The Elerin of Erin-Osun, Oba Yusuf Kolawole Omoloye Oyagbodun II and residents of the ancient Town in Irepodun Local Government Area, have expressed sadness at the death of the last Chief of Army Staff, Taored Abiodun Lagbaja.
The late General, who died on Tuesday at a Lagos hospital after a brief illness, is from the neighboring Ilobu community.
Oba Omoloye, in a statement M, described the the death of General Lagbaja, as a rude shock.
“One must say that apart from the immediate family of the late Army General, Governor Nurudeen Jackson Adeleke and Oba Ashiru Olaniyan (the Olobu of Ilobu), those of us who live in the Irepodun and Orolu Local Government Areas of Osun State are actually the ones who feel the death more than the rest of other Nigerians,” he said.
Oba Omoloye said all sons and daughters of Erin-Osun have been thrown into mourning because of General Lagbaja‘s death.
He therefore prayed that the Almighty God in His infinite mercy will console Lagbaja’s immediate family, Olobu of Ilobu and Osun State people in general.
