Newsone reports that the Olubadan of Ibadan land in Oyo state, southwest Nigeria, Oba Saliu Adetunji is dead.
This online news platform understands that Olubadan of Ibadan joined ancestors on Tuesday, January 2 at age 92.
Newsone Nigeria learned that Olubadan died at the University College Hospital in Ibadan, Oyo state.
Though Olubadan of Ibadan death was confirmed by palace sources who pleaded anonymity, however, when contacted, the monarch’s aides neither confirmed his death nor denied it.
“Even if he is dead, it is the governor that will announce it,” one of his media aides said when contacted on the telephone by PUNCH.
The late Adetunji, who was crowned the 41st Olubadan on March 4, 2017, was born on August 26, 1928. He was the first of 17 children of his parents.
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