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The selection of a
new Deji of Akure became more complicated yesterday when one of the
royal families jostling for the seat, Faturoti, sent five new names to
the Ojijigogun ruling house.

Previously, the
ruling house had short listed nine candidates for the vacant stool:
seven from the Adesida royal family and one each from Arosoye and
Faturoti royal families.

The Faturoti family
said in letters to the Ondo State governor, Olusegun Mimiko and the
Chairman of Akure South Local Government, Tayo Oluwatuyi, that the
candidate it sent earlier didn’t have the full approval of the three
groups in the family.

According to the
letter signed by the head of the family, Adepoju Adegoroye, the family
finally decided that six candidates should represent it on the basis of
two persons from each lineage. The six candidates presented to the
royal family for screening include: Adewale Adegoroye, Olusola
Adegoroye, Aderemi Adegoroye and Ademola Adegoroye, Akinlade Adegoroye,
and Idowu Adegoroye.

NEXT learnt that a
leader of the Faturoti royal family, had single-handedly presented the
name of a candidate to the ruling house without due consultation with
other families.

His action was said to have incensed other members who accused him of compromising the family’s chances.

Not capable

Mr Adegoroye, in
the letter to the state governor, claimed that the action of his
relative was not in the best interest of the entire family which it had
potrayed as lacking capable candidates to fill the vacant stool of Deji
of Akure.

“As the head of the
Adegoroye/Faturoti family of the Ojijigogun ruling house, I was out of
the country when the issue of selection of candidates came up. My
Deputy acted in my capacity when I was away,” the letter reads.

“But, when I came back, I was amazed to hear that the family could
only boast of one candidate as large and as saturated with elites (as
we are). This is not only unfair to the whole family, but posterity
will not forgive us and our descendants will spit on our graves if we
fold our arms while the kingmakers are being hoodwinked to believe that
Adegoroye is virtually non-existent”.