The Executive Governor of Oyo state, Engr. Seyi Makinde, on Wednesday took time from his holiday destination to visit Otun Olubadan and former governor Rashidi Ladoja at his Ondo street, Bodija residence.
This development was a follow-up to Ladoja’s acceptance of beaded crown after years of rejection.
Recall that Ladoja had opposed a bid late former governor Abiola Ajimobi to make him and others beaded crown-wearing monarchs in ibadan.
While others including the incumbent Olubadan Owolabi Olakulehin and his predecessor, Lekan Balogun accepted to receive the crown, the former governor approached the court.
He was however prevailed upon to withdraw his court to allow a seamless transition when Balogun and Olakulehin were to be installed Olubadan. Only last Sunday, Ladoja appeared on a radio to express readiness for the beaded crown, an action that has attracted criticisms and counter-criticisms.
It was learnt that Ladoja’s acceptance of the beaded crown did not come easy.
It was after series of meeting involving him, the governor, Ola Makinde, a prelate; Chief Bode Amao, president of the Central Council of Ibadan Indigenes, CCII, and other notable Ibadan indigenes.