The Chief Promoter of the Olokun Festival, Otunba Gani Adams, has said that members of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) will continue to live by the natural laws given by God.
He told reporters at the lecture series to mark the celebration of the 2013 Eledumare Festival, at the Excellence Hotel, Ogba, Lagos, that those who hold the view that members of the OPC don’t worship God were living in the past and needed to change their perception. Gani said the celebration of the Eledumare festival was its members’ little way of thanking God for his mercies upon their lives.
He said: “You will agree with me that the only way to say thank you to Him is to organise a thanksgiving in His honour and that is why we are gathered here today. I thank Him for giving us the privilege as mortal beings to celebrate Him.”
He explained that those who termed the OPC members as fetish were very ignorant because the organisation parades members of all religious groups.
“They are either ignorant or have forgotten that we have members who are Christians, Muslims and traditional religion believers but one thing that joined us together is our common ancestry as sons and daughters of Oduduwa.
“Studies have shown that the Yoruba are not intellectually poor as to lack in knowledge the concept of God as the Supreme Being. In fact, this Supreme Being has many attributes which are well espoused on how the Yoruba view Him.”
He advised the government to address problems confronting the nation by collaborating with the civil societies and other organisations such as OPC at nipping in the bud the challenges of insecurity. Gani maintained there must be religious harmony and tolerance in order to enhance the peace in the country. He noted that there was only one common denominator and that is the Supreme God who can create and take life, whoever does that is taking the natural laws into his hands.
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