2023: Oyo Traditional Worshippers Endorses Presidential Candidate

Traditionalists in Oyo State have endorsed the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

They announced their position at a ceremony held at the Ilaji Hotel and Sports Resort in Ibadan.

Naija News reports that support from the traditionalists is coming after Muslims and Christians in the state also pitched their tent with the APC flagbearer.

The programme, which had also featured several other sociocultural groups, was sponsored by the Chief Executive Officer of Ilaji Hotel and Sports Resort in Ibadan, Chief Dotun Sanusi.

Speaking during the event, the Aare Oniseese of Oyo State, Olukunmi Egbelade, said that the programme was not politically motivated, adding that they were simply after peace, unity, progress and development of Yorubaland.

Egbelade argued that the Yorubas would benefit if Tinubu becomes the next president of the country, maintaining that it was the turn of the Yoruba to be at the helms of affairs in Nigeria.

He insisted that their endorsement was necessary for the victory of the APC flag bearer at the 2023 polls.

Egbelade urged Tinubu to declare a nationwide holiday for the traditional worshippers across the nation after his emergence.

Also, a traditionalist, Chief Kazeem Omotosho, said there should be no set back for Yorubas in the forthcoming elections, adding that Yorubas hold strategic positions in Nigeria politics.

“Some people believe we are not educated, they say we don’t know God, but we believe in God than them. Most of the pastors and Muslim clerics pass through us,” Omotosho said.

The event was attended by the Araba Awo of Ibadanland, Chief Odegbami Ifalere; Head of Eleegun in Ibadanland, Chief Oyeniyi Okugbaja, and representative of Oluawo of Oyo, Adejare Ifadare, among others.