Adams said such allocation will further encourage the springing up of additional pressure groups across the country.
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As Nigerians go to the polls on February 16, 2019, the Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Abiodun Ige Adams, has said it presents Nigerians another opportunity to choose a leader that has the interest of the country at heart.
The Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, on Saturday said the restructuring of Nigeria was important for the country to rise above its challenges and stay on the path of progress.
The Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Chief Gani Adams, on Wednesday reechoed the call for restructuring as a way out of the challenges confronting Nigeria.
The Nigeria Union of Journalists, Lagos State Council is set to launch two books in honour of Iba Gani Abiodun Ige Adams, the 15th Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland.
The leadership of the National Association of Nigerian Students has faulted the appointment of Alhaji Sarafa Ishola, the Baba Adinni of Yorubaland, as campaign Director General of the Allied People’s Movement, a party that has links with Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State.
The Aare Ona Kakamfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams says the Council of Yoruba Obas in the Diaspora is a desecration of Yoruba land and tradition.
The International conference, being facilitated by the Muslim Ummah of South West Nigeria was part of the activities lined up to mark the 10th year anniversary of the group.
Former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Kalu, has commiserated with the Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland and leader of Oodua People’s Congress, Aare Gani Adams, over the passing of his father, Pa Lamidi Adams.
The Muslim Rights Concern has cried out to the Lagos State government in particular and other state governments in Yorubaland (Ogun, Oyo, Osun and Ekiti) to avert the looming religious crisis in the sub-region.
A quick recall of the historical past of the Ekitis vividly reminds of the gallantry of their ancestors during the eponymous inter-tribal wars tagged the Ekiti Parapo wars. The wars, which ended all the wars in Yorubaland, was unarguably the last and most protracted military campaign that plagued the Yoruba nation.
According to those who believe in this school of thought, a polygamist is not a man that marries more than one wife, but any man that has a wife at home and keeps a Mistress or Mistresses outside his matrimonial home. Among the Yoruba, polygamy is however not seen as anything bad, going by the agricultural advantage it brings to farmer-husbands who in the past years used their wives and children to cultivate their farms instead of hiring labourers.
Aare Adams said this at St. Philips Anglican Parish Church, Isanya Ogbo-Ijebu, Ogun State during the thanksgiving service held in commemoration of the 90th birthday celebration of the Afenifere chieftain.
The President, League of lmams and Alfas, South-West, Edo and Delta states, Sheikh Jamiu Bello, in a letter to Oba Akanbi, urged him to restrict the title to his domain, Iwo.
Adams arrived the venue at about 11:15am with his wife, children, family and members of the Oodua People’s Congress, in a convoy of about 20 vehicles.
Adams was on January 13, 2018 installed at a grand ceremony at Durbar Stadium in ancient Oyo town in Oyo State as the 15th Aare Ona Kakanfo by the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III.
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
If Yoruba must regain and retain its pride of place, if Nigeria must triumph over its today’s woes and travel beyond the socioeconomic boundaries that fetters it, such as those given above, we must begin to prevail on citizens to start to discourage fielding grandparents for political offices, a trend anti-clockwise to the emerging new world
Aregbesola held that the various conservative political platforms that preceded the Peoples Democratic Party have always been associated with agony, oppression, corruption and under-development