The Executive Director, Marine and Operations at the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Engr. Olalekan Badmus has described the one decade and half of the reign of Oba Jimoh Oyetunji Olanipekun Larooye II as Ataoja of Osogbo, filled with tremendous development of the capital city.
In his message, Badmus congratulated the monarch for a peaceful 15 years of steering the ship of the ancient town.
The Aare Bobagunwa of Owu Ile and Otunba Fiwasaye of Ada land also lauded Oba Oyetunji for working tirelessly to champion the entrenchment of various projects that has transformed the face of the capital of Osun State.
He said, I felicitate my father and a royal diadem of inestimable value, Oba Jimoh Oyetunji Olanipekun Larooye II, the Ataoja of Osogbo, as he celebrates his 15th anniversary on the throne.
I am more than happy to felicitate Kabiesi because in the last 15 years, Baba has been unrepentantly committed to the growth and development of his domain.
The spring up of various projects, companies, industries and businesses in the state capital is also credited to the peace he has midwifed in the last one and a half decades.
Baba Ataoja means a lot to us as indigenes and residents of Osogbo.I congratulate him on this historic moment and wish him many more productive and fruitful years in the saddle of his forbears. May Ataoja and Osogboland continue to excel.