Oluwo of Iwo Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi has replied the Ooni of Ife Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi who said he was walked out “like a child” from the Oluwo’s palace.
On Sunday, a video of the Ooni went viral on social media where he talked about Oba Akanbi.
The Ooni said, “When I visited Oluwo he chased me out like a child. Since that incident, I have always maintained myself going close to him. Now that you people (attendees) are imploring that I visit him again, what if he does what he likes to me?
“But I have to contain his excesses as an elder, although I am a young person sitting on the throne of the elders. Oluwo, I greet you.”
Reacting through his spokesman Alli Ibrahim on Monday, Oba Akanbi said the video was old and that the Ooni has never been to his palace.
“The trending video is old and that there was never a time Ooni came to the palace. The palace will officially react to the trending video,” he said.
Ooni is the leader of traditional leaders in the southwest.
It is believed that the cold war between the Ooni and the Oluwo is related to age as the latter is about seven years older than the former.
