The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has accepted the
apology tendered by popular Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday
Igboho.
Igboho had in virtual meeting tagged: Townhall with Yoruba
in Diaspora said the Ooni disappointed the Yoruba people for not telling
President Muhammadu Buhari the truth when he met with him.
According to him, “When Ooni met with Buhari over the
herdsmen issue, Ooni should have told Buhari the truth but he did not. When
Ooni returned, he started tackling me to leave the remaining task to the
government to finish. You can imagine that kind of talk?
“Alaafin of Oyo has asked me to meet him over the matter.
Alaafin should have been the one invited to meet Buhari but since the Ooni was
invited, he should be bold to tell the president the whole truth and make the
demands of the Yoruba people known to the president.
“The Ooni disappointed himself. Some politicians are behind
Ooni’s latest move. He invited me to his palace but I refused to go. I would
have gone if he had represented us well but he did not. I won’t honour any
monarch who does not cooperate with me. Enough is enough, the Fulani have done
enough.”
However, on Wednesday evening Igboho apologized and noted
that he made those remarks, about the first-class king, in the heat of the
moment.
In the same vein, Director of Media and Public Affairs,
Ooni’s palace, Mr Moses Olafare, confirmed that Igboho has been forgiven.
He said: “He (Ooni) has forgiven him as he had tendered an
apology via a video clip he produced via social media yesterday evening.
“Before tendering the apology, it was the Olugbon of
Ile-igbon that first called and informed Arole Oodua on the phone that he had
scolded Sunday on phone on his misdeeds and that, he would soon tender an
apology to him on the matter. Sunday Igboho later released a video in which he
tendered the apology.
“Even though the way and manner, Sunday behaved was
sacrilege to the Oduduwa throne but he has already apologised and I can confirm
that Arole Oodua forgiven him, because, there is no perfection in humanity.
Sunday is a human being like a normal human being who could misbehave as well”.
He went on: “As the father of all, the Arole Oduduwa Olofin
Adimula, Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja II remains his father who had even
identified with him in the past two weeks he has begun with the struggle and he
is still solidly behind him for the liberation of the Yorubas from criminal
herdsmen who have adamantly terrorised our land.”
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