By Adeleye Kunle
The newly-elected Olu of Orile Ilawo, Prof. Olusegun MacGregor, has charged that police and other security agents in Ogun State to investigate, unravel and arrest sponsors of attacks and violence in the community.
Track News reports that the confirmation of MacGregor as the Orile Inawo Oba-elect by the Obafemi Owode Local Government has brought about an obaship tussle in the Oke-Ona community.
Our correspondent gathered that there were claims of attacks and reprisal between the supporters of MacGregor and those of his opponents.
The Balogun of Orile Ilawo, Chief Abraham Soyoye, was said to have accused MacGregor of threatening the lives of people in the Ilawo community with thugs and armed security officers.
Soyoye had also said that the Oba-elect had threatened to raze his house and that of another chief.
But, in a statement made available to Track News on Friday, MacGregor denied the allegations, admonishing members of the Orile Ilawo Council of Chiefs that are opposed to his election to sheath their swords and join hands with him in his mission to develop the community.
He appealed to the said chiefs to see his emergence as having been ordained by God, “who enthrones leaders for positions of authority
