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AUTHOR:
Olufemi Atoyebi

APRIL 28, 2022 8:30 AM

Since the demise of Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, the former Alaafin of Oyo, there have been torrents of speculations about the emergence of his successor and the criteria for the selection.

Adeyemi succeeded Alaafin Gbadegesin Ladigbolu in 1970, and after 52 years on the throne, civilisation has greatly influenced the tradition and culture of the ancient town.

There has also been a change in the number of Oyomesi — the prominent palace chiefs who are known as the kingmakers.

But despite these changes, the existing chieftaincy declaration still serves as a guide for the selection of Oyo kings.

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THE TWO RULING HOUSES

The declaration states that there are two royal houses in Oyo — Alowolodu and Agunloye. The two families are to take turns ascending the throne.

The late Alaafin was from the Alowolodu royal family, so it is now the turn of the Agunloye family.

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The Agunloye family is also known as ‘Ladigbolu’ or ‘Gbadegesin’ in some quarters.

ANY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LADIGBOLU AND GBADEGESIN?

After the demise of Oba Adeyemi, a debate began on which family will present the next king between Ladigbolu and Gbadegesin.

Clarifying the confusion over the names, Ayo Ladigbolu, a retired archbishop of the Methodist Church and prominent elder of the Ladigbolu family, said they are one family under Agunloye royal house.

He said: “The late Alaafin Gbadegesin was the son of Alaafin Ladigbolu. The full title was Oba Belo Gbadegesin Ladigbolu The Second.

“The father was the first and the next one from the family will be the third.”

HOW IS THE SUCCESSOR NOMINATED?

Based on the chieftaincy declaration, the ruling house that is to produce the next king, in this case, the Agunloye house, will nominate candidates at a meeting which will be summoned by the head of the family.

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The candidate or candidates will then be presented to Baba Iyaji, a titled prince of Oyo, who will subsequently submit the names to the Basorun, head of the Oyomesi.

The Basorun will then summon a meeting of the kingmakers and present the list to them.

Explaining further, Ladigbolu said the candidate acceptable to the majority of the kingmakers will be thereafter proclaimed the next Alaafin.

WHO ARE THE KINGMAKERS?

Ladigbolu told TheCable that apart from the government declaration which guides the selection of Alaafin of Oyo, the Oyomesi (kingmakers) will have the final say.

Although seven kingmakers were once recognised, the number has dwindled with the nullification of one of them.

“There are seven kingmakers according to the declaration. They are Basorun, Asipa, Agabaakin, Alapinni, Lagunna, Shamu and Akiniku,” Ladigbolu said.

“But Asipa is no longer existing so there are only six kingmakers remaining.”

‘ONLY MALE MAY BE PROPOSED’

According to Ladigbolu, women are exempted from being considered for the throne of Alaafin of Oyo.

“The chieftaincy of Oyo has an official declaration. It was made under section four, sub-section two of the chiefs law cap 19 of the customary law regulating selection of the Alaafin of Oyo chieftaincy.

“The person who may be proposed as a candidate shall be through the male line only.”

NO SPECIFIC TIME-FRAME

There is no specific time frame for the selection of the next king of Oyo because it all depends on those who run the process, says Ladigbolu.

Although the family will be given 14 days to hold a meeting and submit a list to Baba Iyaji, if the list contains more than one name, the process will take a longer time.

“The kingmakers may have to interview the individuals presented before taking a decision. The selection of Oba Lamidi Adeyemi took a bit longer time because of the political atmosphere then,” he said.

“There was a lot of tension and litigations so it was not a smooth process.

“We pray that this time, there will not be a delay just like Seyi Makinde, the state governor, appealed to the kingmakers to be quick about the process.”

‘TOO EARLY TO MEET’

Does the Agunloye(Ladigbolu/Gbadegesin) family already have preferred candidates for the kingmakers? Ladigbolu said it is too early to start considerations.

He said it will be irresponsible to begin the process when the town is still mourning the passage of Alaafin Adeyemi.

“I am from the Agunloye ruling family but it is too early to meet. This is a mourning period because we just lost a king. I have been busy since Alaafin died and it will continue till after the eighth day,” said the retired cleric.

ALL COMERS AFFAIR

In selecting the next Alaafin, the law does not specify age, educational background, knowledge of the tradition and culture of Oyo or personal wealth as criteria.

