The elevation of Ibadan High Chiefs to Royal Majesties by the past administration in Oyo State is an honorary one devoid of all traditional rites that accompany the installation of an Ibadan Oba.

Oluwo Afobaje Ile Ibadan’, Chief Wahab Popoola stated this while participating on a radio programme monitored in Ibadan.

He said the elevation of the High Chiefs was honorary and status enhancement stressing that such was not the traditional rite to the installation of Oba in the ancient city.

Chief Popoola insisted that none of the expected traditional rites that should precede the installation of an Olubadan was observed for the elevated High Chiefs and the Mapo Hall where the presentation was done should ordinarily be a final place a newly installed king should be.

He explained that contrary to the assumption of some people that late Governor Abiola Ajimobi destroyed the Ibadan traditional system by the elevation, he emphasized that what the former governor did was to promote the interest of Ibadan.

Oluwo Afobaje Ile Ibadan stressed that the inability of the late Governor to wait for the reform to resonate with the people before he carried it out led to his being misunderstood.

At the programme which also had on-air the Otun Balogun of Ibadanland and a lawyer by profession, Oba Tajudeen Ajibola, he insisted that the case in court had nothing to do with the established succession order to the Olubadan throne.

He explained that the late governor did marvellously well for Ibadanland by the elevation of the High Chiefs which he said was never to rival the Olubadan, who was made Imperial Majesty but to enhance Ibadan traditional system among the comity of another metropolis.

Ridwan Fasasi

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