Traditionalists in Ogun State have actually sworn to challenge the questionable chiefs law in court, stating Obas must be buried by conventional worshippers.

DAILY POST reports that Governor Dapo Abiodun had on Monday signed the ‘Obas, Chiefs, Council of Obas and Traditional Council law of Ogun State, Bill 2021’ into law at the home of the Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona.

The law, which was kicked versus by standard worshippers, has stopped the imposition of rituals during the installation and burial of a monarch.

It empowers the household of a deceased Oba to decide how he would be buried in accordance with his faith.

As collected, the new law also enables a freshly elected Oba to select whether he would go through the typical privacy rites, known as Ipebi in Yoruba land.

Promoters of the brand-new law believe say it would suppress fetish practices in the process of installing and burying standard rulers in the state.

The Oluwo of Iperu and Vice Chairman of Osugbo Remo Parapo, Ifasola Opeodu, has threatened to challenge the law prior to a skilled court, stating “a dead man has no right under the law.”

Opeodu preserved that no one is forced to become an Oba, worrying that “on no account needs to either Christians or Muslims bury an Oba.”

His words: “We are going to call a conference, we are challenging the implementation in court. We are going to ask the court to limit them from implementing the court and the law will choose.

“The first ground is that a dead male has no right under the law. Anybody that is dead has actually lost all the rights that he has.

“The right of Obas that they are claiming that we are breaching is wrong due to the fact that a dead guy has no right once again under the law.

“Secondly, what we are stating is that Obaship organization will is optional, we are not requiring anyone to come there, we are not saying they should not bury Obas, however what we are opposing, if you follow, our argument is that how can they now state Christians and Muslims should come and be burying Obas, traditional heads? If there is anything that they don’t desire throughout their burials, they should state, but traditionalists should be the ones to bury Obas, not Christians.

“Why don’t they say that Christians or Muslims should be the ones to set up the queens? They are not stating this. The governor even stated without bias to the rights of traditionalists under traditional law. All these things are there.

“We are not stating that they ought to not bury Obas, however it ought to not be Christians or Muslims that will bury the Obas.”

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