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The Senate, during the plenary, has resolved to name one of its Committees’ Rooms after the late Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Lekan Balogun.
Recall, Oba Balogun died on Thursday, March 14, 2024, at the University College Hospital Ibadan; aged 81, after a brief illness, two years after he ascended the throne on March 11, 2022.
Balogun was a Senator, representing Oyo Central senatorial District between 1999 and 2003, during which he was chairman of the Senate Committee on National Planning and was a member of many Senate committees such as Appropriations, Security and Intelligence, Police Affairs and Defence (Army).
The Senate’s resolution to immortalise him followed a motion sponsored by Senator Sharafadeen Alli (APC Oyo South).
Alli, in his motion, informed the Senate that the late Olubadan was a leader par excellence, a community developer and a service-driven politician.
“The late Olubadan was a man of peace and custodian of the culture and values of the Yoruba people,” Alli added.
The two other senators from Oyo State, Yinus Akintunde (Oyo Central) and Addulfai Buhari (Oyo North), also contributed to the debate on the motion by informing the Senate about how the late monarch impacted positively the lives of those who came across him while alive.
The Senate, after debates on the motion, adopted all the prayers sought as resolutions, one of which was to immortalise the late monarch by naming one of the Senate Committee Rooms after him.
