Osinbajo Visits Osun For Ooni’s Birthday

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, will on Tuesday arrive Ile-Ife, Osun State to attend a leadership symposium in honour of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi, who will be marking his 43rd birthday.

The annual symposium is designed to provide the youth and other beneficiaries of his numerous empowerment schemes an opportunity to showcase their success stories.

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Others expected at the event are the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar and the Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, among others.

The Ooni’s Palace had earlier made the announcement in a statement signed by the Director of Media, Comrade Moses Olafare.

This year’s edition is themed, “Taking Nigeria and Africa to greater heights, the place of the youth”.

“Baba Ooni believes very strongly that celebration of the birthdays of people in leadership authorities must always be in recognition of their impactfulness. That’s why he decided this event as platform for success stories especially by the beneficiaries of his various categories of empowerment programs most whom are youths,” the statement read.

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“Kabiyesi has designed this symposium to be annually held where great leaders who have made impacts in the society will motivationally be interacting with the people who look up to them”.

“Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Governor Rauf Aregbesola, Governor Ambode, Mr Femi Falana, Sultan Of Sokoto, Ethiopian ambassador to Nigeria, the Vice Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University, the gentleman from South Africa, Mr Sipho Mseleku of Shakhumnotho group and other great leaders expected at this maiden edition are role models the youths always look up to.”

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