Passage of Aalafin was a high voltage thunderbolt, says Yoruba global alliance
The Yoruba Global Alliance has mourned Alaafin Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi who passed on late Friday at age of 83 in a private hospital, Ekiti after a brief illness, stressing that passage of the monarch was high voltage thunderbolt
Penpushing reports that, the council in a statement by its Chairman, High Chief Tola Adeniyi, said the alliance received the news of the royal passage as saddened, was unexpected and unanticipated
‘The saddening news of the royal passage of His Imperial Majesty Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Atanda hit us like high voltage thunderbolt. Totally unexpected and unanticipated’, Adeniyi lamented,.
Penpushing further reports that, the council noted that, the monarch was a veritable inspirer and an inspiration to Yoruba self-consciousness, adding that he was a towering pillar of support and great defender of spiritual faith
‘The Alaafin Oba Adeyemi lll was a veritable inspirer and an inspiration to Yoruba self-consciousness. He was a towering pillar of support and great defender of our spiritual faith’, the statement said.
‘He believed in the avowed rightness of the Yoruba Self-Determination agenda the same way he believed in the freedom of all peoples the world over to determine and choose the way they want to be governed’.
‘Oba Adeyemi was a phenomenal monarch and an embodiment of the quintessential Yoruba mores, traditions and culture and a huge encyclopaedia of Yoruba history. An intellectual with a gargantuan library in his crowned head, Oba Adeyemi was a great teacher, debater, discussant and orator’.
‘The likes of Oba Adeyemi appear on earth once in a millennium. Incomparable and irreplaceable, the uniqueness of Oba Adeyemi’s persona and charm stood him out as an Alaafin whose shoes may be difficult to inherit’.
‘The transition of Oba Adeyemi is a painful loss to the Yoruba nation, to the African race and to global humanity in general. The Yoruba Global Alliance, along with millions of our accredited members worldwide, mourns the passage of this titanic Monarch and a dependable and reliable royal father’, the statement added.
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