Insecurity: Ooni Returns To Aso Villa, Meets Osinbajo

Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, went back to the presidential villa, Abuja on Friday and met with Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo barely twenty hours after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari over the state of insecurity in the country.

In the meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, the monarch declared that “the drums of war was sounding across the nation”.

The meeting which lasted for about 45 minutes at the Vice President’s office is the second in two days and may not be unconnected with his earlier comments over growing insecurity in the country.

Oba Ogunwusi declined to comment on purpose for his second visit to the Presidential Villa, when approached by State House Correspondents.

The Ooni after the meeting with President Buhari on Thursday told reporters that he was in the villa on behalf of South West traditional rulers towards improving security situation in the country.

The Ooni had said: “I came to speak on behalf of other traditional rulers. The issue at hand in the South West is real. The issue of insecurity, we that live in the remote and rural areas of the South-Western part of the country, most of the bushes are occupied by strange people and we decided to work with the government to fish them out.

“Everybody is beating the drums of war, we don’t want war, who can stand war, we want something better for our youths. We should better use them for something good other than shouting war and anarchy. We don’t want that.

“We told the President that and he is on the same page with us. Politicians should be careful not to blow things out of proportion. We should make sure things are right and the President has given good directives to security chiefs including the IG to visit all traditional institutions in the South-West.

“We shouldn’t keep over hyping war and we still want to keep the peace in the South West. We don’t want anarchy.”