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Only Palace Chiefs Can Announce Monarch’s Death, IDB Debunks Oba’s Death Reports

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The President of Ife Development Board (IDB), Prof. Muib Opeloye, on Wednesday debunked reports of the death of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade.

Mr. Opeloye, who addressed a crowd that had besieged the Ooni’s palace to confirm the veracity of the reports, said: “Although Baba is advanced in age, he is still hale and hearty in London.

“lf anything of such happened, there is no need spreading the news and moreover, if it indeed happened, there is a way of announcing such news,’’ he said.

Mr. Opeloye enjoined the people of Ife and other well-wishers to go about their normal businesses.

The Royal Traditional Secretary of Ooni’s Palace, High Chief Adetoye Odewole, had earlier debunked media reports announcing the death.

Mr. Odewole, while addressing a press conference at the Ooni’s palace on Wednesday, said the reports were based on mere rumour.

Speaking in the same vein at the press conference, the Lowa Adimula of Ife, High Chief Joseph Ijaodola, said the Ooni was alive, hale and hearty.

Mr. Ijaodola claimed that he spoke with the Ooni in London an hour before the press conference.

Shops, markets and offices remained open in Ife Wednesday while normal socio-economic activities continued unhindered.

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PDP Denies APC Bribery Allegations

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The PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation has debunked an allegation made by the All Progressives Congress (APC) that President Gooodluck Jonathan doled out monies to traditional rulers across the country to ensure his re-election.

Femi Fani-Kayode, the organisation’s Director of Media and Publicity, dismissed the allegation on Monday in Abuja at a news conference.

He also described as ‘baseless and untrue’ the allegation by the APC that the PDP doled out huge sums of monies to bribe some religious leaders across the country ahead of the elections.

He said that no religious leader worth his salt would fall for such antics, saying “this is another example of the lies the APC is dishing out every day”.

He restated the commitment of the PDP to the development of democracy in Nigeria, adding that the party would resist attempts by the opposition to bring about any form of unconstitutional government.

 “We will resist it with the last drop of our blood and we will protect the mandate that will be given to us by the Nigerian people to the last man,” he said.

Fani-Kayode appealed to Nigerians to stand firm and come out enmass to cast their votes for President Goodluck Jonathan on March 28, regardless of threats and intimidation.

He said that the PDP was fighting for the soul of the nation as well as the survival and destiny of future generation of Nigerians.

He said: “those of us who fear God and are true believers in God, should understand that we are fighting for the very soul of our nation.

“We must not allow the enemies of God and the enemies’ of Nigeria to prevail.

“We must not allow any political party that is being covertly funded and supported by shady foreign interests to take power in this country.”

He said that attempts to incite people to violence before, during and after the elections, must be resisted by Nigerians.

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