CCII wades into Olubadan chieftaincy crisis

By Agboola Bayo
Ibadan

The Central Council of Ibadan Indigenes (CCII) at the weekend raised a 15 man reconciliation committee to mediate on the crisis between the Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Saliu Adetunji, Governor Abiola Ajimobi and the Osi Olubadan of Ibadanland, High Chief Rashidi Ladoja
The committee is to the review the Olubadan Chieftaincy Declaration, and the coronation of 21 new Obas in Ibadanland.
According to CCII in a statement made available to journalists in Ibadan, the 15-member reconciliation committee is headed by “a respectable elder of Ibadanland,” as the crisis has assumed “new and dangerous dimension introduced to the matter.”
The Ibadan Central Council stated that the committee comprising of five members from CCII, three each from the Christian and the Muslim communities and four from the Elders Council, has “called an emergency meeting of key groups in Ibadanland with a view to finding a peaceful and sustainable solution to all the controversies that surround the crowning of 21 new Obas in Ibadanland on August 21”.
CCII, in the statement, disclosed that a four-member visitation panel, earlier raised by the council had met with Ajimobi, Ladoja, and others and secured the commitment of the governor and Ladoja to attend an “all-inclusive reconciliation meeting as proposed by the committee.

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