The presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Prince Adewole Adebayo, is billed to attend the one year coronation anniversary of the Olu of Warri, His Majesty, Ogiame Atuwatse III.
Prince Adebayo, who is the founder of KAFTAN TV, since 2017, with the aim of giving young people the opportunity that the Nigerian educational system has denied them, would be present live during the thanksgiving service in the church at Aghofen, the Palace of the Olu of Warri in Warri mainland.
The thanksgiving, is the last activity to round off the 5-day coronation anniversary which started on 17th through 21st of August 2022, to mark the coronation of the 21st Olu of Warri.
The SDP Presidential candidate, a young vibrant entrepreneur, whom many young men refers to as a mentor, godfather, life coach, friend and role model, is billed to arrive on Saturday, in preparation for the Sunday thanksgiving at the Palace.
The Ondo-born Prince, a respecter of royalty, would be received by the
governorship candidate of the party in Delta State, Olorogun Barr. Kenneth Gbagi, FNIM, a man with an entrepreneurial mind with business empires across the world.
The Olu of Warri, is considered to have brought so much excitement, vitality, innovation and hope to the Itsekiri people, and all those living within the kingdom, spread across the three LGAs in Delta State and beyond.
The anniversary started from August 17th, 2022, with Praise Day activities, including extensive thanksgiving, praise and worship session inside the main church auditorium in the Palace in Warri.
It was followed the next day with the ‘Warri Food Festival, a novel idea of his majesty, to showcase different food items, sources and mode of preparation and serving them, and to display various menus, colours and appetizing tastes of Itsekiri cuisine.
This was equally followed closely on same day with the Iwere Music Concert and launch of the Iwere Royal Society.
Friday, August 19 was declared Health Day, where various health care services was launched and delivered to the people by His Majesty, at the Palace of Chief Nana Olomu, the great merchant of the Niger Delta, and successful Itsekiri businessman, who was Governor of the Benin River Protectorate under the British colonial administration.
Health Care service delivery is one of the corner stone policies of Ogiame Atuwatse III’s reign.
Activities will shift to Ode Itsekiri, headquarters of the Warri Kingdom, on August 20, where Itsekiri in their hundreds of thousands, will take turn to pay homage to their revered first class monarch amid cultural displays, traditional dances, drumming, singing, exhibition of Itsekiri arts and history and show off of family heirloom by various Itsekiri nobles, in a joyous and exciting atmosphere.
