…less than a week after his Coronation. As a matter of fact, barely 48 hours after making his Kingship official. I have been sighting “beef-kites” flown aimlessly around the cyberspace. As a Yorubaman, and as most of my kinfolk are aware, we are unusually adept at sensing a “war” even in its most premature formation. Especially when it’s a war we could be cooking ourselves- and in our own backyard kitchen.
I have been reading historical submissions authored by spectacular historians making good cases for “Esau” while prejudicing “Jacob”, they are twisting and turning, perhaps with the melodious intent at re-doctoring history. Not in itself a bad thing to be reminded of past events, to be lectured or to be made aware of some things quite unknown to us “preschoolers of history”. But in these particular submissions lie hints of “malice” and from where I stand, I am sensing a “let us put him in his place” scenario unfolding. The timing of these strange “blasts from the past” are iniquitous on one hand and suspicious on the other. Matter of fact it is both iniquitous and suspicious at the same time! It is easy to conclude as such when this young man-King hasn’t traveled beyond the boundaries of his domain- just yet! In fact he hasn’t even the time needed to offend any of his Royal contemporaries as yet!
Therefore the issue of who’s first, second or third amongst the scions of Oduduwa or Oranmiyan or even Lamurudu is clearly unnecessary at this stage. It is surely not to educate or inform us- except to provoke or spark the fire of a Royal beef! It happened between the late Ooni and the present Alaafin, and that Cold War lasted till the former joined his ancestors. Whosoever intends for such silliness to continue in this era ought to be ashamed of him/herself. We are looking into this era as that to build upon and not that to tear down. Shouldn’t we be tired by now of the “PH.D. Syndrome?”
It’s amusing when the irredeemable stalwarts go on about some mythical Oodua Republic. Quite a funny scenario to have such a Republic and the Obas in it must “climb a sacred genealogy tree” to prove the best- the candidate good enough to “pluck the juiciest fruit” on it. Or best if they could submit themselves for a special DNA examination to check for the one with the special marker closest to that of Oodua- all in order to be appointed the most senior Oba in the dreamland Republic.
This young man was nominated to be King supposedly, by the 201 deities in Ile-Ife. And these deities cannot all be wrong. Deities, supremely astute in the matters of “spiritual-democracy!” Mind you we are talking about outer-worldly beings here and not the types closely related to Dasuki or any of his loot-sharing cohorts! Therefore if any historians has problems with this choice of a King- either because he’s young, rich or for whatever reasons- just as Dasuki and his thieving friends have taken their “Rigimoric” stories to The EFCC, you are free to TAKE YOURS TO THE 201 DEITIES TOO!
***”RIGIMORIC” is a made-up word to mimic RIGIMO: a romantic-sounding Yoruba word for Conspiracy. So if any smart-aleck out there attempts to “Googlefy” or “Websterlook” it, he or she shall only do so in vain!***
