The Fusengbuwa Ruling House of Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, has officially dismissed Fuji musician Wasiu Ayinde Marshall, popularly known as KWAM 1, as a member of the ruling house eligible to produce the next Awujale of Ijebu land.
The family announced that Monday, December 15, 2025, has been scheduled for the nomination of all contestants for the Awujale stool. The names of nominated candidates will then be forwarded to the kingmakers, who are expected to select the next Awujale within seven days and submit the choice to the governor for approval.
The stool of Awujale rotates among the four ruling houses of Anikilaya, Gbelegbuwa, Fidipote, and Fusengbuwa. Following the death of Oba Sikiru Adetona from the Anikilaya house on July 13, 2025, after a 65-year reign, it is now the Fusengbuwa house’s turn to produce the next monarch.
The rejection of KWAM 1 was contained in a December 11, 2025, letter that has gone viral on social media. Signed by the Chairman of the ruling house, Otunba Abdulateef Owoyemi, Deputy Chairman Otunba Adedokun Ajidagba, and Vice Chairman Prof. Fassy Yusuf, among others, the letter was issued in response to the musician’s completed family lineage data form.
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The ruling house criticized the form, noting, “Curiously, the form was certified by a purported family unit head, one Omooba Adetayo Abayomi Oduneye Eruobodo, on 8 December 2025, two days before your good self signed it,” describing the submission as “presigned.”
It added, “Omooba Adetayo Abayomi Oduneye Eruobodo is not a registered member of the Jadiara Royal House and, therefore, has no locus standi to sign any linkage form on behalf of the family; and our extensive investigation has not revealed any proof of your membership of the Jadiara Royal House or indeed that of Fusengbuwa Ruling House. Consequently, the completed linkage lineage form is hereby declared null, void, and of no consequence. For the avoidance of doubt, your claim to the membership of Fusengbuwa Ruling House is rejected, and the completed form is of no consequence.”
Speaking during a press briefing, Fusengbuwa Nomination Committee spokesperson Omooba Abiodun Ogidan reinforced the ruling house’s stance, stating, “We just rose from the family meeting where all the Olori Ebis, the family heads of the Jadiara and Fusengbuwa family, met and deliberated on the way forward over the nomination to the throne of Awujale. It has been confirmed by our family that from all that he (Wasiu Ayinde) has written in the family lineage data form given to him, he is definitely not one of us in the Fusengbuwa ruling house. Let it be noted that Awujale’s nomination forms were not given to him. The Awujale form had closed by the time he began to claim that he was from the Fusengbuwa family. How can someone who has never been part of our family meetings or supported the family in any way suddenly wake up at the height of the glory of our family and begin to claim what never happened? Wasiu Ayinde is only trying to rewrite history, but this is 2025; he cannot pull the wool over our eyes. He is not part of us, and people with fake lineage will not be part of what we are doing here.”
Also speaking, a member of the Oduneye family, Alhaja Adesumbo Oduneye, said the musician has no connection to their lineage. “We are here to tell the world that the Oduneye family knew nothing about one Adetayo Oduneye, who signed the Fusengbuwa data lineage form of the musician, Ayinde. Yes, he is one of us, one of the children of our late father, Adebanjo Tijani Oduneye, but he is never the head of the Oduneye family. We do not even know anything about Setejoye that he is talking about. He is spreading falsehood because Alhaji Wasiu Ayinde is never a member of the Oduneye or Jadiara royal family. Irrespective of whatever Adetayo Oduneye is saying, he is on his own. The family has said such actions will not be allowed to stand.”
The lineage form submitted by KWAM 1, signed by Adetayo Oduneye Eruobodo, claimed he was from the Setejoye unit of the Jadiara Royal House through his father, Adisa Adesanya Anifowoshe. However, the Fusengbuwa ruling house and family heads insist he has no genealogical connection.
KWAM 1 is widely known to belong to the Fidipote ruling house, from which he holds the title of Olori Omooba of Ijebuland. In a recent musical performance, he asserted that he has roots in both the Fidipote and Fusengbuwa houses and claimed eligibility to contest the Awujale stool.