{"id":69900,"date":"2025-07-07T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T14:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=69900"},"modified":"2025-07-07T14:57:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T14:57:00","slug":"ex-governor-rashidi-ladoja-set-to-become-next-olubadan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/07\/ex-governor-rashidi-ladoja-set-to-become-next-olubadan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Governor Rashidi Ladoja Set to Become Next Olubadan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Oyo State Governor, Rashidi Adewolu Ladoja, is on track to become the next Olubadan of Ibadanland following the death of the 43rd Olubadan, Oba Owolabi Olakulehin.<\/p>\n<p>In line with Ibadan\u2019s traditional succession system, the Olubadan stool alternates between two royal lines &#8211; Egbe Agba (civil) and Balogun (military).<\/p>\n<p>With the late Oba Olakulehin coming from the Balogun line, the next monarch is expected to emerge from the Egbe Agba line, where Ladoja currently holds the position of Otun Olubadan, the most senior chief.<\/p>\n<p>Ladoja, who governed Oyo State from 2003 to 2007 and previously served as a senator, has steadily climbed the traditional hierarchy.<\/p>\n<p>His elevation in August 2024 to Otun Olubadan formally qualifies him for the revered throne.<\/p>\n<p>He recently marked his 80th birthday in September 2024, further solidifying his legacy in both political and traditional leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado Former Oyo State Governor, Rashidi Adewolu Ladoja, is on track to become the next Olubadan of Ibadanland following the death of the 43rd Olubadan, Oba Owolabi Olakulehin. In line with Ibadan\u2019s traditional succession system, the Olubadan stool alternates between two royal lines &#8211; Egbe Agba (civil) and Balogun (military). With the late [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":69901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-69900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69900","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69902,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69900\/revisions\/69902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}