Punch Newspapers
By Sodium Oyeleke
The Olubadan of Ibadan land, Oba Saliu Adetunji, has passed away.
The monarch joined ancestors on Tuesday, January 2.
He was 93 years old.
The PUNCH gathered that the monarch died at the University College Hospital in Ibadan, Oyo State.
His 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.
Another aide said in Yoruba, “You don’t hear bad news from a priest,” and cut the phone.
Efforts to reach Taiwo Adisa, media aide…
