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  • BREAKING: Boxing King, Oluwo gets six months suspension

    Osun state traditional rulers council has suspended the Oluwo of Iwoland, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi for six months over his attempt to drag the institution into the mud with his public conduct.

    The council at its emergency meeting held at the Finance Building at the State Secretariat on Friday banned the monarch from attending its meetings and also constituted a committee headed by Orangun of Ila, Oba Wahab Adedotun to further investigate the matter.

    Addressing journalists after the meeting, the Orangun of Ila, Oba Wahab Adedotun said the decision was not because of alleged fight between the Oluwo and Agbowu but due to his conduct to other traditional rulers in Yorubaland, including the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, Alake of Egbaland and the Ooni of Ile-Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi.

    The Oluwo was alleged to have punched a fellow monarch, the Agbowu of Ogbaagbaa, Oba Dhikurulahi Akinropo during a peace meeting at the instance of the Assistant Inspector General of Police Zone XI, Bashir Makama at his office in the state on the dispute between the monarch and members of Iwo traditional rulers council.

  • Oluwo of Iwo opens up on crashed marriage with Jamaican wife

    The Oluwo of Iwoland, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi has opened up about his failed marriage with his Jamaican wife, Chanel Chin.

    The Monarch who disclosed his split with the daughter of Jamaican reggae star, Ludlow Chin cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for the failed marriage.

    In his latest post on Instagram, the traditional ruler stated that he has forgiven those who choose to judge without knowing the truth.

    The Oluwo, however, cursed those who chose to judge him without knowing the truth, saying the evil that was perpetrated against him will be done to them.

    Oba Akanbi’s post read, “If I ever did evil or show anything other than love in this my immediate past union, let God Almighty judge me and put the curse on my head and remove the crown from me but if I’m righteous enough in this marriage, may God let me reign for long and always overcome all adversaries and calamities that may come my way.

    “May evil befall the one that did evil to each other in the marriage Amen.

    “To all who choose to judge without knowing the truth, I forgive you and may God forgive you too but from this moment on, if you judge me without knowing the truth, may the evil that was perpetrated against me be done to you and may your children experience what I went through in this past relationship of mine. AMEN!!! I came out alive and victorious by the grace and power of God Almighty because I’m a special breed by God Almighty.

    “I came in peace and love to all humanity thank you and God bless you all abundantly pelu Ashe Oba Kan soso tounje kabio kosi..”

    It is however of common knowledge that the duo met in Canada before Oba Akanbi became the traditional ruler of Iwo land in 2015.

  • My marriage to Jamaican wife has collapsed – Oluwo of Iwo

    The marriage between the royal father, Oluwo of Iwoland, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi, and his Jamaican wife, Ms Chanel Chin, is over.

    A statement by the Oluwo’s Press Secretary, Alli Ibrahim, obtained on Sunday said the couple ended the marriage after irreconcilable differences.

    The statement from Oluwo’s palace read, “This is to inform the general public, most especially friends and associates of the Oluwo of Iwoland, His Imperial Majesty, Oba (Dr) Abdulrosheed Akanbi, Telu I, that Ms Chanel Chin is an ex-queen of his majesty.

    “This information is necessary for the attention of the general public to avoid representation on proxy or accordance of respect attached to the sacred stool of Oluwo to her.

    “For personal irreconcilable differences, Chanel Chin ceased to be his Majesty’s queen. We equally enjoin the public to disregard any business transaction or request with her using the office of his majesty.”

  • Inside story of Oluwo of Iwo’s messy fight with Muslim cleric, Sheik Adio

    Inside story of Oluwo of Iwo’s messy fight with Muslim cleric, Sheik Adio

    • Sheik Adio vows to leak audio of Oluwo wooing his wife via phone

    The Oluwo of Iwoland Oba AbdulRasheed Akanbi has been enmeshed in yet another controversy after he was publicly confronted by Sheikh Adio at the last Eid Fitri celebration in Iwo.

