Fraternity Performs Rites for Ooni

 Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade

Yinka Kolawole in Osogbo

Members of a fraternity on Thursday entered into Oduduwa’s shrine and other sacred forests to perform further rites on the transition of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade.

A source  in Ile-Ife also disclosed that all the heads of these fraternity groups in the land which the monarch belonged to had been communicated to start invoking their different gods and do what is expected of them on the monarch’s issue.

The source hinted that at  the shrines and forests of the deities,  the traditionalists had been assigned the type of job to do in relation to the sacrifices that would be suitable for the transition of Sijuwade.

Sources at the palace who listed some of the deity headships that have been assigned with one assignment or the other as Osogun, Obalara, Lana and Emese, said they are all operating under “Isoro” deity which is the father of all deities in the land.

He also gave the name of the head of Isoro deity as Obadio, saying he is also in charge of dialect and languages of gods and goddesses of the land.

Isoro is the custodian of all other deities, while  Obalara is  said to be in charge of Obalufon shrine and Emese, who is supposed to spread the news of the happenings, and had been reportedly told to be at alert to carry out its own duty as well in a traditional way.