Jig5aw:
No Governor will dethrone the Oba of Benin. Am not saying they can not. Any Governor that decides to Witch hunt the Oba of Benin will blame himself eventually.

shut up

masters80:
The people writing this article should go and get his fasts right. Oba ovonramwen was never dethroned. He went on exile. Until his death there was no other Oba of Benin.

shut up

EVILFOREST:

You would have encouraged them to WIPE your LANGUAGE as well, although they are already doing it a f doing it so fast.

what has dis useless kings done for the society

Blainz:


History has it that traditional rulers of igbo extraction are no so powerful/influential to meddle in politics.

What do u mean by not so powerful?
So obi of onitsha, a first class king is not so powerful?

Seems u guys don't really know what traditional rulers stand for.

I don't blame people anyway.

Thanks to ibadan tabloids we now have effizy kings.

Somebody even said most igbos don't know of obi of onitsha.
He is not a social.media king.

masters80:
The people writing this article should go and get his fasts right. Oba ovonramwen was never dethroned. He went on exile. Until his death there was no other Oba of Benin.

What is this one saying. They remove crown from your head, removed you from your throne, stripped you of all your title and privileges, banished you away from your kinsmen and kingdom and given no right to return and turn you to a commoner in a foreign land. What then do you call that if not being dethroned ? You go school?

AreaFada2:

But the write-up left something important out. To the Benin, he was still the Oba of Benin. Only just in exile. He was never replaced on the throne. It was impossible. The crown prince only became Oba in 1914 after Oba Ovonramwen passed on in Calabar, In most other places, his brother, cousin or even his son would have yielded to the British desire to be a puppet King. Not in Benin.

Obaseki took over.
It doesn't matter what the people think.
Dalai Lama is in exile, it will be a stretch to name him the leader of Tibet
when he has lost political power.

I won't talk much but do you remember the issue of Navy Captain Anthony Onyearugbulem (ex military governor of Edo state) and the Oba of Benin.

If you know, you know.

OgbanjeProphet:
For those saying that the Oba of Benin can never be dethroned, I hope you have seen that one has been dethroned before.

Benin people are good at witchery and witchcraft, but they are not the most powerful witches or wizards in the world. Even those in government have their own witchcraft. "A dịghị agba aka arị ọji"

Ordinary girl or boy in the Street may have more powerful juju in her or his possession than Benin palace.

So if any king do anyhow, he go see anyhow.

Na before kings go collect another man's wife and nothing go happen.

The quoted above is a big lie.

The only traditional ruler on this list that should never have been listed is the Oba of Benin.

That was a king who resisted the colonial slave masters and was exiled (not dethroned) by them because he chose not to be their pawn.

Ovoranmen Nogbaisi is a hero and should be treated as such.

Trimque2k1:
When you think you know it all...so when you dethrone the Oba of benin, who are you going to install there?? Because it's only his son nd first son only that can take that position after his father's death. So please stop this ur dreams. We all read history and saw what transpired that lead to the illegal arrest of the then Oba and not till after his death there was not any Oba in benin kingdom...na God of benin kingdom go punished that Obaseki family wey bring all this history so

This is all nonsense.
Ogiso era came to an end despite being literally the "sky god" and more powerful than the Obas.
Oba of Benin can be dethroned and replaced and nothing will happen.
He had better not go political and side with the losing side.

abumeinben:
It took a the British government to dethrone Benin Oba.

For those dragging Oba of Benin into this, it's not gonna be easy for the governor.

The only untouchable person in this country is the president himself when he's in office. The Oba is not untouchable, he can be removed anytime and nothing will happen

boogie2:
I won't talk much but do you remember the issue of Navy Captain Anthony Onyearugbulem (ex military governor of Edo state) and the Oba of Benin.

If you know, you know.

The military administrator was just unfortunate thinking everything is just by gun. If it was a Yoruba military administrator or the like of Awolowo that dethroned Oba of Benin. Trust me. Nothing would have happened. It would all be voodoo vs voodoo.
Awolowo would dethrone Oba of Benin and nothing would happen

Well from the same write up, the ooni of ife has never been dethroned. The Ooni is a god on his own. He controls like 400 different gods. Awon irunmole.

chatinent:
All Kings are subjected to politics; even the Oba of Benin.

Not in igboland

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FrLukas:


I agree.

He should be dethroned and sent away.

