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The Last Exclusive Interview with His Imperial Majesty,Alayeluwa Oba Okunade Adele Sijuwade,The 50th Ooni Adimula of Ife.
The Omo-Olokun Adimula of Ife

Tell us about your childhood, we understand you were born in Abeokuta

KabiyesiCuts in). No, I was born in Ife.What was growing up as child like?Kabiyesi:I was born in Ile Ife, but atan early age, we were moved to Abeokuta to start our education. Both at Mrs. Kutia's class and Igbein elementary school and later at Abeokuta Grammar School, before some of us moved back to Ife to attend Oduduwa College. Some of us moved down to Lagos into different colleges. I started working with my father, a few years later. Before then, I was invited to join the Nigerian Tribune.I worked there for about three years before I left for the United Kingdom to study Business Management. After a successful course, I joined the Leventis Group in Manchester.Leventis Group organised two to three years of special training in different countries of the world andalso training in advanced management for us. They brought me back to Nigeria in 1959 as one of their managers in charge of Leventis Motors in Ibadan. That's where I started in Ibadan.

When you went to work at Leventis,how old were you?

Kabiyesi:Maybe 29 or perhaps, 30.

And you were trained as a manager there?

Kabiyesi:Yes. I came back in 1959,I was transferred to Ibadan as a manager of Leventis and that's how I started life.What about the Nigerian Tribune?

Kabiyesi:I was not a reporter! I was a manager at The Tribune in charge of business and advertisement. I was not an ordinary reporter at The Tribune!! Having worked with my parents, I had gained much experience and so, I was considered qualified to doany job on a managerial status. But going into The Tribune was to know a bit about the world and to be nearer to Chief Obafemi Awolowo and his family. That was why I went to The Nigeria Tribune and I spent two to three years there. From there, I proceeded to London.When you were at Leventis, those who remember you, recall your association with carsa's

KabiyesiCuts in) No, no, I was the first Nigerian Manager in Leventis and I was in charge of Leventis Motors. I was also in charge of Western Nigeria and from there, a lot of promotions came up.

Was that when you met Chief Gabriel Igbinedion?

Kabiyesi:Chief Igbinedion was in the Nigeria Police. He came to see me in Ibadan and on one occasion, I invited him to join Leventis. He (Igbinedion) resigned and came to join Leventis.

We have asked this question because Chief Igbinedion speaks highly of you. He says that most of what he has become today is because of your help. What did you do for him?

Kabiyesi:You want to be fair and straight forward in anything you do in life. He (Igbinedion) was younger than me. I invited him, gave him an offer. He accepted it. He was properly trained. He worked with me. He was transferred to Benin and he made good of everything. He became fabulous, following the footsteps and the training we had given him. He was very straight-forward with us.But what exactly did you see in Chief Igbinedion?

Kabiyesi:It was hard work. If Igbinedion was not a hardworking man, he would not have established what he has established. It is not easy. If you have a Cambridge degree and a doctorate degree and you are not a hardworking man, you cannot do what Igbinedion has done. It is not easy to be successful in life. Igbinedion is a very hard working man and God is on his side.

Let us return briefly to Chief Awolowo. Tell us about him. What kind of man was he and what was your relationship with him like?

Kabiyesi:Chief Awolowo's ways were nearer those of Oduduwa. Chief Awolowo was not a common man. If you were looking for a very straight forward man, you found that in Chief Awolowo. He gave everybody an opportunity to express and explain himself. Chief Awolowo was a very decent man. You don't find two Awolowos at the same time and that is the problem the Yorubas have as at today.

You also had a special relationship with Chief Awolowo, who loved you like his ownchild. He was said to be biased towards you. What kind of relationship did you have with him?

Kabiyesi:I was a very straight forward with Chief Awolowo and I followed the foot steps of our own revered late father, Sir Adesoji Aderemi, the former Governor of the Western region and Ooni of Ife because Pa Adesoji used to lecture us on Chief Awolowo. It will interest you to know that when I was getting married in 1959, the first couple to get to the Church was Papa and Mama Awolowo. In 1957, I was the one who arranged that the Awolowos be guests of A.G Leventis in Manchester and Paris, during their constitutional conference.You know, Chief Awolowo was a man. You knew where you stood with him. He was not a double dealer; he was unlike the men we have today. He came at a wrong time.

Sir Aderemi also loved you like Awolowo loved you and was also considered to be biased towards you too!What kind of person was he?

