Deji of Akure: Govt launches peace moves to save monarch – The Nation
November 10, 2009 by Bunmi Awolusi · Comments Off
Talk’s began yesterday on the row between the Deji of Akure, Oba Adesina Adepoju and the city’s kingmakers who are pushing for his removal.
The government of Ondo State stepped into the controversy even as the 21 high chiefs and 17 kingmakers said they would shun the palace until Oba Adepoju is dethroned.
Kingmakers dethrone Akure monarch – The Guardian
November 9, 2009 by Bunmi Awolusi · Comments Off
The four-year reign of Oba Oluwadare Adepoju Adesina, Osupa 111, as the traditional ruler, the Deji of Akure, came to an abrupt end yesterday when the traditional council of kingmakers, the body that installed him on November 26, 2005, declared him as “unfit, unworthy and improper to continue to occupy the cherished and exalted throne” and thereby ordered his immediate dethronement.
