WAR: Attack any invader of Yorubaland, Gani Adams to OPC
– Otunba Gani Adams has attributed the deployment of soldiers to troubled parts of Yoruba land to spiritual appeasement
– Adams also gave a marching order to members of the group to confront any invaders of Yorubaland
Gani Adams
The national cordinator of the Oodua People’s Congress Otunba Gani Adams has attributed the deployment of soldiers to troubled parts of Yoruba land to spiritual appeasement.
Adams also gave a marching order to members of the group to confront any invaders of Yoruba land .
The OPC chief, while speaking during the 2016 edition of the annual Ifa Festival, organised by the Olokun Festival Foundation, which took place in Abule Ado area of Amuwo Odofin described the invasion of the south west by milliitants as a slap on the Yorubas.
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He told the mammoth crowd at the occasion that the OPC had some weeks before the deployment made some sacrificial offering as a result of the invasion by the Niger Delta Millitants.
The OPC chief stated that the decision to appease the gods in Yoruba land was taken during a National Cordinating Council meeting of the group in Akute area of Lagos State .
“I told the cordinators to make some sacrificial offerings in all their local government and by the next meeting ,over seventy five percent of them had done the offering “Adams said.
‘He added that It was not up to a week after that , when the president deployed the military to the place . One thing actually led to the deployment of the soldiers.
The OPC chief also stated that “even if the federal government had not deployed the military men ‘ our men would have confronted them . Our men in IIsawo battled with the Niger Delta Millitants and facilitated the release of two abducted people in the community.”
He also directed members of the OPC to go out in full force and challenge the millitants, saying their invasion of Yoruba land as a slap and an embarrasment ‘.
“We are committed , we are determined and we are resolute We can no longer wait for the government and allow people to terrorise Yoruba land,”the OP C chief said.
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Adams described Ifa as the Lord’ s solution to whatever problem that may confront mankind and urged people to seek knowledge from Ifa.
“Orunmila is the grand priest of ifa divination and he was always consulted before, during and after problems People of the olden days consult Orunmila , who in turn used Opele and Opon Ifa to seek knowledge from Olodumare,” the Olokun Festival ‘ s chief promoter said.
“It is not until when a man gets problems that he consult Ifa offers solution to mankind to prevent thorns that may appear during the course of one,’ s life,” Adams said
He also stated that “a good example of what Ifa can do is the computer .It can even do far beyond the computer.”
Adams advised that our traditional rulers should look inward and appreciate the Ifa priest in their domains and seek solutions to problems that are confronting not just their towns but also other towns and re country as a whole.
Meanwhile, men of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) have resumed the aerial bombing of hideouts of the vandals in the Ogun state axis of Arepo.
According to the report, the operation which commenced 3pm on Friday, August 5 was carried out with an Augusta helicopter which struck some locations of the vandals.
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