January 14, 1988 was Abiola’s day of glory; armed with the shield, staff of office and leopard skin apron, all ofoicial insignia of the Aare Ona Kakanfo, he was the cynosure of all eyes on the palace grounds; just like Samuel Ladoke Akintola was; decades before Abiola’s installation.

With about three months to his official and traditional installation as the 15th Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, the new Aare has received numberless congratulatory messages; with many more to come as the days go by. The reason may not be far-fetched; the Kakanfo title is one of the most revered in the whole of Yorubaland. At the zenith of the glory of the Oyo Empire, the Aare Ona Kakanfo; being the head of the Eso, was the leader of the Yoruba army which conveniently boasted of loyal troops from as far as the borders of the present day Borgu Kingdom in the North, to the Bight of Benin on the South and Dahomey, the present day Benin Republic on the western front to the River Niger in the east. Such were the powers the Alaafin invested in the Kakanfo!

The Man Gani Adams

Like the proverbial Gangan drum that turns it face to someone while its back turns to someone else, Otunba Gani Adams is a man of different parts; seen by people in different lights. To some, Adams’ oversized ego led to the bloody power tussle that polarized the Oodua People’s Congress between the founder, Dr. Frederick Fasehun and ...


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