摘要：This paper examines the mode of integration of the Igbomina into the Ilorin emirate system in the light of the prevailing controversy surrounding the subject. Available oral and written sources of the historical account on the relationship between the two sub-groups are examined to see how much they could be relied upon as authentic historical sources. From various lines of argument adduced for and against diplomacy and conquest as the likely mode of integration of the Igbomina into Ilorin emirate system, it would appear that diplomacy was the probable mode of integration of the Igbomina into the Ilorin emirate system
