The Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi, has accused the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, of plotting his downfall after he (Oluwo) helped him (Ooni) to mount the throne.

In a video seen by Saturday PUNCH, Oluwo said he influenced Oba Ogunwusi’s emergence as the Ooni when he was contesting the stool in 2015.

However, Oba Akanbi said the Ooni had been orchestrating his removal, alleging that Oba Adeyeye was behind his suspension from the Osun State Council of Obas a few years back.

But Ooni dismissed Oluwo’s allegation, even as he said he would not react to it as “it was not the first time Oba Akanbi would be making such a statement.”

Speaking in the video, which his Press Secretary, Ibrahim Alli, confirmed to have emerged from a Ramadan lecture in Iwo on Wednesday, Oluwo claimed that he helped Oba Ogunwusi settled a (court) case that would have impeded his appointment and installation as the Ooni.

He said Oba Ogunwusi’s ally, Akin Daodu, connected the two of them, disclosing that he would have supported the Ooni’s elder brother, Tunji Ogunwusi, but he didn’t because the latter underrated him.“In 2015, I got a call from Akin Daodu, a close ally of the then Prince Adeyeye Ogunwusi, now Ooni Adeyeye Ogunwusi. He told me Prince Adeyeye was on the phone, that he needed to talk and seek my help regarding his aspiration to the throne of Ooni of Ife. I knew him then, but I was closer to his brother, Tunji Ogunwusi, who was my peer. Tunji Ogunwusi, popularly called Dodo, and I were about eight years older than the Ooni.

“As a friend and peer, I had earlier called Tunji Ogunwusi to help him ascend the throne, but he underrated me and refused to take me seriously.

“We discussed, and he (Prince Adeyeye Ogunwusi at the time) disclosed that almost all the stakeholders, including Governor Aregbesola, had agreed to his appointment, but there was a court case instituted by a few aggrieved individuals against him. He said his primary concern was the litigation. I asked him if that was all, and he said yes. I told him he was already a king.



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