The Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi has seen that he was once chased out when he visited the Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi.
The monarch made this identified in a trending video on TikTok on Sunday.
Talking, the Ooni of Ife stated, “Once I visited Oluwo, he chased me out like a kid, since that incident, I’ve at all times maintained myself going alike to him. Now that you simply folk (attendees) are imploring that I seek advice from him once more, what if he does what he loves to me?
“But I have to contain his excesses as an elder, although I am a young person sitting on the throne of the elders. Oluwo, I greet you.”
Despite the fact that Ogunwunsi neither seen the site the place it came about nor spoke on any feud between him and Oluwo of Iwo within the viral video as each are revered monarchs in Osun Situation, findings seen that Oluwo has now not been happy with Ooni’s dating and actions with the traditionalists who he described as ‘idols worshippers’.
In every other video, Akanbi popularly referred to as Telu 1 was once observable telling the folk of Iwo to loathe conventional practices threat that anyone indulging in it must achieve this of their respective properties.
“My paintings as a monarch is to get up for God and hold forth about him isolated pace difficult the ones worshipping issues alternative than Him. I don’t do Ogun or any idol competition. Despite the fact that, I’ve prior to now celebrated the Egungun competition with the worshippers however I can by no means do this once more. Excluding that they don’t name it idol worshipping. I don’t aid their actions, that’s why their dealings don’t thrive right here.
“And you cannot even perform sacrifices in Iwo here. Anyone who does that will eat it. Better still, litter your house with the sacrifices. Environmental sanitation has been exercised here to curb things like that. What anyone would need to be successful is to challenge the idols and their worshippers. That alone would make you a soldier of God,” he added.
Proceeding, Oluwo in his Fb publish on Monday clarified that Iwo worn to be dominated by way of a standard monarch however has ceased being that because the emergence of Oba Memudu Ayinla Lamuye in 1800 who unfold Islam within the the town because the monarch transformed the entire Iwo folk to Islam.
He wrote, ”Oba Ibirinade Abioye Adekanbi (Alawusa) introduced Islam in 1600. He evacuated idols and transformed a playground of worshipping deities to the Oluwo Central Mosque. Exactly, he birthed the primary Mosque in South Western Nigeria in 1600. After within the past due 1800, every other Oluwo, Oba Memudu Ayinla Lamuye (pictured above) unfold Islam and transformed the entire Iwo folk to Islam and that’s why in Iwo, each compound has a Mosque and there is not any Iwo indigene that doesn’t have a Muslim title together with fresh convertees when the missionaries got here.
“Oba Ibirinade Adekanbi was also called Alawusa because he was hospitable. He accommodated Malians who people tagged Hausa then they came to settle in Iwo. Oluwo was turbaned. New Oluwo used to be enthroned with a beaded crown before 1600. After 1600, turbanning used to come first before wearing the beaded crown. Oba Muhammad Ayinla Lamuye spent 90 years on the throne. Exactly 100 years after, the reigning Oluwo, was enthroned to complete the good work of the past monarchs.”
Recall that Akanbi in 2018 alleged that Ogunwusi ordered his bodyguard to push him out of the way in which all through a gathering of conventional rulers in Port Harcourt, Rivers Situation capital.
In step with Akanbi, the incident came about at Resort Presidential within the oil-rich town.
He stated it came about simply because the Ooni was once referred to as to the rostrum to present a vote of thank you.
“The bodyguard of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, in what seemed to be an errand message, pushed Oluwo at the public gathering of the first-class paramount rulers held at the Presidential Hotel, Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State last Tuesday,” Akanbi stated in a commentary.
“Dignitaries on the tournament have been greatly surprised by way of what they regarded as as a desecration of the crown because the bodyguard of the Ooni driven a firstclass paramount ruler, Oluwo.
However the Ooni denied the allegation in a commentary that the director of family affairs at his palace, Moses Olafare, issued on his behalf.
Ogunwunsi described the claims of the Oluwo as unfaithful, announcing, “There was no altercation between Oluwo and anybody at that venue at all.”