Lekan Balogun on Friday received his staff of office as the 42nd Olubadan of Ibadanland from Seyi Makinde, the Governor of Oyo State.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that the ceremony was graced by Vice President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
Other dignitaries in attendance were the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III; the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi; the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar; Olugbo of Ugbo Kingdom, Oba Fredrick Obateru Akinruntan; and Ambassador of Republic of China to Nigeria, Cui Jiauchun, among many prominent personalities.
At a time, Balogun became the gubernatorial candidate of one of the major political parties in the country, the Nigerian People’s Party (NPP) of Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe.
The military coup of December 1983 kept him and others out of active politics for 16 years.
He later re-emerged on the political scene with his election as a senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 1999.
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“POLITICS NIGERIA reports that the ceremony was graced by Vice President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.”
IT WAS A THEATRIC MALADIES. THE NEAR DEMENTIA NEWLY INSTALLED Olubadan DID NOT RECOGNIZE OR REMEMBERED THE VIPs MENTIONED ABOVE, EVEN WHEN HE HAD EXCHANGED GREETINGS AND PLEASANTRIES WITH THEM WHEN HE ENTERED THE PAVILION AND MANY OTHER ABSENTMINDEDNESS THAT GRACED THE OCASSION.
Including, crowd control was ZERO. The Oloris were left hanging with the crowd, also.
YOU NEED TO READ “A Pattern of Fiasco”, if you would.