The popular ‘baba Ijebu’ founder and Chief Executive Officer, Chief Kessington Adebukunola Adebutu is the New Asheoju Oba of Lagos

The popular ‘baba Ijebu’ founder and Chief Executive Officer, Chief Kessington Adebukunola Adebutu is the New Asheoju Oba of Lagos.

Adebutu ia the financier of the popular Premier Lotto and chairman of the Kessington Adebukunola Adebutu Foundation (KAAF).


He replaces the late Asoju Oba of Lagos, Molade Okoya-Thomas, who died in February. The installation ceremony which was part of the 80th birthday celebration of Adebutu who is popularly referred to as ‘Baba Ijebu’, the sobriquet of his lotto (lottery) business and the 10th anniversary of KAAF, was a fun-filled affair as it was graced by the mighty and the rich as well as the family, friends and associates of the philanthropist who thronged the palace of the Oba of Lagos at Iga Idunganran on Lagos Island, venue of the installation.