Governor Ademola Adeleke penultimate Thursday approved the appointment of Chief Oyebode Aderonke Mary as the new Iyaloja General of Osun State.
She was named as a replacement for Chief Awawu Asindemade who was installed as the Iyaloja General (the female head of all traders in the state), during the Rauf Aregbesola administration.
The governor called the new Iyaloja General ‘a strong leader of business women’ in Osun State.
‘We approve her appointment with all sense of responsibility and confidence in her ability to pilot the affairs of women in commerce for the collective prosperity of Osun State’, he said.
Asindemade has, however, said she could not be removed because the group was a Non -Governmental Organization which she founded.
‘They only removed themselves and not me. I am not bothered by that development because they can’t stop me from being the Iyaloja General. Rather, the one appointed as the new Iyaloja General is for the PDP.
I am still the Iyaloja General in Osun State while the new appointee is PDP’s Iyaloja General. It is no problem if the government decides not to relate with us, we have a government at the federal level.
My position as Iyaloja General is not for a specific tenure. The government has no power to remove Iyaloja General. Our group is a Non-governmental Organization and I founded it’, she explained.
