The new Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, was actually criticized for going down on his knees and worshiping God during a thanksgiving service held in his honor at the Paul’s Anglican Church, Ife, shortly after his coronation.
The attacks appear to have been championed by an online medium.
But the Ife monarch has told the world he has no apologies for recognizing that there is a greater power than his or that of any traditional ruler walking the earth–that belonging to the Almighty God.
In a statement made available in Osogbo on Thursday through the palace’s Director of Communications and Public Affairs, Mr. Moses Olafare, Oba Ogunwusi said “It is sacrilege to equate Ooni’risa or other kings to the Almighty God. God is the creator of mankind and it is God that made it possible for the enthronement of any king.
“The attention of Ile Oodua has been drawn to a publication released on Wednesday, December 16, 2015 by an online medium, in which His Imperial Majesty, Ooni’risa and Arole Oodua, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi (Ojaja II), was criticised for bowing to God.
“God remains the highest, the King of kings who has kept all kings alive and has made it possible for me to be crowned as the king of the source of Yoruba civilisation.
“I have no regret whatsoever for kneeling down to exalt the Almighty God, who did not only create me, but also kept me alive, saw me through all the storms in my life journey and eventually crowned me as the custodian of the Oodua race.
“This act of equating me with the God of gods, of the King of kings and the sole owner of the universe is sacrilege planned to embarrass the throne. My emergence as Oba has been made possible only by the Almighty Olodumare, to whom I remain eternally grateful.”
Tradition clashing with modernity or Christianity?
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