Olubadan, Ladoja Won’t Attend Ibadan Peace Meeting With Ajimobi

The Authentic Mogajis in Ibadan on Monday said neither the Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Saliu Adetunji, nor a former Governor of the State and Osi Olubadan, High Chief Rashidi Ladoja, will attend any peace meeting with the State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi.

The Mogajis announced their position following their meeting in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.

They told both Oba Adetunji and Ladoja not to have any peace meeting with Ajimobi until the gunmen who invaded the Popoyemoja palace of the revered Oba are apprehended and brought to justice.

A truce committee was last weekend raised in the city to midwife peace among the gladiators with a view of returning Ibadan to its peaceful status.

Those on the committee include President of the Central Council of Ibadan indigenes, some members of Ibadan Elders Forum, Religious leaders and opinion moulders.

But the family heads after their meeting told newsmen on phone that they were making representations to the monarch and Ladoja to boycott the peace parley.

Their spokesman, Chief Wale Oladoja, the Mogaji Akinsola compound in Oopo Labiran, said: “We deliberated extensively on the recent attack on the palace, which sad event occurred exactly a week ago, the peace parley and the security implications of the invasion of the Oba’s palace among other issues.

“We are worried that a week after the incident and the Governor’s insistence that he knew those who attacked the palace, the suspects are yet to be apprehended and brought to book.

“Yet they are talking of peace parley.

“Could they be talking about peace if the Kabiyesi’s life had been exterminated by gun toting palace invaders?

“We align with the position of Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, that the governor should fish out the gunmen and make them to face prosecution.

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