Kabiyesi:Our own traditional father, Sir Adesoji Aderemi was like any child of God that was straight forward and brilliant. The same thing applied to Chief Obafemi Awolowo.If you are straight forward and brilliant, any father will like any child or daughter, for that matter. If you are straight forward in your dealings, you can be creative. Those who have made names in the world have used their brains to create a thousand and one things. If you use brain for creative purposes, people will respect you. That was what happened in the case of myself, Sir Aderemi and Pa Awolowo.

This useless Fuji music dancer should be flogged openly.....

OAUTemitayo:
You need to buy a brain!
This your head is as useless as P in Psychology.
If it is useful you would have been opportuned to know that Ebute Meta, Agege and co have traditional rulers who have been in existence before those ************ in your village were born.

You never fail to disappoint me as usual this is one good thing about you. I started with a caption in one of my replies to you mumunis and now to you
Oba of Benin and Oba of Lagos does that ring a bell into the fufu you carry upstairs that you mistakenly called brain? trying to claim Lagos by force when history is saying otherwise oponu so wenu

OAUTemitayo:
So you have not seen anybody that is Mushin Indigene before?
Now I know you are suffering from foo.lishness.

I swear you need deliverance how come you are singling out Mushin why not the other places you earlier mentioned like a confused ninny. Omo Mushin is an appellation to describe some set of touts more like omo Oluwole. I repeat into your thick skull again, Lagos is not Yorubaland Mr Mumuni

OAUTemitayo:
Agege, Oshodi, Ikorodu, Idimu, Epe, Abule Egba, Ojota, Mushin, Ebute meta, Apapa, Ilasamaja, Ilupeju, Ikeja and several other places in Lagos is not Yoruba?
Your villagers are wicked.

So in your life time you have seen a Yoruba man or woman claiming to be an indigene of Apapa, Ojota, Ilupeju, Mushin, Ebute Metta..... I swear you need a strong hand of deliverance from "Forceful Spirit of Mental Retardness" .....

Dumaknesset:
So conquering a place confer ownership of the place on the conqueror, if we are to run with this your hare brain idea, England will be owner of all his colonies. as well as France's former colonies. .

I don't know why you are trying to be clever by half, so you didn't know that once you conquered a place you claim ownership so you never knew the British owned those colonies then they left ownership by virtue of independence of those firmer colonies including Nigeria. You need to upgrade pleaae

Dumaknesset:
First, you didn't appoint me, so there is no way I will disappoint you, Oba is descriptive of the title Kabiyesi generally, if you are familiar with Yoruba language very well, you will also understand that apart from the fact that the word Oba is polysemous and capable of several pronunciation with several meaning, the Oba can also be referred to as kabiyesi. Those description that are particular to each Oba is to restrict the kingdom of the Oba to a specific geographical location, hence Oni of IFE et al.

If the ancestry of Yoruba is traced to benin or that of Benin traced to Yoruba, it means they are brothers and by extension Yoruba it Yorubas are benin and now that is very crazy idea.

Now how does your submission rebut my post. Even if we are to run with erroneous belief that Benin defeated the aworis, isn't that a justification that they met Yoruba in Lagos.

Please don't mistake Lagos Island for Lagos State, all the balderdash of Oba of Lagos Starts and end in part of Lag
os island not even the whole of Lagos island.

You are only dancing around my points raised and ended up saying nothing worth commending or holding as concrete. Lagos is no Yoeubaland!

OAUTemitayo:
Please go back to school and repeat your philosophical and psychological classes.
Who did the British sign the Lagos treaty with Oba of Lagos abi Oba of Benin?

Read the poo you types up here read it again over and over then relate it to my submission and see if it makes sense to you. Olodo rabata

Markfemi2:
Mr history have you returned Onitsha back to the Benin as I understand Igbo has eze and Obi is a corrupted version of Oba I understand Azikwe corrupted it to hide facts the entire Igbo land was enslaved by Benin oba

Point of correction I am from Ondo State I know my root and I don't go about distorting history and try to claim Lagos as Yorubaland. Stay off me please

OAUTemitayo:
Mumu. Lagos in Portugal and Lagos in Nigeria, does that make Portugal the owner of Lagos.
Oje ronu e wo ko mo nkan ton se.

