Olojo Festival: Ooni Goes Into 7-day Seclusion, Urges Tolerance, Unity

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Babatunde Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, has commenced the mandatory seven-day seclusion successful Ile-Ife, Osun State, arsenic portion of the accepted rites preceding the yearly Olojo Festival.

A connection by the director, Media and Public Affairs, Ooni’s Palace, Otunba Moses Olafare, stated that the monarch declared that this year’s spiritual holiness would beryllium dedicated to prayers for Nigeria’s peace, unity, and sustainable progress, admonishing applicable stakeholders peculiarly the accepted rulers crossed the magnitude and enactment of the Oduduwa contention worldwide to clasp unity arsenic the lone veritable instrumentality for achieving these goals.

The Olojo Festival, meaning “the Day of the First Dawn”, is celebrated to people the time the Almighty created the earth. It is 1 of the oldest and astir respected taste festivals successful Oduduwa land, symbolising creation, renewal, and the spiritual authorization of Ile-Ife arsenic the cradle of mankind.

The connection said that the Ooni prayed for Nigerians crossed each regions to acquisition divine blessings, healing, and nationalist betterment earlier entering seclusion.

“Ooni Ogunwusi peculiarly urged Nigerians to clasp unity, peace, tolerance, and emotion for 1 another, noting that without these values, the state would proceed to conflict with part and underdevelopment.

“He encouraged the citizens to emergence supra taste and spiritual differences, stressing that Nigeria’s spot lies successful its diversity.

“I americium praying for Nigeria and for Nigerians. I question God’s mercy upon this land. May we each acquisition peace, unity, progress, and the blessings of the Almighty. To the sons and daughters of Oduduwa everywhere, I impulse you: beryllium peaceful, beryllium united, and fto america enactment unneurotic for progress,” the Ooni said.

He further called connected governmental leaders to enactment responsibly, urging them to govern fairly, justly, and compassionately.

According to him, enactment indispensable ever prioritise the payment of the people. He adds that nary nine thrives erstwhile its leaders disregard the cries of the masses.

The seven-day seclusion is simply a play of spiritual purification during which the Ooni abstains from nationalist appearances and meditate and pray. It is seen arsenic a ineffable work that connects the monarch with the divine and his ancestors, enabling him to intercede for his subjects and the nation.