The Alake of Egbaland, Oba (Dr.) Adedotun Aremu Gbadebo, has appointed the Oodua Consultative Forum (OCF) into the organizing committee of the 2020 Lisabi Day celebration holding February next year.
Oba Gbadebo made the appointment at the weekend when OCF executives and members led by their President-General Worldwide, Hon Oyemade Adebisi, paid homage to him at the Ake Palace, Abeokuta Ogun State, according to a statement by Publicity Secretary, OCF Ogun State, Prince Taiwo Nodiru.
The OCF is a non-partisan umbrella body of all Yoruba in Nigeria and worldwide. It pursues the overall development of the Yoruba Race in Nigeria and wherever peoples of Yoruba origin are found.
The Alake, who received the OCF executives alongside his Council of Egba High Chiefs, charged the socio-cultural group to continue to uphold the culture and tradition of the Yoruba Race in Nigeria and globally. He enjoined the OCF to make the 2020 Lisabi Festival the most successful and memorable ever.
The OCF delegation to the palace included the group’s Co-founder/National Treasurer, Basorun Gboyega Somoye, National Financial Secretary, Mrs. Tawakalit Bamidele Osigbesan-Dada, Chairman, OCF Ogun State, Engr. Habeeb Aregbesola and Women Leader, OCF Ogun State, Mrs. Titilayo Balogun, who delivered the group’s vote of thanks to the Alake.
Oba Gbadebo also pledged to donate a befitting secretariat to the OCF in Abeokuta and support the group’s welfare programme for the entire Yoruba Race.
Oyemade, who was admitted into the Lisabi Club of Nigeria at the occasion, reiterated the OCF’s mission and vision, stressing the group’s resolve to protect the lives, liberty, business, property and allied interests of all Yoruba in Nigeria and globally.
Aregbesola, assured of the OCF’s cooperation with all tiers of government in the Gateway State and Nigeria in the nation-building process.
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