The Yoruba Council Worldwide has described as sacrilegious former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s ordering of traditional rulers in Oyo State to stand and greet Governor Seyi Makinde at a project inauguration in Iseyin on Friday.

The PUNCH reports that a short video of Obasanjo, who spoke in Yoruba language, had surfaced on the Internet, expressing displeasure to the monarchs for not rising to greet Makinde, describing the action of the royal fathers as disrespectful to the office of the governor.

Describing the development as depressing, disparaging and disrespectful to the Yoruba people, the YCW urged Obasanjo to apologise or face untold traditional and legal consequences.

The YCW President, Oba Oladotun Hassan, made the development known on Saturday during a press conference held at the secretariat of the Nigeria Union Of Journalists, Jabi, Abuja.


Hassan said, “The recent weeks have witnessed a barrage of monumental embarrassments, ridicules and brazen abuse of traditional royal Obas and most shocking to grasping with this well intended orchestrated embarrassments by chief Olusegun Obasanjo who dropped the biggest bombshell taboo in the history of Yoruba land, perhaps most disturbing sacrilege in Iseyin, Oyo State when he addressed 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.


“Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has since left the corridors of honour, while 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 demand for immediate apologies by Chief Olusegun Obasanjo within the next three days or face untold traditional and legal reprisal consequences, not limited to filing action at a court of competent jurisdiction for defamation and scandalous libel, while we shall call for stripping him off of all chieftaincy titles conferred on him by any Yoruba monarchs.

“Furthermore, we shall mobilize all market women, youths and leaders of thoughts against the Baba Obasanjo for desecrating the Yoruba ancestral cultural heritage, norms, tradition and values. On this note we wish to set the records straight that Chief Olusegun Obasanjo is NO longer the President of Nigeria, and he should stop parading himself deceitfully and impersonating or creating a scenario to command such ill motivated authority.”

Also speaking, the YCW Secretary General, Siyanbade Adekanmbi, called on the President, Bola Tinubu to call Mr Obasanjo to order, as part of ways towards preserving and protecting Nigerian royal Institutions.

Adekanmbi said, We have seen Omoluabi President Bola Tinubu accord high level respect during his recent visits to the Awujale of Ijebu land Oba Sikiru Adetona and Alake’s palace, as well as Governors like Abiodun Oyebanji of Ekiti State prostrate before kings and elders, wherein at all times this standard practice should be emulated and not the disrespectful manner done by Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, the former President of Nigeria.

“We therefore call on President Bola Tinubu to call Obasanjo to order, and as part of way forward towards preserving and protecting the Royal Institutions is to establish the National Council of Chieftaincy and Traditional Affairs wherein other duties of grassroots security and community policing, national economic planning and strategic growth, granting of 10% special allocation funds from the federation account and other roles as expected of Traditional leaders will be guaranteed by the Federal Government accordingly.”

You know, he's from Ebonyi state

They just found his DNA results

Anyone who tells you you yorubas respect their elders, show them this thread.

Hmmmm ike gwuru

This will be one of the most discussed topic till 2023 ends nawa o

I don't understand why he always try to go against his people all the time.

He spent the whole 11 years as head of Nigeria and we can't even point to one infrastructure he did in SW.
Awolowo’s infrastructures is still there for everyone to see till today even though he doesn't have the kind of power obj had.

The old shameless man even failed to construct the road that leads to his house and he is here demanding respect.

The only thing he did was to be friends with yoruba enemies and those useless enemies love him for it, they even rate him the best president when clearly he doesn't do anything meaningful aside dictating to others and rigging elections

waynetee:
I don't understand why he always try to go against his people all the time.

He spent the whole 11 years as head of Nigeria and we can't even point to one infrastructure he did in SW.
Awolowo’s infrastructures is still there for everyone to see till today

The old shameless man even failed to construct the road that leads to his house and he is here demanding respect.

The only thing he did was to be friends with yoruba enemies and those useless enemies love him for it, they even rate him the best president when clearly he doesn't do anything meaningful aside dictating to others

See at you just attacked your elder with a flying kick to his groin area

That video was too condescending.

OBASANJO IS A DISGRACE FOR WHAT HE DID.

UNFORGIVABLE SACRILEGE.

THE TRADITIONAL LEADERS SHOULD HAVE IGNORED HIM, BUT THEY WERE INTIMIDATED BY HIM.

HIGHLY UNACCEPTABLE.

Obasanjo have finally destroyed the little regards Yorubas still have left for him. Those people across the Niger can have him. He's an Omo ale!

Clowns..Obasanjo that is a father of controversy all his life..una go wait for apology till thy kingdom come

waynetee:
I don't understand why he always try to go against his people all the time.

He spent the whole 11 years as head of Nigeria and we can't even point to one infrastructure he did in SW.
Awolowo’s infrastructures is still there for everyone to see till today even though he doesn't have the kind of power obj had.

The old shameless man even failed to construct the road that leads to his house and he is here demanding respect.

The only thing he did was to be friends with yoruba enemies and those useless enemies love him for it, they even rate him the best president when clearly he doesn't do anything meaningful aside dictating to others and rigging elections

Thank you.

Ogun state is in a very sorry state right now in terms of road infrastructure. This is a state that has produced lots of big names as far as politics is concerned in Nigeria including Obj and Osinbanjo. Na to dey lick Fulani ass Dem know. The useless one there now (Dapo) is the worst so far.
What a shame.

Apus:


Thank you.

Ogun state is in a very sorry state right now in terms of road infrastructure. This is a state that has produced lots of big names as far as politics is concerned in Nigeria including Obj and Osinbanjo. Na to dey lick Fulani ass Dem know. The useless one there now (Dapo) is the worst so far.
What a shame.

But Ogun sorry state does not bother them cos all of them have migrated to Lagos state as refugee citizens..instead of thinking on how best to make Ogun state their state livable they will rather stay under the bridge in Lagos, buy a cheap phone and be insulting the Igbos u dear constant mosquito attack.

ahaz:

But Ogun sorry state does not bother them cos all of them have migrated to Lagos state as refugee citizens..instead of thinking on how best to make Ogun state their state livable they will rather stay under the bridge in Lagos, buy a cheap phone and be insulting the Igbos u dear constant mosquito attack.

Stop mentioning igbo here oga, this doesn't concern them in any way

ahaz:

But Ogun sorry state does not bother them cos all of them have migrated to Lagos state as refugee citizens..instead of thinking on how best to make Ogun state their state livable they will rather stay under the bridge in Lagos, buy a cheap phone and be insulting the Igbos u dear constant mosquito attack.

My brother, this point you've alluded to is a serious matter. Heard some certain governors even control their states from Lagos.
But to what end?