Actions for this 12 months’s version of Ojude Oba competition, sponsored by Globacom, started on Friday night time in Ijebu Ode, Ogun State, with a superlative leisure occasion that had the Commander, Ebenezer Obey Fabiyi, and Wasiu Ayinde Marshall, the king of Fuji music.
The occasion was an impressive prelude to the massive occasion holding on Sunday morning on the purpose-built pavilion in Ijebu Ode. Globacom’s sponsorship of the Ojude Oba competition enters the twentieth anniversary this 12 months.
Along with making the competition a well-liked vacationer attraction, Globacom’s sponsorship of the cultural competition has boosted its possibilities of being acknowledged as a world heritage occasion.
The legendary Juju music icon, Chief Ebenezer Obey Fabiyi sang from his repertoire of music to which the viewers which stuffed the Convention Corridor venue to the brim, vibed, dance and mimed.
Globacom defined that the “Night with Glo” was organised to thank the Ijebu group for his or her assist for the model for 20 years of its sponsorship of Ojude Oba competition.
“We determined to carry collectively nice little kids of Ijebuland to rejoice our shared heritage, and indulge within the melodious rhythms that resonate deeply all through Yorubaland”, the corporate said.
Talking on its alternative of musicians for the occasion, Glo added that “the ageless icon and Juju music maestro, Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey, has contributed many years of fine, sonorous and philosophical songs to our society. His songs are nonetheless as contemporary and stuffed with inspirational messages as they had been yesterday”.
On KWAM 1, the corporate disclosed “For many years, King of Fuji, K1 De Final, the Fuji grasp, has been an amazing a part of the music firmament in Nigeria, together with his distinctive model of Fuji that has elicited enormous curiosity”.
Eminent little kids of Ijebuland together with the Olori of Oba Awujale, Chief Mrs. Olukemi Adetona; the Coordinator of Ojude Oba Pageant Planning Committee, Professor Fassy Yusuff, and member of the committee and Iyalode of Ijebuland, Chief Mrs. Bisi Osibogun, attended the occasion.
