The Awujale of ijebuland tells GEJ that he can't advice his people to vote for him.
While receiving President Jonathan in his palace in
Ijebu-Ode yesterday March 12th, the Awujale of
Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona was quoted to have
told the President that he cannot ask his subjects to
vote for him.
"In Ijebu here, it is not possible for any Oba, not
even in Yorubaland, to go out and say vote for
this, vote for that, that person is looking for
trouble.The only thing the Oba can do is to give
them the opportunity to present their
programme so that people can make up their
minds on what to do. I think this is a very sound
democratic principle and that is what I have
decided to do, to give you the opportunity of
meeting with the people.
One, they see you as a person, how beautiful you
are, whether to engage with you or not, to listen
to you and see if there are areas where we can
meet, as a result, everybody congregating here,
they belong to different groups, they are PDP
members, APC members, APGA members. They
belong to various interests, and when they come,
they get to the gate, they shed their toga. PDP
will remove their PDP, APC will remove their
own, APGA will remove their own, they are going
to the palace, to meet their ruler, their
paramount ruler, to receive that important
august visitor who is coming to their lands and
give him all honour that is entitle to him.
"In all our churches, after prayer, they will pray
for you, pray for the Governor, pray for me and
all their leaders both in the mosque and
churches as it is so required both in the bible
and also in the Qur'an, therefore, I thank you
Your Excellency for having this opportunity to
address our people to listen to you, to hear your
programme, what you have in stock for them
and we shall all then pray to God for guidance,
because the Muslims would say 'guide us to the
right path', and God will show us the way
because He is the only one that can show the
way to people. Therefore, I thank you, Your
Excellency most sincerely for making this trip.
God knows the best, He is the ruler of the
Universe. He knows everything and He can do
everything, everything is possible in the
presence of God, that is why I occasionally go to
church to put up a songs.
"Each time I have cause, occasionally to talk to
our people, I have always told them, in the
churches and mosques that when you're going
to vote, make sure, you back your sons and
daughter who will give something back to you,
not the 'Ojelus', those who will be honest with
you, who knows the way of God, those are the
people you should vote for, not those who will
give you two three spoons and mortgage your
future, it is not right. I am sure over the years,
there has been improvement but this election is
full of tension, I don't know how it is so, why has
elections never been like this, about 55 years, I
have never seen any election that is full of
tension and the one we are having now, my
prayer if God should guide us and make sure
that there's peace, harmony and tranquility in
the country." - the Awujale is quoted to have said
by Sahara Reporters
