The Oluwo of Iwo, in Osun State, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi, has known as on Nigerians to hunt divine steering from God on what needs to be finished to fast-track the nation’s improvement.
Oba Akanbi, who spoke in Iwo on Saturday on the annual Eledumare Pageant, which he hosted, additionally suggested Nigerians to cease lamentation over the challenges dealing with the nation.
He urged them to return to God for devine intervention, saying that Nigeria has sufficient sources to develop with out counting on international help.
Talking additional on the annual pageant held in his palace in Iwo, Oluwo decried lack of ability of Nigeria to harness her pure endowment for the betterment of the nation, including that the essence of the occasion was to attract individuals again to their Creator.
He stated, “We’re taking our individuals again to the times when we now have energy. After we begin worshiping God, we’ll start to make use of knowledge to transform gold to our personal use; limestone to cement; if we start to make use of our knowledge, we might be higher than America.
“It isn’t immediately that the economic system of Nigeria is unhealthy. Since independence, there isn’t a authorities that folks didn’t complain. We’re endowed with mineral sources, notably in Yorubaland. If we aren’t ungrateful to God, it isn’t the foreigners that might be taking our mineral sources to their land cheaply and bringing it again to us with costly value.
“Our forefathers don’t know every other deities. Oduduwa doesn’t know Sango or Ogun. Our forefathers are worshippers of 1 God. I’m representing God,the actual king. Worship is an unique proper of God.
“Our tradition and custom in Yorubaland is devoid of deities. We should strategy God instantly. Kingship is to profess that the one factor that’s worthy of worship is God. We’re calling all Yoruba to just one God. We shouldn’t be ingrate.”
In his remarks on the occasion, the Particular Adviser to Osun State Governor on Tradition and Tourism, Mr. Kehinde Oloke lauded Oluwo’s efforts in the direction of uniting individuals to worship God with out minding variations of their beliefs.