No one could have thought that a ‘cut-and-sew’ tailor would be installed, in the 21st Century, as the Olubadan of Ibadan, one of the top royal positions in the South-west region of Nigeria. But Saliu Adetunji achieved the feat when he emerged as the monarch of Ibadan, succeeding Samuel Odugade, a retired army officer and political elite.
Mr Adetunji, 93, who died on Sunday at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, after a brief illness, had hustled on the streets of Lagos as a local tailor before becoming a royal majesty.
As a king, he was…
