How Ooni plotted with my ex-wife to poison, kill me — Oluwo of Iwo

The Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrasheed Adewale Akanbi, has accused the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, of orchestrating a plot to set him up through his former Canadian wife and allegedly planning to kill him.

Oba Akanbi made the claims in a video posted on his official Facebook page, Emperor Abdulrasheed Adewale Akanbi Telu I, on Tuesday.

Explaining the reasons behind the repeated face-offs between him and the Ooni, the Iwo monarch alleged that the Ooni wanted to silence him to prevent revelations about his role in Oba Ogunwusi’s emergence as the Ooni of Ife.

“People hear me talking about Ooni Adeyeye; what you don’t know, I will tell you today. I helped Ooni Adeyeye, but because he is holding to the Orisas (deities) but God has placed me above all the Orisas.

“As a kingmaker or somebody that helped the king to become the king that I was, he doesn’t want me to say the story in the future. He was looking for my downfall. The next thing, he packaged a woman… there’s a woman he packaged for me. It was a set-up,” the monarch said.

According to him, the woman—who later became his wife—was allegedly used to spy on and record him. “They were communicating with her. She was there for three years. She had a child, which I don’t even know if he’s my child now. I have to confirm that through DNA because she poisoned me twice. They set up assassination attempts but they failed,” he alleged.

Oba Akanbi further claimed that after he discovered the supposed plot and expelled the woman from his home, she began associating with the Ooni. “Ask him, what was the woman doing with him in the hotel? He’s the one that rented an apartment for her and the child,” he said.

The monarch also stated that traditional deities like Sango (god of thunder) and Ogun (god of iron) could not harm him. “They’re our forefathers and they won’t be killing their children. Sango and Ogun are not criminals. They don’t kill; it is only the Almighty God that knows when somebody will die,” he said.

Oba Akanbi added that the Ooni has no authority to suspend him as the paramount ruler of Iwo. “They said Ooni can suspend me. Can Ooni suspend me as a paramount ruler? Paramount ruler will suspend another paramount ruler! Is he older than me or greater than me with position?” he queried.

Meanwhile, as of the time of filing this report, the Ife monarch has yet to speak on the allegations.