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SUMMARY
This essay had examined the Eweka-Ogiamwen political conflict and resolution in pre-colonial Benin kingdom. The study first and foremost clarified the conflict and the political actors that were involved in it. The study showed that the words or term Eweka and Ogiamwen were terms and titles used to identify individuals and groups that pledge loyalty to and collectively represent, fought for the two strands of political ideas – republicanism and monarchical political systems or ideology in the period. In other word, the name or appellation, Ogiamwen was not a nomenclature for an individual rather it represents or capture the people led by Evian and his son, Irebor as well as their followers, who professed the idea of republicanism as a unique form of government that could best protect the interests of the kingdom while the term or title Eweka was used to qualified those who subsumed to the political idea of monarchy as inherited by them through the Ogiso. So embedded is the Eweka-Ogiamwen political struggle in the mind of the people that some families names such as Igbineweka emerged in order to eulogize their struggle for the defeat of the Ogiamwen and his republican loyalists.
