A group, Yoruba Socio-cultural Pathfinder(YSP), has appealed to the traditional rulers in the Yoruba nation to join in the condemnation of the brazen cultural heresy being carried out by an anti-social element who is parading himself as a monarch in Osun State and using his fake identity to cause crisis, disharmony, and the disturbance of public peace in Modakeke.
In a statement signed by its President, Bashorun Ige Ogunjobi, the group, which reiterated the richness of the Yoruba culture, laden with the traditional rules of law, stated that it was awkward and disheartening that the Yoruba nation, where things were done accordingly in the past, is now sliding into an enclave devoid of laws and conventions.
According to Ogunjobi: “We have been following with utter dismay how one Adeyinka Adeshina Obawale who has been fraudulently addressing himself as ‘Oba Adeyinka Adeshina Obawale, the Oluoje of Ojenpetu’, has been disturbing the peace of Modakeke with the group of his cohorts he came with from Kogi State to establish a town where he addresses himself as a crowned king.
“It is our resolve that it would be necessary for the Inspector-General of Police and other statutory security services to show immediate interest in the nefarious activities of this self-acclaimed monarch who professed to be a native of Ipetumodu in the Ife-North Local Government Council Area of the state but migrated to settle down with a group of people from Kogi State.
“A patriotic person shouldn’t be told that it is a disservice to the nation for anyone or a group of people to be promoting crisis in any part of the nation when it is apparent that the governments at all its levels have been trying all possible means to ensure the security of lives and property in Nigeria.
“The police in their investigation of the disturbance of the public peace against the self-crowned ‘Ojenpetu’ should find out when, where, and who crowned Obawale a monarch?
“It will also interest the people and the security services to find out if it is a norm in this century for a group of people in Yorubaland to invade a community from another state and appoint another monarch where there’s already a traditional ruler.
“Will it not amount to a dereliction of traditional duty at the grassroots level for a traditional ruler to have become a harbinger of a set of people from another state that do not have any history of having been profiled by the security services against being fugitives to justice?
“Since the purported Ojenpetu has professed to have been a native of Ipetumodu in one of his recorded video recordings that has gone viral, why did he not choose his hometown to foment crisis instead of Modakeke which he invaded with his fake crown and the retinue of his cohorts from Kogi State?
“Why was Obawale chased out of Kogi State with his co-travellers who have turned themselves into a nuisance in Modakeke and the surrounding communities, from where the fake monarch has constituted himself to a nuisance?
“If Obawale thinks he can make Modakeke a battleground in Yorubaland from where he can be disturbing the peace of the Southwest geo-political zone, he is making a great mistake.
“We have also listened to some unprintable adjectives that Obawale used on His Royal Majesty, the Ogunsua of Modakeke, Ajibise Ogo 1, Oba Olu Toriola, which is an indication that he doesn’t have respect for traditional institutions.
“If the fake Ojenpetu is replete with traditional wisdom, it shouldn’t be difficult for him to know that any insolence from him to the Ogunsua, is an insult to all the sons and daughters of Modakeke.
“Our appeal to Obawale is that he should desist from the dragging of the name of the revered Ogunsua in the mud and honourably decline to do the bidding of whoever might be his sponsor to cause cataclysm in the Modakeke community.
“Whoever allows his head to be used to crack a proverbial coconut would definitely not be a partaker in its eating. It is golden advice.”
But when contacted, Oba Obawale denied disturbing the peace of Modakeke community, adding that it was the community that waged a war against him.
According to him, some hoodlums on May 03, 2025, invaded his house, shot at him, and destroyed his property, noting that he was rescued by some police officers.
He said: “I am not disturbing the peace of Modakeke community. It is the community that wages a war against me. It was in my rented apartment that the Modakeke people wrote a petition against the monarch who accommodated us, calling us Fulani people.
“On May 03, some hoodlums came to shoot at me and destroy my property. I was rescued by some police officers that day and since then, I have left Modakeke. I don’t know the reason for that, and the matter is before the Commissioner of Police. They have been invited but they are yet to show face.”