No one should write or rewrite our history wrongly with the hope to tell it as the truth.
The truth is that, about 2,000 years ago, we the Edo's nation who currently inhabit the South Western part of Nigeria migrated from Egypt due to the flood disaster that plagued the land at that time.
Ode Oduwa: the keeper of the path to the shrine; led us thus far through the spiritual guidance of our ancestors. Ode Oduwa and NOT Ododuwa as speculated, was the spiritual head of the Edo nation and he had a shrine on top of the hills were it was said that he communicated directly with the gods of his fathers.
When the Edo people finally settled in their current place (South Western Nigeria), the Benin's formed the Ogiso dynasty and it flourished with the reign of different Kings.
However, one of the Ogiso Kings had a problem with his son, the heir to the throne; the crowned Prince had to flee Benin in fear of his father, the King. After the death of the King, a replacement was needed to continue in his stead; so they sought for his son who they found (through spiritual guidance) around the Western part of modern day Nigeria.
Nevertheless, when the crowned Prince was found he was very old. He refused to come back home to take his rightful place as King; so he gave his son in his stead, who eventually came to rule over Benin.
Due to the complexity of the Benin traditional system (a complex religious practices) he found it difficult to rule; so he moved back to his initial base after he fathered a son in Benin that also continued in his stead.
Let be known that the Benin's practiced a polygamous system of marriage and they could not by any means be short of a male child as to go as far the Western part of Nigeria to borrow a son as King to rule (a food for thought).
The Ogiso dynasty which spanned over 200 years in the ancient Benin Kingdom had followed a primogeniture system even before the crowned Prince was born and it is still in practice till date.
The British who came into Nigeria at that time were misinformed and this misinformation, in recent past became the untrue history of the Edo's that was adopted into the national history.
We the Edo nation, we know who we are and we know where we are from.
Oba gha to kpere, Ise!
Thoughts and findings from PETER ENAHORO (Peter Pan), a veteran Nigerian Journalist who featured on the Nigerian Television Authourity (NTA), on a programme REFLECTIONS, Sunday, 17th May 2015; compiled by Godson Osarenren.
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