Village heads beat up Ogun monarch (OBA)

ABEOKUTA — Pandemonium broke out in Ayetoro, the political headquarters of Yewa North Local Government Area of Ogun State, when at least 10 village heads allegedly beat the Alaye of Ayetoro, Oba Azeez Adelakun and destroyed his traditional beads.
The fracas which occurred,weekend,  shortly before the embattled monarch installed a village head of Ago-Imala, Olayiwola Ajibola, prompted the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Ikemefuna Okoye, to personally supervise his men who stormed the place in four Hilux vans to restore normalcy.
The installation was billed to take place at Isale-Agboro multi-purpose hall before the crisis escalated.
When our correspondent visited the place, there were eight bonfires in various places which were reportedly made by the youths in the area in protest against the assault on their monarch.
It was gathered that, there had been bad blood between the monarch and the aggrieved  village heads following the refusal of the monarch to merge two village heads in Saala village.
An eyewitness told our correspondent that some village heads had demanded to hold a meeting with the  monarch on the need to jettison the installation of the new village head, and when the monarch entered the palace, the aggrieved village heads refused to pay  homage to him, saying they did not recognise him.

-vanguard