At about 1569 AD, Ahisama was installed Eze Agbor. He was a man of fashion and fond of women. He befriended a harlot named Igue who came to Agbor from Benin where she had his sons before she eloped to Agbor. But it was against Agbor custom for a king to bring a whore to his harem. As this was outrageous, his many wives were ordered by the elders to quit the harem for the harlot. The townsmen also forsook the palace. By the time, Igue had conceived by the Obi and delivered a male, named Omasio (it is good).

After a time, both couple began to feel their lonely predicament. Ahisama was obliged to go and consult the Oracle with a faraway divination priest. There, the seer predicted a sacrifice with a strange woman, a cow and 200 empty tied knots and faggots without fire. Ahisama cleverly caught a cow and prepared the empty knots when he came back home. But how and where to get a woman not Agbor born became a puzzle, because all the slaves had deserted. Eventually, Ahisama made sacrifice with a cow and the knots anyhow as half done. Igue then called the king, “My dear husband, please make me the victim of the sacrifice for I am the strange woman being foretold, but kindly save my son from destruction as your law would disallow the illegitimate child to live.”

The husband objected to make her a victim. Igue thereafter, jumped into the pit already dug and started to cover herself up. As her spark of life was fading, Ahisama had to utter the words of prayer over the dying woman so that peace might return to his domain. The woman died. No sooner this awful event happened than women coming from the market saw this great sacrifice done with a woman and a cow side-by-side. They were surprised and went home saying that the king alone could not have done such, and that the townsmen had deceived one another in coming to the Obi secretly. The spreading news made some men to go and see what really happened. They met the Obi with the motherless child in sorrowful manner. They greeted him. He answered and told them to take their seat. Meanwhile, many came one after the other, and the palace was thronged with townsmen and women. So, the effect of the sacrifice was manifested.

The rebellious elders and Idibon Dein and Obi’s wives began to return and resumed their loyalty, obedience and service. Ahisama later narrated to his people and all admired the faithfulness of his lover, Igue. Thus, she became a heroine, and her memory, gave birth to a festival known as Igue. This was the origin of Igue yearly festival in Agbor kingdom.

In consideration, Igue’s day is commemorated as an important anniversary in many kingdoms in Ika, and which spread to Benin kingdom. The song of the ceremony on this day is Ewere Ewere Nagbode – each person holds a faggot shrub called Ibiewere and the young men pray, knocking coconuts branches on the ground along the streets and around the compounds. “May God remove confusion, trouble from the town and give the people rest and plenty, ise.” However, other Ika kingdoms that celebrate Igue had different reasons for the beginning of the festival.