As much as we are happy and love to felicitate his new achievement, please, what is really wrong with us as a people? When does becoming an Olori Om'oba become a ritualistic process? If you want to join any cult group, join it secretly and stop this unwholesome display of heresy.

Many of us are also princes and princesses in our own places. We know how it goes. My grandmother, while she was alive, was the Olori Om'oba Obinrin of Oyo Empire. She didn't perpetrate all these idolatrous trash before becoming an Olori Om'oba Obinrin.

Where did he get his own process? We were so happy, at inception, when he announced that he had been honoured as the Olori Om'oba Akile. I was even one of those who announced it on my Facebook wall. How everything is now turning out to be like a cult horor film is what we can't decipher.

Kilode? Iru iranu wo ni eleyi? Olori Om'oba is just an honorary title. There's nothing ritualistic there. It is just a ploy to honour one of the illustrious sons or daughters of a kingdom. That's the practice everywhere, including Yorubaland.

Up till today, the Alowolodu Royal Family in Oyo still has a Magaji, who, invariably, is the Olori Om'oba of Oyo Empire. He ascended that lofty height without any cacophony of idolatrous initiation. There's nothing ritualistic there, for heaven's sake! E ma ba'ye yi je nitori Olohun! Ipebi Olojo Meje bii ti bawo? Fun Olori Om'oba? Babanla iro ni!

Therefore, the Olori Om'oba Akile should not complicate matters for those who will succeed him. Before we know it, people will turn it to an idolatrous process. He should remember that he will leave, one day, just like Otunba Subomi Balogun, his predecessor left. Kilodeeeeeeee! 😡

Adejare Ibrahim

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