The apex Yoruba group under the aegis of Yoruba Council Worldwide has stripped former president Olusegun Obasanjo of all chieftaincy titles bestowed on him in Yoruba land.
hear them:
“The above subject matter refers.
The Yoruba Council Worldwide being the apex Yoruba indigenous organization, having waited endlessly for your
compliance to the 3 days earlier call for sober apology press conference via our widely circulated notice on 16th
September, 2023, we hereby declared and seize to recognize your Chieftaincy titles conffered on you by any monarchs
in Yoruba Land, including the Balogun of Owu Kingdom, consequent upon your brazen refusal to apologize, degradation
and disparaging comments to the Yoruba Obas on the 15th September, 2023 at Iseyin, Oyo State: A Total Sacrilege.
TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) recalls that the former president Olusegun Obasanjo had ordered Yoruba monarchs in a ceremony in Ibadan to stand up for Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde.
To register the anger of the Obas turned korofos, the apex body in a statement signed by Aare Oba Oladotun Hassan , president and the secretary of the group, Siyanbade Adekanmbi late Wednesday stripped former president Olusegun Obasanjo of all titles.
“We see your disrespectful statements at the commissioning of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology
(LAUTECH), Iseyin campus, and had commanded kings from Oyo State to stand up and accord you respect (and
subsequent defense in premium times); to the arrays of first class Royal Fathers and other leading Obas like toddlers or
a village headmaster or Army General talking profusely at his foot soldiers in a most depressing, disparaging and
disrespectful manner.
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