INTERREGNUM IN ILAJELAND: FROM FICTION TO FIGURE AS EXTRACTED FROM HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY (OBA) F.E.O. AKINRUNTAN'S SUBMISSIONS BY STEPHEN OLA AJIMISAN

"Based on the recent research conducted by His Imperial Majesty, Olugbo Leghe Oghonne over 120 Obas had reign in Ugbo not 25 as wrongly postulated by some historians. There was 250 years interregnum in Ugbo also after the demise of Agbedun there was 100 years interregnum and also after the demise of Ohun there was 50years interregnum"

I stumbled on the above in reaction to your post on past Olikans and just feel certain claims need not be subjected to serious intellectual inquiry to be dismissed as lacking credibility. First, unless the king-list of 51 for Ife is ridiculously understated, Ugbo which took root from Ife couldn't reasonably account for the whooping 120, except the number was of Kings who might have reigned before Oduduwa in Ile-Ife but certainly not at Ode-Ugbo.

In the same manner, the claim of  250 years interregnum in Ugbo is far-fetched when the kingdom started  with Oronmaken the founder and first ruler. Oba Ohun reigned after Agbodun, his biological father.  There are British colonial archival records which show that Ohun succeeded his father after a brief interregnum which led to Oyo (Yasere of Olikan Akintimehin stock) whose mother, Itiola, was an Olugbo Princess, signing the Treaty of 1884 on behalf of  Ugbo Kingdom with the British and witnessed by Mesehe (Alagho) at Erunna. The question is that could it be reasonably postulated that there was 100 years interregnum between father and son? Also there are British archival materials showing that Ohun died in 1900 and shortly succeeded by his direct son, Ogundere, so the claim of 50 years interregnum between them also left much to be believed. One is only probing into the credibility of our public assertions so that some of our claims do not sound ridiculous with other Yorubas who may also have such materials in their possession.