Igbinedion Vs Mariere of Benin Kingdom and Late Jereton Mariere Family Nigeria

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Chief Gabriel
Osawaru Igbinedion is the Esama of
the Benin
Kingdom in Nigeria. The
title Esama traditionally means the “Son of the
people”, with responsibilities including assisting the poor in
medial, monetary and private venture forms. He was suspended from
participating in palace activities in 2008.^[1][2][3][4]

It is on record that the Oba of Benin did
not declare Chief Gabriel Osawaru Igbinedion as an enemy as it was
widely circulated. On the 13th of June, 2012 a palace press release
informed the general public that the suspension placed on Chief
G.O. Igbinedion had been lifted. This was an affirmation that
Gabriel Osawaru Igbinedion is still the Esama of Benin
Kingdom.^[2][5]

The Esama of Benin’s business empire includes an international
property portfolio and a private TV and radio station. He owns a
private bank, oil refinery, diamond, gold, marble mines over
Africa, a private university (Igbinedion University, the first
private university in Nigeria) and a large number of hotels. He
previously owned the now-defunct private airline, Okada Air^[6], of over 40 aircraft
(planes and helicopters). He has built numerous churches including
a Grand Catholic Cathedral, and has set up and owns a number of
private hospitals across Nigeria.

One of the Esama’s sons, Lucky^[7], was a two-term Local
Government Chairman and two-term Governor of Edo State, another,
Charles, was a Local Government Chairman and one time Edo State
Commissioner of Education, while yet another, Peter, was the
Managing Director of Nigerian Aviation Authority. His daughter,
Princess Omosede Igbinedion-Akenzua, is currently in the House of
Representatives for Edo State.

Samuel Jereton Mariere (1907 – 9 May 1971) was the
first governor of the former Midwest State of Nigeria from February
1964 to January 1966. He was also the first chancellor of
the University of Lagos,
Akoka, Lagos and the first
president of the Christian Council of Nigeria.^[1][8][9]

In 1935 Mariere was elected secretary-general of the Urhobo
Progressive Union, an association created in 1931 to articulate and
chart a direction for the Urhobo
people^[10].^[2] He was subsequently created a
traditional chieftain^[11] by them, becoming
the Olorogun of Evwreni in 1953. He was elected a
member of the Nigerian House of Representatives for the Urhobo East
and later Central district.^{[citation
needed}[12]^]Mariere was a leader of the
agitation for creation of a new region out of the
old Western Region^[13], which was dominated by
the Yoruba^[14]. The Mid-Western
Region^[15] was created in
1963 after a plebiscite in which all the Urhobo divisions voted
unanimously in favor, and Mariere was later appointed the first
governor.^[3] Following this he was given two
other aristocratic^[16] titles, that of
the Onisogene of Aboh in 1964 and that of
the Ogifueze of Agbor in 1965.

Mariere died in 1971. A students residential hall is named after
him in the University of Lagos, with a life-size statue at the
entrance.^[4]

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