{"id":59353,"date":"2025-01-10T12:40:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T12:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=59353"},"modified":"2025-01-10T12:40:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T12:40:31","slug":"makinde-ends-long-wait-approves-new-alaafin-of-oyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/10\/makinde-ends-long-wait-approves-new-alaafin-of-oyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Makinde Ends Long Wait, Approves New Alaafin of Oyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Our Correspondent\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Governor Seyi Makinde has officially approved Prince Abimbola Akeem Owoade as the new Alaafin of Oyo, following a series of consultations and divinations by the Oyomesi.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement signed by Prince Dotun Oyelade, the Commissioner for Information and Orientation, it was revealed that this decision puts to rest the ongoing socio-legal disputes after the passing of Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III on April 22, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Hon. Ademola Ojo, the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, called on Oyo State citizens to unite in celebrating the new monarch and support his reign, which is hoped to usher in peace, prosperity, and unity for the Oyo Kingdom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Our Correspondent\u00a0 Governor Seyi Makinde has officially approved Prince Abimbola Akeem Owoade as the new Alaafin of Oyo, following a series of consultations and divinations by the Oyomesi. In a statement signed by Prince Dotun Oyelade, the Commissioner for Information and Orientation, it was revealed that this decision puts to rest the ongoing socio-legal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":59354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59355,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59353\/revisions\/59355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}