The Apois underwent a linguistic shift centuries ago from an Ijo based dialect to Yoruba due to intermarriages and isolation from the larger delta region.
[1] Originally, the Apoi lived along the sides of shallow creeks where they engaged in fishing, canoe building and transporting goods and forestry products such as timber logs by water between their villages and other towns.
Esidale, the deity of the Earth at Ife, is prominent, and the Oro celebration is widely practiced and acknowledged among the Apois.
Prior to arriving at their present location, tribal traditions recall a long period of settlement at Ukomu in what is now Furupagha territory.
The nine lineages formed out of the migrating group founded nine quarters (Idumu), of which only five are remembered, these include, Ogboinbou, Apoi, Okoto-aza or Okoto-aja (the original home of Kalasuwe or Ujo himself and the site of one of his ancestral shrines called Oborowi), Umgbuluama, and Inikorogha.
150-200 years), a gradual process of dispersal set in causing the founding of the towns of Igbobini, Igbotu, Oboro, Ojuala (Oju-Ala), Gbekebo and Kiribo.
As children of Ujo, at Ile-Ife the ancestral traditions name them as one of the sub-tribes that sprung from King Adumu-Ala (alias Oduduwa).
The Apoi king is called Oba and the title is Kalasuwe and dual seats of the throne are in Shabomi and Oboro.