ỌBA OREỌGHẸNẸ WAS NEVER AN URHOBO.

(Ọba OreỌghẹnẹ (Orọghẹnẹ) was the 26th Ọba between 1684-1700 AD.)
TO say Ọba ỌREỌGHẸNẸ was an URHOBO man is not true. Because of the name Ọghẹnẹ, people misconstrued it to be Urhobo.
The name Ọghẹnẹ is purely ẸDO language from where other Ẹdo affiliates derived their name for God. The Ẹdo (Benin) used so many appellations to describe God.

When Benin say Ọghẹnẹ'Osa, it is referring to a meticulous God. From the Benin word of Ọghẹnẹ; the Urhobo, Isoko took Ọghẹnẹ for God's name, then the Etsakon took Ọghẹna for God.

While Esan took Oisẹ /Osẹ from Osa, as Itsekiri took Oritsẹ from Oisa all from Osa, with the root in Osanobua, which Esan would call Osẹlobla, Ika would say Osẹnobuẹ.

The Ọba OreỌghẹnẹ was never an Urhobo, the name OreỌghẹnẹ depicts "the environment of a meticulous God."
OreỌghẹnẹ was never derived from Urhobo becoming Ọba in Benin. Tracing Ọba OreỌghẹnẹ from his predecessors, he was never from any Urhobo.
Most words used in Urhobo, Isoko, Ika, Itsekiri have their roots in Ẹdo /Benin language.

The Iyasẹ Sam Igbẹ could have a maternal links with Urhobo does not make him lesser Benin.

All those speculations should not arise because of words mostly used by the Urhobo for God, than as it is not commonly used in Benin.
That does not foreclosed the fact that Ọghẹnẹ as a name is originally from the Benin or Ẹdo word OreỌghẹnẹ or Ọghẹnẹ-Osa.

In a Benin poem:
"vbua re aro, fian mẹ, ọfo, vbọ fo na? ọfo nite, vbọ rrẹ ite? ite aro, vbọ aro? Aro eba, vbọ rre eba? Eba Elẹma, vbọ ẹrẹ Elẹma? Elẹma ighede, vbọ rre ighede? Ighede aisabọ, vbọ rrẹ aisabọ? Aisabọ ẹguae, vbọ ẹguae? Ẹguae Ọghẹnẹ, vbọ rrẹ Ọghẹnẹ? Ọghẹnẹ-Osa, vbọ rrẹ Osa? Osa nọ yi mẹ gbọghọdọ, ọna yi uwẹ tẹkpu."

Understanding such Benin poems and ancient usage of the world Ọghẹnẹ'Osa, Ọghẹnẹ, Ọghẹna tells much of the root of Ọghẹnẹ from ancient Ẹdo language and usage.

In Benin, the ancient name for Oduduwa, Ododua was Ọghẹnẹ n'Uhẹ (Ọghẹnẹ), an appellations used for kings, and highly exulted priests. Ọghẹnẹ used for an Ọba shows a meticulous Ọba (King).
Where we do not have a grasp of the true understanding or meaning of names, we should not speculate or use it to distort, historical facts to sooth our inclinations.

Oba OreỌghẹnẹ by his ancestral to the throne was never an Urhobo, because of the name Ọghẹnẹ, which was also an ancient word for God in Benin.