IBADAN – The President, International Council for Ifa Religion (ICIR), Mogaji, Dr. Fayemi Fatunde Fakayode has declared that for any Yoruba monarch to assert territorial and social control within his domain, Oro deity is a weapon that must be used.
Fakayode said any Oba that fails to give the Oro adherents their due respect will lose control of his domain and become irrelevant.
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He said this on Saturday evening at a special lecture organized to commemorate the 2024 World Oro Festival at the Aseyin palace, Iseyin, Oyo State.
Dr. Fakayode added that any Yoruba community that gives recognition to Oro has the opportunity of being in peace, because evil-minded people will desert such area.
While discussing the topic of the lecture, titled: “Waning Moral Values and The Role of Tradition and Yoruba Culture,” the ICIR President opined that the prevalence of electoral crisis, contract killing, economic downturn and insecurity, reflected a society that is at the threshold of anomie and according to historical facts, the Yorubas of old used Oro to reverse the trend.
“Our bad attitude towards the way of our ancestors is responsible for our current ordeal, our ancestors have invented a system to implant peace and harmony in the society. Oro festival is one of the devices that our fathers of old developed to make the land conducive for living.