Ooni Of Ife Tells People To Ignore Oluwo Of Iwo' Over His Claim That Yorubas Didn't Originate From Ife

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi has tackled the Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi over his recent comments claiming that Yorubas didn't originate from Ife.
The monarch urged Nigerians to ignore the Oluwo of Iwo......

Speaking through his spokesperson, Moses Olafare, the Ooni described Oluwo’s remarks as baseless and undeserving of serious attention.

“No reasonable person will react to Oluwo’s comments,” Olafare said.

Oba Akanbi, in a video posted on his Facebook page during the conferment of a chieftaincy title at his palace, argued that Ile-Ife, traditionally regarded as the cradle of the Yoruba, does not embody Yoruba culture.

Flanked by his chiefs, he claimed that the language spoken in Ile-Ife differed from mainstream Yoruba and dismissed certain expressions as foreign.

He said, “Ife is not the origin of the Yoruba race. Those people don’t speak our language. Their language is different. They refer to God as Eledumare, and there is nothing like Eledumare in the Yoruba language. What we have is Olodumare.
“Ife people will always say Olofin. If you ask them the meaning, they will tell you it means the owner of the palace. But in Yoruba, that is Alaafin. Ile-Ife has no Yoruba culture.
“I am the Arole Olodumare because I am here to tell you the true history. Iwo is where you can get the real history that was not even documented.”

Punch via Dailypost.