Seyi Bakare: Awujale succession: New beginning for Fusengbuwa, duty to Ijebuland 

The emergence of Omooba Otukayode Hakeem Otufale arsenic the caller Olori Ebi of the Fusengbuwa/Jadiara Ruling House of Ijebu-Ode has opened a caller section successful the prolonged hunt for the adjacent Awujale and Paramount Ruler of Ijebuland. Coming aft months of disagreements implicit the behaviour of the succession exercise, competing claims to enactment of the ruling location and ineligible disputes, the improvement should beryllium seen arsenic an accidental to reset the process and reconstruct assurance successful an instauration whose decisions person consequences acold beyond the walls of the household house.

The Awujale is not an mean accepted title. It is 1 of the astir respected accepted institutions successful Yorubaland and occupies a peculiar spot successful the history, civilization and individuality of the Ijebu people. The succession process, therefore, indispensable beryllium handled with the dignity, restraint and transparency expected of an instauration of specified significance. The situation that preceded the emergence of the caller Olori Ebi was not created by the vacancy alone. It was compounded by disagreements implicit the absorption of the enactment process, questions astir consultation, the information of qualified members of the ruling location and the grade to which establishe...