New yam festival not fetish – Anyaso

By Steve Oko

Chief Chima Anyaso has said that contrary to perceptions successful immoderate quarters, caller yam festival is not fetish, but a solemnisation of Igbo’s affluent taste heritage.

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Recall that Anyaso was Vanguard Entrepreneur of the Year 2024 grant recipient, and the 2023 lawman governorship campaigner of the Young People’s Party, YPP, successful Abia State.

The concern mogul and person made the clarification play portion fielding questions from newsmen during his yearly Iriji Ofuji caller yam solemnisation astatine his Igbere state home.

He said that the yearly ceremonial “provides accidental to amusement gratitude to God for bountiful harvest and for life”, insisting that it has thing to bash with idol worship arsenic often misconstrued by immoderate persons.

The industrialist, who was flanked by accepted rulers from Igbere clan arsenic helium performed the accepted yam slicing, vowed to prolong the contented arsenic a mode of preserving the affluent Igbo culture.

“This solemnisation has grown into much than a festival. It is simply a thanksgiving, a unifying telephone to our roots, and a arrogant show of the affluent traditions that marque america who we are”, helium declared.

Giving the taxable of this year’s solemnisation arsenic “The Role of Education and Training successful Cultivating the Next Generation of Wealth Creators,” Chief Anyaso declared that “yam is not lone a awesome of nutrient and harvest, but of knowledge, hard work, and the aboriginal we are gathering for our children.”

He promised to instrumentality the cerebration circular Abia State, arguing that it is besides a awesome of unity and brotherhood among Ndigbo.

“Together, we are stronger. Together, we volition nurture compassion, observe our wealthiness of culture, and works seeds of greatness for the generations to come,” helium said.

He utilized the accidental to impulse Ndigbo to who are up to 18 years and above, to registry for their voter’s paper successful the ongoing Continuous Registration of Voters CRV.

Chief Anyaso who expressed dissatisfaction implicit debased turnout of radical from the South East for the voter’s registration, pleaded with Ndigbo to instrumentality the workout seriously.

He besides appealed to South East governors and the governmental elite to supply transport logistics for their constituents to registry with ease.

Chief Anyaso commended Governor Alex Otti’s developmental strides, and assured him his afloat support.

In a remark, the Chairman of Traditional Rulers Council, Bende LGA, HRM Eze Uwakwe Ukaegbu, commended Chief Anyaso for his enactment for taste renaissance.

He said that caller yam festival is gaining planetary recognition, and urged Ndigbo to beryllium arrogant of their culture.

 Insisting that Otti has done well, Anyaso said: “if helium declares involvement for re-election successful 2027, we are going to marque definite that helium is re-elected.”

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