[size=14pt]Pan-Yoruba conference update: The Alaafin, Stakeholders’ pains[/size]
on NOVEMBER 20, 2011 · in INTERVIEW
     
By BASHIR ADEFAKA

The Yoruba nation is in search of unity amid concerns that a section of the people that matter in the in quest to move the race forward is being left out

The first pan-Yoruba conference, held at Ikenne,Ogun State, on Thursday, October 6, has come and gone but the fall-out from that supposedly first-of-its-kind meeting, aimed at charting the way forward for the Yoruba race, remains an issue.

The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi, was conspicuously absent at the meeting which the Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, convened with the matriarch of the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo dynasty, Mama H.I.D. Awolowo and first elected governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, who were visibly seated on the high table.

Though the conference held, it couild not be said to be a total success due to what people like the Afenifere chieftain, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, and many of the traditional rulers present blamed on the Alaafin’s absence.


Oba Adeyemi, Alaafin of Oyo
“Without the Alaafin on seat,” Adebanjo said, “nothing can be said to have been done. Before we can say this meeting is a success, no Yoruba son must be left out.”

The Alaafin said that Yoruba race would not get anywhere so long as its leadership control was placed in the hands of sitting public officers or politicians, who, he said, had always ceased to function after their tenures of office and thus disappeared.

Former Military Governor of the defunct Western Region, Major General Adeyinka Adebayo, corroborated the Alaafin’s position in an interview with Sunday Vanguard during which the President of the Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE) said the Yoruba problem was not disunity per se but political.

The Alaafin said: “What I am saying is that the Yoruba should resuscitate its own pressure group to meet the challenges of national exigencies. To me, the institution of traditional rulership around should be an agency for uniting rather than dividing the political class, which is what the Obas are doing now.

“Do they want to say Yorubas in other political parties are not leaders in their own rights? What of other political office holders like Yoruba members of the National Assembly?”

It also disturbed the mind of the sole custodian of the customs and traditions of Oyo Empire that Yorubas were not utilizing their human resources well.

Chief Obafemi Awolowo became acceptable as Yoruba leader long after his time as premier of Western Region and that it was about that time or thereafter he was picked into the General Yakubu Gowon’s Federal Military Government as Federal Commissioner for Finance, where, seeing himself as representing the Yoruba at the Federal service, he caused his performance to beat the imagination of many people, nationally and internationally.

The Igbo, it was said, still remember Awolowo’s role in how they failed to secede into the Republic of Biafra. That was the typical Yoruba leadership being talked about and a return to that age in the race’s forward-match process, the Alaafin of Oyo said, would help in quick arrival.
“In the 1967 experience, the Obas worked assiduously in bringing all the warring political interests together, especially against the backdrop of the rancour between the Action Group and the NCNC. But what do we have today? Obas and governors alone charting a course for the Yoruba. We have to look beyond transient position holders,” said Alaafin before the October 6 Ikenne conference.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/pan-yoruba-conference-update-the-alaafin-stakeholders%E2%80%99-pains/

What have they achieved?

aloyemeka4:
[size=14pt]Pan-Yoruba conference update: The Alaafin, Stakeholders’ pains[/size]
on NOVEMBER 20, 2011 · in INTERVIEW
     
By BASHIR ADEFAKA

The Yoruba nation is in search of unity amid concerns that a section of the people that matter in the in quest to move the race forward is being left out

The first pan-Yoruba conference, held at Ikenne,Ogun State, on Thursday, October 6, has come and gone but the fall-out from that supposedly first-of-its-kind meeting, aimed at charting the way forward for the Yoruba race, remains an issue.

The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi, was conspicuously absent at the meeting which the Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, convened with the matriarch of the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo dynasty, Mama H.I.D. Awolowo and first elected governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, who were visibly seated on the high table.

Though the conference held, it couild not be said to be a total success due to what people like the Afenifere chieftain, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, and many of the traditional rulers present blamed on the Alaafin’s absence.


