Ogun State arguably has the largest number of traditional rulers in the country . To buttress the status, the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Chief Jide Ojuko released the officially recognised number of traditional rulers in the state, saying, they are 249 in number. The commissioner who took his time to explain how the State got to the level said; “In the past, the process of selection of Obas, I want to say, has been abused and the interest of this government is to ensure that responsible, people of good character, people of high pedigree, people of recognized means of living are made Obas of our various communities.” He further said; “Because, we have discovered that many of them were made Obas, only to start selling land, to start disturbing the peace of their environments. We have discovered that it is the Oba in some communities who caused the problem that is happening in those communities. “And this is because many of them before they were m