Full VIDEO: Drama As Obasanjo Commands Oyo Monarchs To Stand And Greet Him 

Because he knows some of them more than they know themselves because he was the one that gives most of them staff of office unlawful so they must respect him.

When the throne became corrupt,maggots invades it.

I refuse to condemn him. Are those Kings not chosen by the governors whether in Yoruba, Hausa or Igbo states? Did Gandollar not depose His Majesty Emir Lamido Sanusi Lamido effortlessly? What did the Emirs, Obas, Obis did, they didn't even utter a word about it. Did we not have about 7 ceremonial kings in Ibadan city, aside the real Olubadan, constituted by the previous governor without any legal or traditional backing, what did the traditional rulers all over the country do about it, nothing. Traditional rulers have lost their respect ever since Baba Awolowo sent Alaafin and Awujale to exile in the 60's. Some of them are glutton, onijekuje ni some of them.

That he shouted to asked them to honour the governor is my cross with him but not on his message to the kings . Obasanjo has always been, been respectful to the obas,at least publicly.

Genuine Yorubas will never disrespect a king, no matter how powerful he is. I'm beginning to believe that truely, Obasanjos dad is an Ibo man that migrated to Ota/Owu.

FM: President Obasanjo is 💯 correct. Let me substantiate my view : A King is a royal leader of Sartain group or faction of people leaving or occupying a geographic territory . Who's duity is to ensure peace and tranquility rain in the land. While the President and Governors have enomonus power to protect lives and properties through the use and control of Army , Police force etc. Ceate and bring about social infrastructural development in the Land. Both the Governor and the President have the Power to declare a state of imagency but the King can not. Both the Governor and President while in office have immunity Claus while the King don't. The president control the Entire Nation including the Army forces as a whole and while each Governor act in the capacity of a president in their respective States. If any state have any crises the president will not call on the King rather he will call on the governor. if the state fails the local people or the settlers won't blame the King rather they will put all the blames on the Governor , in like manner if a Nation fails they won't blame the King's in the various states but rather the blames will be on the President . This show that both the Governor's and President play more significant role in the lives of its citizenry then the kings, Infarcts no basic for comparerism . Even all the King's in Nigeria No one is exampted they are all looking for one favour from Governors or President. In summary both the Governor and the President are more Powerful then any other king's. Don't fight for the King's they know better. And that is why they Obey OBJ. So guys STOP fighting for the Kings. And face the reality. One love to all tribe in Nigeria.

If he really want to follow culture he should be the one prostrating to the kings.

Truth be told...almost all the kings in Nigeria have lost purpose & respect. Gone are the days they were revered...

Sir , that is completely against Yoruba tradition.

Ni ibi ti ko ba ti si ese ninu yi yan oro, eni to ba je president ni a n pe ni Oba owo oba n'ile. Iyen tunmo si Oro awon oro... Tolu Emiayo This is Love

I wish i could see Makinde face when he ordered them to stand up.

So sad. I wish one of thwm refused he would have been thw Hero. Nothing would have happened. I feel angry right now. How could you Humiliate them publicly

He was the one that gave them king. There is king in Nigeria.

Its simply wisdom.give to cesar what is for Cesar .

The crown predates any form of government he’s referring to. I blame the kings for stooping low and corrupting the seat. That’s an insult to the tradition institution

He was enjoying the absence of the late Alafin here. In Yoruba culture, you do not rebuke an Oba publicly but you could address them and rebuke or educate them privately. Even if a Yoruba Oba prostrate for you privately,you dare not declare that publicly. I have great respect for Baba Obasanjo, but this time he got this approach at Iseyin very very wrong. Commanding all these Ori Ade, to Stand up ,and seat down like the school prefect command of the Old school days is a ridicule of the traditional prestige of the Yorubas. Baba Obasanjo should have demanded to see the kabiyesi in camera,and seriously educate them on their so called breach of governmental protocol. Every geniue son of Yoruba must be ashamed of the humiliation of these costordian of our tradition in the public like Baba Obasanjo just did at Iseyin. Please Baba tender apology to all Yoruba obas both in Nigeria ,and in the diaspora. I also expect their son Seyi Makinde to tender apology to Oyo state obas. Yoruba koni baje ooo amin .. 😢

O s'èèwọ̀! Can't believe they all stood up!😱

I am guessing that the kings here are the smaller ones. He cannot do this if the late Alaafin of Oyó or the Ooni of Ife were to be present.

I love OBJ very greatly. A man of the century,...

