{"id":913652,"date":"2022-01-05T15:45:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T15:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/05\/kingmakers-announce-balogun-as-olubadan-elect\/"},"modified":"2022-01-05T15:45:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T15:45:10","slug":"kingmakers-announce-balogun-as-olubadan-elect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/05\/kingmakers-announce-balogun-as-olubadan-elect\/","title":{"rendered":"Kingmakers Announce Balogun As Olubadan-elect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_835363\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-835363\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-835363 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Otun-Olubadan-of-Ibadanland-High-Chief-Lekan-Balogun.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-835363\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Olubadan, Lekan Balogun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ten of the 11 members of the Olubadan-in-Council have endorsed the nomination of Dr Lekan Balogun as the next Olubadan of Ibadanland.<\/p>\n<p>The Council also denied that a legal tussle could scupper the succession to the Olubadan throne.<\/p>\n<p>The Osi Balogun of Ibadanland, High Chief Tajudeen Ajibola, stated these at a briefing by the kingmakers on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ochiubzef ochiubzef-post-inline ochiubzef-float-center ochiubzef-align-center ochiubzef-column-1 ochiubzef-clearfix no-bg-box-model\">\n<p>According to Ajibola, the kingmakers resolved that Dr Balogun is next in line to ascend the throne of Olubadan according to tradition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>He also debunks insinuations relating to the health and wellness of the new Olubadan-elect.<\/p>\n<p>He said all the negative media reports were nothing to worry about.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting is being attended by members of the Olubadan-in-Council, except former governor Rashidi Ladoja.<\/p>\n<p>Other High Chiefs in attendance are Balogun Olubadan, Owolabi Olakulehin; Otun Balogun, Olufemi Olaifa; Ashipa Olubadan, Eddy Oyewole and Osi Balogun, Tajudeen Ajibola.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ochiubzef ochiubzef-post-inline ochiubzef-float-center ochiubzef-align-center ochiubzef-column-1 ochiubzef-clearfix no-bg-box-model\">\n<p>The others are Ekaarun Olubadan, Amidu Ajibade; Ashila Balogun Olubadan, Lateef Gbadamosi, Ekaarun Balogun, Kola Adegbola and Ekerin Olubadan Abiodun Kola-Daisi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The new Olubadan-elect is expected to address the press at the meeting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Olubadan, Lekan Balogun Ten of the 11 members of the Olubadan-in-Council have endorsed the nomination of Dr Lekan Balogun as the next Olubadan of Ibadanland. The Council also denied that a legal tussle could scupper the succession to the Olubadan throne. The Osi Balogun of Ibadanland, High Chief Tajudeen Ajibola, stated these at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-913652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}