Although Lisabi is generally regarded as the national father of the Egba people, it was the hero, Sodeke who led them into exile from the ancestral homes around the site of present Ibadan and founded the city of Abeokuta in 1830. Sodeke called this new settlement ‘Abe-okuta’ under the rock, due to the protection afforded to the settlers by the Olumo rock. One of the young warriors of the Egba Alake who followed the triumphant Sodeke to Abeokuta was a man named Sopitan. Desp