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Guru Maharaj Ji reveals how late Alaafin of Oyo was poisoned

Controversial cleric and spiritual leader, Guru Maharaj Ji, has claimed that the late Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, who recently joined his ancestors, was poisoned.

Guru Maharaj Ji told BBC News Yoruba, that he is deeply pained by the monarch’s demise, and stated that Oba Lamidi must be resurrected. He however did not mention those behind the alleged poisoning.

BREAKING: How Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, Alafin of Oyo died

Lamidi Adeyemi succeeded Alaafin Gbadegesin Ladigbolu II in 1970, during the governorship of Colonel Robert Adeyinka Adebayo, after the end of the Nigerian Civil War.

The Alaafin died at the age of 83 on the 22nd of April 2022 at the Afe Babalola University Teaching Hospital, Ado Ekiti in Ekiti State,. His reign of 51 years is the longest reign of any Alaafin of Oyo in modern recorded history.

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