Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has disclosed that Ijebu leaders actively lobbied the late General Murtala Mohammed, the then Head of State, to designate Sagamu as the capital of Ogun State when it was established in February 1976. Speaking 49 years after the state’s creation, Obasanjo noted that the Ijebu leaders opposed the selection of Abeokuta […]

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