By Seyifunmi Odunuga
The declaration for the vacant stool of Owa Obokun of Ijeshaland by a leading contender, Prince Ademuyiwa Hastrup, has been hit by tragedy with the death of his father, Prince Adeniran Hastrup.
The elder Hastrup died on Sunday night six days to the declaration of his son for the teverred Owa Obokun of Ijeshaland stool.
The younger Hastrup, Prince Ademuyiwa who lamented the death of his father while speaking with journalists in Osogbo, the Osun State capital.
He disclosed that nothing happened to his father as he saw him on Friday during which he told him that he has handed his aspiration to the kingmakers in Ilesa as the families within the Ajimokan ruling house ready to fight for the stool of “Owa Obokun of Ijeshaland.”
“However this morning I was to receive a devastating news when my brother called me that my father was rushed to the hospital and that he later gave up the ghost”, he said.
