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IFON PATRIOTIC MOVEMENT CALLS FOR GOVERNMENT’S INTERVENTION IN THE IFON OBASHIP CRISIS
The Ifon Patriotic Movement under the leadership of Mr Muyiwa Oludare and the General Secretary, Mr. Bamise Amudeli has on behalf of the Movement, called upon the Governor of Ondo State, Hon. Dr. Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa to allow the spirit of equity, justice and fair play prevail in the planned selection of the next Olufon of Ifon.
The group calls on government to take into cognizance the fact that the Olufon chieftaincy declaration of 1981 as contained in the Ondo State Government white paper issued on Morgan commission was the outcome of a review of the old Olufon chieftaincy declaration of 1968 enacted by the defunct old Western State Government by a judicial panel of enquiry headed by Hon. Justice Adeyinka Morgan during the reign of Oba David Adegbera Odogiyon as the Olufon of Ifon from the Umaugba ruling house in 1981.
The group stated that the recommendations of the Morgan commission came into force in 1997 with the succession of the Umaugba ruling house by the Adaniken ruling house in line with the rotational order among the four ruling houses as stated in the approved Olufon chieftaincy declaration of 1981.
The recommendations of the Morgan commission was approved and accepted by the Ondo State Government with the issuance of a white paper on it in 1981
According to the Movement, the Ogenuwa ruling house is the next in line to the Adaniken ruling house and that the implementation of the approved Morgan commission recommendations for the Olufon chieftaincy will enable the Ogenuwa ruling house produce the next Olufon of Ifon and the second from that lineage after 125 years.
The Morgan recommendations came up with the names of approved four ruling houses and the rotational among them that goes thus;
1. Umaugba – Oba Adegbera Odogiyon ( 1969 to 1996)
2. Adaniken – Oba Adegoke Adeusi ( 1998 to 2020)
3. Ogenuwa ( The next in line to Adaniken)
4. Erunogbe
Oba Adegbera Odogiyon had , through the review of the 1968 Olufon chieftaincy declaration by the Morgan commission had bequeathed a good legacy to Ifon Omima Kingdom and the good legacies of the monarch must be sustained.
The Olufon stool is a sacred and revered stool that must not be politicized, the group concludes.
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