    Angered by the monach’s excesses Sheikh Adio who accused the monarch of making several attempts at sleeping with his wife told TheNewsGuru [TNG] that he will soon release phone conversation, other evidences to back the allegations.

    Recall that that Sheikh Adio who was supposed to lead prayers at the event [Eid Fitri celebration], got into a heated exchange and eventually confronted the Oluwo of Iwoland after the monarch told worshippers present to ignore the cleric and go to other Mosques for prayers.

    Firing back at the Osun monarch, Sheikh Adio stated that the Oluwo of Iwoland who wanted to sleep with his wife, was fighting him because he stopped his distasteful quest.

    This is the videos from the scene of the incident:

    The feud: How it began:

    Sheik Adio explained that being one of the staff and executive of the central mosque in Iwo, he had a very close relationship with the Oluwo when he was crowned king.

    He noted that things went bad folllwoing a misunderstanding between the king and one Chief Abiola Ogundokun, a philantropist who also doubles as the Bashorun Musulumi of Iwo land.

    Adio told TNG that when the clash happened between the duo, the king ordered him [Adio] to write a letter to announce that Oladokun had been removed as the Bashorun Musulumi of Iwo land.

    Adio, noted that he however, advised the king to desist from plotting the removal of Ogundokun.

    He furthered, ‘That was where my problem started with the king. The King told me no problem and went ahead to announce the removal of Ogundokun as Bashorun Musulumi himself. I told him at the time that he cannot do that because Bashorun Musulumi is not a title of the palace – it is an islamic title meant for the clerics and not a kingship title. That was the first time the King and I had an argument.

    “After the King announced Chief Abiola Ogundokun’s removal, the man proceeded to court and all these happened in 2017. Right now the case is still in the court.

    “In Islam, there is a saying that, ‘Alfa is the father of the king’, Oluwo wanted to change it to ‘King is the father of the Alfa’.. So I delivered a lecture to counter that, which i said ‘Alfa is the father of the king’ and cited the Holy Quran verse to back-up my saying, then the Oluwo also got angry with that. And i also said, God said he will call the Imams first on the last day of judgement…”.

    What is your wife connection with the all issue ?

    “After the whole incident, he started chasing my wife. I can call that my told me that the Oluwo met her on the way, he parked to have a conversation with my wife saying, ‘Where are you going, Alfa’s wife, why didn’t your husband take you to where you going to, the sun hot, come in let me help you to your destination.

    My wife told him not to not bother, that her husband has a visitor which is why he couldn’t take her out.

    That same day Oluwo told my wife, I can do better than your husband, after that time he calls my wife and still repeat the same statement and my wife told him he should be very careful.

    I can’t really say this was how he got my wife’s number, what i know was that when I and the king first had issue, my wife will tell me that the King said both of us should come to the palace.. I told my wife how did you know, did you call him or he called and how did he get your number. But the only thing i can say is, he has my wife’s number” He said.

    Adio also assured that he will forward phone conversations between his wife and the king amongst other evidences.

    Oluwo of Iwo’s reaction:

    The Oluwo of Iwoland, however, took to social media to address the viral video with an allegation of trying to sleep with Sheik Adio’s wife. He wrote;

    FREEDOM OF SPEECH, IM NOT FAMOUS ENOUGH MAKE ME MORE FAMOUS AROUND THE WORLD

    Thanks to my friends and so-called enemies (I call them uplifters) for making me so famous around the world !!! One day, they will call me Yahoo king… another day, they will call me gay and then just a day before I just heard a new one… a gbaruku alfa who is not even an Imam , a 16th position otun ajanasi says” you want to sleep with my wife”

    The Mosque called Oluwo mosque in Iwo was built by my forefathers a king in the 17th century and happens to be the first mosque in southwest Nigeria but now…. OKIKI TI MONI YI OITO EDUMARE, BAMI WA MISI EDUMARE but guess what?

