The Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Saliu Akanmu Adetunji, has said the chieftaincy reform of the Oyo State Government is reversible.
Governor Abiola Ajimobi, who signed the law that had seen the crowning of 21 new obas in Ibadanland, had on Friday during the Eid-el-Maulud celebration at the Remembrance Arcade at Agodi in Ibadan, said there was no going back on the reform.
But the monarch, in a statement by his Director of Media and Public Affairs, Adeola Oloko, said: “There is nothing irreversible under the sun.”
Oba Adetunji, who spoke when he received hundreds of baales (family compound leaders) from Idi Arere, Popoyemoja, Isale Osi, Igbonna, Akuro, Gbodu, Bode and adjoining areas at the weekend, said he has lived long enough to know that God can reverse the irreversible and return Ibadan chieftaincy system to the path of peace and harmony.
He said: “Some people erroneously believe that the chieftaincy crisis is a personal conflict between Governor Ajimobi and Oba Adetunji. This is wrong. There are at least five suits in respect of the chieftaincy crisis in the Oyo State High Court as we speak. What this shows is that the generality of our people believe that the issue at stake is a matter of great public interest as well as the outcome.
“As the Olubadan, I am merely a custodian of the tradition and customs of Ibadan people. With an oath before our forebears, I do not see how as a monarch I will compromise the tradition and custom of Ibadan people.”
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