"How?Did they win?"
"No they didn't.The fight was caused by a woman 'aina'who was accused of fetishism and her goats as symbols of fetishism was destroyed by olofin.Hence the fight started. After she was accused of witchcraft she attempted to settle rift with olofin to no avail and was forced to seek redress elsewhere and complained bitterly to oba orhogbua of Benin .Hé sent his warriors to attack and set up benin war camp in Lagos named "Eko".Aseru was the head of Benin military expedition in Lagos and carried expedition northward.When Aseru was killed during one of these expeditions in the marshes of isheri, Ashipa then ruler of Lagos took his dead body to Benin in line with Benin tradition and Ashipa was knighted as the king of Lagos by ọbá Benin for this kind gesture.He was knighted eleko of eko or oloriogun.This coronation did not go down with many of his colleagues and Yorubas.Nevertheless when he died the position was transferred to prince Iddo son of Benin king and not loyal to Ashipa's son as he was loyal to ashipa."
"That's betrayal "
"Don't you know edo or Benin people are like that.What happened next?"
"After ado became king come Gabayya and later akinsemoyin.They used military powers to annex Lagos and aworis dialect is being used as the vnarcular by native of the city.At Enu owa,(still retains evidence of Benin culture including Architecture)Benin settled unlike aworis with Olofin at iddo.After the Benin conquest they moved to enu owa to developed place at Iddo the pepper farm palace.When eleko gabaro became king the palace was moved to palace at idun iganran.Hence Lagos moved from oko under the first settlement of the aworis to being eko under settlement of the Benin's.
Hence from the time of the amalgamation down 1991 Lagos was federal capital even before it was officially created federal capital in the 1970s by awolowo.Still after Abuja became the new bride Lagos still be referred to as the commercial capital of Nigeria."
"Exactly ".
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