I never knew your second name was bolo until now I ask you olodo, "Did Portugal Conquered Lagos under any guise of conflict?" Let me open up your thick skull for a brief part of semblance of history in the Benin's ownership of Lagos. There are set of islands called collectively Falkland Island very close to Argentina but conquered by the British and established as part of British colony, unknown to the Argentines they thought being part of their territory the Island is theirs hence their occupation of the land but the British in one night/day routed the Argentines out of that Island and established their govt in there till date. This is exactly what the Binis did to Lagos hence the name "Eko" (Bini name for war camp). Are you still breathing oni jekuje omo. You better lay claim to your ogbomoso and stop claiming Lagos

adadike281:
Thks dearest. I only wish we can be more diplomatic. God knows I respect kanu a lot, but I fear for our people living outside Igbo land, how I wish all our investments are at home coz if chaos should break out due to hate speeches, they are usually d sacrificial lamb. I haven't gotten over my people killed by buratai during protest and I don't want a repetition. that's all.

The little mistake here is that few Igbos don't share the Biafran vision which to me is wrong but not totally irredeemable Igbos investments outside Igboland besides Lagos is no longer heavy as many Ndigbos are fast creating vast business empires back home which to me is good. I strongly believe that in the face of eventual secession or division that will be sorted out easily (talking about moving Igbos business outside Igboland to base) one more thing, the Igbos investments are more in Lagos and Lagos is definitely home to all which can NEVER be claimed by any tribe. I dey vex for you sha

OAUTemitayo:
I can't stop laughing.
You are the empty one here. Your ignorance makes the Neanderthals look like King Solomon.
We are waiting for you and your potopoto brothers to come and claim Lagos.
The mistake that was made in 2015 will not be repeated in 2019.
Already no more commissioners for you.
And in the house of assembly you must speak Yoruba from Monday to Thursday.
You will soon learn.
Akotileta.

Oba of Benin and Oba of Lagos I hope that rings a bell into your brain. Opuro omo

OAUTemitayo:
Your Ignorance is heart breaking.
Because of the crumbs you ate from Jonathan you are beating the drum of hatred against Yorubas because we offloaded your hero into the dungeon of irrelevance.
Continue with your sabre rattling.
I want to see how you will declare Lagos a no man's land when Nigeria is torn apart.
Whether you and your potopoto brothers will swim all the way from your erosion ridden potopoto land and claim Lagos we shall see.
Lagoon is waiting for you.

You are truly empty! Why you are unnecessarily angry and throwing unwarranted jabs is what I don't understand I must have get you on your nerves. Try to claim Lagos when Nigeria is divided and see what will become of you.

OAUTemitayo:
I can assure you of one thing, you and your co potopoto azz lickers will failed woefully in your bid to sell Lagos to Ibos. We know the potopoto puz.zy you are sagging has affected you but we won't allow you to use your craze for that to affect Yoruba.

I just gave you a dose of history you can relate to but being the kind of Homo sapien that you are you went bananas when all you have to do is to educate me how the modern Lagos created and governed by the Binis for years overnight became Yorubaland you better lay claim to your osogbo or Oyo ile you came from and stop claiming a land you know nothing of. Check your history and see that even where the palace of Obas of Lagos was built by the Binis without any contribution from the Aworis that occupied the outlying part of Lagos Island. Be guided

What is he feeling like by the way. Commando?

Tremor007:
Truly there is no peace to the wicked. Those who truly knew, know and still know Saraki will tell you that hr is Devil's Incarnate that has nothing to offer Nigeria and therefore must be weeded out of government. Kuje is where he belongs

Indeed no peace to the wicked.

Dumaknesset:
Here is a cure for your ignorance!


The Ijesha Oba of Lagos and his confused history of Lagos
Posted by Dele Awogbeoba
A purported statement from the palace of Oba of Lagos stated that Eko (Lagos Island) is not part of Yoruba land. Part of that statement read:
“Oba Ado fell in-love with a beautiful woman whose father was Awori and mother a daughter to one of the chief, they had two sons and also a daughter Erelu Kuti, who begat Ologun Kutere who later became King.”
What the palace failed to illuminate and tried to obfuscate was the heritage of King Ologun Kutere (the fifth Oba of Lagos). Ologun Kutere was the son of Alaagba (an Ijesha man and babalawo to the Oba of Lagos) and Erelu Kuti (sister to the then Oba of Lagos). Ologun Kutere became king through his matrilineal line and was an Ijehsa man with Bini Heritage.
The only royal family with direct heritage to Bini through the patrilineal line is the Akinsemoyin royal line. That line has been prevented from presenting an Oba since the time of Ologun Kutere. Every Oba of Lagos since Ologun Kutere in 1749 have been direct descendants of Alaagba and are of direct Ijesha heritage. Ologun Kutere was 75% Yoruba because his father was Ijesha and his royal mother (by the account of the palace of the Oba of Lagos) was half Bini and half Yoruba (Awori).
Interesting how the palace at Eko skated over the heritage of their direct paternal ancestor Alaagba. If one were to take a DNA test of the current Eleko of Eko, his Bini heritage will be less than 0% of his DNA. In fact it will not even show up in his Y Chromosome history that is passed down from father to son. All roads from that line will lead one straight to Ilesha.
The Bini , through its then superior army, conquered an Awori outpost in the 15th century and around the time of Ewuare the 1st. Prince Ado was the first Oba of Lagos and his rule started in 1630. Eko was never Bini land just as Nigeria was never English land or Dahomey Yoruba land. There is nowhere in any part of Lagos where Bini language is an indigenous language or ever was an indigenous language and that includes the palace of the Oba of Lagos (or should I say the Eleko of Eko) itself.
For a while now, this current Oba of Lagos has been an uncouth holder of the throne of the Oba of Lagos. His utterances have demeaned Eko and its people. What the Yoruba can however take solace in is the matured response of the Ooni of Ife. It goes to show that true royalty is inbred.