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crackkhaus:
The only traditional ruler on this list that should never have been listed is the Oba of Benin.

That was a king who resisted the colonial slave masters and was exiled (not dethroned) by them because he chose not to be their pawn.

Ovoranmen Nogbaisi is a hero and should be treated as such.

He was dethroned.
You can always check Google for the meaning.

Igbo amaka

baralatie:

oba of Benin was dethroned, banished the palace cleared and burned and was replaced with Obaseki.

Brush up on your history.

Oba Ovoranmen was succeeded by Eweka II, his first son.

OgbanjeProphet:
For those saying that the Oba of Benin can never be dethroned, I hope you have seen that one has been dethroned before.

Benin people are good at witchery and witchcraft, but they are not the most powerful witches or wizards in the world. Even those in government have their own witchcraft. "A dịghị agba aka arị ọji"

Ordinary girl or boy in the Street may have more powerful juju in her or his possession than Benin palace.

So if any king do anyhow, he go see anyhow.

Na before kings go collect another man's wife and nothing go happen.

do u smoke paper.

Unbiased1:
Non from Igbo land
The Obi of Onitsha and those of Nnewi communities must be very disciplined people not to have been dethroned since 1445 and 1500s

Those ones are warrant chiefs, products of colonialism, Igbo doesn't have monarch, they are republicans.

Saopedro:
The dethronement of Muhammadu Sanusi as the emir of Kano has continued to generate reactions; some say it is expected going by recent happenings but others are still in shock. There are also those who claimed a revered traditional ruler like the emir of Kano has never been treated in such manner. Some even said such cannot happen in certain parts of the country.

But the dethronement of emirs — or those in similar positions of authority — is not an entirely new thing in Nigeria; one of such events played more than 100 years ago when the oba of Benin was deposed and sent on exile.

Here are seven influential traditional rulers who have experienced such.

OLUWADARE ADESINA, DEJI OF AKURE

Who remembers Oluwadare Adesina, the former deji of Akure, who fought with his wife in public? He was dethroned after the public brawl with Bolanle, his wife, an act that was widely described as a public show of shame. The Ondo state government deposed Adesina in 2009, after invoking sections 17(1) and (2) of the state’s chiefs law, accusing him of conducting himself in the “most dishonorable, condemnable and disgraceful manner.”

The dethroned king was also banished from Akure for six months. The council of kingmakers had called for his deposition, while his estranged wife, now late, sued him for battery.

OVONRAMWEN NOGBAISI, OBA OF BENIN

Apart from not being in good terms with then British government, part of the cause of the dethronement of Ovonramwen Nogbaisi as oba and his subsequent exile in 1897 was the murder of James Philips, then acting consul-general, during a visit to the Benin kingdom.

The oba was captured by the British authorities and tried in accordance with the British law; he was subsequently found guilty before being deposed. He was said to have angered the British government through various actions such as forbidding his people from trading with the British and barring the white men from entering Benin after he discovered a treaty signed with the government was a “tactic to annex Benin into the British Empire.”

Another of his actions that did not go down well with the authorities was the stoppage of palm oil supply to Itsekiri middle men in 1896. He reportedly took the action because they refused to pay their tribute to the oba, a move seen as puncturing the business of the British merchants in the region.

its ill conceived to classify this oppression as deposition.. it was a cowardly act by people who will never want to be called animals but would never agree to be called plants...

Xisnin:

He was dethroned.
You can always check Google for the meaning.

Don't tell me about Google.

To dethrone someone means you take his crown, he ceases to be king even in death, and place it on another person.

In Benin Kingdom, only death takes the crown.

Oba Eweka II was the first son of Oba Ovoranmen, he was crowned king after the death of his father in Calabar.

Mind you, Ovoranmen's body was returned to Benin and given a King's burial according to Benin customs.
His resting place is on the grounds of the Palace, only Obas are buried there.

Now you are the one who should go on Google to confirm everything I have written.

princemillla:
Op God bless you wherever you go.

