Kingmakers want Kwara monarch dethroned over assault on subjects

Members of the body of princes and princesses in Odo Owa, Oke Ero local government area of the state has appealled to the Kwara state government to avert imminent communal crisis in community by enthroning a new king without further delay. The group under the auspices of the Afin Descendants Union, and the kingmakers; the […]

Members of the body of princes and princesses in Odo Owa, Oke Ero local government area of the state has appealled to the Kwara state government to avert imminent communal crisis in community by enthroning a new king without further delay.

The group under the auspices of the Afin Descendants Union, and the kingmakers; the Iwarefa, said that dethronement of the present king of the area, the Oloota of Odo Owa, Oba Adeyemi Adimula, is a panacea for peace to reign.

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Led by president and secretary, Afin Descendants Union, Prince Elder Tunji Osaji and Prince Sunday Adimula, respectively, the people called on the state government and relevant stakeholders to act fast on the issue to rest enduring challenges in the community.

According to them, “We are constrained to bring our grievances to the public glare with the hope that the Kwara state government and the general public will be fully aware of our pains and predicament as a community.

“The entire members of the institutionalised body of Kingmakers, known as IWAREFA and the Afin Descendants Union (ADU), hereby unanimousiy appeal to His Excellency, Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq of Kwara state, to dethrone Oba Joshua Adeyemi Adimula, Oloota of Odo Owa in order for peace to reign in our community.

“We reemphasize our appeal to His Excellency on the grounds of gross violation of traditional tenets and recurrent unruly behavior of Oba Joshua Adeyemi Adimula since he ascended the throne of Oloota”.

The people accused the traditional ruler of allegedly causing communal crisis among neighbouring communities, public assault and social disorder, as well as alleged brutality against one of the chiefs.

“We want to alert the government and the general public that we can no longer guarantee peace in the community if the government delays any further in dethronement of the present Oba.

But in his reaction, Oba Adimula said that the state government through the ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs has already intervened, adding that he had been asked to maintain his calm.

“None of the members of the Afin Descendants Union is living in Odo-Owa. Two of my brothers who are members of the union were not carried along in the petition. They also forged the signatures of some of the persons that purportedly wrote the petition.

“Incidentally, the state Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs says I should maintain my calm as prominent members of the community have waded in”, he said.