It will not be out of place to say that one of the greatest gifts enjoyed by every monarch that has ruled Idanre kingdom in Òndó state is long life, culminating in their long reign on the throne of their forbears.
The immediate past Ọwá of Idanre, Ọba Aladegbule Aroloye who is the father of the reigning Ọba Frederick Aroloye, spent half a century on the throne and his son who succeeded him in 1976 is now forty-five years on the throne and still counting
OSRC’s Richard Ilesanmi who attended the grand finale of his forty-fifth coronation anniversary reports that sons and daughters, home and abroad, rolled out the drums to celebrate their monarch and to sketch a new map for the growth of the kingdom.