 following series of coronation rites, a former member of the National Assembly, Mahoud Olalekou Balogum, has been crowned as for the second Olu Badon of Ibarra land. Speaking of the epoch-making event, Professor Yemiah Shibajah loaded the Ibarra traditional ascension system, which he described as worthy of emulation. To satisfy our political whims, we make decisions that do not protect our traditional systems. But this is why the custodians of our culture must always take a stand against us politicians thinking with age-old traditional systems. No politician, no matter how highly placed, can destroy any system without the cooperation of some members of these systems. So therefore I want to use this opportunity to ask the KBAC and the Olu Badon in Council that could work to ensure that the laws having to do with the ascension to the throne of Olu Badon remain sacrosanct. I must congratulate you as you also enter the history books being one of the few governors who have had the joyful and historic duty of handing the staff of office to a new Olu Badon. Ibarra became the hub of politics in the then new nation and the capital of western region. It was and is still acknowledged as the political headquarters of the entire southwest of Nigeria. Ibarra was and has always been a city on a hill, a place of refuge and a realm in which individuals could rise by the grace of their talents on marriage.