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—IT was a carnival of sorts as gaily-dressed indigenes of Afor clan, in Ndokwa East Local Government Area, Delta State, converged to observe the Orji Efor festival.The people commemorate the fiesta regarded as their New Year festival yearly, to mark the advent of their progenitor, Etim Uku, the Great, who reportedly trekked from Bini Kingdom to the locality.
“As at the time Etim Uku arrived and settled in the present Orji Efor site, , he had four children namely: Ugbum, Osonwu, Obifi and Oleke. They disclosed that of the eight communities that make up the Afor Clan – Obetim, Umuachi, Ogbeti, Okolori, Umuachi Ogo, Umu Okpala, Iselegu and Ogbedigbo, only one of them is not allowed to worship the Orji Efor deity.
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