Traditional leaders and stakeholders from Ibadanland and Ogbomosoland have strongly opposed a proposed legal amendment by the Oyo State House of Assembly seeking to make the Alaafin of Oyo the permanent chairman of the state’s Council of Obas and Chiefs.
The bill seeks to make the Alaafin the presiding authority of the Oyo State Council of Obas, proposing that in the absence of the Alaafin, the Olubadan of Ibadanland would preside, and if both were absent, the Soun of Ogbomoso would chair the council.
However, the traditional leaders and stakeholders condemned the amendment, describing it as a distortion of historical tradition and an affront to other royal institutions in the state.