All males of the Agunloye are qualified to come forward and signify their intention to become the next Alaafin.

WILL THE NEXT KING USE LATE ALAAFIN’S PALACE?

According to Ladigbolu, the present palace was not the property of the late king. He said it is the traditional seat of the Oyo royal throne and all kings reign from there, except when it is under renovation or reconstruction.

“Alaafin means the owner of the palace. Oranyan was the first owner. The palace is where the king resides,” he said.

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Sergio101:
please stop putting we igbos and you puerile yollobas in the same sentence as per while trying to draw attention.

Use the phrase "youruba" alone.....

no and


May God grant us our Igbo nation...... Amen

But the question is can you the igbos do it alone?
Your leaders like Ojukwu, Mwazurike, and Kanu has tried & fail with their violent agitation with no success. Do u think you can still succeed?

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Professor Akinyemi Onigbinde
Snr Research Fellow
Institute of African Studies
University of Ghana
Accra,
Ghana

*'Nigeria cannot defeat the Igbo and Yoruba at the same time[b][/b]'*

The greatest thing Nigerians accomplished in the last thirty years was electing Muhammadu Buhari as president.
If he had lived and died without being president, no one would push back when politicians fall over themselves to deliver tributes and call him the greatest president that Nigeria never had.

After six years of Buhari’s administration and with only two more years to go, all is settled about the rhymes and stanzas of Buhari’s elegy.
Some thirty years from now, people will stone anyone who attaches “greatest ” to any tribute at Buhari’s funeral.

You may ask if anything is worth the cost of having Buhari as president?

Before you do, there is another reason why his election was the greatest accomplishment of the Nigerian electorate in the last 30 years.
If Buhari had not been president, if his incompetence had not been exposed to the uninitiated, Nigeria would have continued its zigzag path.
The one-step-forward, two-steps-backwards trajectory would have continued unabated.

Thus, Buhari helped the unrestructured Nigeria to confront its foreseeable future.
That is Buhari’s first legacy.

Here is Buhari’s second legacy:
It may not be clear yet to the Fulani people, but Buhari’s presidency has damaged them more than any other group in Nigeria.
Buhari’s inability to have an objective view of what leadership entails in a diverse country like Nigeria and his propensity to side with his Fulani people even when every donkey could see the bias undermined the Fulani deeply. He diminished whatever legitimate claim they have in what is clearly a fast-moving degenerative Nigeria’s structural carnage.
The Fulani were better off in Nigeria six years ago than they are today.
That is Muhammadu Buhari’s second legacy.

In the context of Nigeria’s nationhood, Buhari’s second coming was a necessary evil:
He came, he saw, and he hastened its ruination for everyone.

If Buhari had not been president, Nigeria would have been ‘managing.’ The Peoples Democratic Party of Goodluck Jonathan and Sambo Dasuki and Diezani Allison-Madueke would have been paying Dangote to rob Otedola, even as the country continued the slide down the valley of death. Buhari accelerated the collapse by taking the country on a bungee jump down the deepest part of the valley using a frayed rope.

The rope is breaking. Anyone with functioning ears can hear the splitting threads from miles away.
High above the deepest part of the valley, Nigeria barely holds on to Buhari’s back. Two things will happen: Either Nigeria loses its grip on Buhari’s back and falls into the valley of death, or the rope rips and both Nigeria and Buhari plunge down the valley. Either way, death is the expected end.

The only miracle on the horizon is to get Nigeria to a place where it cannot fight the Igbo and the Yoruba nations simultaneously.

In a one-on-one fight, Nigeria may defeat any of its components. Nigeria may defeat the Igbo.
Nigeria may run over the Yoruba. Nigeria may crush the Ijaw, the Ibibio, the Tiv, the Ijaw, the Kanuri, the Fulani, the Bachama, the Idoma, the Urhobo, etc.

Nigeria cannot defeat the Igbo and the Yoruba at the same time. In a fight between Nigeria on one side and an Igbo-Yoruba alliance on the other, many ethnic minority groups will take the side of the alliance.

Whether the fight is in the physical or spiritual realm, whether it is in the democratic realm or the ideological realm, Nigeria has no chance of winning a fight against the combined forces of the Igbo and the Yoruba.

For a table with three legs, one leg has no chance of keeping the table standing when the other two legs take a knee.
The Igbo and Yoruba need to take a combined knee.
That is the ultimate way to shake the table called Nigeria.

