Ooni: Other Houses reject kingmakers’ choice of Giesi

The kingmakers of Ile Ife kingdom may have decided which ruling House the new Ooni is to come from, but the crisis trailing the emergence of a new monarch for the town may be far from over as the Ogboru and Osinkola Ruling Houses has rejected the kingmakers’ decision.
The kingmakers had selected the Giesi Ruling House to produce the new Ooni.
But head of the ruling house, Prince Adenekan Olubuse, said in Osogbo on Tuesday that the family would challenge the decision of the kingmakers.
He, however, said all members of the family would meet on Friday to decide on the next step to take.
The Osinkola Ruling House has also rejected the decision of the kingmakers.
The family said they would challenge the decision in court, saying the document which the kingmakers wanted to use was a corrupted one, which could not stand the test of the law.

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Olubuse said, “The decision of the kingmakers is not the final. We reject it. The whole family will meet on Friday and we will decide on the next line of action.”
Also, the sole candidate presented by the Ogboru family, Prince Adeagbo Adefarakan, said he was not perturbed by the proclamation of the kingmakers.
The United Kingdom-based oil magnate said he had not allowed the decision of the kingmakers to stop his preparations for the race to the throne.
Adefarakan said, “We are still on it. We are going ahead with our plans. We are not bothered by what they (kingmakers) have just said.”
He stated that the family had produced the least number of Ooni and it should be their turn now to succeed Oba Okunade Sijuwade, who died in London on July 28.

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