{"id":3732,"date":"2023-09-16T14:40:31","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T14:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/?p=3732"},"modified":"2023-09-16T14:40:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T14:40:31","slug":"obasanjo-embarrases-oyo-traditional-rulers-orders-them-to-stand-welcome-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/2023\/09\/16\/obasanjo-embarrases-oyo-traditional-rulers-orders-them-to-stand-welcome-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Obasanjo embarrases Oyo traditional rulers, orders them to stand, welcome him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was mild drama on Friday when former President Olusegun Obasanjo, in a trending video on social media, ordered some Yoruba monarchs to stand up and greet him.<\/p>\n<p>Obasanjo who was in Oyo state on the invitation of governor Seyi Makinde made the remarks during the commissioning of a 34.85 km Oyo-Iseyin Road and the completed Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) Iseyin Campus, which houses the College of Agricultural Sciences and Renewable Natural Resources.<\/p>\n<p>He said in Yoruba, \u201cI greet the kings and chiefs here sitting; I am grateful that you are here. Let me say this: wherever the president or governor is, the kings present must stand up to honour him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Yoruba land, there are two things that are most respected among others: age and position. When a governor is still in power, he\u2019s more powerful than any king.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven when I was president, I prostrated for kings outside, and when we went inside, the kings would prostrate for me. So, let\u2019s always celebrate our culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was mild drama on Friday when former President Olusegun Obasanjo, in a trending video on social media, ordered some Yoruba monarchs to stand up and greet him. Obasanjo who was in Oyo state on the invitation of governor Seyi Makinde made the remarks during the commissioning of a 34.85 km Oyo-Iseyin Road and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3734,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732\/revisions\/3734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}