The Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi and the General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye were guests of President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Ooni Ogunwusi held closed doors meeting with the President and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo separately.
The monarch spoke with State House correspondents after the meeting: “I have a clear strategy: if you don’t want to accept me, I will accept you. It is very important and I will be very persistent about it because it is a divine calling.
“It is not by my power or by my might. It is a calling from the King of kings who actually appointed me to this throne. So I will be very persistent.
“About acceptability, if you do not accept me today, you will accept me tomorrow. It is a clear mission and I will be persistent about it.
“I am currently working with the Minister of Agriculture. We have been able to assembly over 200,000 youths within a space of 30 days. It is unbelievable.
“We are encouraging them to go back to the farm.
“Something happened in Nigeria that we did not notice. Last year October, crude oil price started going down astronomically but cocoa price went up over 100 percent and nobody noticed it.
“Nigeria in the early 1930s and 1940s was the largest exporter of cocoa in the world and the farmlands are still there.
“So what we have been able to do now is that is another positive indicator for the nation economy.
“We have been able to assemble youths and we are giving them five acres per youth so that they will go back to the farm.
“The Federal Government is supporting us very well. So it is going to be a model that will be replicated in all parts of the country.
“As a royal father, I am also encouraging the youth not to look for fast ways of making money, let us go back to the basis.”
On his part, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, who met the President before Ooni’s arrival declined to speak.
