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Falae heads Akure ruling house
THE Obaship crisis rocking Akure land, the Ondo State capital, may soon be over as Chief Olu Falae, the former joint presidential candidate of the All Peoples Party (APP) and the Alliance for Democracy (AD) has been appointed as the substantive head of Osupa ruling house.
Reportedly, the Osupa lineage is supposed to produce the next Deji of Akureland. It has been embroiled in a crisis over the presentation of a credible candidate for the vacant stool.
Akure town had been without a monarch for the past five years after the demise of Oba Adebanjo Adesida.
A new Deji-elect, Mr. Adegbola Adelabu, who was selected out of six candidates presented by Osupa ruling house to the kingmakers, was rejected by a faction of the ruling house and the people of Akure town.
The traditional rites for the installation of the new Deji-elect which had begun were stalled by a court action and protest from some quarters.
In a statement, the secretary of the ruling house, Chief Femi Alewi, said in Akure yesterday that Falae was unanimously elected as the head/chairman of the house following the demise of the former chairman, Chief Aladetoyinbo, the Olu of Alayere.
According to him, initially, Falae was appointed as the deputy to the head/chairman of the ruling house to enable him act for the substantive head/chairman who was then critically ill.
"It is very unfortunate that three days after Falae was elected as deputy, the head/chairman of the ruling house, Chief Aladetoyinbo, joined his ancestors and the traditional rites were performed seven days after the internment," he said.
"By our letter dated August 9, 2004, Akure South Local Council was duly informed that Chief Olu Falae has been unanimously elected the substantive head/chairman of the ruling house," he added.
Alewi stressed that by this appointment, Osupa ruling house had put its house in order and efforts were in progress to bring every authentic member into the fold, so as to have peace and unity in the ruling house and in Akure.
The Obaship race is now between Adelabu Adegbola and Sunday Adejuyigbe who showed interest in the vacant stool due to the rejection of the new Deji-elect by the people of Akure.
But the second-in-command to the Deji of Akureland, Chief Folorunso Davies, who is also the Lisa of Akure, has insisted that Adegbola remains the new Deji-elect.
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