…Abiodun, Okubadejo, and Kuku fill the vacuum with roller-coaster festivities and government machinery.
…Hoteliers, eateries, event planners, and fashion designers smile to banks.
…Globacom, FCMB, and Adron Homes shine as headline sponsors.
The big royal vacuum created by the demise of Oba Sikiru Adetona, the late Awujale and Paramount Ruler of Ijebuland, set tongues wagging prior to the Ojude-Oba Festival that was held last week Friday, the third day of Eid-el-Kabir, popularly known as the Ileya Festival among Yorubas.
A very large number of tourists, well-wishers and non-Ijebu indigenes had been talking and doubting the possibility of this year’s Ojude-Oba Festival without the monarch on the throne. Some people who spoke with BusinessDay prior to the cultural celebration suggested that Ijebuland might not host the festival but would use the time to solemnly celebrate a life well spent of late Awujale.
Some people, including the diaspora Ijebu indigenes, told BusinessDay
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