BY DAYO JOHNSON

 AKURE—KINGMAKERS in Ise-Akoko in Akoko North East Local Government Area of Ondo State, weekend, dismissed claims by former Chairman of Labour Party, LP, in the state, Dr. Olaiya Oni, that the monarch of the town, Oba Adegbenro Ayo Omola, had been deposed.

Led by Otunba of Ise-Akoko, second-in-command to the monarch, High Chief Bodunde Salami, the kingmakers at a briefing in Akure denied that Oba Omola had been removed.

The former LP Chairman was quoted to have said that the Oba of his home town (Omola) who led other Akoko Obas to pay solidarity to Governor Olusegun Mimiko after he resigned, had been dethroned.

However, the kingmakers declared that the stool of Onise was not vacant and that statement from the former LP Chairman “is far from the truth and an attempt to set the town on fire.”

He said: “We are using this medium to congratulate Gov.Mimiko, for not supporting an action that could lead to a serious crisis in Ise-Akoko. The governor should not feel disturbed simply because Oni had left the Labour Party. He has no follower either in the town, the ward or the entire local government council where he came from.”