Flamboyant king, the Oluwo of Iwo land, Oba Abdulrasheed
Akanbi recently held his second year anniversary of his ascension to the
throne and also marked his 50th birthday.
In a
recent interviw, he revealed how powerful he is as a monarch, saying he
can cause the rain to stop and heal people of sickness and afflictions.
In
his words, 'I can command the rain to stop. I have done it more than
once. An oba who doesn’t worship lesser gods, an oba that worships no
other thing than God who does not sleep. If you have a pastor that
sleeps that you are relying on, you are going to lose.
If
you have an Imam who has a wife and when he sleeps by his wife in the
night, you call him and he can’t pick your call, you know you are a
loser.
If you have a babalawo
as your backbone, your backbone will break. I have only God. It is not
about Islam, it is not about Christianity, it is not about babalawo, it is about divinity'.
he continued to say, 'many things about the Yoruba culture and traditions are divine.
Any function that I am attending and there is no canopy and there is rain coming I will tell it to go away.
Many
people have witnessed it in many places. There was even one with
thundering and lightning, I said I am outside here, go back. There was
another one, I told that rain, go to Lekki. Yes, and it would never rain. I have the power to say that, with the power of God and the position I am sitting in.
That
is why when I pray to God, I can command sickness to leave the person
it is affecting to come to me. If I want to take anything like sickness
or poverty from the land, I have to give it back to God that owns it'.
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