Alake of Egba Implores traditional rulers not
to allow politicians demean Yoruba values.
Report by Tanwa Jones
The Alake and paramount ruler of Egbaland, Oba Michael Adedotun Gbadebo has appealed to the Yoruba people not to allow politicians to devalue their cherished culture and heritage of valour, reliability and institute leadership.
It is noteworthy that the Egba, among the Yoruba race, harbours the oldest democracy in Nigeria with the Egba United Government between 1898 and 1914 when it was surrendered to the Queen of England after amalgamation of the North and South protectors to make Nigeria.
Oba Gbadebo expressed dismay at the current trend where politicians, through their overt and covert actions, in their quest for power, now tearing the Yoruba nation into shreds.
Addressing the Egba traditional council meeting at the Ake palace, Abeokuta Friday, Oba Gbadebo warned on the consequences of mortgaging the future of the Yoruba race through unwholesome actions.
The Alake condemned last week's politically motivated rampage visited on Lagos, the commercial city capital of Nigeria by a the break-away faction of Oodua People's Congress(OPC).
Oba Gbadebo was particularly worried that Otunba Adams Adams, one of the leaders of Oodua People's Congress was linked with the infamous Lagos street protest which resulted into wanton damage of property and attack on the psyche of the people.
Receiving the reports of the Pan Yoruba Conference held in Ibadan Thursday from the council's delegates, the Egba traditional rulers noted with regret that the Yoruba race had suffered unmitigated neglect in federal appointments and other dividends of democracy in the current dispensation for which it would be foolhardy to once again rely on its leadership.
The Obas, therefore, encored the resolutions of the Ibadan Conference by calling all people of South West to respond to their consciences and effect a change in Nigeria's leadership in the forthcoming general elections.
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