Screening Of 119 Applicants For Alaafin Stool set to begin.
– Tamarauemi Ebimini
Processes toward the emergence of the next Alaafin of Oyo are set to continue with the Oyomesi billed to begin the screening of 119 persons that applied to fill the vacant stool.
Head of princes of Oyo town, High Chief Mukaila Afonja, also referred to as Baba Iyaji, confirmed to Journalists that the ball was present in the court of the Oyomesi where the applications were transmitted to.
Though he didn’t give a specific commencement date, Afonja said the screening of 119 princes from various royal families that applied at the close of application on July 15 will begin soon.
He affirmed that the Oyomesi had begun working on the applications, with the screening to take the form of the applicants being invited either in fives or tens.
At the screening sessions, it is expected that the applicants will be scrutinised along the line of their educational qualification, schools attended, age, vision, aim and objectives for Oyo town, if they emerge.