I know of Oba of Benin but I have never heard of Oba of Ife but Ooni of Ife, never heard of Oba of Ijebuland but Awujale of Ijwbuland also I have never heard of Oba of Ondo but Osemawe of Ondoland. I know of Oba of Lagos sha now Mr Revisionist since you claim to know more than the current of Oba of Lagos who gave an elaborate history of Lagos linking it to Benin Empire and ancestry kindly educate the house anywhere in Yorubaland where you can lay claim to Obaship as a title as it is being practised in Benin (Oba of Benin),and Lagos (Oba of Lagos). Please don't disappoint me my brother.

SoNature:
Stop fooling yourself - Lagos is (and will always be) a Yoruba land. The problem with some of you is that you don't read history.

Go, grab a Biafran war book to learn how the Igbos were massacred in Lagos immediately the war broke out.

I suppose these ignorant ones saying that Lagos is a no man's land today will suffer the same fate if a civil war breaks out.

Go and develop your state because Lagos is a Yoruba land - Nnamdi Kanu, 2015.

I don't know whether it is demonic possession or madness maybe down syndrome that affects many brains of those who keeps referring to Yoruba land. I keep asking How? Why? and Where in History can you link Lagos to the Yoruba's is it through the Aworis occupying an outlying part of Lagos Island then but it is crystal clear in history that the Binis can lay claim to be the closest people that owns Lagos and still have their lasting impacts in the emergence and developments of modern Lagos. I can wager that if Nigeria divides today, Lagos will be declared a NO MAN'S LAND. So my friend stop deceiving yourself claim your real Yorubaland of Oyo, Ogun, Osun, Ondo, or Ekiti and leave Lagos alone.

hornyofife:
Just imagine if this was Aba or some city in the East, those afonja idiots would have been masturbating over the thread

I think with your statement here you are already tagging Lagos as Yoruba's land this is wrong Lagos remains a no man's land and hence we all are in this mess together.

Can somebody just shut this man up for once. Who cares

KingOvoramwen1:
Ah Swear ....... And that yanch go sweet ehnn

King Ovonramwen you suppose don big pass this now remember that you are a future king

Give Osinbajo full powers as President then watch him for 1 year until then I can do my assessments and judgment on him.

The funny man is only full of his usual narratives and homilies when indeed he was part of those that led us into this mess. A confirmed boy to his Fulani masters and pretender to the one Nigeria project. Biafrans have every right to secede. Nigeria is simply a failed state, there is no point pretending.

See who is advising Nigerians indeed this Country can be likened to a zoo in the true sense of it. It is a big fact that 75% of Nigeria's problems are traceable to Obasanjo and the major one that had rendered this great Country powerless and unproductive for years was the manipulations his demonic cabal tainted military government of 1979 that rigged the Presidential Elections to favour a dullard, Shagari, to emerge as President by all means then drafting a Presidential System Of Government 1979 Constitution forcefully for this same Shagari which eventually gave birth to the warped and vision less 1999 Constitution that eventually birthed Sharia. Indeed Obasanjo has no shame and its because 80% of Nigerian youths don't read and think deep.

Kudos to Omoyele Sowore and the bright minds at Sahara Reporters for being the best in their games I think with this type of information Osinbajo should be smarter and go for the jugular of this miserable, egotistical Sarathief before he ruin his good visions for Nigeria. Kill Saraki now before he kills you (Mr Acting President) and Nigeria.

