By Tunde Olamilekan
A group, Yoruba Socio-cultural Pathfinder(YSP), has called for an investigation of an alleged self-proclaimed monarch in Osun State, Adeyinka Adeshina Obawale.
The group accused Obawale who is the
Oluoje of Ojenpetu for causing crisis, disharmony, and the disturbance of public peace in Modakeke.
The group President, Bashorun Ige Ogunjobi, in a statement on Wednesday, said: “We have been following with utter dismay how one Adeyinka Adeshina Obawale who has been fraudulently addressing himself as ‘Oba Adeyinka Adeshina Obawale, the Oluoje of Ojenpetu’, has been disturbing the peace of Modakeke with the group of his cohorts he came with from Kogi State to establish a town where he addresses himself as a crowned king.
“It is our resolve that it would be necessary for the Inspector-General of Police and other statutory security services to show immediate interest in the nefarious activities of this self-acclaimed monarch who professed to be a native of Ipetumodu in the Ife-North Local Government Council Area of the state but migrated to settle down with a group of people from Kogi State.
“A patriotic person shouldn’t be told that it is a disservice to the nation for anyone or a group of people to be promoting crisis in any part of the nation when it is apparent that the governments at all its levels have been trying all possible means to ensure the security of lives and property in Nigeria.
“The police in their investigation of the disturbance of the public peace against the self-crowned ‘Ojenpetu’ should find out when, where, and who crowned Obawale a monarch?
“It will also interest the people and the security services to find out if it is a norm in this century for a group of people in Yorubaland to invade a community from another state and appoint another monarch where there’s already a traditional ruler.
“Our appeal to Obawale is that he should desist from the dragging of the name of the revered Ogunsua in the mud and honourably decline to do the bidding of whoever might be his sponsor to cause cataclysm in the Modakeke community.”
However, Oba Obawale denied the allegations, noting that it was the community who waged war against him.
According to him, some hoodlums on May 03, 2025, invaded his house, shot at him, and destroyed his property, noting that he was rescued by some police officers.
He said: “I am not disturbing the peace of Modakeke community. It is the community that wages a war against me. It was in my rented apartment that the Modakeke people wrote a petition against the monarch who accommodated us, calling us Fulani people.
“On May 03, some hoodlums came to shoot at me and destroy my property. I was rescued by some police officers that day and since then, I have left Modakeke. I don’t know the reason for that, and the matter is before the Commissioner of Police. They have been invited but they are yet to show face.”
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