BREAKING: Ladoja Bows To Pressure, Agrees To Wear Beaded Crown Over New Oyo Chieftaincy Gazette

Rashidi Ladoja, former governor of Oyo State and Otun Olubadan of Ibadanland, has agreed  to wear bearded crown.

Recall that there was an Intense lobbying to persuade former Oyo State Governor and Otun Olubadan of Ibadanland, High Chief Rashidi Ladoja, to accept the beaded crown, as dictated for his status in the revised Olubadan Chieftaincy Declaration.

The move is seen by many as essential to de-escalate tensions over the noise generated by the publication of the gazette showing the new amendment. …CONTINUE READING

The Oyo State government, in the new Olubadan Chieftaincy Declaration, passed by the state House of Assembly and signed into law by Governor Seyi Makinde, revised Section 4 of the 1957 Olubadan Chieftaincy Declaration.

The original version stated: “The person who may be proposed as a candidate by the line whose turn it is to fill a vacancy in the office of the Olubadan shall be the most Senior (High) Chief in that Line.”

However, Section 4 of the amendment, titled “New Olubadan Chieftaincy Declaration,” replaced “the most Senior (High) Chief in that Line” with “the most Senior Beaded Crown Oba in that Line.”

Section 4 of the new law states: “The person who may be proposed as a candidate by the Line whose turn it is to fill a vacancy in the office of the Olubadan shall be the most Senior Beaded Crown Oba in that Line.”

Ladoja, who is the most senior of the High Chiefs and whose line it is to produce the next Olubadan, has not accepted the beaded crown.

Despite Ladoja’s public stance of only wanting the Olubadan crown, prominent community leaders and legal experts argued that his acceptance would stabilise the succession system and benefit Ibadanland.

Checks by Our Correspondent on Sunday however confirmed that the former Governor has accepted ti bear needed crown.