₦airaland Forum

Don27tiky:
Ihow about the one that killed over 30 people that they negotiated with in the north? Well known killers are parading with guns in the name of negotiations in the north.

Don27tiky:
They should free him and negotiate peace with ESN/IPOB. Why will they call for peaceful negotiations with well known killers in the north and arrest their kind in the south. Southern leaders are bunch of clowns only interested in what goes to their pockets.

Tension erupted on Tuesday during a meeting of princes in Ipetumodu, Osun State, after a call was made for Governor Ademola Adeleke to declare the stool of the Apetumodu vacant following the conviction of Oba Joseph Oloyede in the United States.

Oba Oloyede, the 27th Apetumodu, was recently sentenced to more than four years’ imprisonment in the U.S. for COVID-19 loan fraud.

He was also ordered to forfeit assets and pay over $4.4m in restitution.

The meeting, held within the palace premises and presided over by the Asalu of Ipetumodu, Chief Sunday Adedeji, started around 4 p.m. and progressed without incident until a prince demanded that Adedeji, as the most senior surviving kingmaker, write a formal letter to Governor Adeleke declaring the throne vacant.

Adedeji, however, rejected the request and reportedly recused himself from any move to declare the stool vacant.

His stance sparked a shouting match among the attendees, causing the meeting to break down around 6 p.m.

Speaking afterwards, a prince from the Aribile Ruling House, Olaboye Ayoola, expressed disappointment at Adedeji’s refusal.

He said, “During the meeting, we all decided that two new kingmakers should be elected to replace the deceased ones and a letter written to the governor declaring the seat vacant. But Chief Adedeji refused, insisting we won’t do that. He also announced he was no longer interested in being a kingmaker. That led to chaos, and the meeting ended without any resolution.”

When contacted, Adedeji confirmed his rejection of the proposal, saying only: “It is true. Peace has to reign first,” before declining further comment.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio had, in an August 26, 2025 statement, confirmed Oba Oloyede’s sentencing. The monarch, alongside a co-conspirator, was found guilty of exploiting COVID-19 loan programmes under the CARES Act between April 2020 and February 2022.

Since the judgement, Ipetumodu has been unsettled, with calls mounting for the state government to decide on the monarch’s fate.

Osun State Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Dosu Babatunde, told The PUNCH that the government would obtain a Certified True Copy of the U.S. judgment before taking action.

Meanwhile, divisions have emerged among the princes of Ipetumodu’s two ruling houses — Aribile, which produced Oba Oloyede, and Fagbemokun.

While some in Aribile argue that the throne should remain with them until Oloyede completes his sentence, others insist a replacement should be chosen from the same house among those who previously contested the stool.

Princes from Fagbemokun, however, argue that the next Apetumodu should come from their fold, since Aribile produced the embattled monarch.

Security was tight at the disrupted meeting, with Department of State Services operatives stationed in a patrol van outside the palace

T9ksy:
This your assertion is entirely false o, quite deliberate misinformation. May i suggest you read up on Zik's West African Pilot's publications in the 1940s, in nigeria.

Thank me later .........

Ofemannnu:
Don't be a mumu.Only cute Abiola is "they"?
When Fulanis,Nupe migrated to Ilorin,they inter -married with the Yorubas,so there is bound to be Yoruba Fulani and Yoruba Nupe bloodline too.

When Igala colonised Igboland in 1445,there were inter marriages between the Igalas and Igbos.There is no pure Igbos especially in Anambra,Onitsha to be precise.
One of the Chiefs of the Armed forces is an Igboman of the Igala stock.

DomPerignon:
Ibos attacking other peoples culinary diets?

When we quote Basden for them now they will be crying.

osuofia2:
Why must it be an Igbo person replying Reno. There are over 600 ethnic group in Nigeria but it's just an Igbo person that replied Reno.

Chekwume16:
If you know anioma people you won't be asking this. Even in lifestyle we are different. We are not even business inclined like them. We worship our traditional instructions too unlike the south east

Ofemannnu:
Don't be a mumu.Only cute Abiola is "they"?
When Fulanis,Nupe migrated to Ilorin,they inter -married with the Yorubas,so there is bound to be Yoruba Fulani and Yoruba Nupe bloodline too.

When Igala colonised Igboland in 1945,there were inter marriages between the Igalas and Igbos.There is no pure Igbos especially in Anambra,Onitsha to be precise.
One of the Chiefs of the Armed forces is an Igboman of the Igala stock.

Slytiger:
Ilorin does not represent whole of kwara. Lol

MrFourSHIRTS:
Oga you are the one deliberately misinterpreting what he was saying in this picture.

erad:
Lol... Which town in kwara are they from?

HenryWilliams:
If they're not Yoruba, what are they?
Other tribes also inhabit Kwara state alongside Yoruba tho they are the vast majority..so tell me..which tribe are these so called "kwarans"?
Nupe? Tapa? Talk now.
Oponu. You think Yoruba forces other tribes to assimilate?
That's an Igbo trait.
Land grabbing.

stuffs2002:
Igbos always trying to covet other people's land

aribisala0:
Onitsha is Yoruba land

RealityKings1:
Kwara is a strategic state, you won't understand.
you can believe everything you read online.

aribisala0:
Onitsha

BATified2023:
Wetin concern yorubas with whether asaba is Ibo land or not?..


E no concern us

RealityKings1:
Ilorin is the capital, kwara is the state.
The language spoken in kwara is Yoruba.
Also kwara is middle belt.

You should travel more often

aribisala0:
Good question

Let us finish with Onitsha first

What mean Onitsha

I understand it relates to Yoruba word Orisha and Onitsha is actually Yoruba

cocolacec:
He can take over from Sinon Ekpa as the Biafran President- in- Exile.o

WorldRichest:
And these are the people that think we will ever allow one of them to rule Nigeria. It will never happen

agadez007:
Land with nothing but poor drunk fishermen and dirty creeks everywhere
I remember my first and last visit to that godforsaken dungeon
I don’t wish ijaw lifestyle on my enemies

FILEBE:
If we will play opposition, this isnt the best way to. You can just be blaming an individual for everything happening. You and I know it's wrong , you just want to stirr the hornet's nest.

Land slides happens in the east, floods happens on farms and many more. Yes the government might have a role to play to help but it doesn't entire rest on the government. Lots of factors contributes to these floods.
While some floods can't be averted, some are just as a result of our carelessness and actions. We have seen roads undergoing construction and yet the drainage is full with dirts and plastics. That's not the government's doing . Is it?

We still build houses without proper drainage in this part of the world. Some people will even go as far as to block a canal so as to build a house on it.

Blaming Tinubu over this isn't just something opposition should use to score points. Doesn't make sense. We need better opposition than this

Guestmale:
Ignorant couple with hatred are great disease, have you been to those areas and know whether they can survive a heavy rainfall of more than 8 hours continuously.