I'm a from a royal family,as a prince i think the yoruba kings have already sold their birth right longtime ago

But he didn't ask them to greet him, he asked them to stand in honour of the governor

However who invited him in this occasion? In any Yoruba occasions he should be ignored because he’s not relevant and cannot be relevant again. The havoc he has done to Yorubas is enough.

Oyo state citizen congratulations to you all.😂😂😂❤👏👏👏👏👏👏

See all the kings like primary school students.

Wow! I'm surprised that all the kings acted hypnotized! There's no single one among them that could have decided not to stand up and also quickly awaken the others to sit down. It's a pity they rubished there exalted position

Obasanjo must be respected by all Nigerians if you like it or not. The Obas are not gods. Obasanjo is higher than all those Asoke clowns because he made some of them what they are. Their seats are covered with the help of Obasanjo. If Obasanjo is an Igbo give him back to me but the Yorubas will not allow Obasanjo to go to Igbo land because of their greed even some of them are supposed to be cleaning his Otta home for him. Dede watching from Barcelona .

It's obvious that baba is very high here. Once a soldier is always a soldier.

See how OBJ ridiculed and disrespected our traditional rulers publicly. This is arrogance of the highest order. I blame the traditional rulers for not disobeying his command by refusing to stand up. It is not in our culture to ridicule our traditional rulers publicly. He dare not do that to Ooni, late Alaafin or Awujale.

About what is going on about this for Mal president speech both of you are leader and leader need to be patient

This obasanjo suppose to be slap,how many northern noble people are useless their emir like this,haaaa obasanjo you are fool oooooo

long live the great benin kingdom

Yes! Obasanjo is from the Eastern part of the country. He cannot do this to the Igwes. The bitter heart he has on Yorubas are enormous, I can see today that he’s enemy to Yorubas. Obi not becoming the president of this country is telling on him. He’s a wounded lion that is ready to attack and this is the beginning on Yorubas. This situation does not calls for clap at all.

BABA is a true yoruba man...i love him

This humiliation was too much...seriously those Obas failed me

This man still create another record but I don't know either good or bad

They only respected who single handedly made them King

Baba OBJ you will live long Sir.

Let's promote our cultural heritage and he was commanding the Obas. In Yoruba land, is there anyone greater than oba after he has been crowned

Listen to the words of wisdom. Listen to the wiseman in Nigeria. General Olusegun Obassnjo OBJ ❤❤❤ good man. I can not say this about any other retired General of the Nigerian Army. You fought against Biafra but you can never be my enemy because I was right there. May God continue to protect you at all times. God doesn't forget anyone when you do the right thing.

stop this lie, he didn't ask them to greet him, he said they should respect the governor.

Let's. Forget about obasanjo and oyo obas, that s not issue

Yoruba people should wake up and see how much their system has degenerated Shame on OBJ but big shame on the all Oba if they couldn't or wouldn't do something about this open disgraceful act on them . It's a wake up call

No Yoruba leader should invite Obasanjo to grace any occasion any longer. Nonsense.

How did all of you including TVC watch this video and concluded that he was asking them to Greet "him" and not the sitting Governor. Or is the Yoruba language that is confusing?

This man will never go without a commensurate measure of reward for dragging these Obas. Chai! He rendered them useless. These Obas didn't try. They could have staged a walkout. He wouldn't have done that with Aláàfin Adeyemi on seat.

I don't think the governor will agreed with him on his attitude to the king this is an abomination its a dangerous step

The idea is to make the people and obas appreciate the Governor's enormous work.

It is the obas that insulted themselves not Obasanjo because he ordered them and they obeyed without argument, automatically they admitted and recognized his supremacy, in the other hand, Obasanjo forgot to realize that he's no longer the president but a former president, only when he remember this will he apologize

Obansanjo can never say such nonsense to the obas if Alafin is alive and present on such occasions. Obasanjo is sad peter obi lost, so therefore he is releasing his frustration on the obas.

This pained old man😂😂😂

The monarch themselves made mistakes, they knew or supposed to know that it is against their tradition for a traditional ruler to stand in occasion like this, so no matter who had given that order they supposed not to obey, they should have sat down and told the person it is against their tradition. So blaming anybody now is medicine after death, I believe if Obasanjo was one of them sitting down and someone else ordered them to stand up Obasanjo will not stand up. This is what evil money can cause, when leaders are collecting evil money, it blind their eyes and derail their brain.

