Fact-check: The truth about Attah Igala’s ‘curse’ on Sanusi’s grandfather

Fresh facts have emerged of the trending social media report with the headline: The Curse of The Agaba Idu MUST be cleansed.

The story claimed that in April 1963, Emir Mohammed Sanusi I of Kano plotted the dethronement of then Atta of Igala Ameh Oboni (Agaba Idu). The Atta’s offense was his refusal to bow before the Sultan of Sokoto, Chairman of Northern Nigeria Council of Chiefs during the Council’s meeting in Kaduna, capital of Northern Nigeria.

“Igala has just been removed from Onitsha province and added to lokoja in the north, the Atta was not used to bowing to anybody as he was accustomed to being treated like a god by subjects across onitsha province before the transfer of Igala from Onitsha to lokoja province .

 

“The Attah Ameh Oboni was given the option to remove his crown and bow or be removed from office. But the Atta was a god and could not bow to any human being, this was a culture shock arising from the transfer to the north.

“Ameh Oboni knew that by the Igala tradition, the implication of his dethronement was that none of his descendants would ever be allowed to be crowned Atta after him. So he accepted to remove his crown and bow.

 

“But the moment he removed his crown, a swarm of bees rushed out of his head and chased the chiefs out of their chamber. That ended the plot for that day. Oboni then walked up to Emir Sanusi and told him that, for attempting to remove him from office, he Sanusi would lose his throne before he traveled from Kaduna back to Kano and that any of his descendants that ever ascended the throne would be dethroned.

 

“That evening, as Mohammed Sanusi was chauffeured from Kaduna to his palace in Kano, he heard on the car radio of his own dethronement by the Government of Northern Nigeria.

“Today about 57 years after, Emir Mohammed Sanusi’s grand son Emir Lamido Sanusi II has been dethroned.”

 

However, findings by the newspaper showed that the story is untrue as the said Attah of Igala then, Ameh Oboni died in 1956 while the said event happened in 1963.

The Agabaidu reigned between 1945-1956 and couldn’t have been alive in 1963 to place a curse on the late Emir Mohammed Sanusi I of Kano, who is the grandfather of the deposed emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi.

Treasure Orokpo

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