Ogun 2023: Olota Of Otta, Yewa Awori Obas Harassed

<h4>Ogun 2023&colon; Olota Of Otta&comma; Yewa Awori Obas Harassed<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that as campaigns intensify in the camps of candidates across party lines ahead of the 2023 general elections&comma; some notable traditional rulers in Ogun State have been allegedly harrases and bullied&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;This was the disclosure of a Chieftain of the African Democratic Congress&comma; ADC&comma; and former Commissioner in Ogun State&comma; Bashorun Muyiwa Oladipo &lpar;BMO&rpar; who said that governor Dapo Abiodun was jittery over the candidature and endorsement of Barr&period; Biyi Otegbeye by the Awori Obas in the State&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Oladipo stated this while addressing journalists in his office at Oke-Yeke&comma; Isabo&comma; Abeokuta&comma; noting that the growing popularity of ADC&&num;8217&semi;s gubernatorial candidate&comma; Otegbeye&comma; was given the failed All Progressive Congress &lpar;APC&rpar; and its guber candidate&comma; Abiodun unrest&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He urged the Awori Obas and ADC supporters in the State not to allow Prince Dapo Abiodun and his party to harass&comma; intimidate&comma; bully and suppress them before&comma; during and after the campaign and elections&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;While reacting to the recent rejection of Otegbeye by 42 Yewa Traditional rulers from Ogun West axis&comma; Oladipo said that the state government prevented the council of Awori Obas&comma; led by the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;thehopenewspaper&period;com&sol;">Olota of Otta&comma; Oba Adeyemi Abdulkabir Obalanlege<&sol;a> from receiving their governorship candidate&comma; Barr&period; Biyi Otegbeye&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Oladipo&comma; who maintained that he was not perturbed or disturbed by the endorsement of Abiodun aftermath&comma; noting that the monarchs were allegedly intimidated&comma; harassed and was forced to do so&comma; so as for the governor to discredit the growing popularity of Otegbeye&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;Indeed&comma; Otegbeye has scheduled a courtesy visit to the monarch at his palace&comma; which was reported to have been cancelled a few hours before the meeting&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In fact&comma; the meeting was initiated to intimate the council of his programmes but was called off without any justifiable and tangible reason&&num;8221&semi;&comma; Oladipo said<br &sol;>&NewLine;He said &&num;8220&semi;the harassment by Abiodun and his failed party is a sacrilege&comma; charade and a total desecration of the traditional institution&comma; saying that he was decided to wield such draconian powers on Ogun West by preventing Yewa Awori Obas from receiving their own son on their land&&num;8221&semi;&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He maintained that the purported endorsement of the incumbent governor&comma; Dapo Abiodun by the traditional rulers was a lip services because they were being harassed to do so&comma; noting that Yewa Awori Obas can not reject their son&comma; Otegbeye and support Abiodun&&num;8217&semi;s reelection bid&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Oladipo who was former Ogun State Speaker&comma; between 1999-2003 and two terms Commissioner in the state said he believed that the monarch acted under the disguise of not being punished by the current administration&comma; saying that even if they mean the endorsement&comma; they don&&num;8217&semi;t have the voting right over the masses&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;