Olubadan to be buried February 12 - Ajimobi

Senator Abiola Ajimobi, Oyo State Governor
has said that the late Olubadan of Ibadan
land, Oba Samuel Odulana Odugade I will be
given a state burial on Feb. 12.
The Governor made the announcement on
Friday when he visited the late Olubadan
palace at Monatan in Ibadan.
He said that the funeral rites for the late
monarch would begin on Feb. 6, adding that
a planning committee to handle the burial
arrangements had been set up.
Ajimobi however described the late monarch
as “an accomplished human being by all
standards’’ and wished his virtues would be
replicated in every other appointed Olubadan.
He solicited the support of the people of the
state in giving the late monarch a befitting
burial.
Chief Lekan Balogun, the Otun Olubadan of
Ibadan land, commended the governor for his
commitment to give the late monarch a
befitting burial.