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Okemesi Honours Eminent Politician, Ishola Fapohunda with Chieftaincy Title

Ololade Adeyanju/

The people of Okemesi, a town in Ekiti State, have commenced the observation of a week-long rite for the installation of one of their prominent sons as the custodian of a traditional title of a great warrior.

Ishola Fapohunda, an accomplished lawyer and former governorship aspirant in Ekiti State on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), is being installed as the ‘Òloyè L’ógun Lómo Ofe’ of Òkèmesí.

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Fapohunda observing one of the rites
Fapohunda on the traditional stool
Fapohunda with the paraphernalia of his office
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