Since Ohuan died childless and without a successor. Eweka I lineage ended. Benin kingdom was in a renewed turmoil and nightmare ones again there was struggle for power and control among various factional chiefs; they crowned someone from their camp as monarch under rotation system among the different branch of the royal family for six reigns this practices produced series of weak monarchs whom legitimacy were questionable and left the kingdom ones again vulnerable.
Akenzae was sixteen years when he ascends the throne under this system.
During his reign many of the kingdom’s treasures were wasted and gambled away.