The ranking of Yoruba Obas by the Alake of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Aremu Gbadebo is gradually snowballing into a controversy.
The Alake, who received the new Ooni of Ife, Oba Ogunwusi Adeyeye at his palace on February 7, had said: “Ooni is one of the five principal Obas in Yoruba land. The others are in order of the way they are classified on a supremacy basis.
After the Ooni is the Alaafin of Oyo; after the Alaafin is the Oba of Benin; after the Oba of Benin, is the Alake of Egbaland and the fifth, and by no means the least, is the Awujale of Ijebuland.”
But the Egba monarch’s supremacy rating left a bitter taste in the mouth of the Binis, who rejected the ranking.
While setting the records straight, the Palace of the Oba of Benin faulted Alake’s remarks. The Esogban of Benin and Odionwere of the Kingdom (traditional head), Chief David Edebiri, said the Alake of Egbaland, goofed when he said the Oba of Benin was third in the hierarchy of Obas.
Aside the Binis, the statement did not go down well with another monarch. This time, a monarch from the South-West, the Awujale and Paramount Ruler of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona, who has since replied the Alake.
Source: Vanguard
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