Nigeria needs to get to a point where it faces the prospect of fighting a united Igbo and Yoruba power.
It needs to happen now.
That reality needs to be clear, concrete, and ironclad.
It is the only magic wand that can save Nigeria.

Is it easy to achieve? No.
Is it possible? Yes.

What will it take to get Nigeria to that place where it risks fighting the Igbo and the Yoruba simultaneously?

The way to achieve this is for the Igbo and the Yoruba to embrace Thomas Jefferson’s greatest philosophy.
The man who drafted the U.S. Declaration of Independence said, “I admire the dreams of the future more than the history of the past.”

The Igbo and the Yoruba must admire the dreams of the future more than the history of the past. They must do it not just for their children’s children but also for all those children from East to West, North to South, trapped in prisons of mediocrity and death, which are the only gift of an unfair, unjust, and dysfunctional Nigeria.

The Igbo and the Yoruba owe this to future generations of the people currently trapped in Nigeria.
It is their responsibility. Posterity will blame the Igbo and the Yoruba in Nigeria if they fail to catch the wave.
Thanks to Buhari’s misadventures, the awareness of today is total and overwhelming. Severe penalties await the Igbo and the Yoruba if they fail to act now and free unborn generations from the manacles of Muhammadu Buhari’s.

Professor Akinyemi Onigbinde
Snr Research Fellow
Institute of African Studies
University of Ghana
Accra, Ghana

Yes it do happen in Africa's setting but the secret behind this that many called a mystery has been explained by the Prophet of Islam, Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W). In one Hadith in Sahih Bukhari (Saying & Deeds of Prophet Muhammad). The Prophet made us to understand that Human beings were created & assigned 2 Guardian Angels, one on the right & the 2nd on the left. Likewise Humans are assigned one Jinn (Demon) to be your companion among the Jinn. The type of person or character you possess will be possessed by the Jinn including your bodily features. They follow you everywhere you go & even eat, sleep & even bleep your wife unless you say some Duah(Supplications) recommended by the Prophet. The Jinn's life span is longer than that of Humans. If a Human being dies, the Jinn lives on & have the ability to transform into that person's human form & continue to appear in places the Jinn knows the human frequently visit but that they are not aware of his or her death. They may even marry, give birth & so on like in the case of your brother's wife. But Immediately they encounter a person that knows that the person has died, the Jinn will disappear & transform from that human back to the Jinn & disappear for life. They may lead their wife or children to the deased family compound and disappear like in your brother's case. They are not real as it is one of the Devil's deceitful method to make man to believe that those who died can resurrect somewhere else & still live on which is false, because man is assigned to die once & after that Judgment. The Yorubas called them (Akudaaya) meaning someone who died & return, but it is a myth according to Islamic teaching. The Akudaaya is not a real human being but a transformed Jinn( Demon) Alujannu Sikenna.

Thanks man,God bless u

Notyamate:
I went to greet a friend who recently gave birth to a baby girl. I carried this baby and she was so cute, and the hair, oh my God! This baby has hair, I mean the hair was just too much on her head. Dark curly, beautiful shinny hair.

I complimented the mother about the hair saying if I have a baby I want her hair to be plenty as hers. She replied that I better not be too happy about the hair, that they'll cut it before the naming ceremony. I was like why? She said it's a Muslim thing.

Although I know the hair will grow back, but I would like to know the reason behind this cutting of a thing.

Is it done to all Muslims over the world, or is it just in only Nigeria?

It is the Prophets injunction to shave the head of your child on the seventh day.The reason being that there is no Dada (Dreadlock) in Islam & we are made to know that the hair brought by the child to this World is a filth which has been mixed with blood & aminioc fluids from the mother's womb,therefore Muslims are enjoyed to shave it to avoid Demons turning the child's head to their abode & start to control the child to act abnormally & with great annoyance like the case of most Dada's. Yoruba's even use to eulogize Dada's(Dreadlocks) as Dada Awuru,(Dada Awuru) Dada ijangbon, (Dada trouble maker)Dada Fitinati (Dada Tribulations)& so many other eulogies to depicts the type of angers associated with any child you refused to shave he or her hair called Dada. That hair a child brings to this world if not shaved will eventually turn to Dreadlocks because of the filthy & dirt in it & will arm the child in future because the Devil & Demons will be disturbing that child hence Prophet Muhammad's command to shave it.

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