Same God that will bless this Op will punish all those behind the scrapping of history from our academic curriculum

Why was it done?

orisa37:
The Case of AKURE makes it clearer. The GOVERNOR acted on the Wishes of The People. Mimiko didn't dethrone until the people asked him to do so. Traditional Rulers are Representatives of God on Earth and God's Trustees for the Land, Language, Tribe,.Time and Tongue they represent.
The British applied Colonial Rules to the cases in which they got involved with NIGERIA.
Awolowo saw far into the Future what others around him, including Azikwe couldn't see. He had the opportunity to prevent undue Advantage being taken of his YORUBA TRIBE and he ceased it like a Master.
Current Cases of Emirs' Dethronement leading to the present WIP are resultant Bastardization and Violation of the people of NIGERIA's Fundamental Rights.
The Federal Constitution divorced Traditional Rulers from Land Control and handed such Controls over to Governors who were then wholly Military. Ganduje now acting "GANG UP CHOP N CHOP" HOOLIGANISM with Traditional Rulers is an extension of some borrowed Military Prowess.
GANDUJE has not behaved like Mimiko. So let the case go to Court.
The People hire their Traditional Rulers. And only the People can fire their Traditional Rulers.




Grant Full Autonomy of Police, Resources and Elections Control to the 37 legit States of NIGERIA and all Problems will be done with.

You were making sense until you mentioned Azikiwe, my question is this: why can't you Yoruba people say a word without calling igbos? Your hatred for igbos who had succeeded in making impoverished you landlords in Lagos is second to nothing. Desist or be consumed by it.

crackkhaus:
The only traditional ruler on this list that should never have been listed is the Oba of Benin.

That was a king who resisted the colonial slave masters and was exiled (not dethroned) by them because he chose not to be their pawn.

Ovoranmen Nogbaisi is a hero and should be treated as such.

God bless you.. putting him on that shitty list really unsettled my guts.. i hardly could resist the urge to be very irritated..

crackkhaus:

Don't tell me about Google.

To dethrone someone means you take his crown, he ceases to be king even in death, and place it on another person.

What a joke.
Dethrone is an English word, not a Benin word.
You don't get to define it whichever way you like.

onyekabe:
Oba of Benin was never detroned he was taken to exile while in exile he was still the king of Benin people until after his death the Benin people mourn his as their king before crowning his son

Can a king rule in exile

Kendroid:
Dethroning does not necessarily mean another must be crowned.
Once you're a king and you're forcefully taken out of your kingdom, my brother that's called dethronement!

I understand u guys are trying so hard to cover up for him Shah!

dont mind them..they even exiled him to calaber,,mtcheww

crackkhaus:

Don't tell me about Google.

To dethrone someone means you take his crown, he ceases to be king even in death, and place it on another person.

In Benin Kingdom, only death takes the crown.

Oba Eweka II was the first son of Oba Ovoranmen, he was crowned king after the death of his father in Calabar.

Mind you, Ovoranmen's body was returned to Benin and given a King's burial according to Benin customs.
His resting place is on the grounds of the Palace, only Obas are buried there.

Now you are the one who should go on Google to confirm everything I have written.

my brother domo ooo oba gha to kpe iseeee!!! Don’t quote societal misfits because lack of the will to self improve only amounts to public ridicule.. one begins to wonder which is more important Twitter or knowledge? Reading or committing e-nuisance

Mysticwebb:
And Obi of Onitsha is not there, meaning their king the Obi of Onitsha has never been dethroned since it began in mid 16th century.
I think the present king Nnaemeka is the 21st King of that kingdom.

That one na king?

The position that is very useless and irrelevant.

No respect for kings in the Yeest

OgbanjeProphet:
For those saying that the Oba of Benin can never be dethroned, I hope you have seen that one has been dethroned before.

Benin people are good at witchery and witchcraft, but they are not the most powerful witches or wizards in the world. Even those in government have their own witchcraft. "A dịghị agba aka arị ọji"

Ordinary girl or boy in the Street may have more powerful juju in her or his possession than Benin palace.

So if any king do anyhow, he go see anyhow.

Na before kings go collect another man's wife and nothing go happen.

oba of benin was not dethroned he gave himself up just for the peace of Benin search for invasion 1946
The kingdom was betrayed by a prominent chief named obaseki great grand father of the present governor of edo state
Read before you talk

No body can dethrone a Benin king it's either you die while thinking about it or you run mad or get disgraced publicly. Ask Esama of Benin kingdom he knows more

Xisnin:

What a joke.
Dethrone is an English word, not a Benin word.
You don't get to define it whichever way you like.

Colonial slave mentality will be the end of you.

I have already given you the breakdown of history regarding what happened, you can try to argue against it instead of forming a boss in English language that is not the tongue of your ancestors.