Ondo monarch collapses, dies after 24 hours 

The accepted ruler of Idogun successful Ose Local Government Area of Ondo State, Onidogun of Idogun, Oba Moses Ekundayo Bakare has died.

The monarch reportedly collapsed connected Wednesday and was taken to a hospital, wherever helium remained successful a coma for 24 hours earlier passing distant connected Thursday evening.

His decease comes astir a twelvemonth aft a situation rocked the assemblage successful October 2025, erstwhile immoderate residents allegedly assaulted him successful an incidental captured successful a viral video.

Following the attack, the monarch reportedly near Idogun and remained distant from the assemblage until his death.

In the aftermath of the crisis, the Ondo State Government constituted a sheet of enquiry to analyse the incidental and taxable its findings. However, the panel’s study has yet to beryllium made public.

The authorities Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Idowu Ajanaku, who is besides an indigene of Idogun, confirmed the monarch’s decease and expressed the government’s condolences to his household and the full community.

Ajanaku said the chiefs of Idogun had informed him of the development. He besides appealed to residents to support bid and bid and debar unit during the mourning period.

Meanwhile, reports from the assemblage indicated that immoderate indigenes opposed to the precocious monarch prevented h...