The Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi, on Tuesday took his ongoing unity campaign to the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
During the visit, Ogunwusi met behind closed doors separately with President Muhammadu Buhari and the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo.
The monarch arrived for the meetings shortly after the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, also met with the two leaders inside the President’s office.
Ogunwusi told reporters that his meeting with Buhari centred on peace and progress of the nation, which both of them stand for.
He 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.”
Ogunwusi said he was already working on a youth empowerment programme that will take over 200,000 youths back to the farm.
He said he would provide about five acres of land per youth for that purpose.
He said: “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 over 100 per cent 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.
“So what we have been able to do now is that is another positive indicator for the nation economy.
“We have been able to assemble youths and we are giving them five acres per youth so that they will go back to the farm.
“The Federal Government is supporting us very well.
“So it is going to be a model that will be replicated in all parts of the country.
“As a royal father, I am also encouraging the youth not to look for fast ways of making money.
“Let us go back to the basics.”
Adeboye did not speak with journalists after his meeting with Buhari and Osinbajo.
When reporters approached him for comment, he simply: “God bless you.”
