Prince Yemi Emiko, one of the masterminds of the suspension of Chief Ayiri Emami as Ologbotsere of Warri and Chairman of the Olu Advisory Council, has admitted that they acted in error.
He admitted that the Council of Chiefs didn’t observe the regulation strictly as they should have done through the election course of of the present Olu of Warri.
Media Talk Africa recalled that about two years in the past, Emami was suspended for insisting that the regulation have to be revered in the choice of Olu of Warri.
He additionally maintained that the choice of Prince Emiko as Omoba following the passage of Ogiame Ikenwoli ran foul of the method of the enthronement of a brand new Olu.
To this finish, Emami was suspended as the Ologbotsere following the disaster that trailed the choice of the sitting Olu of Warri, Tsola Emiko as Olu designate.
As half of the troubleshooting effort, the Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Ogunwusi, in April 2022 initiated a reconciliatory transfer for all of the aggrieved events.
However, the transfer hit the rocks as the Olu of Warri, His Majesty Ogiame Atuwatse III, put in Chief Oma Eyewuoma as the brand new Ologbotsere of Warri Kingdom.
Before his set up, Eyewuoma was the Aboludero of Warri Kingdom.
But reacting to the current outburst by an elder in Warri Kingdom, Chief Mene Brown, in an interview that the Princes don’t have any say in working affairs on the Olu’s palace and the Itsekiri Kingdom, Emiko stated elders shouldn’t spew what’s going to additional tear the dominion aside.
He confused that the assertion credited to Brown that the Princes of the Kingdom don’t have any say in the operation of the Olu’s palace invariably implies that the suspension of Emami was null and void in the eyes of the regulation.
“In 2021, I, Yemi Emiko I took the lead in the activities that suspended Ayiri Emami from being Ologbotsere, we appointed Iyatsere as acting Chairman Council of Chiefs. That singular action paved the way for the current Olu to mount the throne. If Mene Brown is saying I, as a Prince or princes in Warri Kingdom don’t have a say, then automatically, he is saying that everything we did at that time is illegal,” Emiko stated.
While describing the final April removing of Emami as Ologbotsere and the set up of a brand new holder of the title as unlucky, Emiko famous that Emami dedicated no crime as he was attempting to guard the legal guidelines guiding the set up of Olu of Warri.
He acknowledged categorically that Emami didn’t commit any crime towards anybody or towards the dominion by insisting that issues be done based on the regulation.
Emiko added: “It isn’t that Ayiri committed any crime, No! Ayiri, I will say this a million times that Ayiri did not commit any crime against anybody in this land. All Ayiri did was stand by the law.
“Ayiri is not the one who wrote the law, but if you look, Ologbotsere is the one written all over the place as the owner of the process.
“He came to say the way I know these things is like this, but we did some things because we saw that this guy was popular among the youths. And I called some of the elders that this is our own #EndSARS protest, they want this guy, let’s try and find a way to put him on the throne after which we can then sit down to amend the law. But they got there and threw everybody away. I’m yet to see what the crime is all about,” he added.
Asked if the motion towards Emami was unlawful, Emiko kept away from talking in the affirmative as he famous that the motion was already being challenged in court docket.
He stated: “As you know the matter is already in court, we took certain actions and I am not sitting here to tell you that every action we took at the time was 100 percent correct or legal because we have a law that regulates, that governs succession processes in Warri Kingdom and the law is very clear.
“We took certain steps, certain actions in the hope that when the Olu emerges, Itsekiri will sit down and look at those provisions of that law and see how best we can tinker with it to be in compliance.”
