Ikere

Ikere's political traditions preserve a distinction between the Olukere and the Ogoga, two offices associated with different forms of authority in the town. The Olukere was linked to the sacred Olosunta Rock and performed the rituals of the community. Traditions describe the founder of the Ogoga line as a hunter of Edo origin who settled in Ikere and was asked to assist with affairs such as judging disputes.

In these accounts, responsibilities gradually shifted until the Ogoga became the ruler while the Olukere retained a chiefly ritual position. The sequence is not securely dated. Historical analysis has suggested that the change may have occurred as late as the seventeenth century and may represent an internal redistribution of authority rather than a new conquest. Ikere's early modern setting therefore included a relationship between sacred office and political leadership that continued to be remembered through traditions of service, settlement and succession. Its institutions preserved more than one account of how legitimate authority developed.

The later city of Ikare also lies here.