National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola
Ahmed Tinubu, has disclosed that only three monarchs in Yorubaland are upright,
describing others as “useless”.
The former governor of Lagos State made this declaration on
Friday in Ijebu-Ode during a special prayer session held at the Central Mosque
in the city to mark the 80th birthday of the Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru
Kayode Adetona, the Ogbagba II. Tinubu extolled the doggedness of the paramount
ruler.
Speaking at the event, Tinubu, who returned to the country
because of the occasion, urged the monarch not to allow some politicians hijack
his birthday celebration and turn it into a political platform for campaign.
Tinubu narrated that, “I remember in 1991, 1992 and 1993
during the military junta, when the Yoruba was the target of the then
government. They thought they could silence you, they planned to kill you, they
planned to remove you through a local government, but they failed. They did it
to Sultan of Sokoto and they succeeded.