WHO STEPS IN AT AZAD PALACE?

WHO STEPS IN AT AZAD PALACE ,OKENE IN THE NIGERIAN MIDLANDS?

BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU

He was a very flamboyant Nigerian business mogul and at some point ,Alhaji Adogu Ibrahim Atta popularly called Alhaji Ado Ibrahim had as much as 60 percent of the equities of Nestle Nigeria Plc ,so calling him a boardroom Captain was no understatement .

So wired was Alhaji Ibrahim that when his immediate predecessor, The Late Alhaji Sani Omolori who ironically was his father's body guard he had marshaled every power within his arsenal to ascend to the throne that was previously called the Atta of Ebira Nation  but now called by the title :Ohinoyi of Ebira Nation.

In a world exclusive check  on the recent developments at the imposing but beautiful Azad Palace ,The official and private residence of the Ohinoyi of Ebira Nation by The News office Desk of the E.N.M.Paedia Express Multimedia Group of Lagos,Nigeria ,it was discovered that the health of the foremost African  King   was rapidly failing and that he now had to have nurses tending to his private needs.

Sources close to the palace told this reporter that things were now so bad for the monarch that Alhaji Ado Ibrahim now uses Diapers  or pampers permanently afixed to his bum so as to prevent him from soiling his cloths publicly.

Some sources insists that the monarch  was actually 107 years of age as against the 89 years that he recently celebrated officially .

It is not immediately known by this reporter and to what benefit it will be for the monarch to lie about his real true age.

His Royal Majesty,Alhaji Ado Ibrahim in his official capacity as the Ohinoyi of Ebira Nation was in court severally for about 19 years to challenge several forces who were fighting to get him removed from office due to opposition from varying figures in Ebira Nation.

Some say,Alhaji Mohammed Sani Omolori ,The clerk of the National Assembly is the next in line of succession while some say one of the sons of the business tycoon turned royalty will step into their father's shoes others simply say that after the turn of Eika village it was the turn of Ihima village amongst the original ancestral villages  of Ebira Nation  comprising of Adavi,Eika,Ihima,Okengwen,Ebiya,Eganyin to produce a king for Ebira Nation as the confusion weighs in as at press time.

Unknown to a lot of people ,Okene which is now popular than the true ancestral villages of Ebira Nation combined were created by Ebira traders in the ancient times due to the strategic location of the place where Oke-Une was located.

A lot of wildlife good for gaming by hunters were said to abound thus Oke Une was later corrupted to Okene which became a major coir of commerce in the Midlands till this day.

In a related issue,another source who has an understanding of Ebira royalty told this reporter that Sanusi Abubakar Inihaya was to have been turbaned as the Turaki of Ebira Nation but the Ciroma of Ebira Nation frustrated the event as he saw the latter as a direct threat to him in the race to who succeeds  Alhaji Adogu Ibrahim as the Ohinoyi of Ebira Nation.