Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams says Yoruba race is yet to fulfil the race’s destiny because the race has failed to honour the deities and celebrate the ancestors.
Adams gave the hint at the 2024 edition of the Ogun festival held at the Ikorodu Town Hall in Ikorodu, Lagos.
The Yoruba generalissimo, while urging the Yoruba obas to embrace the cultural promotion agenda of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) stated that the organization under his leadership will not relent until Yoruba regains its pride of place among the community of races.
“In Yoruba land, we have lost our pride of place because of our failures to honour and identify with our deities and ancestors. “We cannot make any meaningful progress as a race if we continue to disrespect the sanctity of our traditional religious beliefs by using foreign religions to denigrate our culture and tradition.
“Culture is one of the best way to sustain our values and pride as a race.Our identity is our pride. Our culture is our pride. Our tradition is our pride. “Our culture is the totality of our being. It is about our tradition. It is about our language and we must preserve it from going into extinction.
Meanwhile, the Alayandelu of Odo Ayandelu Kingdom, Oba Asunmo Aderibigbe, in his remarks praised Gani Adams for sustaining the Yoruba cultural identity through the festival.
The monarch said: “We are happy that Yoruba race is gradually regaining its lost identity. Thanks to Iba Gani Adams and the OPC in ensuring that the Yoruba race is making reasonable progress.”
