Contrary to the report that The Alaafin of Oyo Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi 111 shunned the commitee set up by Ooni of Ife who visited to his palace on Friday to dialogue with the imperial majesty on the way forward on issues affecting yoruba race
It was reported that former Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria, Mr Akin Osuntokun. Osuntokun led about 14 members of the group to Alaafin’s palace for the alleged 11am appointment on Friday, but after waiting for about two and a half hours, the prominent monarch sent words to them that he would not be seeing them.
The report claims that they were left unattended to because of their affiliations with the former President Olusegun Obasanjo and constatnt criticsm of president Buhari
Reacting to the report,Bode Durojaiye,
Director of Media and Publicity to the Alaafin of Oyo said the story was not wicked fabrication but a mockery of responsible journalism.
He explained that there were some visitors with the Alaafin when members of the group came, so they have wait at one of the reception halls in the Palace.Shortly , after the visitors left, the Olugbon of Orile Igbon was ushered in and met the Alaafin on the visit.
“After the meeting, the Olugbon of Orile Igbon with due respect came out and met members of the group, comprising Dr. Doyin Okupe, Chief Taiwo Lakanu and Akogun Akin Osuntokun who was the group’s Coordinator, among other members.
“The message from the Olugbon of Orile Igbon corresponded with what I had earlier tolddome journalists who contacted neon Thursday that the Alaafin had no prior knowledge about the visit and that due process is the fulcrum of administration in the ancient Palace of Oyo.
‘I was a living witness at the reception hall where the Olugbon if Orile Igbon was addressing the group members.
“Members of the group were neither angry nor made any derogatory utterances when they were departing the Palace.
He added that the issue of former President Obasanjo did not come up at the meeting between Olugbon of Orile Igbon and the Alaafin of Oyo.
“If one may ask, are the Alaafin of Oyo and the former President Olusegun Obasanjo not intimate friends of time immemorial? Was it not on record that it was the Alaafin of Oyo who appealed to Nigerians to vote enmasse for former President Olusegun Obasanjo when he wanted to contest for the Presidency some years back?
“How come then that a Journalist who is well trained and with his right sense will rush to the press and defecate the social media space with tissue of lies .
Can anyone or group ,no matter how highly placed just bump into the offices of both His Excellency, the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and the State Executive Governor and without prior notice
