Ooni of Ife Palace remains under locks and keys as the search for his successor linger.
Ooni of Ife Palace remains under locks and keys as the search for his successor linger.
The palace of the late Alayelua Oba Okunade Sijuade, Ooni of Ife remains under heavy lock and security presence. This was confirm when knightpen made a short visit to th ancient city. Of lie-Ife following new brewing information or allegation of the presence of the late Ooni in and around his majestic palace and the Ife territory in general.
It was gathered that the late Ooni is still in control and ruler ship of the ancient city until the new one is installed. This laid credence to the fact that the palace gate couldn’t be opened until he spiritually hand over to his successor.
Although various contest battles are ensued between and amongst the Princes of the land, the kingmakers are yet to come up with a nominated candidate as the traditional rites and processes of Installing a new king even as gigantic as the Ooni of Ife is still along way to go.
While talking to one of the elders of the land, it was established that the processes of searching for the new Alayelua is still a long way to go as all families involved are yet to fulfilled their own part of the gigantic task as the nomination and submission of the names of their preferred candidates is not yet completed.
Another oldman in the ancient city of lie-Ife speaking on the ground of anonymity further explained that looking for and installing a new Ooni of Ife is nearly an impossible task but what makes its much more impossible is the fact that such occurrences only happened once or if you are lucky twice in a lifetime as the Ooni of Ife have always lived much more longer in the past and recent years.
This leaves most of the kingmakers (Lowa), nominating families, all princes and affected parties almost a rookie on the task as most might haven’t experience or take part in such ritualistic task before now, so in achieving greatness in such task, they need to take their time.
It’s imperative that the affected parties come up with a solution soon as the whole world is waiting in anxiety to witness and welcome to the palace who the new Ooni of Ife will be.