Akala stops Alaafin as Permanent Chairman of Council of Obas

The feud between the Alaafin of Oyo , Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III and the out-going governor Adebayo Alao-Akala has taken a turn for the worse with the signing into law a bill which stops the Alaafin from occupying the position of the state Council of Obas and Chiefs in permanent capacity .
The action of governor Akala came just less than two weeks after losing the governorship election to the opposition party , Action Congress of Nigeria { ACN} which was favoured by the royal father and this became evident in the victory of ACN in all the four local government covers made up Oyo town.
Before the election, there has been no love lost between the monarch and the governor , especially when the Alaafin raised an alarm that the governor was planning to terminate his life .
Adeyemi has hitherto been the permanent chairman of the council.
But a statement by Alao-Akala’s spokesman, Mr. Dotun Oyelade, on Tuesday indicated that the signing of the law tagged Oyo State Council of Obas and Chiefs Amendment Law 2011 supercedes similar law enacted in 2000 by the Alhaji Lam Adesina’s regime.
By this development, the chairmanship of the council has become rotational among the Olubadan of Ibadanland, Soun of Ogbomosoland and the Alaafin of Oyo in that order.
The council’s deputy chairmanship also becomes rotational among the Olugbon of Orile-Igbon, Eleruwa of Eruwa, Okere of Saki and Aseyin of Iseyin in that order.