A paramount ruler in Kogi State, the Ohinoyi of Ebira land, Ado Ibrahim, has joined his ancestors.
According to the source, the Paramount ruler gave up the ghost in the early hour on Sunday morning at age 95.
His remains is expected to be brought home Okene for burial today according to Muslim rite.
It could be recalled that the late Ado Ibrahim was coronated in 1997 as the Ohinoyi of Ebira land by the then-Governor of Kogi State, late Prince Abubakar Audu.
He took over from the his predecessor Alhaji Sanni Omolorim who reigned between 1957 and 1997.
Born on February 7, 1929, late Ado Ibrahim attended both western nursery and Quranic schools, and went on to conclude his primary education in 1940 at the Native Authority (NA) primary school in Okene, Northern Region (now Kogi State).
He, began his secondary school education at Ondo Boys High School and later on moved to Oduduwa College, where he graduated in 1949.
In 1954, he obtained a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the London School of Economics and a master’s degree from Harvard Business School in 1959.
