Ooni, Alaafin’s supporters responsible for supremacy feud — Ladoja, Olubadan-designate

By Adeola Badru 

The Olubadan-designate, Oba Rashidi Ladoja, has attributed the lingering supremacy tussle among Yoruba accepted rulers to the actions and utterances of supporters of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, and the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Akeem Owoade.

Speaking during a courtesy sojourn by the Olugbon of Orile-Igbon, Oba Francis Alao, and his woman astatine his Bodija residence successful Ibadan, yesterday, Ladoja decried the perceived rivalry, insisting that the monarchs themselves are not liable for the feud but alternatively their followers. I person ever made it wide that neither the Ooni nor the Alaafin is fostering disunity. It is their supporters who, successful an effort to warrant humanities claims, are stirring discord. They hide that past is often subjective,” helium said.

Ladoja stressed the request for the Yoruba radical to displacement their absorption from divisive humanities debates to initiatives that beforehand peace, progress, and unity crossed Yorubaland.

According to him, “The Alaafin cannot spell to Ile-Ife to rule, conscionable arsenic the Ooni cannot regularisation successful Oyo. Each monarch has his domain.

“The benignant of past their supporters notation to is akin to Britain’s colonization of America, a past that nary longer dictates the present. Today, if America sneezes, Britain catches a cold.”

Highlighting Ibadan’s humanities significance, the Olubadan-designate said: “Without Ibadan’s influence, accepted rulers crossed Yorubaland mightiness person borne titles akin to ‘Emir’.

“But our absorption present is not conscionable astir preserving history, but modernizing Ibadanland and gathering connected the bequest of the aged Ibadan Empire.”

In his response, the Olugbon of Orile-Igbon, Oba Alao, congratulated Oba Ladoja connected his ascension arsenic the 44th Olubadan of Ibadanland, describing it arsenic a important milestone not lone for Ibadan but for each of Oyo State and Nigeria.

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