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Mr Akin Osuntokun, the Coordinator of Ooni’s Caucus, a think tank formed by the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has revealed the real reason Alaafin of Oyo Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III shunned a meeting with the team.
Osuntokun confirmed this in an interview with JESUSEGUN ALAGBE on Sunday.
Osuntokun said the caucus, inaugurated a month ago to act in the collective interest of the Yoruba, visited the Alaafin but were shunned by the monarch.
He noted that the drama at Alaafin’s palace was masterminded and orchestrated by a political officer in the presidency.
Osuntokun said:
“To all of us, whose minds were trained and oriented to work methodically and rationally, it was difficult to make any sense of what happened. Rather than feel honored that a group of accomplished Yoruba sons and daughters were visiting the Alaafin whom we regard as a father figure and patriarch, the press secretary to the Alaafin took to peddling the fiction that we did not get a visiting day appointment. So, why delay us for hours before ascertaining we had no appointment? Is it logical to believe that a delegation of very busy individuals would commit themselves to a perilous and stressful journey from different parts of the country without giving notice and getting acceptance of the same by the personality we were going to visit? That we just mindlessly chose to barge in on the monarch unannounced? How do you square such an idiotic attitude with the fact that we have held high public offices with globally certified rules of protocol and conduct commensurate with best practices? At the end of the day, it was a storm in a teacup. We learnt that the whole drama was masterminded and orchestrated by a bitter and inconsequential…
