USA Africa Dialogue Series - Still of Prince Charles Meeting with the Monarch in Abuja

Punch Newspaper Interviewer:

When you were invited to Buckingham Palace, Prince Charles promised to visit your palace during his visit to Nigeria. What changed that you had to go to Abuja instead?

Ooni of Ife's response:

Because of a very long standing relationship with the British monarchy and the kingdom of Ife, when I became the King of Ife two years ago, I was indeed invited to the Buckingham Palace in England. And yes, it was agreed that whenever he was going to visit Nigeria, he would pay a visit to my palace. But because we have many first-class monarchs in Nigeria, it would have seemed unfair if he only visited my palace without reaching the other palaces of these monarchs. So, we the kings agreed amongst ourselves that it was better for us to meet at a common ground. The common ground we have in Nigeria is Abuja. It is not like we went to welcome him. Ideally, he would have visited all our palaces, but for the lack of ample time, we decided to meet at the common ground. These kings are myself, the monarchs of the South and the North of the country.

Read full interview at:

https://punchng.com/in-the-palace-ive-never-been-single-ooni-of-ife-oba-ogunwusi/

My Comments:

I have my doubts about how the traditional rulers have come to this decision as claimed by the Ooni but hey that's what he said.

Gbolahan Gbadamosi