Obaship Stool: Youths, Diaspora Indigenes Petition Abiodun Over Imposition

Teeming youths, arsenic good arsenic different indigenes successful the diaspora of the past Remo municipality of Isara-Remo successful the Remo section authorities country of Ogun State, person petitioned the Ogun State governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, implicit what they described arsenic a wrongful process successful the enactment of the accepted ruler of the town, Odemo of Isara-Remo.

The petitioners, nether the aegis of Concerned Indigenes of Isara-Remo, some location and successful diaspora and the Concerned Youths of Isara-Remo, each pleaded with the authorities politician to workout his powers by declaring the process that produced Bashorun Oluwole Ogunbayo arsenic the oba-elect of the municipality amerciable and bid the kingmakers to travel the known owed process and accepted methods of selecting a accepted ruler for the town.

In their petitions, signed by the diasporan president and caput of the Concerned Indigenes, ‘Wale Odetola and Kola Okusanya, respectively which they forwarded to Governor Abiodun, the Isara-Remo Indigenes successful Diaspora alleged that the obaship enactment process that produced Ogunbayo was fraught with irregularities that included fraud, intimidation, coercion and impersonation of the town’s Council of Kingmakers, among different allegations.

The 2 abstracted petitions, dated September, 9 11, 2025 and transcript of which were obtained by LEADERSHIP Sunday, the Diaspora Isara-Remo Indigenes and the youths of the municipality appealed to the authorities governor, who himself is simply a bonafide Remo-Prince, to usage his bureau arsenic the authorities politician to institute a probe into the alleged incidences of bribery successful the process.

“As 1 of the captious stakeholders, profoundly invested successful the peace, advancement and taste continuity of our homeland, we cannot stay soundless portion the process is being compromised by intimidation, fraud and disregard for tradition. To disregard the divine Ifa Oracle’s verdict is to undermine the precise instauration of the Yoruba kingship tradition.”

Emphasising that the Odemo stool of Isara-Remo remains a awesome of the unity and covenant betwixt the surviving sons and daughters of the town, Odetola and Okusanya successful the petition emphatically declared that the Diaspora Community would not relent successful defending the sanctity of the stool.