One of the committee rooms of the Nigerian Senate is to be named after the late Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Lekan Balogun.
This was resolved on Wednesday during plenary, and it was a result of a motion sponsored to that effect by Senator Sharafadeen Ali (APC Oyo South).
“The late Olubadan was a man of peace and custodian of the culture and values of the Yoruba people,” Ali said.
Yinus Akintunde (Oyo Central) and Addulfai Buhari (Oyo North), also did not fail to contribute to the debate on the motion by informing the Senate on how the late monarch impacted massively and positively the lives of those who are fortunate to have come across him while alive.
Buhari, on his own part revealed that the book written by the late Olubadan, titled “Arrogance of Power,” gifted to him in 2003 when he was elected into the House of Representatives, helped him a lot, not to abandon his constituents who elected him into the National Assembly over the years.
Speaking, the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, urged Senator Abdulfatai Buhari to provide copies of “Arrogance of Power”, authored by the Ọba Balogun, to all Senators, in helping them in dealing with those who they represent.
