BREAKING: Popular Yoruba King Is Dead

His Imperial Majesty, Oba Jimoh Oladunni Oyewumi JP CON, CFR, Ajagungbade III, the Soun Of Ogbomoso Land, has died..

A family member confirmed his demise to Tribune Online.

The Soun passed on in the early on Sunday, December 12, 2021.

He died at age 95.

Oba Oyewumi was born on May 27, 1926 in Ogbomoso to Oba Bello Afolabi Oyewumi Ajagungbade II and he ascended the throne of his father on October 24, 1973.

The monarch lost one of his sons, Pastor Olumide Oyewumi in December 2020.

The death of Olumide, who was a Chief Accountant at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso was said to have shaken the monarch.