Alaafin, Soun Stools: Government Installs Monarchs, Not Ifa — Oluwo

The Oluwo of Iwoland, Oba Abdurosheed Akanbi, has shared his opinion about the selection of kings in Yorubaland and insisted that the state government is the new Ifa oracle that installs traditional rulers,

The monarch declared that the days of traditional oracle picking who becomes king are long gone and questioned why the Ifa is yet to select successors to the vacant stools of Alaafin of Oyo and Soun of Ogbomoso, saying princes with genuine intentions will have to patronise the state government, not Ifa.

The Oluwo, in a statement, maintained that only princes who have refused to face reality still run after Ifa in a bid to ascend a throne.

The statement reads: “God installs monarchs, not Ifa. When a vacant stool is to be filled, contestants will patronise the government, not Ifa. Those who patronise Ifa will have to wait endlessly. Why has Ifa not picked the new Alaafin of Oyo and Soun of Ogbomoso? Or did Ifa travel so we can seek his return to give those towns new kings?

Oluwo noted that the princes who are far from reality or the ones watching too many Nollywood movies will depend on Ifa to announce them as monarchs maintaining that God will speak through the government.