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My predecessor left legacy of oneness, unity among Council members- Olubadan- designate.

My predecessor left legacy of oneness, unity among Council members- Olubadan- designate.
It was a moment of sober reflections on Monday at the Aliiwo family compound of the late Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Sen. Lekan Balogun, CFR, Alli Okunmade II as the Olubadan- designate, Oba Owolabi Olakulehin paid glowing tributes to his predecessor for engendering oneness, unity and love among the members of the Olubadan Advisory Council.
 
The Olubadan-designate, who until his designation was the Balogun of Ibadanland, the position he held as the next person to the late Olubadan was accompanied on the visit by three members of the Advisory Council. 
 
Speaking through Oba Lateef Gbadamosi Adebimpe after the team was welcomed to the family compound by the Baba Kekere of the late Olubadan, Sen. Kola Balogun, Oba Olakulehin disclosed that it was the seed of love and unity planted by the late Olubadan that gave the fruit as being witnessed through the visit. 
 
 
The Olubadan-designate urged the members of Aliiwo family to be thankful to God for the life and times of their departed patriarch. "Though the reign was short in the eyes of men, but, the impacts and the legacies brought to Ibadan during the short period should be enough consolation and source of gratitude to God Almighty", the monarch added. 
 
Earlier in his welcome address on behalf of the family, Sen. Kola Balogun, a  member of the Ninth Assembly from Oyo South Senatorial District praised Oba Olakulehin for the heroic and historic visit, emphasizing that it had never been heard in history that Olubadan-designate visited the family of his predecessor. 
 
Balogun,  insisted that  the uniqueness of Ibadan remains unfathomable to the uninitiated when it comes to relationship as Ibadan sons and daughters are always related as brothers and sisters not minding the largeness of the metropolis.

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