The traditional chiefs in Ikere Ekiti have warned the Olukere, Oba Ganiyu Obasoyin against parading himself as a monarch, saying he remains an ordinary chief of the town.
The chiefs, who described Olukere’s tirade against Ogoga and his rival, Oba Adejimi Adu as embarrassing, said the community won’t hesitate to move against him if he fails to retrace his steps.
They were reacting to the Olukere’s recent press briefing in which he claimed that his forefathers founded the town and that Ogoga, who is now recognized as king, was his “errand boy” at inception.
The chiefs insisted in a statement signed by the Sao of Ikere, Chief J.K. Omotosho in Ikere Ekiti on Friday: “There’s only one monarch in Ikere-Ekiti, which is Oba Adu, the Ogoga of Ikere, and the paramount ruler and prescribed authority in Ikere kingdom.”
Reacting to the claim by the Olukere that he was already in the town before the arrival of the Ogoga in Ikere, and that as the aborigine, the government was wrong to have declared that there’s only one monarch in Ikere, the Ogoga chiefs alleged: “The Olukere lineage has no history or pedigree in Ikere monarchial heritage since the foundation of the world.”
-: Thisday
