₦airaland Forum

kettykin:
The brown roof town was rated above FCT, Rivers state, Delta state, and Kaduna state. I think we are getting to the last straw of data that will break the data camel's backbone

It was picked because of the cheap house rent, transportation, security, and probably food.

[b][/b]An excerpt from the interview granted by His Imperial Majesty, Oba Dr Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III (CFR, JP LLD), The Alaafin of Oyo.

QUESTION: HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHER PROMINENT OBAS IN YORUBALAND?

ALAAFIN: Very very cordial. But there have been some controversies concerning supremacy. You see, the issue of who is Supreme among the obas is a 20th Century phenomenon.

No Oba can say, he is greater than the Alaafin. Up till now, there is no oba who has come out to make such claims; they only use surrogates. If any oba wants to attack the Alaafin, he uses a baale or another inconsequential element to do that, whereas the Alaafin has come out openly to say he is the head of the Yoruba obas and nobody has controverted that.

If you go to Sir Lugard's political memoranda in 1917, he detailed the hierarchy of all the traditional rulers in the north and the south.

My father or my grandfather was not there to influence Lord Lugard to write it. If you say Johnson had bias for Oyo, go and see C. R. Neeving, who stated unequivocally and authoritatively that the Alaafin is the Supreme oba in Yorubaland.

Go to Johnson, see the treaty signed by the Alaafin in 1881, stating, I, Adeyemi I, Alaafin of Oyo, King of Yorubaland.'

In his letter to the British in 1881, during the internecine wars, he wrote, "I, king of the Yoruba?" There is no dispute over that.

I have challenged them to a debate, at least for 10 minutes, but they have run away because the facts are there. Somebody wrote recently that the first settlement was ruled by the first Alake. Do you believe that the first settlement of Yoruba was established by Alake who was established in 1830?

QUESTION: DO YOU BELIEVE THE HISTORY OF YORUBA STARTED IN 1830?

ALAAFIN: The first Alake in Abeokuta, Okukenu, was a Sagbua, a chief of the Alaafin. Go to the book, Egba and her neighbours, written by an eminent professor of history, Professor Saburi Biobaku, page 15, he wrote that the "Egba forest laid within the remotest part of the Alaafin Empire, and how the Alaafin superimposed his authority over the Alake and all other Egba traditional chiefs is acknowledged."

Go to the salary scale of all the obas in 1938, the record of the pay-slips is in the Palace here.

Oyo province was constituted on January 14, 1914 and Ife and Ijesa were all under Oyo Province.

For purposes of effective administration, Oyo Province was broken down into three, namely Oyo Division of Oyo Province; Ibadan Division of Oyo Province and Ife/Ijesa Division of Oyo Province. And principal obas in these areas were designated district heads.

In Ibadan, the Olubadan was the district head of Ibadan, Ooni was the district head of Ife, Orangun was the district head of Ila and Owa was the district head of Igbomina. The Alaafin was the paramount head of the whole province, and in ranking, the Aremo, who was the crown prince of the Alaafin, was the district head of Oyo Province. Twenty district courts were opened for the 20 districts in the province, and the Alaafin never sat in any of the district courts, but at the court of appeal over the 20 district courts.

When there was a problem between Ife and Ijesa, Sir John Macpherson asked the Alaafin to intervene. The Alaafin sent Are Ilugbohun and Alapini and a number of Oyomesi to go and adjudicate. The boundary fixed by the Alaafin at Enuowa still subsists till today.

Ditto the dispute between Ife and Ede, Alaafin's ruling still subsists till today. When Ibadan and Egba quarrelled over Bakasari, the Alaafin settled it and said Bakasari belonged to Ibadan, and he made all the parties to sign an undertaking.

TO BE SPECIFIC, THERE WERE INSINUATIONS THAT THE OLD OYO STATE HAD TO BE SPLIT INTO TWO; OYO AND OSUN, BECAUSE OF THE SUPREMACY FIGHT BETWEEN YOU AND THE OONI OF IFE.

ALAAFIN: I would not know the inner workings of government. But I want to tell you this: politics brought out the Ooni.

There are so many things we cannot cover in the course of this interview. Like I told you, the question of whether the Alaafin is supreme is a 20th Century phenomenon when Awolowo emerged the Premier of the Old Western Region. That was when the government propped up the Ooni.

And the only way they could do it successfully then was to get rid of the Alaafin, which they did by deposing the Alaafin, and Ooni Adesoji Aderemi on August 8, 1960 was appointed the governor of the Western Region. The governorship thing was to give leverage to a man who never founded any empire.

When they organised the Traditional Rulers' Forum in Abuja, Yoruba obas were ridiculed. They put all the Emirs on the first row and put Yoruba Obas, including the Ooni on the second row. When I came in, I asked for my seat and they wanted me to go and sit at the back. I just removed one of the tags and sat beside the Sultan of Sokoto.

Under the Clifford Constitution in 1922, two Obas represented the whole of Nigeria at the Legislative Council, the Sultan of Sokoto and the Alaafin of Oyo. The Alaafin represented the entire south in Lagos.

I left the place and went home, wrote a strongly worded letter to General Jeremiah Useni and copied the late General Abacha. Abacha invited me and I told him that government is a continuum. He reasoned with me and corrected that. The Alake and the Awujale never fought their own cause but I fought mine.

When they asked us for a meeting in Abuja, they asked us to bring our aides for hotel accommodation. The emirs would bring about eight and they put them in suites while they reserved two rooms for me. I just packed to one of the presidential suites. They said but it was not reserved for me, and I said they didn't have to do that, I did it myself. You see, as the Alaafin, you cannot fear anything.

Tareq1105:
Well done Wicked Wike.

You're doing so well in adding value to the government of PBAT.

