IBADAN UNIQUE ROYAL LINE IN FOCUS

This is Ibadan!

The Oba was a Muslim and had been buried immediately.

In Ibadan, no room for protracted mourning of a deceased Oba and no room for contesting. 

No consultation of Ifá to pick the new Oba. 

No need to bribe Kingmakers Afobaje. 

Governor has no role to play as he cannot prefer anyone. 

The new designated Olubadan is a Christian 

Oba ti wa nile ki Oba to ku. 

The death of the outgoing and the installation of the in-coming are veritable sources of amala and gbegiri festivals in Ibadan . 

Ọba Lekan Balogun was 81/82 years old. 

Because the outgoing Oba is usually old, it is a Celebration of life.

 

Ibadan, interestingly, has no fixed palace. 

When you become an Oba, your house becomes the palace. 

The drummers have to shift to the new palace seamlessly, otherwise they will lose business. 

Ibadan succession is a 23 steps ladder arranged in two layers making a total of 46 men behind an Oba. 

The two lines are 

1. The Olubadan Line called Egbe Àgbà - The Civilian Line

2. The Balogun Line- The Military Line

On each of the lines, starting from the least, the titles are

1.Jagun

2.Ajia

3.Bada

4 Are Onibon

5 Gbonnka

6.Are Egbe Ọmọ

7 Oota

8.Lagunna

9.Are Ago 

10.Ayingun

11. Asaaju

12. Ikoloba 

13. Arẹ Alasa

14.Agba Akin

15.EKEFA

16.MAYE

17.ABESE

18.EKARUN/Olubadan or EKARUN/ Balogun

19.  EKERIN/Olubadan or

EKERIN/Balogun

20. ASIPA/Olubadan or ASIPA/Balogun

21. OSI/Olubadan or OSI/Balogun

22. OTUN/Olubadan

or OTUN BALOGUN 

23. OLUBADAN or BALOGUN

The highest point for the military line is Balogun while the highest for the Civil Line is Ọtun Olubadan. 

There's the age long agreement to rotate leadership between the two lines. 

When Olubadan dies, the number one person in the other line becomes the King. 

What qualifies you to join the line is that you have served as the Mogaji (Olori Ebi) of your Family Group. 

It is among mogajis that anyone can clinched the Jagun which is the first step in the long ladder.

At the death of an Oba in Ibadan therefore every High Chief in his own colony gets promotion. 

Probably the best arrangement in Nigeria. Yet, their Constitution is unwritten. 

Great culture of Leadership by Evolution.

And yet the United States and the West wants to teach us democracy that is not working and won't work for us

Please clap for all Ibadan indigenes