Yoruba's
Influential monarch, the Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Ogunwusi, on Tuesday said
he ascended the throne of Ooni by divine intervention and not by his
powers.
Ooni of Ife with President Buhari and his vice, Osinbajo
While speaking with State House correspondents after a meeting with
President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, the newly
crowned Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Ogunwusi, on Tuesday said he ascended the
throne of Ooni by divine intervention and not by his powers, adding that
he has several developmental plans that would empower the youth.
The monarch said: "I have a clear strategy, if you don’t want
to accept me, I will accept you. It is very important and I will be very
persistent about it because it is a divine calling. It is not by my
power nor by my might. It is a calling from the King of kings who
actually appointed me to this throne.
"So I will be very persistent. About acceptability, if you do
not accept me today, you will accept me tomorrow. It is a clear mission
and I will be persistent about it."
While commenting on the social welfare programmes he has for his people apart from the mass transit scheme, the Ooni said, "There
is a lot. I am currently working with the Minister of Agriculture. We
have been able to assembly over 200,000 youths within a space of 30
days. It is unbelievable. We are encouraging them to go back to the
farm.
"Something happened in Nigeria that we did not notice. Last
year October, crude oil price started going down astronomically, but
cocoa price went up by over 100 percent and nobody noticed it.
"Nigeria in the early 1930s and 1940s was the largest exporter of cocoa in the world and the farmlands are still there."
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