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[quote author=Dudu_Negro]thank you OAM.

I dont blame all the people according Alaafin the preeminence seat on the race.....I only wish Eko had participated in the Kiriji war, descendants of sword wielding warlords would not today have mouth to argue about Oyo vs Ife. We would have canonballed all of you to surrender and youd paying homeage to Iga Idungaran today. Nonsense! [/quote]
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Or may be our Oba of Lagos should declare himself above all other Yoruba Obas, afterall Eko-Ile (Lagos) is the most posperous of all Yoruba cities and towns presently

We have had this debate many times here and sentiments aside this matter is not as complicated as people are making it.

I am not a fan of the present Ooni, but it makes no sense for any Yoruba man to arrogate Alaafin above Ooni.

All Yorubas believe we are from Oduduwa, who ruled at Ile Ife and all Yoruba towns/cities/villages came to be from Ile Ife. How then can any king of this places be greater than the king of Ile Ife?

Agreed Oyo empired dominated most of Yorubaland at a time including Ile Ife, but that does not make it the source or its King greater than Ile-Ife, besides that empire has long collapsed while Ile Ife remains.

To those claiming Ooni was never royal but a shrine keeper, tell me who then was king or ruler of Ile Ife besides Ooni? Was there ever an Onife of Ile Ife that Ooni killed to become a king? Bare in mind that there has always been a king at Ile Ife even before Oduduwa got to Ife. And it will be a taboo to put a slave on a throne in Yoruba land, no matter how powerful the slave was, he would have been rejected by the rest of Yoruba kings, cos till date all Yoruba kings and children have great respect for Ile Ife.

This is not about Olubuse or Adeyemi, long after these two, Yorubaland will remain. Lets not corrupt the history or make it look complicated for the future Yoruba generations.