Fulani-inspired but predominantly Yoruba-populated, Ilorin Emirate, a multiethnic Muslim city-state encompassing the Kwara State capital and environs in Nigeria’s geographical West Central had officially comprised Ilorin, Asa and Moro Local Government Areas.
Between the IBB and Abacha military misadventures of 1985-1998, Ilorin LGA would be split into West, East and South for the current five LGAs of the Emirate.
If some elements of the freeborn Yoruba, who joined Afonja’s fight to liberate Ilorin from Oyo did not hesitate later to rank èsìn over alájobí , in turning against Afonja; those of Moro in particular, and of Asa, were more unwilling draftees into the Emirate enterprise. A healthy mix of Yoruba tolerance and temperance, intermarriages, African statecraft in multiethnic pacification and perpetual wáàsì, Islamic sermonizing, mainstreamed submission to Allah, subservience to olórí or ruler, and ìyáyookàn or contentment. It encouraged multiculturalism and fellowship, blurred ethnic lines, obliterated paganism and streamlined thought and behavior.
But there is a ghost that refused to go away, despite best efforts of generations of the Emirate’s rulers, multiethnic aristocracy and theocratic enablers. Bottled resentment and gloomy nostalgia for defunct glory and lost empire and territory, and remnants of traditions spur desire in formerly privileged locals and external meddlers for a reversal of fortunes or accommodation within the status quo.
In this emotive milieu of repressed yearnings of ethnicists and traditionalists in and out of the Emirate may be situated the recent bid of an Osun devotee, one Yeye Ajesikemi Omolara Olokun, to celebrate ìsèse, a Yoruba festival of Ajé spirituality in Ilorin. The Kwara State Police Command denied briefing on the ban by the Islamic sect but reiterated readiness to forestall face-off between Muslims and traditionalists in the state.
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