Alaafin
The Founder and Proprietor of Crescent University, Abeokuta, His Excellency Judge Bola AbdulJabbar Ajibola SAN, KBE, LL.D, D.Litt, CFR and the entire University community have mourned the passing of the institution’s Chancellor and the late Alaafin of Oyo, Oba (Dr.) Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III which occurred on Friday 22 April 2022.
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In a statement released in Abeokuta, Judge Ajibola praised the exempary life of the late Alaafin and the courage, intellectual depth and wisdom with which he ruled as Oyo’s longest reining monarch in history – a rule of more than five decades that saw the Alaafin not just as a leading monarch in Yoruba land, but also as one of the leading monarchs the nation relied upon for leadership and wise counsel.
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Judge Ajibola recalled the relationship with the Alaafin which started upon his selection to occupy the throne after the demise of Oba Bello Ladigbolu, and he being the one sent to him in Lagos, where the late Alaafin was an insurance executive, to invite him to where the news was broken to him.
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He commended the service of the Alaafin as Chancellor of Crescent University, a position which he occupied in the year 2015.
Judge Ajibola also commiserated with the Royal Family, the people Oyo, the Yorubas and Nigerians in general over the loss of the great monarch.
He prayed for the repose of the late Oba Lamidi Adeyemi’s soul, adding that his legacies of good leadership shall remain a reference point in history.
