Eze Ndigbo must stop wearing crown – Deji of Akure tells Mimiko, lists other conditions

This followed an altercation between the two in Ondo State, last week, which led to protests and the closure of markets. Oba Aladelusi gave the conditions during a meeting Governor Olusegun Mimiko had with him and the Akure Council of Chiefs in Akure on the lingering crisis. Mimiko, at the meeting, apologized to the monarch on behalf of Iloehike. The governor had earlier met with the Igbo leaders led by the embattled Eze Ndigbo, Iloehike at the Governor’s office. Ileohike was said to have denied disrespecting the Oba and pleaded with the governor to help resolve the over one-week crisis. One of the conditions given by the monarch was that the Igbo leader should be forbidden from wearing any form of crown henceforth. Other conditions include that the Eze Ndigbo must apologize for his unruly behaviour in at least three national dailies and on air. “That the Igbo leader must write a letter of apology to Oba Aladetoyinbo Ogunlade Aladelusi and the Deji-in-Council. “That the title ‘Eze Ndigbo’ must be reviewed and replaced with a non-controversial honorary title and that the Igbo Leader must comply with all the earlier directives of the palace.”