T£nsion in Iwo as Police, Osun Government urged to stop Oluwo’s 6th Annual Odun Olodumare festival
Tension in Iwo as Police, Osun Government urged to stop Oluwo’s 6th Annual Odun Olodumare festival 
Tension grips in Iwo as Police, Osun Government urged to stop Oluwo’s 6th Annual Odun Olodumare festival scheduled to start today, Monday November 9 ‘026 at 10am at Oluwo Palace Square, Iwo Osun State.
The Contentions and Oppositions has before now been between the Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi (Telu 1) vs. some Iwo Princes, Chiefs, Elders and the Osun State Govt.
A Justice of Peace, Tadese Fatai, petitioned the AIG Zone XI Osogbo on Friday, November 6 to stop it, saying the festival is alien to Iwo culture and could cause religious/communal war.
This came days after Osun Govt already placed Oluwo under watch, with letter reference CD.17/1/VOL.VIII/377 from Ministry of Chieftaincy Affairs (signed Wale Alliyu).
The Government stated that Oluwo’s Public utterances and attacks on other Faiths and other Yoruba Obas are raising tension and discrediting the Yoruba tradition.
They thereby in the letter gave him 6 directives: to stop attacking other faiths, stop attacking fellow Obas, preserve Iwo culture, follow Chieftaincy Law, etc. and directed that the Ministry of the Council of Obas (Ooni as chairman) to monitor him.
Oluwo’s response earlier through His press secretary Alli Ibraheem says he didn’t receive the government letter.
It is worthy of note that the Oluwo has placed a ban on the celebration of certain traditional festivals in Iwo such as the Annual Traditional Oro festival and many more citing them as Idolatry and introduced the Odun Olodumare festival as a replacement to them in the entirety of his kingdom which in return angered the traditionalists, many custodians of the Iwo culture and many sons and daughters of the Iwo Kingdom and dynasty.
We hope that the government of the State of Osun and the Police alongside the Oluwo and others at loggerhead should find a rallying point to avoid chaos or crisis within the state as the morning of the celebrations approaches.
