Pategi
| Patigi | |
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| Town | |
| Nickname(s): Paris | |
| Motto: mayin lo, mayin lo, ezhi patigi [the best place to be is patigi] | |
 Patigi
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| Coordinates: 8°44′N 5°45′E / 8.733°N 5.750°E | |
| Country |
 Nigeria
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| State | Kwara State |
| Government | |
| • Etsu | hrh etsu alhaji ibrahim chatta umar |
| Time zone | WAT (UTC+1) |
Patigi is a town in Kwara State, Nigeria. The town is the headquarters of Patigi Local Government and the Patigi Emirate. It is inhabited by the Nupe people who also exhibit a linguistic reportoire of the Yoruba dialect. They are farmers, acquatic sellers/fishers and traders.
Patigi is a Nupe town along the banks of the Niger River. The township is located within Patigi Local Government Area. The local government is one of the largest Fadama lowlands in the state with River Niger as the primary source of water.
The Nupe people of Patigi are majorly farmers- harvesting cassava, millet, rice, guinea corn, melon. They also make a lot of local snacks such as "efan", "gbankuru", "liala", Kuli-kuli, "dankuwa" "banbara", "alewa" etc. The people of Patigi also engage in fishing. They are also very industrious.
The settlement of Patigi had existed before the founding of Pategi Emirate but the growth and importance of Patigi grew as a result of the movement of the Edegi ruling house from Gbara and Bida to Patigi forming a new emirate.
The history of the town is linked with the history of Pategi Emirate. The emirate's formation came as a result of the British conquest of Bida.
Bida was originally the home of the Tsoede Nupe dynasty. However, in 1857, Mallan Dendo who was a Fulani itinerant preacher and a follower of Uthman Dan Fodio and his followers dislodged the Nupe rulers who were already split into factions and established a Fulani emirate. However, there were intermittent opposition by some indigenous or Nupe groups to the rule of Dendo descendants in Bida. Among these rebel groups was the Yissazzhi faction, originally led by Jimada a claimant to the Bida throne prior to the Fulani dynasty of 1857 and in 1897, by Idrissu Gana. They had reluctantly supported the Fulani Emir of Bida in battles against other indigenous rebel groups but when the British waged was against the Fulani emirate of Bida, the group laid down their arms and refused to join Bida. After the British conquest, the Yissazhi under Idrissu Gana were allowed to have their own emirate at Patigi.
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