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The Oron Nation, popularly called Oro Ukpabang, Akpakip Oro or Oro Ukpabang Okpo by its members derived from their ancestral father Abang Okpo, is made up of nine clans known as Afaha. These are: Afaha Ukwong, Ebughu, Afaha Ibighi, Effiat, Etta, Afaha Oki-uso, and Afaha Idua (Iluhe) and Afaha Ubuoho which was later divided into two; namely Afaha Okpo and Afaha Ubodung in 1959.
The geopolitical restructuring of states and local government within Nigeria has seen the egalitarian society of the Oron Nation being fragmented politically in the Niger Delta. They have been divided across two separate Nigerian states, the Cross River State and Akwa Ibom state, and then into five Oron local government areas (LGAs) within the Akwa Ibom state, namely: Urue-Offong/Oruko Oron West, Oron, Akwa Ibom Oron Central, Mbo, Akwa Ibom Oron South, Udung Uko Oron East, and Okobo, Akwa Ibom Oron North.
