Oba’s Coronation Historic, Says Oshiomhole

Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole has said today’s coronation of the Oba of Benin is historic, The Nation reports.

The governor said it will be the first time an elected governor and an indigene of the state will perform the formal presentation of the staff of office to the frontline monarch.

He recalled that only military administrators and foreigners had done son in the past.

Oshiomhole spoke yesterday in Benin, the state capital, when he hosted the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr. Paul Arkwright at the Government House.

He said: “Before this Oba, the other obas but one, I believe Oba Akenzua, was the one who had to be presented the staff of office, according to him, by the Queen of England, in 1933. Since then, I think the next Oba was crowned in 1979. Then, Nigeria was already an independent country and the state was under military rule. The staff of office was presented by a military governor.

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