Some Ibadan
mogajis (family heads) have alleged threat to their lives over their support
for Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Saliu Adetunji, who is opposed to the review
of
Olubadan Declaration by the state government.
They,
therefore, called on President Muhammadu Buhari to protect their lives from
those they called “agents of death”.
The mogajis,
who claimed that they had been receiving threat calls from anonymous people
asking them to withdraw their support for Olubadan or risk being killed, said
the callers had also asked them not to attend any meeting or visit the Popoyemoja
palace of the traditional ruler.
The
spokesman of the group, Chief Wale Oladoja, who addressed journalists yesterday
in Ibadan, flanked by other executives of the forum, said: “Our lives are no
longer safe here. And we begin to wonder what is our offence? For standing by
the Olubadan to preserve our culture, traditional norms and values?
“Frequent
anonymous calls from the people we suspect to be agents of death are
threatening all of us, including the chairman, Mogaji Moshood Akere; the Vice
Chairman, Mogaji Abass Oloko; the Co-ordinator, Mogaji Jelili Adanla; the
Financial Secretary, Mogaji Ademola Olasomi and my humble self, to desist
forthwith from going to Olubadan’s palace.
“You recall
that about a month ago, some yet-to-be identified gunmen stormed the Popoyemoja
palace and shot sporadically to disrupt the peace there.”
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