{"id":132027,"date":"2023-12-17T08:02:15","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T08:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/17\/el-rufai-becomes-gbobaniyi-of-ijebu-land\/"},"modified":"2023-12-17T08:02:15","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T08:02:15","slug":"el-rufai-becomes-gbobaniyi-of-ijebu-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/17\/el-rufai-becomes-gbobaniyi-of-ijebu-land\/","title":{"rendered":"El-Rufai Becomes Gbobaniyi Of Ijebu Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-903575\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot_20231217-022546_Opera-Mini.jpg\" alt=\"El-Rufai Becomes Gbobaniyi Of Ijebu Land \" width=\"1080\" height=\"638\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Nasir El-Rufai, former Governor of Kaduna, has been conferred with the chieftaincy title of Gbobaniyi of Ijebu land.<\/p>\n<p>The Awujale of Ijebu land, Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona, conferred the former Governor with the title on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Jimi Lawal, a former governorship hopeful in Ogun State and his wife, Maryam, were also conferred with chieftaincy titles by the monarch.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-903576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot_20231217-022637_Opera-Mini.jpg\" alt=\"El-Rufai Becomes Gbobaniyi Of Ijebu Land \" width=\"1080\" height=\"690\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The former Governor is the first person outside the South-West to be conferred with chieftaincy title by the monarch in his nearly 64-year reign.<\/p>\n<p>El-Rufai served as Kaduna Governor between 2015 and 2023.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO: \u201cGovt Has Right To Demolish Buildings\u201d \u2013 Ohanaeze Tells Igbos In Lagos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reacting prior to his installation, El-Rufai wrote via X , \u201cI am pleased to announce that on Saturday, the 16th of December 2023, His Royal Majesty Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona the Paramount Ruler and Awujale of Ijebuland will honour my brother and confidant Otunba Jimi Lawal with two chieftaincy titles for his contributions to the Ijebu Kingdom and Nigeria, along with his wife Maryam Lawal.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-903577\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot_20231217-022704_Opera-Mini.jpg\" alt=\"El-Rufai Becomes Gbobaniyi Of Ijebu Land \" width=\"1080\" height=\"697\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also am privileged to be the first Nigerian outside of South-West of Nigeria to be conferred with a chieftaincy title by the Awujale in his nearly 64-year reign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am to be recognised as the Gbobaniyi of Ijebuland. I am grateful to Kabiyesi Awujale for the recognition and thank all those who have wished me well for this.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-advadstrackid=\"890536\" data-advadstrackbid=\"1\" class=\"infor-target\" id=\"infor-1270342537\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/300x250b.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nasir El-Rufai, former Governor of Kaduna, has been conferred with the chieftaincy title of Gbobaniyi of Ijebu land. The Awujale of Ijebu land, Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona, conferred the former Governor with the title on Saturday. Jimi Lawal, a former governorship hopeful in Ogun State and his wife, Maryam, were also conferred with chieftaincy titles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>El-Rufai Becomes Gbobaniyi Of Ijebu Land - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/17\/el-rufai-becomes-gbobaniyi-of-ijebu-land\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"El-Rufai Becomes Gbobaniyi Of Ijebu Land - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nasir El-Rufai, former Governor of Kaduna, has been conferred with the chieftaincy title of Gbobaniyi of Ijebu land. 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