This statement was conveyed through his media aide, Alli Ibraheem, in Osogbo on Monday. Additionally, he urged historians engaged in studying the Yoruba ancestral home to approach their research and documentation with objectivity.
Oba Akanbi opined that limiting research work to Ile-Ife is putting a limitation on Yoruba’s far-reaching historical greatness and accomplishments.
While maintaining that the Yoruba are synonymous with distinction, excellence, and greatness, the monarch claimed that the first man created was Yoruba.