The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Abimbola Akeem Owoade, has called connected politicians to beryllium pragmatic successful uncovering solution to myriads of problems confronting the country.
Oba Owoade said nationalist maturation and improvement beryllium mostly connected the bully consciousness of justice, motivation worthy and responsibility; conscientiousness, devotion to duty, selflessness, probity and honesty by the leaders and citizens.
The monarch, speaking done his Director of Media and Publicity, Bode Durojaiye stated this successful his 65th independency day connection to Nigerians.
He called for maximisation of the benefits of diverseness to prevention the state from the precipice of disintegration .
Oba Owoade said, “As a people, we indispensable besides justice our chap Nigerians, not by their taste origins but by the contented of their characters”.
According to him, politicians indispensable adjacent ranks, logically brainstorm to arriving astatine knowing of the contending state-building issues successful the country.
The Alaafin stressed that, “Nigeria’s ethnic, sectional and spiritual diversities ought to service arsenic root of nationalist unity, cohesion and integration but unfortunately, this has implicit the years constituted superior menace to peace, information and nationalist development”.
He added that each nations were expected to beryllium arrogant of their worth systems, “Basic values are accepted and historic, reflecting aspects of the acquisition that each federation went done since its inception arsenic a nation.
‘’Where were those legacies today? Why are things falling isolated today? Why is it that nationalist funds spent for palmy moving of determination governments by our founding fathers were sourced internally without immoderate outer borrowings?
“Why is it that contempt whooping magnitude of wealth being borrowed externally by the contiguous time governments, lives of citizens are inactive miserable? Where did we get it wrong? Are our problems, including insecurity and socio economical duoldrums defied solutions?’’, helium queried.
The monarch who noted that the Old Oyo Empire was the archetypal longest reigning empire to run furniture strategy of government, said antithetic taste groups and spiritual groups co-existed peacefully nether societal interests.
‘’If we are honorable with ourselves we would mostly hold that each is not good with our federation and that the values we erstwhile held dearly had gone into oblivion. Where are values similar honesty, integrity, bully neighbourliness, spiritual tolerance and truthful connected that erstwhile defined our society?‘’, helium said.
Alaafin cautioned against greedy and selfish governmental people who has continued to exploit the people’s differences to plunder the nation’s resources.
The royal begetter charged parents to ever inculcate successful their wards, an enduring acquisition successful the inherent goodness of mean Nigerians.
Oba Owoade besides advised the youths not to suffer grip connected their ties with their contented and custom, describing a federation oregon people without customized arsenic a horde of “gorillas ravaging the deep forests.”

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