Oba Adeyemi, Alaafin of Oyo
“Without the Alaafin on seat,” Adebanjo said, “nothing can be said to have been done. Before we can say this meeting is a success, no Yoruba son must be left out.”

The Alaafin said that Yoruba race would not get anywhere so long as its leadership control was placed in the hands of sitting public officers or politicians, who, he said, had always ceased to function after their tenures of office and thus disappeared.

Former Military Governor of the defunct Western Region, Major General Adeyinka Adebayo, corroborated the Alaafin’s position in an interview with Sunday Vanguard during which the President of the Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE) said the Yoruba problem was not disunity per se but political.

The Alaafin said: “What I am saying is that the Yoruba should resuscitate its own pressure group to meet the challenges of national exigencies. To me, the institution of traditional rulership around should be an agency for uniting rather than dividing the political class, which is what the Obas are doing now.

“Do they want to say Yorubas in other political parties are not leaders in their own rights? What of other political office holders like Yoruba members of the National Assembly?”

It also disturbed the mind of the sole custodian of the customs and traditions of Oyo Empire that Yorubas were not utilizing their human resources well.

Chief Obafemi Awolowo became acceptable as Yoruba leader long after his time as premier of Western Region and that it was about that time or thereafter he was picked into the General Yakubu Gowon’s Federal Military Government as Federal Commissioner for Finance, where, seeing himself as representing the Yoruba at the Federal service, he caused his performance to beat the imagination of many people, nationally and internationally.

The Igbo, it was said, still remember Awolowo’s role in how they failed to secede into the Republic of Biafra. That was the typical Yoruba leadership being talked about and a return to that age in the race’s forward-match process, the Alaafin of Oyo said, would help in quick arrival.
“In the 1967 experience, the Obas worked assiduously in bringing all the warring political interests together, especially against the backdrop of the rancour between the Action Group and the NCNC. But what do we have today? Obas and governors alone charting a course for the Yoruba. We have to look beyond transient position holders,” said Alaafin before the October 6 Ikenne conference.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/pan-yoruba-conference-update-the-alaafin-stakeholders%E2%80%99-pains/

The title of the Thread is very misleading

Didn't the man commit suicide by ingesting rat poison later?

BeardedmeatR:
Didn't the man commit suicide by ingesting rat poison later?

Only in your dreams.

So foiling another person's dreams make you great?

Christistruth00:


The title of the Thread is very misleading

The Igbo, it was said, still remember Awolowo’s role in how they failed to secede into the Republic of Biafra. That was the typical Yoruba leadership being talked about and a return to that age in the race’s forward-match process, the Alaafin of Oyo said, would help in quick arrival.

How can PIGs live without IGBO obsession. From Yoruba Politicans..to their Worthless traditional rulers and ancestors.

A tribe of failures...

The receipt of the RAt poison was discovered by his Worthless relatives. Go ask them for confirmation...mugu

raskymonojendor:

Only in your dreams.

Igbos remember clearly how Awolowo begged for his release from prison on his knees from Aguiyi ironsi, one wonders why a person that could not do anything to save himself from going to jail suddenly was bold enough to stop Biafra exit

kettykin:
Igbos remember clearly how Awolowo begged for his release from prison on his knees from Aguiyi ironsi, one wonders why a person that could not do anything to save himself from going to jail suddenly was bold enough to stop Biafra exit

I79 Soldiers Miraculously Stopped the Biafran Army at Ore in a complete Stunning Surprise midnight attack invasion of the Western Region in what was a desperate attempt by Ojukwu to Seize Lagos and Ibadan

All Glory be to God Almighty
It could only have been him

The Biafran Army could have entered a Completely unprepared Lagos that same night
By day break when they got the News all of Lagos and Ibadan were thrown into Chaos
But they still Triumphed in the end


"Oleku Ija Ore"

BeardedmeatR:

Smh. Same way your elders misinformed you that President Muhammadu Buhari was dead and Asiwaju Tinubu never attended the Chicago State University.

