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Ooni: Kingmakers settle rift

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9 years ago

September 14, 2015

The controversy trailing the Ooni stool in Ile-Ife, Osun State, may have finally been put to rest as Ife kingmakers have asked the Giesi Ruling House to present qualified candidate(s) from the family to be selected as the next Ooni of Ife.

The 16 traditional rulers in Ile-Ife said the kingmakers used the 1980 Ife Chieftaincy Declaration to arrive at the decision to ask Giesi to produce the next Ooni.

The Obalufe of Ife, Oba Solomon Omisakin, who read an address on behalf the 16 traditional rulers of Ife at a press conference held at Ile Oodua, the palace of Ooni, stated that the new Ooni would emerge within the next 40 days.

“We the 16 traditional rulers making up kingmakers by Ife traditional rules and customs hereby unanimously declare and affirm and confirm that 1980 Ife Chieftaincy Declaration is the one in existence now and we affirm as follows:

Ooni stool: Ruling houses at loggerheads

“Section 19 subsection a (3) that it is the turn of the Giesi Ruling House to present a candidate/ candidates for the vacant stool of the Ooni of Ife Chieftaincy”, he said.

While pleading for the cooperation of Ife people, Omisakin advised the other ruling houses to wait for their turn.

The four ruling houses in Ile-Ife are Oshikola, Ogboru, Giesi and Lafogido.

They have been at loggerhead over the right to mount the Ooni’s throne since the demise of the last Ooni, Oba Okunade Sijuade, on July 28.

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