The newly installed controversial traditional ruler of Ikirun, Oba Yunusa Akadiri is getting too early signal that Ademola Adeleke’s incoming administration might give him a cold shoulder.
Pointers to this fact came from a seeming deliberate omission of his name from the Governor-elect’s Sunday, November 27 inauguration list of invited traditional rulers from the state, Theliberationnews authoritatively reports.
Theliberationnews investigation revealed that instead of the controversial monarch, the organisers of the event sent invitation to top Ikirun son and Eesa of Ikirunland, High Chief Kareem Adetoye Lawal.
Eesa Lawal, by position and ancient history, is the second in command to Akirun of Ikirun and the leader of the kingmakers.
It will be recalled that it is only the Eesa that did not, based on principle, support the highly contentious selection of Akadiri and tumultuous enthronement as a monarch of Ikirun land.
On Tuesday, the people of the town had in a show of rejection prevented Akadiri from entering the palace in the ancient town.
The resistance from the town’s people led to a fatal clash with the police providing shield for the newly crowned monarch, leaving to the death of one of the princes from Gboleru ruling house, whose turn it was to present the king before it was allegedly denied.
It was learnt, from investigation, that the incoming governor of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ademola Adeleke, and his party have been following the crisis rocking the town due to lack of proper selection of the monarch.
One thing is clear and that is the fact that the last is yet to be heard from the traditional rulership crisis rocking Ikirun land.
