The Palace of the Alaafin of Oyo has clarified that His Imperial Majesty, Oba Abimbola Akeem Owoade I, was not consulted before the decision on the rotation of the chairmanship of the Council of Obas and Chiefs was made.
The clarification followed the statement credited to the state Governor, Engr. 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.
According to the statement signed by the Director of Media and Publicity to the monarch, Bode Durotoye on Thursday, the palace disclosed emphatically that there is no point at which the Alaafin of Oyo endorsed the rotation of the chairmanship position among the three traditional rulers in the state.
The statement reads:
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 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.
