The Palace of Oyo has confirmed the death of the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi.<\/p>\n
The spokesperson for the late Oba, Mr Bode Durojaye, confirmed the death in a terse response to an inquiry by our correspondent.<\/span><\/p>\n He said, \u201cAlaafin is dead. Details in due course.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n It was gathered that the octogenarian monarch died on Friday night in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State Capital after a brief illness.<\/span><\/p>\n Sources at the palace confirmed the death of the traditional ruler to our correspondent on Saturday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n Sources said the Governor of the state, Seyi Makinde, had been informed of the passage of the monarch.<\/span><\/p>\n The monarch who clocked 83 years on October 15 was reportedly receiving treatment at the Afe Babalola University Teaching Hospital, Ado Ekiti where he gave up the ghost.<\/span><\/p>\n The remains of one of the foremost traditional rulers in the country were said to have been brought back to Oyo Immediately.<\/span><\/p>\n It was also gathered that rites of passage have started for the late Oba who reigned for 52 years.<\/span><\/p>\n Oba Adeyemi was born on October 15, 1938.<\/span><\/p>\n The monarch is the third prominent Oba to have died in Oyo State in less than five months.<\/span><\/p>\n The Soun of Ogbomoso, Oba Okadunni Oyewumi died on December 12, 2021, the late Olubadan of Ibadan, died on January 2, 2022 and the Alaafin died on April 22.<\/span><\/p>\n Also, the Asigangan of Igangan, Oba Abdul-Azeez Adewuyi died in December 2021 and the monarch of Ikoyi town in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State, Oba Abdulyekeen Ayinla died in April 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Palace of Oyo has confirmed the death of the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi. The spokesperson for the late Oba, Mr Bode Durojaye, confirmed the death in a terse response to an inquiry by our correspondent. He said, \u201cAlaafin is dead. Details in due course.\u201d It was gathered that the octogenarian monarch died […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4422,182,4421,4420],"class_list":["post-7348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-alaafin-of-oyo-death","tag-palace","tag-the-world","tag-yoruba-nation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7350,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348\/revisions\/7350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}