The suspension was announced in a statement signed by the Iyase of Benin, Chief Sam Igbe, on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
This comes following a recent claim by the suspended chiefs that Ile-Ife, a town in Osun State, South-West Nigeria, is the ancestral home of the Benin people of Edo State.
Presenting themselves as emissaries of the Benin Kingdom during a courtesy visit to the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi Ojaja II, the Chiefs were captured in a now-viral video making the assertion.
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