The crisis rocking the Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE) got a new twist, on Thursday, as members suspended its Secretary-General, Dr. Kunle Olajide, indefinitely.
The suspension was part of the decisions taken at the YCE Joint Meeting of Senior Elders’ Forum and chairmen of state chapters at the council’s national secretariat, Old Bodija, Ibadan, the state capital.
In a communiqué issued by the Council’s President, Dansaaki Col. Sam Ade Agbede (rtd), after the meeting, Olajide was suspended for “gross misconduct and insubordination”.
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The statement urged him “to surrender the council’s properties and documents in his custody to the president immediately.”
The meeting also resolved that Comrade Sam Agbetuyi should with immediate effect take up the position of Assistant Secretary-General 1 in an acting capacity.
At the meeting, a vote of confidence was unanimously passed on Agbede as the president of the council, also known as ‘Egbe Igbimo Agba Yoruba’.
Some of the elders at the meeting where the decisions were taken include Chiefs Mike Omoleye, Jibade Oyekan, Adegboye Onigbinde, Anthony Meraiyebu, Dr. Rasaki Shiyanbola, Prof. Adetoun Ogunsheye, Akin Akinremi and Agbetuyi.
