{"id":196347,"date":"2014-06-13T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T09:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/son-of-olubadan-finally-releases-statement-over-alleged-death-of-his-father\/"},"modified":"2014-06-13T09:15:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T09:15:00","slug":"son-of-olubadan-finally-releases-statement-over-alleged-death-of-his-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/06\/13\/son-of-olubadan-finally-releases-statement-over-alleged-death-of-his-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Son Of Olubadan Finally Releases Statement Over Alleged Death Of His Father"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first son of\u00a0<\/strong>Olubadan of Ibadan land in Oyo State, western Nigeria,\u00a0<\/strong>Prof. Femi Lana has debunked\u00a0<\/strong>rumours of the death of the monarch, Oba Samuel Odulana.<\/strong><\/p>\n

PUNCH reports that the professor opined that he was surprised when he read about his father\u2019s death on the social media on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n

It could be recalled rumour spread on Thursday that the monarch, who clocked 100 years on April 14, was admitted to the University College Hospital, Ibadan, where he died during a surgery.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was shocked to hear the rumour. My brother, Gbade, who is the Oyo State Commissioner for Information, called me later and said that Governor Abiola Ajimobi had also heard of the rumour.<\/p>\n

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* Photo from Olubadan’s 100th birthday celebration<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI told them it was a lie.<\/p>\n

The governor told me later that we should not add to the false report by taking any major step to quash it. \u201cBut the truth is that people should get their facts right before spreading reports,\u201d Lana told newsmen at the Ibadan House on Thursday.<\/p>\n

A statement issued by Lana on behalf of the family urged people to ignore the report.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reigning Olubadan of Ibadan land, Oba Samuel Odulana, is hale and hearty. In fact, I was with him this morning when he was taking his breakfast,\u201d said the statement.<\/p>\n

President Goodluck Jonathan was among those that wished the Olubadan happy centenary birthday on 14 April.<\/p>\n

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The first son of\u00a0Olubadan of Ibadan land in Oyo State, western Nigeria,\u00a0Prof. Femi Lana has debunked\u00a0rumours of the death of the monarch, Oba Samuel Odulana.PUNCH reports that the professor opined that he was surprised when he read about his father\u2019s death…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}