this The monarch announced on Sunday that his long-time friend and former president died hours after Muhammadu Buhari’s death.
Adetona ascended the throne on April 2, 1960 and ruled for more than 64 years, making him one of the longest traditional rulers in Nigerian history.
His friendship with Buhari dates back to the 1980s and was consolidated under special circumstances.
In 1983, just before the military coup in Buhari, then the governor of Ogun State, Olabisi Onabanjo, had signed a formal order that swept Adetona. The evacuation plan came into effect on January 2, 1984.
However, the coup on December 31, 1983 (the civilian government that overthrew Nigeria) suspended the plan. Buhari’s intervention inadvertently preserved the rule of Awujale.
