Yoruba's Influential monarch, the Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Ogunwusi, on Tuesday said he ascended the throne of Ooni by divine intervention and not by his powers.
Ooni of Ife with President Buhari and his vice, Osinbajo
While speaking with State House correspondents
after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, the newly crowned Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Ogunwusi, on Tuesday said he ascended the throne of Ooni by divine intervention and not by his powers, adding that he has several developmental plans that would empower the youth.
The monarch said: "I have a clear strategy, if you don’t want to accept me, I will accept you. It is very important and I will be very persistent about it because it is a divine calling. It is not by my power nor by my might. It is a calling from the King of kings who actually appointed me to this throne.
"So I will be very persistent. About acceptability, if you do not accept me today, you will accept me tomorrow. It is a clear mission and I will be persistent about it."
While commenting on the social welfare programmes he has for his people apart from the mass transit scheme, the Ooni said, "There is a lot. I am currently working with the Minister of Agriculture. We have been able to assembly over 200,000 youths within a space of 30 days. It is unbelievable. We are encouraging them to go back to the farm.
"Something happened in Nigeria that we did not notice. Last year October, crude oil price started going down astronomically, but cocoa price went up by over 100 percent and nobody noticed it.
"Nigeria in the early 1930s and 1940s was the largest exporter of cocoa in the world and the farmlands are still there."