Iloko-Ijesa community in Oriade Local Government, Osun State, was agog recently as the traditional ruler of the town, HRM Oba Akeem Olusayo Ogungbangbe, Ilufemiloye Ajagbusi Ekun VI, the Owaloko of Iloko-Ijesa, celebrated the New Yam festival, our correspondent reports.
The cultural heritage of Iloko-Ijesa was on display as the people of the community joined their monarch, the Owaloko, Oba Akeem Olusayo Ogungbangbe, to celebrate this year’s New Yam Festival known locally as Odun Ijesu.
Iloko-Ijesa, a town which prides itself as the small Jerusalem to Osun State celebrated this year’s New Yam Festival with pomp and ceremony. It was the first to be celebrated since the new Owaloko, Oba Akeem Olusayo Ogungbangbe Ilufemiloye 1 Ajagbusi Ekun VI ascended the throne.
Since time the ancient time, the festival known in local parlance as Odun Ijesu had been celebrated but this year’s edition was taken to a higher pedestal as it was marked elaborately.
Oba Akeem and his subjects had every reason to roll out the drums because his reign has witnessed different projects by himself.
Apart from the new yams rolled out at the festival which was a harbinger of agricultural fecundity of the community, the monarch, his chiefs and other residents, turned the event into a carnival.
Crowd control became taxing at the event as the security men and women deployed to the palace were seemingly overwhelmed by the huge crowd that attended the event.
The major feature of the ceremony was the homage paid by the chiefs led by High Chief Shola Ogunsanya (Baba Orisa Iloko) traditional hunters, iyalojas, iyalajes (market women) and members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) serving in the community.
The community lady’s who decorated themselves with beads, stole the show with their dexterous dance steps to which the Owaloko applauded. Their performance also drew a thunderous applause from the crowd.
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