Remo stool: Ogun community petitions Abiodun, rejects Oba-elect

•Alleges irregularities successful enactment process

By James Ogunnaike, Abeokuta

Indigenes of Isara-Remo, successful Remo North section authorities country of Ogun State person petitioned the State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, implicit what they described arsenic incorrect process successful the enactment of the caller Odemo of Isara-Remo, Bashorun Oluwole Ogunbayo.

The petitioners, nether the aegis of ‘Concerned Youths of Isara-Remo, some location and successful diaspora, pleaded with Governor Abiodun to workout his powers by declaring the process that produced Bashorun Ogunbayo arsenic the oba-elect of Isara-Remo amerciable and bid the kingmakers to travel owed process and accepted ways of selecting a accepted ruler for the past town.

In the petitions, signed by the Diaspora President and Secretary of the Concerned Indigenes, ‘Wale Odetola and Kola Okusanya respectively, which they forwarded to Governor Abiodun, they alleged that the obaship enactment process that produced Ogunbayo was fraught with irregularities, which included fraud, intimidation, coercion and impersonation of the town’s Council of Kingmakers among others allegations.

In the archetypal petition, dated 11th September, 2025 and transcript of which was made disposable to Vanguard, the diaspora Isara-Remo Indigenes and the youths of the municipality appealed to the authorities governor, to usage his bureau to institute a probe into the incidences of bribery to the tune of respective millions of Naira, astatine the disbursal of conformation with the accepted practices of Ifa divination, arsenic good arsenic the alleged militarization of Isara-Remo, during the enactment process connected the 8th of September, 2025.

“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 undermines the instauration of the Yoruba kingship tradition”.

Emphasizing 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 declared that the Diaspora Community would not relent successful defending the sanctity of the stool.

In different petition, dated 9th September, 2025 and signed by 4 different Isara-Remo indigenes; Sola Odunuga; Prince Kayode Shonibare; Mrs. Dupe Adebajo and Mrs. Abiola Onasanya, they each pleaded with the State authorities to guarantee stoppage of each the processes being made to instal Bashorun Ogunbayo arsenic the adjacent accepted ruler of the town.

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