itsekiri like they always do are land grabbers and they wan drag lands with ijaws , but ijaws no gree na e cause that fight, but Urhobo warn them to contain their fight within themselves and they comply (that is power).
Once upon a time in Sapele the itsekiris were fond of burying their dead in Sapele (okpe soil) but the current king stopped it and instructed all Itsekiri dead be buried on Itsekiri land, cos if they allow them they will one time start fighting for lands with Sapele with the indigenes (land grabbers). Also in uvwie an Urhobo land there is a small town called ugbolokposo this was a gift to one of the Ovie wife by the ovie then, don’t be surprised is they start claiming Uvwie tomorrow (women influence).
Whatever you say, don’t ever say Itsekiri own Warri cos we know say na Numa (Edjoor concubine) influence Edjoor to make that change from Olu of Itsekiri to Olu of Warri when Edjoor was the military governor.

FitCorper:

Come if you mention me again, I go tie you flog.

ntorrr Urhobos are strangers in warri

FitCorper:
What an interesting read, but like you said no matter how sweet the lie sound it is still a lie. The truth will always come out. Truth remains Warri does not belong to the Itsekiris. These are the tribes in Warri (Urhobo, Isoko, Ijaw, Itsekiri, Okpe) and each of these tribes have their respective dominant areas in Warri kingdom. Big Warri is where the refinery and npa together with naval is situated and like I said earlier all these were made possible due to political decisions. During the Warri crisis the then governor Ibori supplied the Itsekiri with arms and ammunitions to fight the Ijaws. The ijaws were helped by the Urhobo generals if not e for b annihilation. All these happened because Itsekiri like they always do are land grabbers and they wan drag lands with ijaws , but ijaws no gree na e cause that fight, but Urhobo warn them to contain their fight within themselves and they comply (that is power).
Once upon a time in Sapele the itsekiris were fond of burying their dead in Sapele (okpe soil) but the current king stopped it and instructed all Itsekiri dead be buried on Itsekiri land, cos if they allow them they will one time start fighting for lands with Sapele with the indigenes (land grabbers). Also in uvwie an Urhobo land there is a small town called ugbolokposo this was a gift to one of the Ovie wife by the ovie then, don’t be surprised is they start claiming Uvwie tomorrow (women influence).
Whatever you say, don’t ever say Itsekiri own Warri cos we know say na Numa (Edjoor concubine) influence Edjoor to make that change from Olu of Itsekiri to Olu of Warri when Edjoor was the military governor.

fake story you don't know your root

FitCorper:
What an interesting read, but like you said no matter how sweet the lie sound it is still a lie. The truth will always come out. Truth remains Warri does not belong to the Itsekiris. These are the tribes in Warri (Urhobo, Isoko, Ijaw, Itsekiri, Okpe) and each of these tribes have their respective dominant areas in Warri kingdom. Big Warri is where the refinery and npa together with naval is situated and like I said earlier all these were made possible due to political decisions. During the Warri crisis the then governor Ibori supplied the Itsekiri with arms and ammunitions to fight the Ijaws. The ijaws were helped by the Urhobo generals if not e for b annihilation. All these happened because Itsekiri like they always do are land grabbers and they wan drag lands with ijaws , but ijaws no gree na e cause that fight, but Urhobo warn them to contain their fight within themselves and they comply (that is power).
Once upon a time in Sapele the itsekiris were fond of burying their dead in Sapele (okpe soil) but the current king stopped it and instructed all Itsekiri dead be buried on Itsekiri land, cos if they allow them they will one time start fighting for lands with Sapele with the indigenes (land grabbers). Also in uvwie an Urhobo land there is a small town called ugbolokposo this was a gift to one of the Ovie wife by the ovie then, don’t be surprised is they start claiming Uvwie tomorrow (women influence).
Whatever you say, don’t ever say Itsekiri own Warri cos we know say na Numa (Edjoor concubine) influence Edjoor to make that change from Olu of Itsekiri to Olu of Warri when Edjoor was the military governor.

You dey mad. Does Iwere sounds Sobo or Ijaw to your dumb brain?

Everyone has got their boundary. Can you see the underlined part to the forcado side? That's Yoruba territory.

As a matter of fact, the last image below is an old map pointed out by a Sobo man who pointed out each group boundary while he was mapping out the Sobo area. So everyone has always known his boundary. Stop coveting other people's boundary which is criminality! 📌