Abimbola, a former Vice Chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile Ife, said he agreed with Obasanjo that monarchs should respect their governor but that it would have been better if he spoke to the monarchs in private rather than the way he did it publicly.
May the Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona, live long on the throne of his fathers. But, how about my illustrious Ijebu people having Fuji
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An oba is put on the throne to keep "the bush at bay." Collectively and individually, the successful oba is praised as "so'gbó di'lé/sò'gbé dì'gboro/ oba a s'ààtàn d'ojà - the successful king is he who turns forest to home; the one who turns bush to town.