The Untold Story of Chief Odutola’s Mysterious Hasty Burial:
On the fateful morning of April 13, 1995, Chief Timothy Adeola Odutola, was forcibly remove from his house and taken to the Department of Anatomy at the University of Ibadan, by mostly, illegitimate children, on the falsehood that he was already dead, and that his body was taken there supposedly for embalming.
No other family member saw his “body” before he was whisked away from his residence, and for the next two days.
Chief Odutola’s body remained at the Department of Anatomy for two weeks following his death.
His body was then taken to Ijebu-Ode and hurriedly buried on April twenty-eighth, nineteen ninety-five, less than 24 hours after being removed from the Department of Anatomy.
There was no lying-in-state of Chief Odutola’s body at the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria headquarters in Lagos, despite the fact that Chief Odutola was not only a founding member but served as the Association’s President for its first eleven years.
The very land on which the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria headquarters stands was donated by him. Nor was he mourned at the Nigerian Stock Exchange, where he was a founding member and Past Chairman.
There was no lying-in-state of Chief Odutola’s body at Adeola Odutola College, formerly Olu-Iwa College, the iconic secondary school he founded in nineteen forty-five and held dear throughout his life. There was no lying-in-state of Chief Odutola’s body at the Metropolitan Club in Victoria Island, Lagos. He was one of its first members. They hastily buried the Asiwaju of Ijebu Christians. They rushed to bury the Ogbeni Oja of Ijebu-Ode. They quickly laid to rest a man who, before the end of British colonial rule in 1960, had established three modern Tyre-retreading factories, a 5000-acre rubber plantation, developed 15 years before he built his first Tyre factory, a cattle ranch, and a thriving cocoa export business.
They hastily buried a Nigerian pioneer manufacturer and industrialist who, beyond his ventures in real estate and farming created hundreds of manufacturing jobs, started in 1959, and until his passing in 1995, operated a biscuit factory, three tire factories in Kano, Ibadan, and Ijebu-Ode.
Also, through partnerships, he served as chairman and held significant equity in the following job-creating manufacturing companies: Continental Breweries Limited, Eastern Breweries Limited, Bayer Pharmaceuticals Nigeria Limited Kabelmetal Nigeria Limited, Unichem Nigeria Limited and Crown Products Limited
They hastily buried, without due honor, a man who had served his country with distinction. as Representative of Ijebu Province in the Western House of Assembly from 1947 to 1950. Elected member of the House of Assembly from 1952 to 1954 and 1956 to 1959. Senator, member of the upper house 1960 to 1964, an External Director of the Central Bank of Nigeria from 1966 to 1972 and a member of the Constituent Assembly of Nigeria in 1978. They hastily buried a man that was honored with the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by King George VI of the United Kingdom in 1948, a man that was conferred with the Order of the Federal Republic in 1966 and Commander of the Order of the Niger in 1982.
Majority of Chief Odutola entire lying-in-state took place at the Department of Anatomy, University of Ibadan where he was supposedly embalmed. His body was brought briefly to his residence, Onibudo House, the home he built and lived in since nineteen thirty-nine, but the lying-in-state was only for a few hours. The main gate was shut to prevent any public viewing, from there, he was taken to the church for barely an hour before being moved directly to the burial site. Not even the most basic public tribute befitting his stature was observed.
One might ask, why the haste? Why was most of the entire lying-in-state of his body at the Department of Anatomy? Why was his body covered with a net throughout most of the lying-in-state in the entire two weeks?
The reason is simply… murder, and to hide his daily masked, brutally damaged body from prolonged public view. Oyinade Olurin and her coterie of co-conspirators had committed a brutal murder.
Often called the Bride of Lucifer, Oyinade Olurin, heavily entrenched in witchcraft, relentlessly pleaded, demanded and coerced for the hasty burial of a pioneer Nigerian industrialist. Chief Odutola did not pass peacefully in his sleep, as the murderers have falsely and widely claimed for thirty years. He was brutally murdered by Oyinade Olurin, by the very illegitimate children and their accomplices, SPA Ajibade, Professor Akin Mabogunje and others, who now desperately seek to erase the truth.
The Aftermath:
Professor (Mrs) Oyinade Olurin, along with total strangers, SPA Ajibade, Professor Akin Mabogunje and Kehinde Aina, went on an asset grabbing and destruction of Chief Odutola’s estate and waged a relentless campaign of terror and witchcraft against Chief Odutola’s biological children, a campaign that has persisted for over three decades.
It has been 30 years since Chief Odutola was murdered. Join us in seeking the long overdue justice he deserves, learn about Chief Odutola’s remarkable legacy, his contributions, the circumstances of his untimely death, and the ongoing, relentless campaign against his biological children, along with the current court case, which they are desperately trying to delay and keep from public view.
