The Ayedero of Yorubaland, Hon Shina Peller was on Saturday absent at the coronation and installation of the new Alaafin of Oyo, His Imperial Majesty, Oba Abimbola Akeem Owoade I as the governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State on Saturday performed the coronation.
The event which was performed nearly three years after the demise of the former Alaafin, Lamidi Adeyemi III was attended by who is who in Nigeria.
Though the occasion was graced by eminent traditional rulers across Yoruba land as well as political and religious title holders, conspicuously missing at the coronation is the Ayedero of Yoruba land, Hon. Shina Peller.
The late Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III on August 2021 installed the former Lawmaker that represented Iseyin, Itesiwaju, Kajola, Iwajowa federal constituency, Hon Shina Peller as Ayedero Of Yorubaland and his wife, Ayobola Peller as the Yeye Ayedero of Yorubaland.
By this title, many observers believe Peller is an Oyo ceremonial title holder and should ordinarily be in attendance at the coronation of the new Alaafin.
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He was however not seen within the vicinity of the venue, nor his name mentioned for as long as the event lasted.
Efforts to get in touch with Hon. Peller to get his reason for not being in attendance at the Alaafin coronation proved abortive as calls put through to his media aide, Kola Popoola was not answered at the time of filing this report.
