Sunday, September 13, 2015

Next Ooni must raise the standard – Prince Aderemi



Son of a late Ooni of Ife, Oba Adesoji Aderemi, Aderounmu Aderemi, has declared that the successor to the departed Oba Okunade Sijuwade must not be a local player.

Aderemi, in an email to Sunday Punch, insisted that the next Ooni had a big job at hand, noting that successive Oonis had set the standards that Sijuwade’s successor must sustain and develop on.

Aderemi said: “He should not be a local player alone. He should be an international and national player. He should add more values to the stool of Oduduwa by making Ife to become a great city, if not the greatest in Nigeria.

“More importantly, I want the next Ooni to open up more spaces for Ile-Ife by cultivating good relationship and neighbourliness with the nations around it. We are in the era of information technology in which case no nation, city, town and village could be on its own.

 “The next Ooni should open his arms to embrace all and spread progress and development to all the Ife neighbours, both far and near. Ife should live peacefully by cultivating the people around it genuinely without fear or favour.”

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