Usen/Ovia south west popularly mistaken as Benin

Usen/Ovia south west popularly mistaken as Benin

a lot of popular misconceptions being circulated this days about migrations from Bini into the Ondo Ekiti and Isale eko region were actually from yoruboid communities around the Ovia area for instance Ikale people speak pure usen dialect and there is a case of misconception where Benin area is mistaken for Benin people for the avoidance of doubt i would quote a statement by kabiyesi Alani of Idoani OBA OLUFEMI OLUTOYE

STATEMENT BY ALANI ON THE ORIGIN OF IDOANI

Ido-Ani came to being less than a thousand years ago. Some Yoruba from Akokoland at the time migrated to Ido-Ani to settle. History has it that one of the grandchildren of Oduduwa followed Oramiyan to Benin, but Benin was in chaos then. They had an Oba but there was a revolution there and the arrival of Oranmiyan settled the crisis and he was made Oba in Benin. When Oranmiyan became the king in Benin, he married one of the daughters of the previous king, called Ogiso in Benin. The woman gave birth to a male child. Then, it was Yoruba language that they spoke in the palace.

When they told the king that his wife had been delivered of a baby boy while he was playing a game with someone; he was so engrossed in the game that he was saying: Owomika (I have subdued him); that is, subdued the person he was playing the game with. The statement came out at the same time they were giving him the news that he had baby. The messenger thought the Oba was naming the new baby: Owomika, not knowing it was about a game. That was how the boy was named Eweka. So when the baby grew up, Oranmiyan left Benin and called the place Ile Ibinu (angry land) because people there got angry easily. That is why they called the place Bini. It was coined from – Ile Ibinu. It was after Oranmiyan got back to Ile-Ife that he later moved to Oyo to settle. One of his cousins that followed him to Benin was called Ani. He decided to leave Benin to form his own kingdom. When he got here, he met some people who also spoke Yoruba. When he introduced himself to the people he met here, they started adoring him and made him the king of the place. And they called him Alani of Ido-Ani.
like kabiyesi mentioned ANI was yoruba speaking when he got to idoani this is a clear case of reverse migration that unfortunately has been misunderstood