Arole Oduduwa and the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, on Sunday said he would be using the next seven days of his seclusion for Olojo Festival to pray for change in attitude for politicians in the country.
He noted that there is only one political party in the country with the same value, same character, and same set of politicians.
The royal father, who spoke in his palace before proceeding to Ilofi, where he would be spending the next seven days in seclusion to kick-start rites for this year’s edition of Olojo Festival, said his prayers would be centred on change of attitude for politicians in the country to stop playing with the lives of the people they claimed to serve.
Oba Ogunwusi also said the time had come for politicians to realize that they should serve Nigerians genuinely, as the country must not be allowed to further drift along the present direction.
He said: “I will go again to seclusion and pray to God to touch the heart of our politicians for them to stop playing all of us like ludo.
“They should be more sensitive about people because as it is now, we have just one political party in Nigeria. Our politicians are just crisscrossing in order to retain their positions.
“We have one political party in this country, same value, same character, and same set of politicians. But I am going to go into seclusion and pray to God to touch their hearts, for them to stop playing games with the lives of citizens of this country.”
The Olojo Festival would climax with the Ooni adorning ‘Are’ crown and symbolic visit to Ogun Shrine.
He said there is no difference among politicians in the country irrespective of parties, adding that they usually cross carpet from one major political party to another to protect their interests.
His words: “We believe in the forces of nature for nature to conspire in our favour; but every other thing in our country they are all man made, the likes of security, our politicians will take credit for that, they are the ones that caused it till date. I will go again to seclusion for God to touch their heart for them to stop playing all of us like ludo.
“They should be more sensitive about people because it is one political party. They are just crisscrossing from one political party to the other in order to retain their positions. We have one political party in this country, same value, same character, same politician. But I am going to go into seclusion for God to touch their hearts for them to stop playing games with the lives of citizens of this country. It is about time for them to realize that they should serve us genuinely because we can not continue like this.
“This time around is a serious one, it is a request on behalf of the entire people, Yoruba race and by extension our dear Country Nigeria. I am going for God to touch their heart and really pray to my ancestors. We are just deceiving ourselves that they are different, they are the same. All of them have crossed to the major party but Nigeria is above them all.
“This time around it is a very sensitive one and a very serious one. First of all to thank God Almighty and the spirit of our ancestors that have been guiding us thus far, God has really helped us with the pandemic issue because we won’t be able to handle it, when we compare things we have been doing with other nations. We have every course to be thankful to God.
“They said we are spiritual and it is working for us in this country, we have course to thank God Almighty, that it is not out of hands. We shouldn’t rest our oars. I am going to seclusion which is the 6th. I inherited the tradition from my ancestors of thousands of years ago”, he said.
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