Worried by the incessant supremacy conflict among some Obas in Yorubaland, the Yoruba Obas Conflict Resolution Committee has decided to rewrite the history of the race which was said to have been basterdized.

The leader of the committee and the Olugbo of Ugbo Kingdom, Oba Fredrick Obateru Akinruntan, Okoro Ajiga 1 who disclosed while briefing journalists of the outcome of the Committee's meeting held at the Premier Hotel, Ibadan on Saturday, attributed the crisis rocking the traditional circle in Yorubaland to egoism, based on distorted and biased history.

The monarch explained that the Committee had made appreciable efforts at ensuring that the Yoruba Obas speak with one voice like their counterparts in other geo-political zones of the country. He stressed that lack of unity among the Yoruba monarchs remain an ill wind that blows nobody any good. 

He maintained that his Committee was not set up to apportion blame to any of the royal fathers but to ensure that peace reign among them so that “we would be able to speak and act in unity and through which we will be able to claim what is our due in the larger Nigerian polity.”

Oba Akinruntan lauded the proposed National Conference and disclosed that the Obas in Yorubaland would come up with their demands at the conference which he said would go a very long way to assist this country in addressing the socio-political challenges confronting it.

Reacting to the face-off between the former President Olusegun Obasanjo and his first daughter, Iyabo, the monarch described it as a family matter, the detail of which would be needed to study before it could be commented on by an Oba or a group of Obas.