By Akinwale Kasali
Hon. Ademorin Kuye, representing Somolu Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, has dismissed allegations that he has been parading himself as the Awujale-Elect. Such claim is baseless and malicious, he emphasized.
Kuye, who is a contender for the vacant stool of the Awujale of Ijebuland, has stated that allegation of him being desperate for the exalted throne is false, and an attempt to smear his name.
The Federal Lawmaker said that the allegations levelled against him by some Princes and Princesses of the Fusengbuwa Ruling House of Ijebu-Ode is malicious and an attempt to pull his name in the mud, stating that he would not engage in any act capable of breaching extant laws or established succession procedures.
Kuye, a Legal Practitioner of 37 years added that he would not be involved in anything that could undermine the Chieftaincy and Customary Laws guiding the emergence of the Awujale.
A statement signed by Barr. Kunle Johnson Adebajo, on behalf of the Fusengbuwa Ruling House, had earlier accused Kuye of presenting himself as Awujale-elect and allegedly commissioning a female ‘Waka’ Singer to produce a song celebrating his purported selection.
The alleged action by Kuye, the statement said, is illegal and capable of causing unrest in Ijebuland. It insisted that it violated Ogun State’s Chieftaincy and Customary Laws as well as laid-down succession procedures.
:We want to state without equivocation that the action of the said Hon. Kuye is illegal and capable of causing chaos and unrest in Ijebuland,” the statement read in part.
The Group had, in the statement said that the Princes and Princesses of Fusengbuwa Ruling House had urged the Governor Dapo Abiodun led Ogun State Government to intervene and compel Kuye and his supporters to desist from actions they described as unlawful and provocative.
Kuye has, however, distanced himself from the allegations, reiterating that he is not desperate to occupy the revered Stool.
“I have never been involved in any of their allegations. I am also a member of the Fusengbuwa Ruling House. I know nothing about what they are saying,” he said.
He added that his family has already issued a statement dissociating him from the claims and affirming support for the Ogun State Government’s position on the matter.
“The truth is that I am not desperate about becoming the next Awujale. I was never even interested initially. It was my family that obtained the nomination form for me. For over a month, I did not fill it until they completed the process. So how can anyone say I am desperate?” he queried.
As regards the alleged viral song praising him as the New Awujale-elect of Ijebuland, Kuye denied commissioning any Musician, suggesting that political detractors might be behind it.
“I did not commission any song. I neither saw nor heard it until people began drawing my attention to it. If anyone claims otherwise, let such a person come forward with evidence,” he said.
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