Outrage Over Plans For “Sultan Of Shuwa Arabs Of Edo State” (Photos)

Plans by some Shuwa Arabs, an ethnic group from Borno, to crown Idris Adanno because the Sultan of Shuwa Arab of Edo State, is producing palpable stress throughout Benin Kingdom.

The coronation ceremony is slated to carry on Saturday, 21 August, 2021, at Rialto Resort, Eyaen, a suburb of Benin Metropolis.

The resort is owned by a Duke in Benin Kingdom, HRH Osazuwa Iduriase.

Invitation card to the coronation ceremony, sighted on Fb, has triggered some outrage.

Adam Harun after he was turbaned

The brand new invitation to instal second Sultan of Shuwa Arabs in Edo triggers furore

Distinguished Benin youths who reacted on Fb, condemned the deliberate coronation of a Sultan inside the historic Kingdom.

However unknown to many individuals within the state, the Shehu of Borno on 4 August this yr, turbaned Adam Harun and gave him the identical title.

Benin individuals are actually simply being conscious of the most recent transfer, which is indicative of a schism within the Shuwa Arab group within the state.

In his response, the President of Benin Solidarity Motion (BSM), Elder Curtis Eghosa Ugbo, mentioned Benin indigenes will do no matter it can take to withstand what he described as “evil act” by individuals who’re bent on fomenting hassle.

“This can by no means occur in Benin Kingdom, we’re Benin,” Ugbo added.

Additionally reacting, the Coordinator-Basic of Nice Benin Descendants (GBD), Imasuen Izoduwa mentioned the group would meet and lock up the hotel-venue of the coronation, for permitting “such nonsense” within the land.

“We’ll meet later right now so we are able to lock up that resort by tomorrow or subsequent for permitting such nonsense in our land. Sufficient is sufficient, I’ll now not take any of this in our Kingdom,” he mentioned.

Comrade Amos Ehinomen Uagbor mentioned: “Is that this obtainable elsewhere ?
We should always now have OBA and Sultan in Edo state ? Infact, the venue ought to be sealed`’.

Efforts to succeed in cellphones numbers on the cardboard for a response failed, as calls made to them failed to attach.

P.M.Information believes that the deliberate set up of Idriss Adanno as Sultan of Shuwa Arab could also be a response to the turbanning of Adam Harun for a similar title by the Shehu of Borno.

On 4 August, the Shehu of Borno, Dr Alhaji Abubakar Ibn Garbai Al’amin Elkanemi, carried out the ceremony in Maiduguri.

That some Shuwa Arabs are staging one other present, lower than three weeks after, is indicative of a division amidst the Shuwa Arabs residing in Edo State.