Thanks so much for everything you put into lifting the facilities standard of FCT and its satellite towns.

However, I'm begging you to complete APO - KARSHI Road which you promised.

You're the only one who can do it. Bala Mohammed promised in 2012 that he would fail.

Bello Mohammed promised in 2015 and for 8 years he failed woefully.

Nyeson Wike you promised to deliver the road and I pray you will not disappoint me and FCT residents.

Go tag him on his social page or write a personal message to him. I am sure he will see it and work on it.

The mistake most people make is comparing the Naira to the Dollar.

If we need to face reality, we must not compare ourselves to anyone.

Trendtips:
Governor Makinde has ny support and respect any day. God bless him

Do you have a membership card?

Will you attend the convention?

If no to those questions, your support is nothing.

Wike is not a bad man, as some people project him to be, but he's very lousy and has a bad mouth, which I am very comfortable with.

They want to suppress him and he doesn't take it lightly with them and that's the reason for profiling.

Dayvidoo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq24-GhaW4Q?si=30KZ_y92BxFfO5eP

Fresh reports online reveal that Davido, his father Dr. Adedeji Adeleke, and Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke have allegedly been funding workers’ salaries in Osun State from their pockets.

This disclosure was made by former Ondo State governor, Bode George, during an interview on Nigeria Info FM Lagos 99.3.

Speaking about the withheld local government funds by the Federal Government of Nigeria, Bode George said that the trio mentioned earlier have been paying salaries of workers from their pockets for the past 6 months now.

Bode George said that Osun State has not been paid local government allowances by the Federation account, owing the state over N5billion.

He added that the last time he had a conversation with Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, he said that he is considering dumping the People's Democratic Party (PDP).

Source: Mazitundeednut @IG

Its true that the FG did not pay the LG allocation but Osun gets a lot of money from FG aside LG funds

dokyOloye:
A project that has not gone 0.0001 percent abi no be where I pass on Saturday?
But una wan suffocate us with propaganda

At least you passed there?

Can you do the same last 3 years?

Kingluqman:
They are;

Ooni of Ife
And
Alaafin of Oyo.

In 2025 ooo, Ooni is more recognised nationally and more superior than Alaafin. Take it or leave it.

Alaafin doesn't even know how to play the supremacy card game very well

Ooni is more politically savvy than the rest and the privileged

press9jatv:
you don enter the plane before nii. Don't over talk here joor

No, but I have represented Nigeria outside the country sometimes and won Gold.

Na leg I trek dey attend jare

Fiscus105:
If you meet all of these Okada men on the road, which of them you will allow to carry you to your destination and why?

Me, I will choose 'B' because it is the least clueless among them.

I have this love for any leaders who can manage people well.

A leader who can say this is where we are going and millions will follow them without looking back.

I believe only Buhari has the capacity.

zero8zero:
2027 is between Nigerians and APC 🤣🤣😂 how market?. Keep making mouth on social media, it can't go beyond your keyboard. Those who matters no send you.

Like those in APC and their people are from Ghana

press9jatv:
If these issues happened in America or China, Dangote would have been arrested and sentenced to 50 years' jail.

You Wey never pass your 2 local government before dey talk about American… na wa o

What happened to arresting the driver and prosecuting him and not the company owner?

foleskay:
Wats he putting in order. He thinks we are still in the era of the oyo empire?? Mk him find where to sit

Does the construction change?

Everyone should know their reach for peace to rain

Slytiger:
What power. All these kings that ordinary local government can dethrone

You people just talk anyhow

Which local chairman dares look at his face not to remove him?

Even the Governor will consult the House of Representatives before doing it

Appletek:
That thing Mr Owoade of Oyo is looking for, he will soon get it. Hope you know he has a pending murder case over the baba that died after being beaten in the palace?

Seyi Makinde will call this Youth Corper to order and he will get some sense.

That's not the case we are treating here.

Let him face the law if found guilty but Onni should know his place and power reach.

Can he do something like this If the last Alasfin?

ReliableTailor:
Kabiyesi o. Abeg make una take am easy o. You are talking to the Oonirisa. Please accord him some respect.

Ooni of Ife not Yoruba land.

Alaafin is the supervisor one in Yoruba land

Popson0424:
Make alafin relax now...oni self get power to give title as him get power to give I rest my case.

Ooni does not have the power to give the title of Yoruba king.

No one will question him if na ife chieften he give out

Slytiger:
This Alaafin dey misbehave. This is what happens when you bypass Oyo mesi to install an Alaafin.

What is the Alaafin going to do after 48 hours

He's not misbehaving, he's using his power and trying to put things in order

Alaafin is the paramount Yoruba king.

Ooni should tread with caution

You don't compare them; they have different functions.

However, I have never seen a professor develop a good idea in Nigeria.

They're as useless as senators

May Mama rest in peace....

22 character needed more okay

I am waiting for the day Obi, Atiku and Tinubu will join this kind of Marathon

Rest in legend!!! One of the few actors I look forward to and I never met you in person till you died.

Gbadugbakun:
Why isn't the Saudi Arabia and Nigerian league on the list? This is racism.

Is Saudi Arabia and Nigeria in Europe or do you people like to talk for talking's sake and not read?

Later you'll blame the government. SMH

Me and my 112.5GB for 18k mtn is the only.

Judolisco:
Hope u can see that there's no equality anywhere in the world... Chelsea, Manchester City, and Liverpool won't have these issues... Even Arsenal....

If Strasbourg qualify for the Champions League, BlueCo will decide which of them will play and the other will play Europa.

The law is very clear and I believe it's good

Shawarmagirl:
You know more than Amaechi and Lawal that is top APC members abi? Even if INEC chairman said Obi won you'll still doubt it

In that case, 2027 will not be different.

Keep it up