A National Leader of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), Comrade Adesina Akinpelu, has expressed his condolences to the people of Daura, Katsina State, and the entire Nigerian people over the death of former President Muhammadu Buhari.
Specifically, the OPC National Leader commiserated with the family of the late former President.
Comrade Akinpelu, however, condemned strongly how leaders usually travel abroad for medical treatments, saying the lesson learnt from Buhari’s death is that our political leaders should fix the medical facilities in Nigeria.
“This will stop them from dying in foreign hospitals and bringing their corpses back as cargo to their fatherland,” he stressed.
Akinpelu also mourned the demise of the Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona, who recently joined his ancestors.
He commiserated with people of Ijebuland, at home and abroad, as well as the Ogun state government.
Akinpelu, however, described what happened during the Awujale’s burial as an embarrassment to the Yoruba traditional institution.
The OPC leader appealed to all traditional leaders in Yorubaland to remain calm and exercise maturity in addressing the events that occurred during the late Awujale’s burial in Ijebu-Ode.
He used the opportunity to call on the king-makers (Afobaje) across all Yorubaland not to allow anyone with a foreign religion to be crowned as an Oba henceforth.
The OPC National Leader lamented, “Anybody who is not ready to embrace our culture and tradition should not even aspire to be crowned as an Oba. This is causing a setback for our tradition.”
