WADONOR, a cultural voice of the Niger Delta, has sent warm greetings to His Royal Majesty, Ogiame Atuwatse III on his coronation as the 21st Olu of Warri on 21st August 2021.
In a statement WADONOR editor in chief Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku prayed that the reign of the new king would usher peace, progress and prosperity to WADONIANS in Nigerians, to Nigeria and the rest of Africa.
“After we listened to his HRM’s very first speech on the occasion of his coronation, we are convinced beyond any doubt that the new king is ready material needed to run a Nigeria of the 21st Century: eloquence, poise and the dignity and grace that brings respect and regard to Nigeria.
“We decry a Nigeria being run by some spent individuals bent on encroaching on the rights and liberties of Nigerians and consigning us to the idiosyncrasies of the Dark Age,” Mr Etemiku said.
Highlights of the speech of HRM majesty include the lifting of a curse that two traditional rulers placed on the rest of Nigeria over the injustices that Nigeria perpetrated against a respected WADONIAN traditional ruler. The new king also asked WADONIANS to rely less on oil and gas and focus on building traditional customs, traditions and the culture of WADODIANS as veritable drivers of development.
“What the grace, charm, intellect and bearing of the new Olu of Warri brings to bear upon our body-politics is new thinking in the way countries are run today. The examples abound: from Zambia, to Kenya, to Liberia, to Finland and New Zealand are countries with leaders under 40 years of age, and whose ideas drive the kind of development equivalent to the quantum leaps in politics, science, technology and business, hallmarks of this millennium.
“Wadonor strongly opposes the idea recently put forward by Ibrahim Babangida that the next generation of leaders in Nigeria should be in their 60s. Such thinking is not only backward and regressive but also lacking in coherence and logic”, Mr Etemiku further said.
WADONOR, a digital magazine is the cultural voice of the Niger Delta. It has carved a niche for itself as an endeavour using culture as a driver of development, changing the negative narrative of the Niger Delta and using culture to promote inclusiveness and drive to the attainment of the Sustainable Development goals of the United Nations. The online magazine is a monthly and adopts the term WADODIANS to refer to peoples of the Niger Delta of Nigeria.
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