To me personally, I don't believe Obasanjo is wrong here. Obas need to and must be respected by all and sundry. But in today Nigeria, many things have seriously changed in our culture just like the way we were doing marriage and burial in olden days compared to how we are doing it today. Even the way we install obas in olden days is different from the way it is being done today. According to obasanjo and with little I know about our constitution, government owns obas and the land on which their palace are built. This simply means Gov. Seyi Makinde is superior to any oba while he is still serving. Therefore, Obas should respect him as number one citizen in Oyo State. Contrary to what I heard from the news and what people are saying around, from this video I watched, obasanjo didn't ordered obas to stand up for him but for Gov. Seyi Makinde. No oba disagreed with him or disagreed to what he said which shows Baba Obasanjo is correct, he reminded them what they have forgotten. If baba Obasanjo doesn't have the power to do so, who then has the power to do so?

What’s I think really happen here’s that the oba’s disrespect the Governor

Thanks to the governor, may Almighty continue to streghten him. But sir don't relent on ur effort on Iseyin to Saki road, it would make life easy for the indigenes and other commuters.

Obasanjo should go learn what happened to Bode Thomas when he disrespected the Alafin of Oyo.

I move this baba pass my papa 😂

English is indeed a colonial language, we should make our local languages official language

No sir, this man is a yeye man finally.

This is unacceptable. Ọbas are not subject of ridicule like this. This man is just too fun of himself.

Say what you like, Obj is a bross! Raw power in raw display! They will prostrate to Tinubu 😅

I love this man, it shows that he is a military man and he is even older than many of the oba's.

I remembered chief Ogunde, Yoruba ronu, it is true obasanjo has been the president of Nigeria that did not gave him ordersity to have commanded obas the way he did in that gathering, what a ridiculous insult to the monarch, it is shameful, oba igba Keji orisa

This is the effect of of neo colonialism. Can any governor or prime minister ask the queen of England or king of England to stand up and greet him or her? But here in Nigeria, an ex president is ordering kings to greet the governor. This is possible because the kings know that probably tjey are not the rightful heir to the throne. This is Nigeria where anything can happen

They are his boys and this what happens when the crown is corrupt. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😅.

There is no more culture in Yoruba land.. useless Obas have traded their dignity with money..... there is more disgrace to come upon them.... have we all forgotten their attitude towards CSI? Kudos to OBJ

Past and present nigeria leaders will give account of our continuous predicament

Truth be told. What is the role of a traditional ruler in today's Nigeria? Purely ceremonial and of no significance whatsoever

Obasanjo himself knows that his action and utterances asking the traditional rulers to stand up and greet him and the governor were awfully disrespectful and absolutely wrong in Yoruba culture irrespective of the age of the Obas (kings). Base on this singular act, he has lost the remaining little respect Yoruba people have for him. This is irrational behavior from the elderly man he is.

This is what you get when you attended every party they invite you " and every political invent😢😢😢

Why should they greet him

Firstly, yoruba still have culture but people like obasanjo are reasons people thinks we don't have culture, obasanjo can u ever disregard Alaafn of oyo or Ooni of ife the way you disregard these kings? Obasanjo u no try at all and secondly, that serves those hungry kings right since they had traded their respect with money.

The kings are under the Nigeria constitution. They're not above Nigeria constitution. They're not god. Governor is the first citizen of Oyo State and he has power over anybody in the state. Constitution supercede traditional rulers in Nigeria. All protocol must be respected and observed

I can't blame baba Obasanjo here, but the Obas that didn't know their rights as the upholders of their culture and traditions, only seeing themselves as puppets. They should have stood their ground by ignoring Obasanjo's order.

Obasanjo was right to demand that the obas rise to greet the Governor that gave them the staff of office. But he was a little rash in saying it.

If I may ask as a Yoruba person.. what are the impact of the obas on yorubas youths unemployment.. bcuz is my 13years now without employment..let everybody directed themselves pls

All this ones (monarchs) just clothes Monarchs appointed by councillors for political decoration.

We have gone past the days when kings, Emirs , Chiefs and Obas were the rulers of govt . You can not compare an independent state and govt with the pre-colonial and colonial days where the traditional rulers were the ones ruling on behalf of the colonial masters. A king ruling over a few section of the state , appointed by few representatives of that few section and whose appointment is confirmed and coronated and given staff of office by the state Governor elected by the people of the whole state to govern the entire state and given all the powers to appoint and remove the king under his state by the Constitution of the land, who is more powerful? The truth is the Governor is most powerful over them but for the sake of respect for culture and tradition, the governors never use their powers over them except in rare cases. But I think respect is reciprocal. Any Oba that fails to give the Governor his due respect is not worthy to be Oba because the seat of a Governor is a creation of the constitution and every segment of the state be it traditional, religious, cultural etc must respect the office according to protocol even if the Governor is a small boy.

