Get Your Facts Right And Stop Playing Politics With Human Lives - Osun Commissioner Berates Apc Over Misunderstanding Between Cultural Groups At Osun Osogbo Festival

Get Your Facts Right And Stop Playing Politics With Human Lives - Osun Commissioner Berates Apc Over Misunderstanding Between Cultural Groups At Osun Osogbo Festival




Osun State Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, Hon Bankole Ojo has advised the opposition elements in the state to shun petty politics of heartlessness while trying to warm themselves out of idleness, warning that playing politics with human life is the height of cruelty anyone could exhibit under whatever guise.


The commissioner, whose ministry was at the center of organizing this year's annual Osun Osogbo festival condemned what he described as classless attempt by the APC  to link pockets of confrontation among some cultural groups at the event to Governor Ademola Adeleke led PDP government.


Hon Bankole Ojo noted that while His Excellency, Governor Ademola Adeleke did everything as acknowledged by several stakeholders in culture and tourism sector in the country and beyond, to make the annual festival exceptionally memorable, the tumultuous crowd that thronged this year's event ensured a difficult time for security agencies to curtail the age long rivalry between some traditional groups resulting in some open confrontations.


"Preliminary reports available to the ministry which in turn will be forwarded to the His Excellency, the State Governor suggested that some groups of hunters and the Oodua Peoples Congress, most of whom are not residents in the state, took their traditional rivalry out of control just after successful completion of cultural rites at the festival groove. Both groups we would recall, usually form significant number of devotees at the annual event" 


"while the state government and security agencies are spreading proper nets of investigation into the matter, the blood spilling opposition elements are already in town with insane figures of casualties. This is instructive for all discerning minds as to what their intents are and what they might have done to infiltrate the colourful festival which they stopped at nothing to destroy during their inglorious reign in the state.


The state government will continue uunder the leadership of His Excellency, Governor Ademola Jackson Nurudeen Adeleke will continue to support and preserve the  World Heritage Site as designated by UNESCO due to frantic effort put into the groove  by the PDP government in 2005.


This is a legacy the current government is committed to preserve, not just as a cultural heritage of the good people of Osogbo as an ancient city, but also as an enviable tourist site amongst it's peers in Nigeria and across the globe.


The political parasites are therefore advised to invest their idle energy elsewhere instead of fruitless attempts to deface genuine effort of the state government to revitalize the groove.


Signed 

Hon Bankole Ojo

Commissioner For Culture And Tourism

Osun State.

23/08/2023

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