On Friday 11th February 2021, Social Media Platforms were awash with the news of the Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi, soliciting for N20 million funds from the Osun State Governor, Gboyega Oyetola, to finance his Royal Wedding to one of King Ado Bayero’s daughter in the Kano Emirate.
In a letter addressed to the Governor with the Oluwo of Iwo’s letter head, duly stamped and received by the Special Adviser to Governor Oyetola at the Ministry of Local Council and Chieftaincy Affairs, it solicited for the said Sum to finance the Royal Wedding.
Reactions, however, trailed the letter from different quarters. The reactions tongue-lashed the Olu of Iwo and criticized him for soliciting for such assistance that has no economic value to his subjects, the State and the Country at large.
But the Oluwo of Iwo has denied requesting the sum of N20 million from Oyetola to fund his Royal wedding.
A statement from the Oluwo Palace clarified that Oba Akanbi never asked for such financial assistance from Governor Oyetola but that he only said the ceremony is capital intensive and that it would cost around N20 million.
According to the Statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to Oba Akanbi, Alli Ibraheem, “As at the date on the letter, the Oluwo was not in the State and his secretary has no audacity, whatsoever, to sign on his behalf.
“The said letter lacks basic in-house styles of Oluwo’s Palace correspondence. Oluwo always append his personal signature while writing the government. Equally, the font in the letter is not our official style.
“At the said date on the letter, Oluwo was not in the state up till now. And his secretary has no audacity, whatsoever to sign on behalf of His Majesty while communicating with the government.
“The letter was orchestrated by mischievous people whose mission is to discredit the palace. Marriage is a personal affairs. There is no marriage venture too big for Oluwo to finance on his own,” the statement reads.
The Oluwo’s Palace did not, however, deny the fact that Oba Akanbi is planning on
getting married to a Princess of Ado Bayero dynasty from Kano Emirate, but it vehemently denied that the Letter was from the Oluwo himself.
The Osun State Government, in its reaction, signed by the Commissioner for Information, Funke Egbemode, dismissed the alleged letter by the Olowu to the Governor as the handiwork of political miscreants, sadists and mischief makers. The statement said such mischief, which the Olowu has denied, is coming up because the Governorship election is drawing near. It, however, insisted that neither the Governor, nor the Government is moved by the mischief.
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