Nigeria, Jan. 16 -- The Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Rashidi Ladoja, on Thursday emerged as the inaugural chairman of the newly reconstituted Oyo State Council of Obas and Chiefs, following its inauguration by Governor Seyi Makinde in Ibadan.

This was after the Alaafin of Oyo stool was stripped of its status as the permanent chairman of the council under the amended Oyo State Council of Obas and Chiefs Law, 2025, recently passed by the State House of Assembly.

The inauguration ceremony, held at the House of Chiefs Hall, State Secretariat, marked the formal take-off of the new law. The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Akeem Owoade, was said to be conspicuously absent from the event.

Governor Makinde announced that the chairmanship of the council woul...