Agadagba Vacant Stool: Call Your Agents To Order, Perebiri Ruling House Tells Ondo Govt

By Niyi Olutunde, Akure

The Perebiri Ruling House of Arogbo in Ese-Odo Local Government Area of Ondo State has called on the state government as a matter of urgency to call to order all its agents and their cronies in order to avoid a breakdown of law over an attempt to impose Chief Zacheus Doubra Egbunnu as Agadagba elect on the Agadagba’s chieftaincy.

While addressing journalists in Akure, Ondo state capital, Secretary to Perebiri ruling house Mr. Roland Oriama said, “The Perebiri ruling house and the good people of Arogbo were stunned when in disregard to the judicial process, the Ese-Odo local government council through the head of personnel management, one Oye Ogbaro esq, issued a public notice dated 4th April, 2018 requesting the Perebiyenmo ruling house to hold a meeting for the purpose of nominating a candidate who will be presented to the kindmakers for the purpose of filling the vacant stool of Agadagba of Arogbo within 14 days.

“Consequent upon which, on Saturday 7th April, 2018 the entire riverine communities of Arogbo were besieged by armed security personnel, commandered by Chief Bibopere Ajube whose allies and cronies were mobilized to Arogbo to have purportedly, voted Chief Zacheus Doubra Egbunnu as Agadagba elect of Arogbo”.

According to Oriama, he said “it smacks off reason that Mr. Donald Ojogo, the Commissioner for Lands and Housing who is not the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs attended the meeting and purported election as a representative of the state government. It is manifest that he is in collaboration with Chief Bibopere Ajube to set the Arogbo Ibe on fire over the Agadagba vacant stool”.

He therefore in strongest term condemned the purported election that nominated Chief Zacheus Egbunnu as Agadagba-elect, saying that the election which almost caused a breakdown of law and order as a result of which the Commissioner of Police then, Mrs Hilda Ibifuro convened a meeting in her office which she warned all stakeholders on the Agadagba’s chieftaincy to desist from parading themselves as anything on the Agadagba’s stool until the final determination of the matters in court.

CityMirrorNews recalls that the stool of the Agadagba of Arogbo became vacant in February 2007 following the demise of the last Agadagba of Arogbo, Pere Eperetun.

In his reaction, the Commissioner for Lands and Housing, Ojogo said government followed due process and he went there not as a commissioner but as member of the ruling house stressing that those  people that came to address the press conference are just making unnecessary action.