One-year anniversary: Ladoja calls for prayers, opts for low-key affairs 

Ladoja urges prayers, low-key coronation anniversary

The Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Rashidi Ladoja, has implored the people and friends of Ibadan to use the twin occasions of his birthday and coronation anniversary to give thanks and offer prayers to God, rather than resort to elaborate merriment.

This was contained in a statement issued by his media aide, Chief Adeola Oloko, in Ibadan, the state capital, on Sunday.

The prominent royal father and statesman would be 82 years old on Friday, September 25, and one year on the Olubadan throne on Saturday, September 26, a day after his birthday.

Oba Ladoja, who noted that while he himself had chosen to use the occasions of his birthday and coronation anniversary to give thanks to God and pray for himself, the Ibadan Traditional Institution, Ibadanland, Oyo State and Nigeria, said he would not expect any less from the people.

He said, “Those who love us, and Ibadan should please join us in giving thanks to God, and in committing the years ahead into His hands.

“Therefore, I want to implore the people and friends of Ibadan to use the twin occasions of my birthday and coronation anniversary to give thanks and offer prayers to God, rather than resort to elaborate merriment.

“I want to appreciate the people for their co-operation and support over the past year, and I am promising that the future would be better and more glorious than the present, as the joy of the living is in the hope for better things.

Oba Rashidi Ladoja

“I also want to urge the friends and well-wishers of Olubadan Palace to please extend their hands of generosity during these twin occasions and beyond to people, in especially difficult circumstances, especially those in the motherless babies homes of their choice, for them to have a taste of the occasions,” he urged.