Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams, has stated that the Yoruba race has turned its back on its ancestors and deities.
According to him, Yorubas have lost their pride of place because they failed to honour the deities and celebrate the ancestors.
He argued that the race will fail to make progress if it continues to disrespect the sanctity of its traditional beliefs.
Adams stated this at the 2024 edition of the Ogun festival, which was held at the Ikorodu Town Hall in Ikorodu, Lagos.
He urged the Yoruba obas to embrace the cultural promotion agenda of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), adding that the organization under his leadership will not relent until Yoruba regains its pride of place among the community of races.
He said, “In Yoruba land, we have lost our pride of place because of our failures to honour and identify with our deities and ancestors.
“We cannot make any meaningful progress as a race if we continue to disrespect the sanctity of our traditional religious beliefs by using foreign religions to denigrate our culture and tradition.
“Culture is one of the best way to sustain our values and pride as a race.Our identity is our pride. Our culture is our pride. Our tradition is our pride. “Our culture is the totality of our being. It is about our tradition. It is about our language and we must preserve it from going into extinction.”