By SaharaReporters, New York
The deposed former Deji of Akure
Kingdom, Oluwadare Adepoju Adesina,
has written an emotional letter of
consideration to the Ondo state
government to reinstate him as the
paramount ruler.
Mr. Adepoju was deposed after this
website revealed his battery of his
wife, Olori Bolanle, in May 2010. His
battered wife took ill and
subsequently died in July 2011. Mr.
Adepoju then relocated to the United
Kingdom.
In the letter, obtained exclusively by
SaharaReporters through his lawyer,
Barrister Olusola Oke, the deposed
Deji appealed to Governor Olusegun
Mimiko, for whom he claimed to have
worked tirelessly during his election
campaign, to consider his plea.
"I must passionately plead with your
Excellence to remember how well I
stood behind you and fought with you
towards ensuring that you won the
election and to ensure that you also
recovered your stolen mandate,” he
said.
Recounting how he was deposed from
the town because he allegedly poured
a concoction on his estranged late
wife, Olori Bola Adepoju Adesina, he
said the avoidable communication
gap was the reason behind the
widely-reported incident.
He claimed that the escalated fracas
between him and the late Olori was
misconstrued by the press which, he
also alleged, refused to report his own
version of the story.
Dr Ige Ogunleye, the Chairman of the
Osupa Ruling house which Adesina
hails from, confirmed receipt of the
letter, but he declined further
comment.
Many sources in the ruling house
disclosed that the letter comes at an
important time, as the Deji throne is
vacant. SaharaReporters had earlier
gathered from a kingmaker in the
palace that the Osupa Ruling House
is the next family to present
candidates for the throne.
We also learnt that chiefs in Akure will
this week complete traditional rites for
the late Oba Adebiyi Adegboye
Adesida. A source revealed that the
daughter of the deceased, Princess
Adetutu, is expected to be installed as
Regent of Akure pending the
emergence of a new king.
The palace source told our reporter
that the belated installation was on
account of family exigencies.
“The issue is that Princess Adetutu
was nursing her baby when the
sudden death of her father was
pronounced. But immediately after
the whole rites she might will be
installed as the regent of the kingdom
this week or early in the New Year,"
the source said.
But an aide to the Lisa of Akure, High
Chief James Olusoga, told
SaharaReporters in a phone interview
that the traditional rites would be
completed with the installation of a
regent, most likely between Christmas
and the New Year festival period.
With just 23 days since the death of
Adebiyi Adesida, the jostling for the
throne has begun at a frantic pace,
with members of the Osupa Ruling
House lobbying kingmakers for the
vacant sit.
While some seem to favour the return
of the deposed Adesina to the throne,
others object, fearing victimisation
should he re-emerge the king.
In the letter, however, the former and
perhaps future Deji seems to have
leant his lessons of his experience
and reconciled with those who worked
against him.
Dated December 19, it was addressed
to Governor Olusegun Mimiko through
his Commissioner for Justice and
Attorney General, Eyitayo Jegede
(SAN). It was copied to the Deputy
Governor, Ali Olanusi; the Speaker of
the State House of Assembly, Samuel
Adesina; the State Chief Judge,
Sehinde Kumuyi; Commissioner for
Local Government and Chieftaincy
Affairs, Bamiduro Dada; and the Akure
Council of Chiefs through Lisa of
Akure, High Chief James Olusoga.
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