Umuahia—Alhaji Adebayo Azeez, President of the Yoruba Forum, an umbrella body of Yoruba associations, said the forum is to appoint an Oba in Abia to cater for the interest of the Yoruba community in the state.

Azeez said in Umuahia, yesterday that the measure was necessary to enable various Yoruba groups in the state unite, their political affiliations and other differences notwithstanding.

He applauded the cordial relationship existing between the Yorubas and other ethinc groups in the state.

Azeez, who is the pioneer leader of the group, commended the process that led to his emergence as the leader of the body.

He said, however, that anyone who emerged as the new Oba would be someone influential, educated and philanthropic, to achieve the objectives and yearnings of the people.

He said the Yoruba were ready to partner with Abia State government in the task of ensuring peace and developing the state, noting that the Oba would be the rallying point of Yorubas in Abia.
“We are united in this cause of enthroning an Oba because since the creation of the state 19 years ago, this singular headship has eluded us,” he said.

He said the organisation would contribute to the growth and development of its host communities through conceptualisation and execution of projects.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/05/yoruba-in-abia-appoint-monarch/

Thought someone said there were no Yorubas outside the SW?

betterABIAstate:
Umuahia—Alhaji Adebayo Azeez, President of the Yoruba Forum, an umbrella body of Yoruba associations, said the forum is to appoint an Oba in Abia to cater for the interest of the Yoruba community in the state.

Azeez said in Umuahia, yesterday that the measure was necessary to enable various Yoruba groups in the state unite, their political affiliations and other differences notwithstanding.

He applauded the cordial relationship existing between the Yorubas and other ethinc groups in the state.

Azeez, who is the pioneer leader of the group, commended the process that led to his emergence as the leader of the body.

He said, however, that anyone who emerged as the new Oba would be someone influential, educated and philanthropic, to achieve the objectives and yearnings of the people.

He said the Yoruba were ready to partner with Abia State government in the task of ensuring peace and developing the state, noting that the Oba would be the rallying point of Yorubas in Abia.
“We are united in this cause of enthroning an Oba because since the creation of the state 19 years ago, this singular headship has eluded us,” he said.

He said the organisation would contribute to the growth and development of its host communities through conceptualisation and execution of projects.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/05/yoruba-in-abia-appoint-monarch/

This happened in 2010. So who and where is the Oba now?

dukie25:
Thought someone said there were no Yorubas outside the SW?

what's his Title ?

simplycarro:


This happened in 2010. So who and where is the Oba now?

what a stupid question.

Azeez and his fellow sojourners are fraudster, there is no place for such title outside of the Yoruba nation.

IamPatriotic:
Azeez and his fellow sojourners are fraudster, there is no place for such title outside of the Yoruba nation.

Your private opinion would have made a lot of sense years ago when the news was out there in the public. It would have been a honourable thing if the Yoruba nation had gone hard against holding such title in diaspora.
That notwithstanding the ugly incident of Deji of Akure going all out to humiliate an Igbo leader in Akure cannot be explained away.