Onikoyi Of Ikoyi And The Endless Wait: Appeal To President Bola Ahmed Tinubu
Justice delayed, not denied! Say’s Prince Wasiu Akanni Durojaye Enitan as he appeals to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over transparency and fairness in Implementing the agreement signed as governor of Lagos State with the local government authority and representatives of the 10 Ruling Houses.
As a law abiding citizen with respect for constitutional authority.
A passionate appeal to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the rule of law which is the regulator of chieftaincy affairs that put in place a traditional mechanism that was seemingly endorsed by the parties that can lay claim to the throne with transparency and fairness.
Why is there an impasse that is threatening to boil over? And, like tales by moonlight, all these are happening following the demise of the late monarch, HRM Patrick Ibikunle Fafunwa-Onikoyi, the Onikoyi of Ikoyi Obalende and Imoba land, who passed on at the ripe age of 92.
Ordinarily, the crisis brewing in the Ikoyi kingdom of Lagos Island over the choice of a successor to the vacant throne is needless, indeed avoidable if only the stakeholders adhere to principle if not tradition.
There may be a role for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to play in dousing the tension over the next Onikoyi if for nothing else, for the fact that he is father of all Nigerians and groups; as well as for the fact that Lagos is his primary constituency, if ever the president is so entitled.
In any event, he, as governor of Lagos State many years ago, was the originator of the peace mechanism put together to avoid exactly the kind of crisis brewing presently. The president should not stay aloof when this kind of crisis is brewing anywhere in the country, more so as there are capable hands to safely steer the ship of Ikoyiland.
Therefore the urgency to salvage this unwanted episode is strong. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, the council of Chiefs, and other Lagos leaders should insist on rotational kingship as agreed upon and signed by President Tinubu and other stakeholders in 2006. This is to save Ikoyi land from anarchy and ensure that succession order is followed to allow peace and unity in the Onikoyi Royal Family.
The rotational agreement reached and assented to all stakeholders of the town under the leadership of President Bola Ahmed-Tinubu, as the then Lagos state governor, in 2006 was the climax of various peace efforts, following various disagreements and conflicts over the rulership of the area.
The agreement was meant to restore peace by institutionalising a rotational chieftaincy agreement which clearly lists ten branches of the royal family of the town to produce monarchs in orderly succession, in the following order:
- Fafunwa
- Ojubiari
- Kubayije
- Ilumo
- Idewu
- Kugbamola
- Aluko Ajose
- Dosumer Ajiwa
- Adelo
- Dosume. Since the late monarch, Fafunwa was from the Fafunwa Royal House, the logical and lawful next step is for the Ojubiari family to produce the next king, and then the Kubayije family in that same order. Without controversy the next Royal family of Ojubiari based on the succession was captured by the resolution instituted by the ten royal families in 2006 which placed Prince Wasiu Akanni Salaiman of the Ojubiari as the next Oba in succession of the Onikoyi of Ikoyi and Imoba Land.
Calling on the intervention of a true Democrat on whose mandate we stand, the Ojubiary Descendant, entire Family and Association at large humbly request for transparency, fairness and due process in implementing the 2006 agreement with the then Lagos State Governor now President Bola Amed Tinubu.
Prince Wasiu Akanni Sulaiman is a vibrant, intellectually sound Business Management Consultant with a Master’s Degree in International Relations; Property consulting expert in strategic holdings.
His personality, capability, charisma, exposure, and social standing are all it takes to be the right man for the next Oba Onikoyi of Ikoyi, Obalende, and Imoba Land.
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