On April 2nd, Aare Adetola Emmanuelking, the Chairman and CEO of Adron Homes and Properties, celebrated his 49th birthday by being inducted and decorated as Otun Asiwaju Onigbagbo of Remo Land alongside his wife, Yeye Aderonke Emmanuel King, who was also inducted as Yeye Otun Asiwaju Onigbagbo of Remo Land. The induction ceremony was held at the Communion Faith Assembly, Garden of Faith, Kemta House Estate, Idi-Aba, Abeokuta Ogun state. During the ceremony, Aare Adetola and his wife were ordained by top Ogun State clergymen and members of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Ogun State Chapter, led by Bishop Dr. Tunde Akin-Akinsanya and his team, which included Rev Dr. O. Oyeniyi, Chairman CCN, Most Rev Dr. Peter Odetoyinbo, Chairman CSN, Rev Dr. S.O Babayomi, Chairman ECWA/TEKAN, Pastor J.K. Onakoya (JP), Chairman CPFN/PFN, and Rev Leke Sopein, Chairman OAIC.

The ceremony also included a special service to celebrate Aare Adetola’s birthday. Aare Adetola was an active member of the Christian youth corps members in Bayelsa State during his National Youth Service year, where he held the position of State Coordinator for Nigeria Christian Corpers’ Fellowship (NCCF) Bayelsa State from 2000-2001. He also served as the President of the Youth Fellowship of Living Faith Church (Winners’ Chapel) Sagamu from 2002-2004 and became the prayer squad coordinator for the Living Faith church from 2005-2007. Aare Adetola has been ordained as Deacon of the Living Faith Church (Winners’ Chapel) Sango Otta, a position he has held since 2008.

The induction ceremony was an indication of a new beginning in his life, and Aare Adetola thanked the Christian body for finding him worthy of such a highly coveted title. He also stated that all he has acquired to date was as a result of the favour of God on his life, and he will never derail from projecting his good works and being a good ambassador of the CAN and the body of Christ at large.

Yeye Aderonke Emmanuelking gave her life to Jesus Christ in October 1995, joined the Eagle’s Trainers Church aka Heritage Assembly where she diligently served in the service of God within the ushering department of the church until 1998/1999 before her academic pursuit. She later joined the Redeemed Christian Church of God as a young lady and a student at the Lagos State University where she subsequently became a member of the Living Faith Church upon her marriage to Aare Adetola Emmanuelking in April 2007. Since her marriage, she has strongly enshrined the Christian faith in her home and nurtured many young persons to spiritual growth in the Christian faith.

During the induction, the officiating Bishop and the CAN Ogun state Chairman Bishop Dr Tunde Akin-Akinsanya also implored Aare Adetola and his wife Yeye Aderonke to continue to support the propagation of the gospel and also dedicate their wealth to giving immensely to the church and CAN projects in Ogun State. He also harped on the need to become worthy ambassadors for Christ as the position he holds is of great value to the Christian faith and it also plays a pivotal role in the development of Christianity within Remo and beyond the shores of Ogun State. Aare Adetola also disclosed that he will be hosting a Thanksgiving Soiree soon to celebrate his birthday and the induction ceremony, and he thanked the Executive Governor of Ogun State, Prince Dapo Abiodun, for his support.

Added to the several communities in Kogi East that have been literarily annihilated by unprovoked insurgents and rampaging gunmen, Agojeju Odo and Abejukolo in Omala Local Government have become part of the gory and escalating statistics of fatalities and arson. In the latest episode, 19+ people (including children and women) were killed, countless homes razed, an unspecified number of citizens injured, and livelihoods destroyed. As a vestige of the ensuing carnage, we are now inundated with a situation where the already multidimensionally poor are further pummelled, pulverized, and impoverished: If we cannot make their lives better, at least, let us not watch it become hell for them.

The aforesaid is unacceptable and the imprudence of government complimented by other stakeholders feel like, it is “everyman to himself”. Such temperament towards self-help will not do any good to the browbeaten victims, and onlookers and it is expedient for government to rein-in the onslaught and be profoundly intentional with its interventions, if any. For emphasis, I wholeheartedly condemn all acts of mayhem, incendiarism, and butchery and strongly call for an unconditional end to hostilities on all fronts beginning with resolute and unswerving action on the part of government, a recourse to unpretentious engagements, honest collaborations, and broad-spectrum strategy that would include restitution for victims. It is immaterial to buck-pass, blame-game or attribute the causes (of the bedlam) at this time which is why I plead for exceptional intercession (on the part of government) and top-down/bottom-up indulgence (on the part of all stakeholders) to, inter alia, diminish the gusts of the conspiracy and complicity theories been bandied about, and ameliorating the dreadful conditions of the victims.

Led by the government, whose primary onus it is, we must do everything humanly and Godly possible to assuage the unpleasant situation especially because the unabated reoccurrences of such blitzkriegs have been adduced to mismanagement at various level of governance.

In the end, to try is to risk and not try at all is to guarantee failure. To this end, in order to confine such occurrences to our past/history, we must resolve (in our favour) these ostensibly well-planned incursions that deepen with each incidence with all that is possible: Not just words, press releases and material relieves.

Victor Alewo Adoji,

PDP Senatorial Candidate 2023

Kogi East