Ooni’s Death, Irreversible Loss To Oodua Race – Gani Adams

Gani Adams, the national coordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) and convener of the Oodua Progressives Union (OPU) has described the death of Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuade as a monumental and irreparable loss to the Oduduwa race.

Adams made this statement while reacting to the death of the Oba, one of the foremost monarchs in Africa.

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Gani Adams, the national coordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) and convener of the Oodua Progressives Union (OPU)

He said: “The enigmatic and wondrous deity of the Yoruba in human form, Oonirisa Olubuse 11 has completed his mission as assigned to him by the owners of the world. He has gloriously relocated to the ancestral abode of his progenitors, to feed them back after a   memorable peregrination odyssey on the face of earth and the   completion of his assigned role as the tenderer and protector of the ancestral stool of the Yoruba.

“Ooni Olubuse has gone  to eternally dine and wine with his ancestors and to give the feedback to those who sent him to tender their stead.

“The biggest Elephant has transited to the vault. The Iroko tree has disappeared from the forest, not to be seen or heard again, except in dreams, trance and revelation of the corpus!  It is sad, but not tragic that he returned home at 85. 

“Ooni Olubuse was able, not only to sustain the royal majestic and reverence left behind by his predecessors, but  also added  colour, panache and  cultivated tremendous respect to the stool of Ooni of Ife, the cradle of the world.”

Otunba Adams, who commiserated with the Olubuse Royal family, the seven Elus in Ife, all the chiefs and Yoruba citizens both home and in the Diaspora, remarked that the Ooni’s exit “has created a vacuum which cannot be filled either now or in the near future .He has gone with his aura. There is no way another Olubuse 11 can be created or superimposed.”

He also consoled Governor Rauf Aregbesola and the entire people of Osun state for the exit of a remarkable royal father.

Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari has also commiserated with the Royal family following the death ofOba Okunade Sijuwade, Olubuse II, one of Nigeria’s foremost traditional rulers.