'Korofo’ stand up order: Yoruba apex group strips Obasanjo of all chieftaincy titles


The apex Yoruba group under the aegis of Yoruba Council Worldwide has stripped former president Olusegun Obasanjo of all chieftaincy titles bestowed on him in Yoruba land.

TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) recalls that the former president Olusegun Obasanjo had ordered Yoruba monarchs in a ceremony in Ibadan to stand up for Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde.

This development did not go down with the monarchs who felt they were treated like ordinary ‘korofos’ in khaki uniforms.

To register the anger of the Obas turned korofos, the apex body in a statement signed by Aare Oba Oladotun Hassan , president and the secretary of the group, Siyanbade Adekanmbi late Wednesday stripped former president Olusegun Obasanjo of all titles.

hear them:

“The above subject matter refers.
The Yoruba Council Worldwide being the apex Yoruba indigenous organization, having waited endlessly for your compliance to the 3 days earlier call for sober apology press conference via our widely circulated notice on 16th September, 2023, we hereby declared and seize to recognize your Chieftaincy titles conffered on you by any monarchs in Yoruba Land, including the Balogun of Owu Kingdom, consequent upon your brazen refusal to apologize, degradation and disparaging comments to the Yoruba Obas on the 15th September, 2023 at Iseyin, Oyo State: A Total Sacrilege.

“We see your disrespectful statements at the commissioning of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Iseyin campus, and had commanded kings from Oyo State to stand up and accord you respect (and subsequent defense in premium times); to the arrays of first class Royal Fathers and other leading Obas like toddlers or a village headmaster or Army General talking profusely at his foot soldiers in a most depressing, disparaging and disrespectful manner.

“We reiterate as the leading vanguard voice for all Yoruba indigenous people globally, we have eternal duty to preserve the aesthetic distinct Omoluabi ethos, Royal stools and ancestral customs and traditions of the Yoruba Obaship, precipitating our earlier demand for immediate apologies within three (3) days which you deliberately ignored blatantly.

“We shall further commence strict legal action at a court of competent jurisdiction for defamation and scandalous libel accordingly.

“Furthermore, we shall mobilize all market women, youths and leaders of thoughts for onward sanitization and compliance to our declaration forthwith.
We have emphatically spoken!

HardBishop:
Imagine a General and a former head of state, you yorubas have that othersity stripped his belt. Nonsense

accordadoga30:



Hehehe

We respect our culture.

Omoluabis don't wake up their elders with sidekicks like they do in one region.

A 20 years old boy who is an Oba is older than a 90 years old man. The 90yr old man has to respect that crown. It is the crown he is respecting and not the boy.

accordadoga30:



Hehehe

We respect our culture.

Omoluabis don't wake up their elders with sidekicks like they do in one region so that OSU's attitude is not accepted by us.

A 20 years old boy who is an Oba is older than a 90 years old man. The 90yr old man has to respect that crown. It is the crown he is respecting and not the boy.

HardBishop:
Imagine a General and a former head of state, you yorubas have that othersity stripped his belt. Nonsense

I guess most of the so called obas were playing kekere dance in their nursery daycare when this GENERAL OBASANJO went to biafran war, even became a president them when OBAS were they're in primary school. I don't think yorubas get respect.

mrvitalis:

But a convicted drug Lord is given title abi?
Convicted criminals are elected governors
Rep members

Abegi

Tinubu would do same thing and you guys would justify it

HardBishop:
Imagine a General and a former head of state, you yorubas have that othersity stripped his belt. Nonsense

I guess most of the so called obas were playing kekere dance in their nursery daycare when this GENERAL OBASANJO went to biafran war, even became a president them when OBAS were they're in primary school. I don't think yorubas get respect.

alanto:

He's only convicted in your zobu mind, he just came from the US.
He'll be president for 8 years inshallah.

ElSudani:
Baba is hurting. Could it be because his candidate lost?

mrvitalis:

You can make him life president what's my business

No be same economy we dey?

Na price we give una go pay you have no choice

Cantonese:
He remains with the following titles:

1. Accepted the surrender and ended the civil war
2. Ex Army General
3. Ex head of state
4. Ex President (2 terms)
5. Pastor
6. PHd
7. Owner of Obasanjo farms, Ota
8. Former minister of petroleum
9. Former minister of Defence.
10. One of the great figures of the second generation of post-colonial African leaders.
11. Several traditional titles across the country.
12. GCFR.

How can you remove these indelible records from this great and courageous Nigerian statesman?

paramakina202:
You all can strip him all your archaic traditional titles but OBJ will remain a GENERAL of Nigeria Army and former president federal republic of Nigeria.That you can not take away from him.Next time he meet them those Obas in a gathering and they refuse to stand up and the greet their superior them go do frog jump taya .

clearcrystal:
Obasanjo is not a full Yoruba, his father is a police officer from Anambra who impregnate his mother from Owu, in Ogun state.


The mother kept the identity of his father just to avoid shame and embarrassment.

This is why he's never happy despite his fame and wealth.

HardBishop:
Imagine a General and a former head of state, you yorubas have that othersity stripped his belt. Nonsense

I guess most of the so called obas were playing kekere dance in their nursery daycare when this GENERAL OBASANJO went to biafran war, even became a president them when OBAS were they're in primary school. I don't think yorubas get respect.

Cantonese:


Baba so pe mentality on display.

An Igbo man, but when the Yorubas needed a son with the widest reach in 1999, to fill in for the loss of MKO, all shouted Obasanjo. Were you not born before 1999? The country compensated the Yorubas with the Presidency in 1999. He was not a son, yet the President.