Dethroned Ondo Monarch, Oba Oluwole Joins His Ancestors

• Ondo Monarch, who was dethroned by a court, has joined his ancestors.

• Oba Oluwole died on Friday at age 92.

• The Baba Loja of Okeigbo Kingdom, Chief Akinbobola Adedigbo, and his Isoros announced the departure of the monarch on Friday morning.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Oluoke, Paramount Ruler of Okeigbo Kingdom, His Imperial Majesty Oba (Dr) Lawrence Oluwole Babajide, Ph.D., Bamigbala I, has passed away.

Chief Akinbobola Adedigbo, the Baba Loja of Okeigbo Kingdom and leader of the Isoros, announced at the main market of the town that the Oluoke has passed away and crossed over to the next world.

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They immediately commenced the rituals to take place to allow him to have easy passage to his ancestors.

Oba Babajide was the 17th Ruler and the 6th Oluoke of the town. He was officially presented staff of office on the soil of Okeigbo by the Governor of Ondo State, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, CON, on the 14th of September 2018.

Oba Lawrence Oluwole Babajide was born on the 23rd of July 1931 to the family of Bamigbala Oloyede through Late Chief Daniel Ayinla Babajide and Late Mama Omiyeni Onidede Babajide both from Aare Traditional Ruling Quarter, Okeigbo
Kabiyesi used all his life in the service of Okeigbo right from the time he took his first Chieftaincy title as Bobajiro and later Bashorun. He was the chairman of Okeigbo Central Council (OCC) for many years.

On his ascension to the throne, his first assignment was to reconcile aggrieved parties through his reconciliation committee and bring the Okeigbo people back to the town. He created “Okeigbo Tuntun” slogan to bring everybody back on track for the beauty and glory of the New Okeigbo. This really worked as many Okeigbos started constructing edifices in support of Okeigbo Tuntun.

During this his reign, he facilitated the rehabilitation and reconstruction of kilometres of Okeigbo township roads by the state government and NDDC.

His intervention through the state government brought the moribund water corporation of the community back to life.

Within his short and impactful reign, he saw to the completion of a multi-million naira Palace building.

For more than ten years, there was no bank in Okeigbo, this made him through his son, established a Micro Finance Bank, LOBREM MFB (the full meaning of the acronym, LOBREM is from Kabiyesi and his Olori’s name; Lawrence Olu Babajide Remi)
In his role as a chief security officer of Okeigbo, he led the committee to renovate the damaged and vandalised divisional police office and quarter and also approved the reconstruction of a befitting office for the new Okeigbo division for NSCDC.

Kabiyesi, in one of his chats with his media team, said he had promised to build a house for God if he was successful in life.

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He fulfilled his seventy years promise in the year 2020 when he singlehandedly built a modern hall for the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Okeigbo Zone as Secretariat.

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