Ooni to lead monarchs to culture pageant

His Imperial Majesty, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, has charged youths in the country to brace up and take full responsibilities in governance, stressing that Nigeria belongs to them.

Speaking in his palace ahead the Queen Moremi Ajasoro Cultural Pageant finals, the monarch stated: “The reason for empowering youths is that, clearly, the future belongs to them. I see myself a lot in them and I live on this throne for them all across the whole length and breath of Nigeria.

“My major wish is that, some day, the youth of this country will rise up to occasion of how they will claim their right and take full ownership of what belongs to them – the country Nigeria.”

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Ooni Ogunwusi will lead fellow monarchs, cultural enthusiasts and notable personalities in the country to Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, where the grand finale of the pageant is billed to hold on Sunday, December 2, and it will be hosted by Her Excellency, Olufunso Amosun, wife of Ogun State governor, Ibikunle Amosun.

The pageant is termed by culture scholars as the greatest cultural reawakening of the legacy of popular Yoruba heroine, Queen Moremi Ajasoro.