Saraki's Acquittal: Federal Govt Completes Record Transmission To The Court Of Appeal

The office of the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) yesterday completed the transmission of the record of proceedings at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) to the Court of Appeal in Abuja in relation to the appeal it filed against the acquittal of Senate President Bukola Saraki by the CCT. The record and briefs of argument to be filed by parties form what the Court of Appeal will consider and review in deciding the appeal filed by the AGF (on behalf of the Federal Government) against the CCT judgment of June 14.
BY ERIC IKHILAEJUL 07, 2017

The office of the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) yesterday completed the transmission of the record of proceedings at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) to the Court of Appeal in Abuja in relation to the appeal it filed against the acquittal of Senate President Bukola Saraki by the CCT.

The record and briefs of argument to be filed by parties form what the Court of Appeal will consider and review in deciding the appeal filed by the AGF (on behalf of the Federal Government) against the CCT judgment of June 14.

It was learned yesterday that the transmission of the record started on Wednesday, but was completed yesterday, following which the Appeal Court entered the appeal on its list and allocated a number to it. The number is: CA/A/460/2017.

With the appeal now entered and number allocated, the appellant, by the Rules of the Court of Appeal, is to proceed to file its brief, serve on the respondent, who in turn, will file its response and serve the appellant (the process of briefs exchange), following which the court will fix a date for hearing of the appeal.

In a notice of appeal it filed on June 20, 2017, the appellant stated that the judgment “effectively” overruled previous decisions of the Court of Appeal delivered with respect to Saraki’s trial and other criminal cases.

“The judgment of the lower tribunal is unwarranted, unreasonable and against the weight of evidence,” the notice of appeal read in part.

The notice of appeal was signed by the lead prosecuting counsel, Rotimi Jacobs (SAN), and an Assistant Chief State Counsel in the Federal Ministry of Justice, Pius Akutah.

The appellant described the judgment as “unconstitutional and without jurisdiction.”

It stated that the CCT erred in law by upholding Saraki’s no-case submission “when the onus of proof” was on the Senate President to show “that there was no infraction in the Code of Conduct Forms.

The appellant argued that: “By the provisions of paragraphs 11 (2), (3) and (13) of Part 1, 5th Schedule to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended), once the Code of Conduct form filled by the public officer is investigated and found to be false or that some assets are beyond the legitimate income of the public officer or that the assets were acquired by means of corrupt practices, the public officer concerned is deemed to have breached the Code of Conduct and it is for him to show to the Tribunal that there is no infraction in the form.

“The honorable tribunal wrongly placed the onus of proof on the prosecution contrary to paragraphs 11 (2), (3) and (13) of Part 1, 5th Schedule to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended).

“The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) clearly excluded the presumption of innocence on the allegation of infraction of the Code of Conduct by public officers and the Tribunal wrongly applied the presumption of innocence contrary to the constitutional requirement.

“The tribunal’s decision is unconstitutional and without jurisdiction.”

The appellant is praying the appellate court for “an order setting aside the ruling of the Code of Conduct Tribunal delivered on June 14, 2017 upholding the no-case submission raised by the respondent (Saraki) at the close of the prosecution’s case” and “an order calling upon the respondent to enter his defence.”


http://saharareporters.com/2017/07/07/saraki’s-corruption-acquittal-federal-govt-completes-record-transmission-court-appeal

Cc: Lalasticlala

This is epic Nnamdi Kanu is an enigma.

Wao what an interesting read Fayose is too blessed to be curse. He said sometimes in 2016 that whosoever wants to put him in jail come 2018 that such a one will not live to see that day. Fayose is a Prophet no doubt. His prophecies so far has since come to pass

surgical:
The man will visit Nigeria before August 6 stay a few days and return to UK and you start counting another 90 days.

......and you really loved what you just typed?

This is what we all as a people should be concerned about because I don't seem to understand why we all as a people will keep quiet in the face of tyranny pervading the land for no justifiable cause. I strongly believe that the health status of Buhari must be revealed now and if he can't continue as the President then there is no point waiting till August 6 when the 90 days would have been completed for him to be impeached and his Deputy, Osinbajo is sworn in but if his health status is confirmed to be unable to go on then Osinbajo must be made the President of the Federal Republic.

yarimo:
but that is what you want to hear from TUNDE BAKARE and FRANK MBAKA

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Me?

yarimo:
God is saying BUHARI is still the president of Nigeria and any one can be sick

Why bring God in here? Why not say yarimo says Buhari is still the President.