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You Imposed Abimbola Owoade, We Didn’t Recommend Him As Alafin – Oyo Kingmakers To Makinde

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January 11, 2025
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Five of the seven kingmakers in Oyo town has rejected the appointment of Prince Akeem Abimbola Owoade as the new Alaafin by Governor Seyi Makinde.

The kingmakers described Owoade’s appointment as illegal and unlawful and strange to Oyo tradition and customs.

They also faulted Makinde’s action, describing it as an afront on Oyo culture and a desecration of the age long customs of Oyos people.

They insisted that the only person they recommended as the next Alaafin is Prince Luqman Gbadegesin and not Owoade who they described as an imposition.

The Kingmakers, stated their position in a letter to the Governor Makinde shortly after the purported approval of Owoade as the Alafin elect by the state government.

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The letter was signed by their legal representative, Adekunle Sobaloju SAN.

The five kingmakers are High Chief Yusuf Akínade, Bashorun Oyo; High Chief Wakeel Akindele, Lagunna Oyo; High Chief Hamzat Yusuf, Akinniku Oyo; Chíef Wahab Oyetunji, warrant chief stand-in for Asipa Oyo, and Chief Gbadebo Mufutau, warrant chief stand-in for Alapinní Oyo.

“You will recall that on 30th September, 2022 at the meeting of the Kingmakers in accordance with the Alaafin of Oyo Chieftaincy Declaration, 1961, the Kingmakers appointed Prince Lukman Adelodun Gbadegesin as the Alaafin of Oyo by majority of the lawful votes of the Kingmakers.

“Prince Lukman Adelodun Gbadegesin having obtained the majority of votes of the Kingmakers present and voting was deemed appointed and his name was forwarded to your Excellency as the candidate appointed by the Kingmakers as Alaafin of Oyo for your approval which you refused to approved for no disclosed reason at all.

“The Kingmakers thereafter filed an action to stop your excellency from truncating the process, culminating in the present appeal at the court of appeal,” the letter read.

They noted that they were surprised that in the announcement by the government, it claimed that the selection was made after
wide consultation and divination.

“We must emphatically state that the Alaafin is not chosen by consultation or divination but in strict compliance with the Registered Alaafin of Oyo Chieftaincy Declaration of 1967, which codifies the native law and custom governing the selection process for the vacant stool of the Alaafin.

“Under the Registered Alaafin of Oyo Chieftaincy Declaration of 1967, it is only the Bashorun of Oyo, the head of the Oyomesi and Kingmakers that can, summon a meeting of the Kingmakers for the purpose of selecting a candidate to fill the vacant stool of the Alaafin of Oyo.

“In this instance, the Bashorun did not summon any such meeting, nor was there any meeting convened in the Alaafin’s palace, as custom demands where the said Prince Abimbola Akeem Owoade was selected or appointed as the new Alaafin.

“Any meeting of few kingmakers and emergency warrant chiefs held at the Governor’s office on the gth of January,2025 or elsewhere at the instance of the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, to select the preferred candidate of the Governor as the new Alaafin is not only contrary to the native law and custom and Chieftaincy Declaration of Alafin of Oyo Chieftaincy but unlawful, illegal, invalid, null and void.

“It is not the duty of the Governor to convene the meeting of few kingmakers and emergency warrant chiefs to select or appoint a new Alaafin on the 9th of January, 2025 and hurriedly approve the appointment on the 10th of January, 2025,” they added. (vitalnewsngr.com)

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