Oyo State Rotational Council Of Obas: You Lied, Alaafin Faults Governor Seyi Makinde

Oyo State Rotational Council Of Obas

OpenLife Nigeria reports that following the inauguration of the Oyo State Council of Obas and Chief during which governor Seyi Makinde disclosed that he consulted widely, the Alaafin of Oyo , Engineer Abimbola Akeem Owoade 1 has said that he was not consulted before Olubadan was made chairman of Council of Obas & Chiefs.

This is contained in a statement from the Alaafin’s palace as reproduced below

The attention of the Alaafin’s Palace has been drawn to a statement credited to His Excellency, Governor Seyi Makinde that he consulted with the three traditional rulers in the State, the Alaafin, the Olubadan and the Soun of Ogbomoso on the rotational Chairmanship of the State Council of Obas and Chiefs.

The Palace hereby wants to state clearly that there was no time that His Imperial Majesty, the Alaafin of Oyo , Oba Engineer Abimbola Akeem Owoade 1, held any meeting with either the State Governor or any of the two traditional rulers mentioned above.

Also the Alaafin did not tell the Governor or make a categorical statement on his endorsement of rotational Chairmanship among the the three traditional rulers in the State.

The position of the Alaafin and the Entire Oyo Community on the general issue of the,State, Council of Obas,and Chiefs has been enunciated in a Memo delivered to His Excellency by the Oyo Council of Elders.

Signed

Bode Durojaiye,
Director of Media and Publicity to the Alaafin, Paramount Ruler of Oyo Kingdom and the Superior Head of Yorubaland.