New Olubadan of Ibadan: Aliiwo in Diaspora Launches Website

Aliiwo in diaspora has launched an interactive website that serves as information channel, where the activities of the Olubadan of Ibadan designate, Oba Lekan Balogun were unveiled in preparations for the coronation of the 2nd monarch from Aliiwo dynasty.

The amazing site contains relevant information such as condolence messages from the sons and daughters of Aliiwo in diaspora to the family of Oba Saliu Adetunji over the passage of the monarch. A message from the daughter of the Olubadan designate and a member of Aliiwo in Diaspora reads, “I am Lekan Balogun’s daughter and 70 years after, Aliiwo is agog in preparations for the Olubadan of Ibadan throne again.”

The paparazzi side of the site is loaded with memorable pictures of Aliiwo in the Diaspora, the Olubadan designate and most importantly those of the first Olubadan of Ibadan from the family, Oba Memudu Ali Okunmade I.

According to a member of the Coronation Media/ICT Committee and a prominent member of Aliiwo in diaspora, who is a solicitor in the United Kingdom, Mr. Kamal Giwa, the website was conceived as part of the contributions of the group to relaunch Aliiwo family to the world again and to ensure that wherever Ibadan indigenes may be they are carried along on the coronation of the 42nd Olubadan Of Ibadanland.

He said that Aliiwo in the Diaspora has been in existence since the late 60s with the likes of the Olubadan-in-waiting as a member starting from his humble background in the United Kingdom as a university student for his first degree till he got his PhD from Manchester University.

Mr. Giwa said that members of the group, currently under the chairmanship of Dr. Bisi Ayedun, meet from time to time to discuss family matters.

-Kunle Bakare.