Relief has come to the people of as the community’s kingmakers and people have elected and installed
There was jubilation in Okpilla community, Etsako East Local Government Area of Edo State weekend, following the installation of Engr. Mike Sado, as substantive monarchz becoming Okuokpillagbe II of Okpella.
Human and vehicular traffics were held up for several hours, as jubilant crowds broke into the streets of Okpilla, the expressway and adjoining roads, an indication of the general acceptance of the new king.
Shortly after he emerged, the new monarch underwent the rites to ascend the throne as the Okuokpellagbe II of Okpella, at the ancestral palace of his late grandfather, HRH Eramahe Iko Sado, a revered clan head who once ruled alongside the former district head, King Abdumalik Afegbua.
The Igbidogua and Isogua traditional title holders of the community had earlier performed the sacred installation, witnessed by the villagers, community chiefs, the Dawodus and other dignitaries.
Thereafter, the new monarch visited the grave site of his departed grandfather, to pay a reverence, as symbolic of a spiritual and ancestral acceptance of his coronation and kingship.
While speaking to journalists during the ceremony, the newly-crowned Okuokpellagbe II of Okpella, HRH Mike Sado, expressed gratitude for the successful holding of the coronation ceremony.
He thanked God and the Edo State government, under the leadership of its Governor Monday Okpebholo, for making the peaceful coronation possible.
He promised to work relentlessly to bring the needed peace, unity and development to the community, as a break from the past.
The coronation of the monarch could be described as a new era and nolmacy has returned, following six years of vacancy on the throne, as a result of the demise of the former king of Okpilla, the base of major cement industries.
