No One Is Perfect, I’ve Forgiven You – Ooni Tells Sunday Igboho

Enitan Ogunwusi, Ooni of Ife, says he’s forgiven Sunday Adeyemo, a youth leader better known as Sunday Igboho for attacking him over his alleged refusal to back his Yoruba liberation cause.

Igboho had described Ogunwusi as a “Fulani slave”, when he spoke during a virtual town hall with Yorubas in the diapora on Wednesday.

Igboho said the Ooni visited President Muhammadu Buhari, but failed to relay to him the true situation of things in south west and the plight of Yoruba people in the hands of herders.

However, Igboho later apologised to the monarch in an interview with Isokan Omo Oodua TV.

He asked Ogunwusi to forgive him, adding that his emotions got the better of him as he was deeply worried by the troubling developments in Yorubaland.

But Moses Olafare, Ooni’s director of media and public affairs says the monarch has forgiven Igboho, adding that no one is infallible.

Oludare disclosed this while fielding questions on the incident in Ile-Ife on Thursday.

Olafare added that the monarch has accepted Igboho’s apology and forgiven him, noting that Ooni does not issue statements on issues that affect the peace and territorial integrity of the country.

He disclosed that another top mornach in the region weighed in on the situation and berated Igboho over his sacrilegious remarks asking him to public apologise to Ooni and beg him for forgiveness.

“Sunday Igboho still remains a son to the Ooni. Baba has already forgiven him because he had tendered an apology via a video clip he produced via social media yesterday evening,” Olafare said.

“Before tendering the apology, it was the Baba Olugbon of Ile-Igbon that first called and informed Arole Oodua on phone that he had scolded Sunday on phone on his misdeeds, and that he would soon tender a public apology to him on the matter via a video release. Sunday Igboho thereafter released the video in which he tendered his apology.

“Even though the way and manner Sunday had behaved was sacrilegious to the Oduduwa throne, he has already apologised and I can confirm that Arole Oodua has forgiven him, because there is no perfection in humanity. Sunday is a human being like any other normal human being who could misbehave as well. No one is perfect!.

“Like I said, he has apologised through Kabiyesi Olugbon, who called Baba on his behalf, and Arole Oodua has forgiven him. Let’s just let the matter rest.”