𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗮𝗴𝗮 𝗕𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗔𝗹𝗮𝘀𝗶 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝘀𝗶 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘂𝘀 𝗢𝘀𝘂𝗻 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗹𝘆 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝗱𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗘𝗴𝗯𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗻.

The Alasi of Asi town, Oba Oyewale Olasunkanmi Akorede, has revealed that the viral audio online was a conversation between the Speaker of Osun State House of Assembly, Adewale Egbedun and one of his daughters.

Oba Akorede, who spoke with our reporter via telephone interview on Wednesday, revealed that he had to leave his palace that night before the arrival of some hoodlums who came and started shooting sporadically and harassed everyone within the premises.

Speaking on the incident, Oba Akorede explained that he was instrumental to the electoral victory of Egbedun, but “since he won, I have reduced to nothing. He abuses me at every slight opportunity and threatens me, too.

“My hotel and his house share fence. I gave him the land, but immediately he became speaker, he started digging my fence and said he wanted to expand. It was Omooba Olagunsoye Oyinlola and other personalities that intervened and asked me to let it go.”

When asked what happened that led to the call by the Speaker to his daughter, the monarch said, “he (Egbedun) called on that one boy crossed him while coming home and that he was going to arrest him. I only cautioned him not to arrest him but he said I was responsible for whatever the boy did. He got the boy arrested and detained last week.

“On Saturday, I had some guests at my hotel and after our meeting, one of my guest was speaking with one his security details and was advising the security man to ensure he protects human rights. I didn’t pay attention to the conversation.

“Later I just received a call from him accusing me of conniving with his security man to plan against him. I was provoked and I hung up.

“He then started calling me, and as I didn’t pick, he called my daughter and sent threats to me. I had to leave Asi that Sunday night because of his threats. He even sent thugs and security men to come and be shooting at my palace that night. They entered the palace and harassed everyone they saw. Only God saved me from him.”

The leaked audio

A leaked audio where a man, who identified himself as the speaker, Egbedun called and threatened the monarch through his daughter..

In the leaked audio, Egbedun was heard asking about the whereabouts of the monarch, and the woman at the other end of the call who the monarch identified as his daughter, said the monarch has traveled.

The man who introduced himself as the speaker of Osun Assembly in the audio threatened to get the monarch beaten, strip him of his title, and get him remanded in Ilesa Correctional Centre.

According to the speaker in the audio, the monarch has been disrespectful, adding that he would be the one to teach him a lesson.

The man who identified himself as the speaker, Egbedun, in the leaked audio was heard saying, “Good afternoon, this is the speaker, Egbedun talking. Is Alasi around? I want to send you to Alasi. God has destined that Alasi will be dealt with through me. He has said a lot of things, and I’ve been avoiding him, but he has done it to the peak.

“I was attacked and Alasi was talking rubbish. He will be arrested and if he is truly a man, he should go and fetch his power wherever he put it. If he comes to Asi tonight, I will ask people to beat him.

“Alasi was cursing me yesterday. God says I will be the one to punish him. They will remove his crown, beat him and I will suspend and make sure he is remanded in Ilesa tomorrow.

“He is an animal. If he is a man, he should come to the palace today. Ogun (god of iron) will kill him wherever he is. He won’t come back safely.

“Once, I suspend him tomorrow, he should call his godfathers. It won’t be well with him and his family. This is total respect. If he values his life, he should not come to Asi tonight. If he dares to come tonight.”

Monarch confirms it’s Speaker Egbedun’s voice

While speaking with InsightMedia, Oba Akorede confirmed that the viral audio was a conversation between Speaker Egbedun and his daughter (name withheld).

He said the conversation was on Sunday.

“That’s the voice of my daughter. Egbedun called her on Sunday and threatened her,” the monarch said.

Speaker allegedly begs

According to Oba Akorede, the speaker reached out to some of his friends to plead with him on his (speaker’s) behalf and he the duo had a phone conversation via a third party’s phone on Tuesday.

“After I left the town because of his threat, I went to hiding and he started calling me. He later spoke with me yesterday via phone of someone he sent to me.”

Egbedun keeps mum

Calls and messages to the Chief Press Secretary to the Speaker, Olamide Tiamiyu, seeking reaction of his principal, were not answered and no official statement as at the time of filing this report.