    This errant man has been deposed and replaced by one of his enemies…. in Iwo kings mosque, only me the Oluwo of Iwoland can turban a chief Imam of the land and our own history in Iwo is different from other towns in Yorubaland,

    if there is no Oluwo and the Chief Imam pass away …. there won’t be any Chief Imam until another king is crowned and it has happened before when there was a vacuum for the stool for over 10 years(1982-1992) there was no king on seat and nobody can make a chief Imam for the Kings mosque

  • Herdsmen/farmers crisis: Nobody roams cattle in 21st century — Oluwo of Iwo

    The paramount ruler and King of Iwo land, Osun state, Oba AbdulRasheed Akanbi, has tackled the Federal government of Nigeria saying that field grazing and cattle roaming is barbaric and should be abolished at once as they do not conform to modernization and 21st century development of any country.

    Mr. AbdulRasheed made this statement during a meeting with stakeholders at his palace focusing on solutions to herdsmen incessant attacks on innocent Nigerians.

    He said no government that wants to move forward will encourage grazing and that there is no place in the world where government acquires land on behalf of herdsmen for the purpose of cattle grazing.

    He added that the herdsmen can either rent, lease or buy lands for pen/byre construction to house their cattle and that it is at the farmer’s or land owner’s discretion to sell to them.

    “The herdsmen got it wrong due to lack of education towards animal farming in the 21st century. The alternative to grazing is pen with sufficient hay storage. This will help restrict the cows to the confines of the pen- which is a controlled area. That is how it is done in advanced country. You can never see herdsmen grazing cattle in Europe,” the monarch said.

    “The herdsmen can even purchase hays to feed the cows, (and) can be purchased from the farmers thereby establishing and sustaining a peaceful affinity with farmers across Nigeria,” he added.

    Mr. AbdulRasheed advised the federal government that the solution to Fulani herdsmen/farmers recurring clash is proper orientation and education on modernized animal farming and not acquiring hectares of land on behalf of herdsmen as grazing zone across the federation.

  • I am not into ‘Yahoo Yahoo’, I’ll not appear before Osun magistrate – embattled Iwo monarch

    …says allegations against him was a deliberate attempt to tarnish his name

    The Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulraheed Akanbi, has said he will not appear before a Magistrate’s Court in Osogbo, Osun State, which on Tuesday last week, issued a bench warrant for his arrest.

    The monarch also declared that he was not involved in Internet fraud, known as Yahoo Yahoo, contrary to the allegation against him in a case before the court.

    Recall that the Magistrate’s court, presided over by Mr. Olusola Aluko, had, on December 20, issued a bench warrant for the arrest of the traditional ruler for refusing to appear in court in a case instituted against him by the Oluwo of Iwo Oke, Oba Kadiri Adeoye.

    In an interview with The Punch on Sunday, Oba Akanbi said he was not a fraudster and would not appear before Aluko, alleging that the case had been compromised.

    The monarch equally alleged that some monarchs, who were afraid of his rising fame, were using the traditional ruler in his domain to fabricate lies against him with the aim of destroying his reputation.

    In his words: “It is a shame on the judiciary to have such magistrate. There is no indictment; no case at all; somebody just brought a worthless paper before you. It is a civil case and you are relying on that to issue a warrant of arrest.

    “I am not a criminal. Some people want to tarnish my name and they cooked up a lie that I am into Yahoo Yahoo. I am not. Can one be a monarch and still be doing Yahoo Yahoo? What do I need that for?

    “The police commissioner is being represented in court, this is a civil matter; I was also represented in court by some traditional rulers and about five lawyers. Why didn’t he issue a bench warrant against the CP, who is the respondent in the case or was the CP present in court?

    “All he just wants is to tarnish my name. That means it has a political undertone.”

    The monarch said his achievements within a year of ascending the throne had intimidated some people including some monarchs, who he did not mention.

    The magistrate had threatened to issue a bench warrant against the Iwo monarch on December 2 if Oba Akanbi failed to appear before the court on December 20.

    The monarch did not appear in court but was represented by his counsel.