The Deputy Chief Whip of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Hon. Shola Adams, has called for prompt government’s intervention in the obaship crisis rocking the Imobi community in the state. The people are accusing a popular Nollywood actor, Goriola Hassan, aka Skulboy, of imposing himself on the community as an Oba
The Imobi Descendants Union (IDU) had earlier drawn the attention of the lawmaker to the crisis brewing in their community. The IDU alleged that Oba Goriola is an impostor laying claim to the “Obaship of Imobi and trying to impose himself and exert traditional authority on the entire Imobi people.”
The IDU alleges: “The self-acclaimed king of Imobi’s first time of setting foot on Imobi soil was in October, 2020. However, he has connived with some imobi descendants to terrorise the people for vehemently rejecting him and his cohorts after notifying him that his ancestral lineage could not be traced to imobi land and therefore, he could not lay claim to the kingship stool since he is an alien to the community.”
Hon Adams, while addressing his colleagues on the floor of the house on the issue, called for a prompt government action to be taken to forestall bloodshed, particularly as plans are ongoing by Oba Goriola “to organise Ojude-Oba in imobi land, whereas he is not entitled to, since he was not annointed as king in the first place.”
