Founder of One Love Family Satguru Maharaj Ji has dissociated himself from hotelier Ramon Adedoyin who is facing charges over the alleged murder of a postgraduate student of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Timothy Adegoke.
Speaking on Monday at a press briefing in Ibadan, Oyo State, Maharaj Ji said the only time he met Adedoyin was when the latter celebrated his 60th birthday.
The OAU student died in Adedoyin’s Hilton Hotel and Resort last year while his corpse was allegedly disposed of illegally.
Maharaj Ji, however, said he honoured the invitation for Adedoyin’s 60th birthday to pacify him as one of the contestants to the stool of Ooni of Ile-Ife a few years ago.
“I don’t have any relationship with Chief Rahman Adedoyin, after the contest to elect new Ooni of Ife, in my capacity as the eye of Oduduwa, I had to make peace among the contenders, to pacify the losers,” he said.
“When Adedoyin was celebrating his 60th birthday, I was invited to grace the occasion in 2019. I went there in my capacity as the eye of Oduduwa to pacify him for losing in the contest for Ooni of Ife. I went there and left, that was the only time I met him. So, linking me with ritual killing is political.”
The clergyman added that his doors are open for investigation.
