UK based Prince Adeagbo Adefarakan joins race for Ooni stool…..says Ogboru royal ruling house should produce next Ooni

A United Kingdom based consultant in the Oil and Gas sector, Prince Adeagbo Adekemi Adefarakan of the Adefarakan dynasty, Ogboru Olubuse royal family house, has joined the race for the vacant stool of Ooni of Ife.
The 47 years old prince is the great grandson of Ooni Olubuse the first. His late grandfather, Omoba Matthew Adeboye Adefarakan, was the prince royal before his demise during the time of Ooni Adesoji Aderemi. He also served as a Senator during the Tafawa Balewa regime and the first secretary of the Egbe Omo Odua.
Prince Adefarakan who has since notified the kingmakers of his intention to vie for the exalted stool, said he is convinced that the Ogboru ruling house would produce the next Ooni based on equity, stressing that of the four ruling houses in Ile –Ife, the Ogboru family has produced the least number of Ooni.
According to him, since the crystallisation of the ruling houses into four, the Ogboru family had produced only four Oonis, while the other three ruling houses: Lafogido; Giesi and Oshinkola had produced eight, seven and five Oonis respectively.
Prince Adefarakan who noted that the huge interest being shown in the vacant stool by many Ife princes is a welcome development, however said that he has the noble intention of turning Ile -Ife into a world class model modern city and focus on infrastructure development of the town if he his nominated and crowned the next Ooni.
Born in Ibadan on the 13th of July,1968 to the late Prince Joseph Adeagbo Akanni Adefarakan and princess Caroline Adeagbo Adefarakan, Prince Adefarakan is a devoted Christian and a product of Ibadan Grammar School and The Polytechnics, Ibadan. He later travelled to Germany to study Electronics Communication and bagged a Bachelor of Science (Hons) degree in Business Information Systems and completed his MBA with speciality in Oil and Gas from the University of Dundee, Scotland.