Olubadan breaks silence, says newly elevated chiefs wear ‘carton crowns’

For the first time since the Oyo state government promoted 21 high chiefs to the status of kings in Ibadan land, the Olubadan of Ibadan land, Oba Saliu Adetunji, yesterday described the crowns given to them as ones made of carton.

Olubadan made the statement when the Council of Authentic Ibadan Mogajis paid him a solidarity visit at his palace. 

The monarch said that he waited for 40 years before he was made king, urging the high chiefs who were crowned king by the state government to wait for their turn to become kings.

He said, “I started as a Mogaji. I was moving step by step before I assumed the throne after 40 years. I thank God for that. We must all love one another. If you love yourself and hate others, your purpose of love is nothing. I was called by the elders of my family to come and become a Mogaji more than 40 years ago. I rejected it and for three years, they were persuading me.

“In trying to convince me, the representative of my family told me that it could be that one day I would become a king. I then accepted it and became the Mogaji of my family. I waited on God and he made me king. Those who were crowned a few weeks ago know within themselves that they are wearing fake crowns, it is just a carton crown.”