What an insult, a true yoruba man will never for get the traditional, what do you expect from a per whom didn't know his origin, a confused man that doesn't know the actual ethnic he belongs to. This proof where he belongs to in Nigeria.

You are here just spilling fallacy we aren’t in monarchy system anymore and it’s a democracy so the mornachs aren’t ahead of governors and president and all the first class Oba will not go to a function and at the entrance of a governor president they will pay respect by standing I have witness that countless time so it’s total disrespect to see those 2nd and 3rd class Oba disrespecting those who gave them staff of office so this isn’t about obj but Makinde they disrespected him and obj is bold to correct them u can hear him say he use to prostrate to king and they do to him too so let’s learn many are shouting he can’t do to Alafin and I ask who will give the staff of office to alafin we respects kings but we need to also understand this is 21st century and our constitution doesn’t give any mornach that power to feel important than the government after God na government ❤

Sisesise tide fun baba yi.

This is a disgrace to Yoruba Tradition and culture, except if I'm proven otherwise.

There is no law in Nigeria thats says everyone must stand when an elected officers comes in ...its simply protocol. Makinde is just a baby governor ...whobis likely going to be forgotten if he leaves office ...he should apologize to the Obas because arrogant OBJ will not

This is too bad an act of a man who claimed to be of Yoruba origin.I doubt the originally of this claim by baba Obasanjo!

Is Oba Ooni among?if yes I pity these Oba’s.

Is Obasanjo, a yorubaman that he suddenly realise that we need to elevate our culture.. What good has he done for the Yoruba....He must forget that the yorubas now know that Obasanjo is an Igbo man...hence he is good in messing up the yorubas culturally and politically anywhere and every where.

OBJ Baba I Hail

He who pays your salary is your master. Either you like it or not “ A governor should be respected by any individuals citizen. Note: I am not defending the baba way and manner of correcting the situation. After all the crowd hails him for his statements.

BODE THOMAS

Lets be truthful here...all the emirs,obas, olus, igwes, amanyanabos and the rest can be appointed and removed at any time by the governor...sometimes even local government chairman. Look at what Ganduje did recently to emir sanusi of a whole kano emirates....form awolowo to abacha, there have been different times where these kings are deposed and exiled by political leaders......in true sense the power rests with the governors, President etc. The traditional rulers are more or less cultural icons and figureheads. Real power resides with the politicians

The day some idiots started making the highest bidders traditional chiefs. I knew we we're heading for big trouble. I met an old friend after a few years and to my suprise he was addressed as Otunba. This guy was a very unserious person at school a cronic womaniser and drug abuser. But because he comes from a rich family, a title was bestowed on him. Now an Igbo man is disrespecting our Oba's. They must be fools to stand up for Obasanjo they should have cautioned him on the spot but because they have eaten the forbiden fruit, they have no mouth to talk.

Why did the Obas stood if they know themselves?

But this old man contradicted himself even from his statement. That he used to do bale for Oba when he was President and the Oba may now dobale for him when he is his inner room, or am i not hearing well? Could this be old age or his usual abosi?

Yoruba does not encourage the kings to stand up for anybody. Ewo ni fun Governor and even Ex president to ask them to stand up. It is very Rude and Insultive. Pa Obasanjo should apologise to Yorubas.

The governor is not doing anyone favor but doing what he supposed to do for his people that voted him there,also what God wanted him to do for citizens. If he fails to do good he will surely suffer the consequences in life.

First i was thinking he is joking but he wasn't....Obasanjo is their Oosa they are igbakeji oosa.....yeye kings......all this stupid isese people will not talk now but they want Imam to prostrate to them .....Mad people

Unfortunately, the law has no regard for culture. In all, I blame the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. For your knowledge, a Local Government Chairman is more powerful than the King. So, for me, all your opinions are out of discretion and who discretion help in the sight of the Law?

This is too bad!!!!!!! I have said it before and I'm saying it again that: there are only 3 kings in Yorubaland; 1. Awujalẹ̀ of Ìjẹ̀bú Ode 2. Ọba Of Benin 3. And rests of obas alade pálí Àwọn ọba ọ̀hún náà ń jèrè iṣẹ́ ọwọ́ ni, wọn ò tíì rí ǹkankan..

this man is running mad, how can he ask obas to stand up to greet him, its absolute disrespect especially when he is no longer the president. this man is clearly not a yoruba man and he even said that obas postrate for him in the room. haba and to top it all, the yeye onijekuje obas too were laughing at public disrespect.

Who appoint them😂

He has forgotten he is no more a president but former president.