BY EBUN SESSOU

The death of Ooni of Ife, His Royal Majesty, Oba Okunade Sijuade Olubuse 11, has been described as a monumental and irreparable loss to the Oduduwa race.

National Coordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, and Convener of the Oodua Progressives Union, OPU, Gani Adams, said this while reacting to the transition into eternal glory of  one of the foremost monarchs in Africa.

According to him, late Olubuse 11 has completed his mission as assigned to him by the owners of the world. He has gloriously relocated to the ancestral abode of his progenitors after the completion of his assigned role as the tenderer and protector of the ancestral stool of the Yoruba.

“It is  sad, but not tragic  that he returned home at 85. “Ooni Olubuse was able, not only to sustain the royal majestic and reverence left behind by his predecessors, but  also  added  colour, panache and  cultivated tremendous respect to the stool of Ooni of Ife, the cradle of the world.”

Adams, who commiserated with the Olubuse Royal family, the seven Elus in Ife, all the chiefs and Yoruba citizens both home and in the Diaspora, remarked that the Ooni’s exit has created a vacuum which cannot be filled either now or in future. He has gone with his aura. There is no way another Olubuse 11 can be created or superimposed. “

He also condoled  with the Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola and the entire people of Osun for the exit of a remarkable royal father.

He therefore called on all Nigerians particularly, the Yoruba  to pray for the repose of the soul of the late Oba and use his death as a contact of reunion and re-affirmation to the ideals of Oodua.