President Muhammadu Buhari.
The Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi, says he will join critics of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration if Iwo is deprived of the federal college of education recently approved for Osun State. Oluwo, in a statement on Monday, alleged that taking the proposed higher institution to another town other than Iwo “is tantamount to betrayal of unalloyed support” he had given Buhari’s government since he became Oluwo in 2016.
He said he was among the few top traditional rulers in Nigeria who publicly identified with Buhari during his trying period.
He said he was among the few top traditional rulers in Nigeria who publicly identified with Buhari during his trying period.
Oluwo recalled how he organised special prayers, in his palace, for the president when he was receiving treatment in London.
He urged the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Ahmed Bola Tinubu; Vice President Yemi Osinbajo; a former governor of Osun State, Chief Bisi Akande; the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aeregbesola and the governor of Osun State, Gboyega Oyetola “to ensure justice is done on this matter and give my town the federal college of education”. Oluwo cited what he called “the long history” of Iwo with progressive political parties from the First Republic era of the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, to the Second Republic of the Late Chief Bola Ige and the Alliance for Democracy of Chief Bisi Akande, saying “there is no reason not to compensate Iwo’s loyalty.
“The history is there to know that Iwo is home for the progressives. During the 1983 elections, my people stuck out their necks for Chief Bola Ige and lost some of them during the clash which followed.”
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