Igwe Onyejekwe The Father Of Obasanjo? Obasanjo's Real father - A Paternity Controversy
an Igbo who lived in abeokuta during the 1930s, about the time Obasanjo was conceived. As indicated by The Nation, the cop later turned into a ruler on a South-Eastern royal position. Prior to that point, he had associated productively with the neighborhood network and had a concise illicit relationship with an Owu woman, before his last exit from the South-West. In spite of the fact that the paper didn't state more than that, it left little to the creative mind. Whatever insinuation was left of the preparing Obasanjo paternity debate was passed up the Abuja-based Leadership paper by means of a dooming segment labeled Olusegun Igbochukwu Obasanjo, composed by Sam Nda-Isaiah. Utilizing the photos provided by The Nation as the feed of his review, the journalist discharged the sensation. "The editors of The Nation would not like to state a lot, and they have left us to our creative mind, however it won't be from me that you will hear that Obasanjo's dad was Igwe Onyejekwe, a top positioning cop who turned into the Igwe of Onitsha in his lifetime. During his disputable rule, the position of authority was in conflict among him and Igwe Okosi II, similarly as it is today between Igwe Achebe and Igwe Odukwe," Nda-Isaiah composed.
Not finished with Obasanjo, the feature writer went for the slaughter: "Igwe Onyejekwe, Obasanjo's daddy, passed on after the common war and, similar to his child, was said to be extremely petulant and quarrelsome."The editorialist articulated that the conditions of his introduction to the world and dismissal would have helped make the previous president an unpleasant and underhanded individual. He begged Nigerians never to make anybody their pioneer aside from they know what he is accustomed to. "Also, Nigerians truly observed that notorious insidiousness over the most recent eight years.
It is an insidious man that would expand the cost of a liter of fuel by an astounding N10 on out of intensity, essentially on the grounds that he has a financial enthusiasm for processing plants he had recently sold away. It is additionally an extremely awful and insidious president that would twofold the estimation of VAT on out. What does it cost to be decent and kind and compassionate? Nothing! In any case, that is for typical individuals. Furthermore, Obasanjo is a long way from being ordinary." Closing on a hilarious note, the writer prompted that since Obasanjo cherishes power a lot and is a sovereign of Onitsha, ''wouldn't we be able to just crown him the Igwe with the goal that he can disregard us?''
In any case, would it be able to be valid? Is Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, the Balogun of Owu in Egbaland, be the organic child of Igwe Joseph Okwudili Onyejekwe, the Obi Onitsha Ado N'Idu from 1962-1970? Onyejekwe climbed royal position after the destruction of Igwe James Okosi who administered from 1931-1935. His enthronement came after the report of the well known W.R. Harding Commission, which settled questions among the contenders for the position of authority. On the off chance that the appropriate responses are in the positive, does that imply that the Igbo have incidentally taken their eight years proportion at the administration and the Yoruba have not? Oba Isaac Adeyemi Ojelade-Badegunle 1, the Onibogun of Ibogunland, Obasanjo's presumed maternal old neighborhood, says the talk vendors are either hard or are simply doing it because of inaction. "It is a major falsehood, it is only gossipy tidbits. Obasanjo is a regular Abeokuta man and his dad was an unadulterated Egba man from Owu with three facial checks on each side of his cheeks. In actuality, his dad originated from Abule Elere to Ibogun. They are from Agbole-Olusomi in Abeokuta and I originate from his mom's heredity," the nonagenarian told TheNEWS.
Also, on page 84 of the 253-page account titled: Olusegun Obasanjo in The Eyes Of Time-A Biography of the African Statesman, Onukaba Adinoyi-Ojo, making reference to Obasanjo's paternity, expressed: "barely a year after Ashabi's (Obasanjo's mom) demise, Amos Adigun Obasanjo Bankole died following a short sickness. He was covered at Onigbedu where he had stayed till the end. At 22, exactly when a grin was roosting all over, Olusegun Obasanjo turned into a vagrant." But the talk merchants are a long way from being persuaded. In Onitsha the well known story is that Obasanjo is the result of a sentimental contact between Igwe Onyejekwe and Ashabi, Obasanjo's mom, during the 1930s.
Supposedly, the Onitsha sovereign casted off taking Ashabi as spouse in light of the fact that doing so would hurt his odds of climbing the honored position. Another source told the magazine in Onitsha that Onyejekwe really gave a proposal that encouraged Obasanjo's selection into the Nigerian Army in 1958. Notwithstanding, in Adinoyi-Ojo's book there is no notice of Obasanjo requiring proposal from anybody to join the Army. However the advocates of Obasanjo's Igboship point to an announcement credited to him (Obasanjo) during a working visit to Anambra State as affirmation of their case. Obasanjo had supposedly told a crowd of people in Awka that any of his offspring is indigenously qualified to administer Anambra State. In spite of the fact that the announcement was disregarded then as a drivel political talk, it has gotten priceless with the benefit of knowing the past.
Whatever anybody decides to accept, signs are that the talk plant will stay in overdrive for quite a while