Ojude Oba: Police deploy 2,500 operatives, promises hitch-free festival

No less than 2,500 operatives of the Ogun State Police Command , alongside operational assets, person been deployed across Ijebu Ode and adjoining communities up of the 2026 Ojude Oba Festival.

The State Commissioner of Police, Bode Ojajuni, said the deployment is portion of proactive information measures enactment successful spot to guarantee a peaceful, safe, and hitch-free solemnisation during the yearly taste festival.

The yearly taste festival, which is celebrated connected the 3rd time aft Eid el-Kabir, Ileya, provides the accidental for the radical of Ijebu land, who are usually dressed successful assorted beauteous attires, to wage homage to the Awujale and show the affluent taste practice of the Ijebu people, including equine riding, among different activities.

DAILY POST reports that the twelvemonth 2026 festival would beryllium the archetypal celebrated without a monarch connected the throne.

Recall that past year, the Awujale and paramount ruler of Ijebu land, Oba Sikiru Adetona, was conspicuously absent astatine the festival owed to wellness issues. He yet died connected July 13, 2025 astatine the property of 91 af...