Let me set the record straight...in this age of
information, ignorance is a choice. I have watched
the show of vacuity as it is been displayed by
some of the online gurus (mediocre) in the recent
time about the Abobaku saga. It is ignoramus to
jump into the pool you have not delved before.
Let me set the record straight... Abobaku is a
traditional practice in the ancient Yoruba Empire.
Abobaku system is peculiar to the Ancient Oyo-
Yoruba Empire. It is not heinous as some people
take it to be, rather it is a matter of choice, people
compete to occupy the position of Abobaku just
as other positions because while the king is alive,
the Abobaku enjoys de facto power and he shares
in the glory of His Royal Highness. In the Ancient
Oyo-Yoruba Empire, it was constitutional for
Aremo to be Abobaku, he is to be buried with his
father. After the Owu War in 1827, there came the
creation of Ibadan and Ijaye in 1829 and 1830
respectively. Ogunmola headed Ibadan as
Kurunmi who later became Are Ona Kakanfo
became the leader of Ijaye. Alaafin Atiba
succeeded Alaafin Oluewu in 1837, but at the
demise of Alaafin Atiba in 1859, Adelu who was
Aremo and supposed to be Abobaku (someone
that dies with king) refused to die with the king
and wanted to succeed his father. And because of
the benefits Ibadan enjoyed under Alaafin Atiba,
they wanted continuity by supporting Aremo
Adelu to become Alaafin against the tradition. On
the contrary, Ijaye did not want the continuity
and wanted to protect the culture of the kingship,
there started a war of superiority between
Ibadan's combatants and Ijaye's warriors in
which Ibadan came out victorious and Aremo
Adelu became Alaafin Adelu in 1859. This was how
the doctrine of Abobaku ended in Oyo-Yoruba
Empire. Ife has never practiced the tradition of
Abobaku before and no one can point to
anywhere in Yorubaland today where the
tradition is under vogue. Abobaku is a system in
the past and it has gone with the past. It is vicious
and malicious to peddle what you know nothing
about to score a mere rhetoric point.
KINGSLEY.
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