Nigeria, Dec. 8 -- The Fusengbuwa Ruling House of Ijebu-Ode, which is next in line to produce the new Awujale of Ijebuland in Ogun State, has responded to fuji music icon Wasiu "Kwam 1" Ayinde's ambition to occupy the vacant stool.

PREMIUM TIMES gathered that Kwam 1, in a letter dated 3 December and addressed to the ruling house, declared his intention to ascend the ancestral throne.

He stated that his bid aligned strictly with Ijebu customary law and the state's chieftaincy regulations.

This newspaper reported that the Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona, died in July at the age of 91.

He was laid to rest the following day, in line with Islamic rites, at his final resting place in the Ogbagba Court within his Igbeba residence in...