The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Abimbola Owoade, has denied any rift with royal supremacy with any monarch in the country.
Reacting to a video shown on the You Tube where, the anchor narrated how the Alaafin of Oyo, ordered his men to beat to a pulp ‘father of the monarch of a village in the United States of America and later handed him over to the Police, the monarch said “The anchor was not only a pathological liar, but should be confined to dungeon of eternity for being heartless in dishing out such lies.
“The attention of the Media Office of the Alaafin of Oyo has been drawn to a misleading and wicked fabrication of a video produced by an online medium, Awikonko TV, and shown on YouTube”.
In a statement titled: “Re: Battle line drawn by Alaafin” the monarch’s director of Media and Publicity, Bode Durojaiye, stated that in the “Malicious video, the anchor narrated how the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Abimbola Akeem Owoade 1, ordered his men to beat to a pulp ‘ father of the monarch of a village in the United States of America and later handed him over to the police.
“The misguided anchor said the action attested to Alaafin Owoade’s supremacy battle with the Ooni of Ife. What happened was that the ancestral lineage of descendants of Oyotunji village in the USA is Oyo town.
“It was more than two occasions, during the reign of the late Alaafin, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi 111, that the people of Oyotunji village traced their ancestral home to Oyo town and were given a red carpet reception .’’
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