According to tradition, Baakun is an ancient town in Yorubaland, and one of the earliest settlements in Ife Empire in Nigeria.
[citation needed] Tradition states that he migrated from Offa-Ile to establish his own settlement at a place very close to Ipetumodu.
He was fond of building huts and establishing his idols such as Ogun and Orisa Ogiyan in those places.
Agbangudu migrated to Edu, Larele to Apomu, and Akintayo to Ibadan whose grand children became an Olubadan later in life.
Upon the departure of Modakeke people from Oyo Alaafin, their first place of settlement was at Baakun where they practiced their art of blacksmithing.
They were good sources of tools like hoes, cutlasses, and guns for their farming and hunting.
When Modakeke was depopulated in 1909 to 1910, the majority of the people came to settle on Oluopo land at Tafia.
their idols of worship that were situated on the land, Baakun people still lost the protest because the D.O.
took this decision, he told the Baakun people to make the farmland their permanent abode and be under Ibadan or be ready to forfeit it.
That was how Modakeke refugees were brought to the place, Baakun farmland, which is today known as Ode –Omu.
The younger generations are made up of people who are mainly literate and are highly endowed with knowledge that adequately prepared them to constitute a virile and productive workforce in many sectors of Nigerian economy including public service, manufacturing, banking, information technology, and theological vocations.