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History: The True and Sad Story of How Afonja Lost Ilorin and Its Kingship to Fulani People

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The Yoruba and Fulani inhabitants of Ilorin, the present capital of Kwara State,

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The Yoruba and Fulani inhabitants of Ilorin, the present capital of Kwara State, Nigeria, have for so long been at loggerheads over who should produce monarch for the town.

The Yoruba people in Ilorin claimed that the throne should always have a Yoruba king on the seat and
backed this with historical references which point Yoruba ancestors as the founders of Ilorin.

The Fulani section of Ilorin came up with a counterclaim that no Yoruba king has ever been enthroned from the onset, therefore the throne belongs to their (Fulani) ethnicity.
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