The deposed Mogaji was invited to the meeting but did not show up because, according to him, his mother died about 24 hours to the meeting.
By Jeffrey Agbo
Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Lekan Balogun, has deposed Wale Oladoja from his position as the Mogaji Akinsola of Opopo Labiran Family.
This came barely six months after he was briefly suspended from the position by the Olubadan Advisory Council.
The decision was the fall-out of an emergency meeting of the Olubadan Advisory Council presided over by the monarch at his Alarere residence and which had in attendance representatives of the Association of Mogajis of Ibadanland led by its President-General, Chief Asimiyu Adepoju Ariori and the Assistant Secretary-General of the Central Council of Ibadan Indigenes (CCII), Suleiman Iyanda Raufu, who stood in for Chief Niyi Ajewole, the President-General of the Council.
In a press statement on Saturday after the meeting issued by the Personal Assistant on Media to the Olubadan, Oladele Ogunsola, Oladoja was sacked from the position due to his recent media outbursts considered disrespectful to the Olubadan stool and by extension the traditional institution of Ibadan.
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The media reports credited to the deposed Mogaji, according to the council were described as divisive, disparaging and insulting and unbecoming of a supposed leader, who is expected to be urbane and cautious in deeds and actions, stressing that the conduct of Oladoja since his short suspension about six months ago was not suggestive of any sense of remorse.
The Olubadan Advisory Council suspended Oladoja over alleged inhuman execution of a supposed court judgment on a land matter. Oladoja was said to have thrown out some residents of Akinsola village in Akinyele Local Government Area of the state, a conduct then described as untoward and a breach of the peace.
At Saturday’s meeting, the council recalled that the suspension placed on him then did not last long because of his perceived genuine remorse and principally, because of His Imperial Majesty’s peaceful disposition, adding, “the recent outbursts by the same person have shown him as somebody without no iota of respect for constituted authority and any failure to bring upon him the full weight of the Council’s power would amount to condoning of indiscipline”.
The council urged the Akinsola Family to find his replacement.
The deposed Mogaji was invited to the meeting but did not show up because, according to him, his mother died about 24 hours to the meeting.
