RELIEF has come to the people of Ukpilla community of Etsako East Local Government Area of Edo State, as the community’s kingmakers and people have elected and installed Engr. Mike Sado, as the substantive monarch, with the title, Okuokpillagbe II of Okpella, following which there had been elaborate celebrations by the community’s folks.
Crowds of jubilants had spilled into Ukpilla streets, slowing down road traffics on its main express way and adjoining roads, thus indicating a general acceptance of the new king.
Shortly after he was declared winner of the Okpella’s kingship, in an election, Engr. Sado immediately 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 performed the sacred installation, witnessed by the villagers, community chiefs, Dawodus and other dignitaries.
The new monarch had thereafter 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 the newsmen 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, Senator Monday Okpebholo, for making the peaceful coronation possible.
The newly-installed king, promised to work relentlessly to bring the needed peace, unity and development to the community, as a break from the past.
Following the coronation of the monarch and a new era, under his watch, it could be said that nolmacy has returned to Ukpilla, the base of major cement industries, following six years of vacancy on the throne, as a result of the demise of its former king.
