SODEKE: THE Playmate IDÉAL OF THE ẸGBA Public
Sodeke was brought into the world in Iporo in the Ẹgba woodland, his dad, Rogidi was a rancher, his mom, Efuwo, was supposed to be the little girl of Lelu-Origi, a conventional high boss. At the point when his dad kicked the bucket, he turned into the top of the Rogidi family, similar to his dad as well, he was a rancher and before the finish of 1780's, he had gotten perhaps the best ranchers in the Ẹgba woods.
Soon after the Owu Battle of 1820-1825, the Ẹgba woods was crushed with a few outside assaults from Ife, Ijebu and Oyo powers. Tragically a large number of these assaults were upheld by other Ẹgba towns, for example Ilawo (a Ẹgba town) upheld the Ijebus to sack Ikija. Kémta, Iporo and Emere united to catch Kesi. Idomapa assisted the Ifes with obliterating its neighbor, Ido. A significant number of the saboteurs were subsequently assaulted and sacked. Unmistakably, àbọ̀sí ọ̀ lérè.
The individuals who endure the assaults hurried to Ibadan which around then was a military/exile camp. Sodeke was one of the Ẹgba survivors who later showed up in Ibadan. In any case, the Ẹgbas keep on confronting oppression from the Ife-Ijebu camp, two Ẹgba pioneers, Yesa and Lamodi kicked the bucket in this battle, it was currently glaring that the Ẹgbas were not needed and they needed to move, first they settled at a spot called Oke-Ona, during this time the Ẹgbas had no pioneer in light of the fact that nobody was adequately daring to venture into that shoe with the exception of one man, Sodeke, who around then was the Seriki or Youth pioneer in the present speech.
Sodeke drove more than hundred thousand Ẹgbas to settle at the foot of the Olumo Rock, albeit a few different survivors had look for asylum under the Stone before they showed up, Sodeke's development was supposed to be the greatest and it was from that point the city jumped up to become Abeokuta.
In other to expand populace and battle against looming outer assaults, Sodeke empowered an entryway strategy, he invited new pioneers and guests, he helped the saros find their families. He heartily got two European preachers, Birch Freeman and Townsend in Dec.1842 and Jan.1843 separately. The main ever Christian help in Abeokuta was held in his compound.
He kicked the bucket on January 10/18/1945.