Yoruba to speak with one voice – Ooni

AKURE — Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuade, Thursday, assured that the Yoruba nation would soon be speaking with one voice as the disunity in the region would soon be resolved.

Oba Sijuade spoke in Akure during an unscheduled visit to the Ondo State Governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko at the Government House in Akure .

A statement by Governor Mimiko’s Chief Press Secretary, Kolawole Olabisi, said the monarch stressed the importance of unity among Yoruba people to sustain the enviable position of the race in the nation’s socio-political system.

The statement said: “The Yoruba must come together and move together and speak with one voice. So there was a meeting today which was attended by some leaders among whom were Bishop Gbonigi from Ondo State and Bishop Ladigbolu from Oyo State. They are now putting their heads together to get a larger meeting where we can all meet to solve our problems. Whether you like it or not, we must come together more than before and become one entity.”

By the special grace of God and by the power of ‘Oduduwa’, we will move forward and it will not be behind our Governor by the grace of God.”

“We cannot come to Ondo state without paying respect to the Governor, it will be very wrong of one to pass through this state without calling on our eminent Governor to pay our respect.”

Responding the Governor r Mimiko thanked the traditional ruler for the visit and called on the Yoruba not to allow do-or-die politics disintegrate the entire region because of the position of the Yoruba race in the affairs of the country.

-BY DAYO JOHNSON 

Source: Vanguard