REPLY TO AWUJALE: Where You Got it Wrong on the Yoruba Oba's Ranking

Awujale Was Wrong by Oracle

I am disappointed Awujale of Ijebu story did not include his root from Whadah with no connection with the DNA of Oduduwa.

Among Oduduwa children Awujale has no seat, he is just a tolerated king in Yorubaland without the true blood of Oduduwa.

Alake came to Abeokuta as a KING and as a descendant of the direct sixteen children of Oduduwa who finally settled in Abeokuta.

If Alaafin was chased out of Old Oyo Empire after the Fulani attacked Oyo Ile will that destroy his role as first among equals when he finally found another location in the present Oyo town?

NO!

Like Awujale told Gov. Bisi Onabanjo in 1981, the Ijebu were never Yoruba or had the DNA of Oduduwa they came from Whadah and must not be given a seat among Oduduwa Children.

For Awujale to down grade Alake to junior king is to show that he got too comfortable with history and forgot how he manipulated his ways into the hearts of Oduduwa children, trust me, he has just reopened the primitive war files between the Egba and Ijebu. And it is not going to look good.

Awujala should stay away from the history of the Egba because the history is about the children of Oduduwa not where they relocated to after wars, he can't use internal politics in Abeokuta to score a political point.

Awujale was economical with the true position of Alake as a direct descendant of Oduduwa and the politics of the Egba.

Alake supported his position with a 1937 photograph with Ooni, Oba of Benin, Awujale, Alake , at the grade of the Kings in Yorubaland. Awujale did his own with the hatred between the Egba and Ijebu before colonization. I am disappointed in him.

O ma se o.o

- this piece was dropped on zimsglobal page by Bello Okanlawon Adetunji