Eleme & Ogonis Are Brothers – Says Oneh-eh Eleme, Recounts Migratory Connection

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By John Obe.

The King of Eleme land, His Majesty, Emere Philip Osaro Obele has narrated the migratory similarity between the Eleme and Ogoni people which has affected their cultures. He added that same migratory movements influenced the seeming resemblance in their languages.

“The Ogoni people and Eleme people are close. This closeness has brought cultural linkages between us. Migratory movements that took place long time ago affected our languages. You see Ogoni language and Eleme language, there are slight differences. This is because of the migratory movements in those days, moving from one place to the other.”


King Obele who made this disclosure on Saturday 8th March 2025, when the people of Eleme received the Ogoni Dialogue Committee on oil exploration resumption in Ogoniland at a town hall meeting in Alesa, Eleme Local Government Area urged Eleme and Ogoni people to work together for their common good as brothers.

“Let us see ourselves as brothers, and let us ensure that we cooperate and ensure that whatever we are doing here today, we remember each other and do it accordingly for the betterment of our peoples.”


The monarch further explained that the founders of Eleme and that of Ogoni migrated from the same source: “If you go further, you discover that Ogoni people and Eleme people came from one place. This group of people were from where the Ogoni people came from: the Koi people, the Ibibio people, the Efik people, the Anang people, the Ibeno people and the Eleme people.”

According to King Obele, there were settlements that were founded by Ogoni men in the formative period of Eleme. He said those settlements are no more.

“There was a community founded in Eleme known as Ngube.  Ngube was founded by an Ogoni man from Lewe, his name is Lene. He was the son of Gbenesako, the founder of Gokana. He settled here in Eleme around Ekporo area. Although that community has now disintegrated because they fought over what we call gizzard. The young ones struggled over gizzard. The elders felt that that gizzard was meant for the elders, and the youths have taken over. So, the children of that man fought with these youths and destroyed that community.

”Jorkpo from Nweo in Gokana also settled around where you have the Daughters of Charity today in Ogale. Because of his own way of life, he engaged with the Egbere Ngajo of Ogale, and because of that, his community, that little settlement, was destroyed and he was driven away” he said.

John Obe


 

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