Ladapo Ademola succeeded Oba Gbadebo in 1920 with overwhelming votes from the Egba council.
19 Facts About Ladapo Ademola
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Ladapo Ademola was forced to live outside of Abeokuta in 1948 due to tax related demonstrations led by Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, a member of the regional House of Assembly, but later returned to Abeokuta in 1950.
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Ladapo Ademola was appointed president of the Western House of Chiefs in 1960.
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Ladapo Ademola was born to the royal house of Alake Ladapo Ademola I and his wife, Okodabi.
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Ladapo Ademola was educated at the Ake School, Abeokuta and in Lagos, he attended Breadfruit School, Lagos and Forsythe school.
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Ladapo Ademola trained as a printer under J Bagan Benjamin in 1888 and later joined John Payne Jackson of the Lagos Weekly Record.
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Ladapo Ademola who had spent the larger part of his life in Lagos became a broker in the development of relationship between Egba chiefs and Governor Henry McCallum.
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Ladapo Ademola played a leading role in negotiations between Lagos and Abeokuta for the passage of railway through Egba country.
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Ladapo Ademola was an adviser to McCallum to create the Egba United Government as a replacement for the triumvirate.
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Ladapo Ademola then took to farming as an occupation but the government system which he had supported in Abeokuta gained little popularity among the residents partly because of a new poll tax.
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Ladapo Ademola was a popular figure among the Egbas resident in Lagos.
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Ladapo Ademola was a modern prince who wore English clothes in Lagos and who had followed Gbadebo to England to visit Edward VII.
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When Oba Gbadebo I died, Ladapo Ademola contested the throne against Daniel Lajide, Daniel Mann, the Losi of Ake and Lipede Jibodu.
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Ladapo Ademola's reign started with Ademola filling the vacant chieftaincy titles with his allies.
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Ladapo Ademola created a committee of 24 elders to visit Egba villages and act as his envoys to the villages.
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Ladapo Ademola continued with public works in Abeokuta and gained support from the British colonial administration as head of the Native Authority.
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Ladapo Ademola was a patron of the Abeokuta Ladies Club which counted Chief Ransome Kuti as a member.
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The protest gained the support of the Ogbonis and by the end of 1948, Ladapo Ademola went into exile to keep the peace in Abeokuta.
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Ladapo Ademola was on the throne when Abeokuta celebrated its centenary in October 1930, which coincided with his ten-year anniversary.