Vehicles, tricycles, different objects showered on Ijebus as Glo celebrates 20 years of Ojude Oba sponsorship

This 12 months’s version of the Globacom-sponsored Ojude Oba was held on Sunday in Ijebu Ode, Ogun State, with the know-how firm marking the twentieth anniversary of its assist for the pageant in splendid style by giving out vehicles, tricycles, energy mills and different objects on the occasion.

The Governor of Ogun State, Chief Dapo Abiodun, and the Minister of Arts, Tradition, Tourism & Artistic Economic system, Barrister Hannatu Musa-Musawa, as nicely the Olorogun Sunny Kuku, the Ogbeni Oja of Ijebuland, attended the occasion which witnessed a vibrant show by the just about 100 totally different Regberegbe teams who had been competing to outshine one another in look, prominence and splendour.

The Balogun households additionally put up a sterling present with their dexterity in maneuvering their horses as all of them paraded to honour the age-long custom of paying obeisance to the Awujale of Ijebu land after the Eid celebrations.

 Dr Abiodun, in his goodwill message on the occasion, lauded the over six many years reign of the Awujale as that of “purposeful management, progressive imaginative and prescient and unwavering dedication to the upliftment of Ijebuland and all the Ogun State”, whereas Barrister Musawa, described the pageant as a shinning testomony of the “richness of our cultural variety and the resilience of our conventional establishments in preserving historical past for future generations.”

The occasion, Globacom’s twentieth consecutive sponsorship, was an enormous alternative to reward varied segments of the Ijebu society. It distributed the top-of-the-grade Basmati rice to all the assorted Regberegbes as a means of celebrating them.

A number of winners carted dwelling mouth-watering prizes, together with two model new vehicles, 4 Tricycles and others alternative objects, together with Energy Producing units, grinding Machines and Stitching Machines.

One winner of a model new automobile was chosen by the Ijebu society by means of a nomination course of that noticed 52-year-old Opeoluwa Osisanwo receiving the keys to a model new automobile on the occasion.

Opeoluwa, a member of Egbe Tobalase Okunrin, was adjudged essentially the most excellent younger chief in Ijebuland who has served the neighborhood diligently for years as Secretary of the Ojude Oba Pageant Planning Committee.

“I by no means knew individuals had been watching me. I used to be simply serving my land of start to the perfect of my potential”, he stated, whereas expressing appreciation to the Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona, and all members of the Committee “for permitting me to work with them not minding the truth that I’m the youngest amongst them”.

The opposite winner of a model new automobile by means of the promo, Idowu Olabisi, a dealer primarily based in

Ijebu Igbo, was ecstatic after receiving the keys. She stated that Globacom certainly gave her a spectacular reward at Eid interval, as she had no inkling she would get such a automobile at the moment.

4 model new Tricycles (Keke) had been carted dwelling by varied winners from inside and round Ijebu. The winners included Hassan Toheeb, a businessman primarily based in Ijebu Itele; Adenike Olanrewaju a Plank vendor at Molipa, Ijebu Ode; Gazal Temitope, a dealer who resides at Olisa, Ijebu Ode; and Lawal Tosin, a carpenter in Ijebu Ode.