133 years ago today, exactly on September 23rd,1886,the historic Yoruba Peace Treaty , after a 16-year war between the Ibadan Army and her allies, and the Ekitiparapo Army of
Ekiti,Ijesa,Igbomina,Akoko,Ijebu and Egba,was signed in Imesi-Ile,in present Ekiti State of Nigeria. The peace treaty was brokered by the British Colonial Government.
The 1886 Peace Treaty was a treaty affirming peace,brotherliness, friendship and commerce among the Yoruba,after nearly one hundred years of intercine wars.
Today,at the House of Chiefs,Government Secretariat,Agodi,Ibadan,Oyo State of Nigeria,the 126th Kiriji Anniversary Lecture,sponsored by the Yoruba Heritage Group,to commemorate the end of the intercine wars in Yorubaland was held.
A symbolic renactment of the signing of the 1886 Peace Treaty was carried out at the venue of the Lecture by the descendants of the various Yoruba war chiefs who signed the original Treaty in Imesi-Ile,133 years ago.
