Since he was designated as the Aare Ona Kakanfo in 2017 by the Alaafin of Oyo, Iku Baba Yeye, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi II, Adams had been engaged in several processes that will lead to his installation on January 13, 2018 at Durbar Stadium, Oyo, Oyo State.
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Giving reasons for the visit, the Grand Patron and Leader of the group, Comrade Joseph Evah, said there are over 100 groups in the Niger Delta and all these groups are across the South West.
Gani said the party had mapped out strategies to unseat the ruling party, adding: “With the new spirit in PDP in Lagos, we are sure of winning in 2019.”
Some of the monarchs who received Adams and his entourage in their various palaces during the weekend offered special prayers for the success and long life for the new Aare Kakanfo and progress of Yorubaland
Saraki received Aare Adams and his team in his office located on the fourth floor of the new Senate building inside the National Assembly Complex, Abuja.
Fielding questions from newsmen at the event, Adams while thanking the South West Patriots Movement, with Awolowo Foundation and other supporting groups for the initiative, registered his support for the position of speakers at the event that meaningful development could be recorded in the South West’s educational and economic sectors only if it is able to secure regional autonomy.
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.
Adams made the plea in Lagos on Friday when he played host to members of the Nigeria Ethnic Nationality Youth Leaders Forum in his Lagos home.
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.
Amosun, in a statement signed by the state Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Chief Adedayo Adeneye, hailed the appointment of Adams and said it is well deserved.
Adams said the present arrangement of fusing Culture and Information Ministries has led to serious retrogression in the culture sector and that the situation could get worse if not quickly arrested
One would have overlooked the statement and referred to it as a rant of an ant but to set the records straight, i will like to state it here and make it known to the world that Kaabiesi Ooni of Ife and Otunba Gani Adams are always in touch, Otunba Gani Adams has met with Kaabiesi Ooni three times under a year
According to the General Secretary of the Oodua Progressive Union in Kenya, O.E. Ajenifuja, those to be deported included Nigerians with valid visa
According to a press statement by Segun Akanni, the Personal Assistant to Otunba Adams, the foundation is said to be determined to make sure that the festival holds despite the economic recession
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He said going by the wicked records of Fulani herdsmen who have turned the clean and clear rivers of their host communities in the South West area of the country into rivers that flow with human blood, the action of Fayose and the state House of Assembly to pass the anti-grazing bill in the state is highly commendable
The OPC chief, while speaking during the 2016 edition of the annual Ifa Festival, organised by the Olokun Festival Foundation, which took place in Abule-Ado area of Amuwo Odofin Local Government, Lagos State, described the invasion of the South West by militants as “one too many”
One OPC member was reportedly killed but other members of the Yoruba group succeeded in arresting four members of the hang who were handed over to the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Owutu Police Station, who later handed them over to the Area Commander in charge of the area
He said: “What happened just about 10 days ago in Ikorodu is highly unfortunate. But people of Yoruba are the only people that play politics with their lives and properties. When you have a dog that is preventing criminals from coming to your house and you take it to the veterinary to remove its teeth; when criminals come to your house, what will the dog use to fight them?
They also alleged that the sum of N20 million, which they claimed was paid as compensation to the OPC for the killing of our members in Owo in 2002, was diverted. Other allegations include an alleged sum of 22 million US dollars from the late Libyan leader, Ghadafi and diversion of ID cards money among others