From ex-senator to monarch: Profile of late Olubadan, Lekan Balogun

The forty second Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Lekan Balogun, Alli Okunmade II, died on Thursday, throwing the city into mourning.

He died at 81 on the College School Hospital, Ibadan, Oyo State,

The monarch, who reigned for 2 years, might be interred based on Islamic rites as we speak, Friday, March 15, 2024, at his Aliiwo ancestral house in Ibadan, Oyo State capital.

Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, introduced the passing of the late monarch, saying, “A mighty Iroko has fallen; Oba Balogun has joined the ancestors.”

On Monday, the deceased celebrated his second anniversary on the throne as he thanked members of his advisory council for his or her unflinching assist.

On this piece, PUNCH On-line highlights 10 issues to know concerning the late monarch:

1. He was born Olalekan Balogun on October 18, 1942, within the Ali-Iwo compound, present-day Ibadan North East Native Authorities Space of Oyo State, Nigeria.
2. Upon completion of his O- and A-level programmes, Balogun obtained Doctorate, Grasp’s and Bachelor’s levels in Public Administration, Public and Social Administration, and Economics.
3. He attended Columbus Worldwide College and Manchester College in the UK.
4. Balogun labored as a lecturer on the Ahmadu Bello College, Zaria, Kaduna State; as Editor of the month-to-month journal, The Nigerian Pathfinder, and as a Director with Triumph Newspaper, Kano State.
5. He was a administration guide for multinational organisations resembling Leyland, Exide Battery, and Nigerian Breweries.
6. Balogun labored with Shell British Petroleum Firm the place he rose to the place of Administrator/Head, Industrial Relations, Recruitment and Scholarships, Planning and Improvement models.
7. The late Alli Okunmade II represented the Oyo Central Senatorial District within the Nationwide Meeting between 1999 and 2003, the place he served because the chairman of the Senate Committee on Nationwide Planning.
8. He was a former governorship candidate of the defunct Nigeria Folks’s Occasion,
9. In his lifetime, Balogun wrote and revealed a number of publications together with ‘A Assessment of Nigeria’s 4 years Improvement Plan, 1970–1974’; ‘Social Justice or Doom’; ‘Energy for Sale’; and ‘Vanity of Energy.’
10. Balogun was topped the forty second Olubadan of Ibadanland by the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, on March 11, 2022, after he succeeded his predecessor, the late Oba Saliu Adetunji,

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