Spreading so much lies, hate, bigotry and criminal defamation is your toxic stock in trade and it started way long even before the nation became an independent nation.

You have more problems with your mediocre leaders who misrepresent the truth, stereotype other people and usually feed you lies about the leaders of other tribes.

FreeStuffsNG:

Smh. Same way your elders misinformed you that President Muhammadu Buhari was dead and Asiwaju Tinubu never attended the Chicago State University.

Spreading so much lies, hate, bigotry and criminal defamation is your toxic stock in trade and it started way long even before the nation became an independent nation.

You have more problems with your mediocre leaders who misrepresent the truth, stereotype other people and usually feed you lies about the leaders of other tribes.

Get behind me you pathological bigot and enemy of anything noble!

raskymonojendor:

Only in your dreams.

My dreams your nightmare.

BeardedmeatR:
My dreams your nightmare.

Is it the bleaching alafin or another one

BeardedmeatR:
Didn't the man commit suicide by ingesting rat poison later?

That would be Ojukwu the cantankerous coward who died lonely and deaf on his bed after karma caught up with him for being a pedophile and sleeping with his best friends daughter and a child who he was named her godfather

raumdeuter:


That would be Ojukwu the cantankerous coward who died lonely and deaf on his bed after karma caught up with him for being a pedophile and sleeping with his best friends daughter and a child who he was named her godfather

Abegiiiiiiiiii..

That Awolawo committed suicide by ingesting rat poison is common knowledge. Little lads like you can only wail and wail and continue wailing.

Ibos can suck their dicks if they are fucking pissed about being losers.

BeardedmeatR:
Abegiiiiiiiiii..

That Awolawo committed suicide by ingesting rat poison is common knowledge. Little lads like you can only wail and wail and continue wailing.

This news of Ojukus deathbed was in a national newspaper

We all know he was a pedophile anyway and a coward who fled warfront

Any body that portrays a criminal as a representation of their culture is an admission by such individual that their culture is dead.The pain tinubu inflicted on brain dead agbados is so good that they are still crying more than 7 months after hahaha

raumdeuter:


This news of Ojukus deathbed was in a national newspaper

We all know he was a pedophile anyway and a coward who fled warfront

But he never took his own life like Awolawo. He recovered from his depression and died peacefully when it was time.

BeardedmeatR:
But he never took his own life like Awolawo. He recovered from his depression and died peacefully when it was time.

Who told you he recovered? He died on that bed abandoned like a mad man on the roadside

You also know he is a coward who fled warfront and a pedophile who slept with his friends daughter

raumdeuter:


Who told you he recovered? He died on that bed abandoned like a mad man on the roadside

You also know he is a coward who fled warfront and a pedophile who slept with his friends daughter

It is still better than taking your own life by ingesting rat poison like Awolawo did.

Very very. Sometimes I wonder if there are forces determined to destabilize this nation.

Christistruth00:


The title of the Thread is very misleading

BeardedmeatR:
My dreams your nightmare.

Your dreams below

raskymonojendor:

Your dreams below

Are those your kit and kin in Ogbomosho?

Buhahaha 😁😄😄😃😂

They are being fed with otapiapia like Awolawo fed himself with.

Christistruth00:


The title of the Thread is very misleading

The title was twisted to provoke online tribal vawulence.

9jatriot:
Very very. Sometimes I wonder if there are forces determined to destabilize this nation.

They are

Read this from an IPOB leader

BeardedmeatR:
Are those your kit and kin in Ogbomosho?

Buhahaha 😁😄😄😃😂

They are being fed with otapiapia like Awolawo fed himself with.

Hmmm. They look like Biafria kids to me. You guys will look for trouble and when they bring the trouble to you, you run to the mods.

BeardedmeatR:
Are those your kit and kin in Ogbomosho?

Buhahaha 😁😄😄😃😂

They are being fed with otapiapia like Awolawo fed himself with.