According to the monarch, he has done his own bit in addressing the division among the Yoruba race by doing what the people wanted in giving them the Aare Ona Kakanfo of their choice.
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Speaking through its national spokesperson, Okereafor Bestman Opeyemi, during a solidarity visit to the Lagos home of Adams, the students applauded his choice as the new Aare Ona Kakanfo
The influential and revered traditional rulers prayed for a successful tenure and long life for the Aare Ona Kakanfo designate and tasked him on different issues bothering on the development of Yorubaland when Adams visited the monarchs in their different palaces at the weekend
Speaking at the event, which saw members of the group drawn from across the country in attendance, Adams, who is also the National Coordinator of the OPC, said aside from providing the opportunity for the group to reach out to the families of members of the group who are late, it is also an opportunity to reach out to the spirit of the late members
The Lagos home of the Aare Ona Kakanfo Designate has become a Mecca of sort since his proclamation by the Alaafin Of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi 111, as Aare Ona Kakanfo.
“The palace of the Alaafin Of Oyo, the Iku Babayeye Ikeji Orisa, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, has scheduled the installation ceremony of the Aare Ona Kakanfo designate, Otunba Gani Adams, as the 15th Aare Ona Kakanfo for the 13th of January 2018,” the statement said.
The letter, dated October 27, 2017, reads: “We heartily received with joy and full encomium, Your Eminence consideration and conferment as the 17th Aare Onakanfo of Yoruba Land by His Imperial Majesty, Oba (Dr.) Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemmi 111, Iku Baba Yeye 1, The Alaafin of Oyo, which proves your worth as eminently deserving role of the title.
The 50th birthday anniversary was celebrated at River Side Resort, Iwo, Osun State on October 22, 2017
Congratulating the Aare-designate, Oba Ogunwusi applauded his choice and prayed that God empowers him to carry out the work assigned to him to do for Yorubaland, stressing that there is no doubt his choice is as a result of his antecedent as a fearless fighter for the emancipation of Yoruba interests by peaceful means.
According to a statement issued at the weekend by the Lagos office of the Aare Ona Kakanfo, the appointments take immediate effect.
Adams, the National Coordinator of the Oodua Peoples’ Congress, told newsmen in Lagos that not all those who held the position in the past had died young as is being speculated.
he decision of the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi in picking Otunba Adams as the new Generalissimo after about 20 years of wait, the former Governor said, is divine and a sacredly delayed act in order to choose the anointed one
The Waziri Adamawa, in a press statement signed by his media office on Wednesday, noted that the appointment of Adams as the new Kakanfo is a call to national duty.