The Chief of Staff to the Edo state Governor, Hon. Patrick Obahiagbon, has reacted to pictures showing 78-year-old former president Olusegun Obasanjo prostrating before the new Ooni of Ife, who is only 42.
Prostration is common among the Yoruba tribe in Nigeria. Usually, younger men prostrate for older men to show respect.
Major world religions employ prostration as an act of submissiveness or worship to a supreme being (i.e. God or the gods).
Obahiagbon, who is known for his complicated choice of grammar, took to his Facebook page on Saturday and wrote: “The OKIKIOLAKAN’s avuncular gesture of humility devoid of his De Die In Diem obtrusivity and obstreperousness is deservable of both eulogies and panegyrics and I am consensus ad idem with him that the Ooni of Ife is a non pareil epiphanic emblematization of an avatar seised of a sui generis Heirophantic mission….I wish this Ooni well and may the Celestial choir and Cosmic hosts grant him good health,peace profound,intrepidity,mental and spiritual discernment as he holds aloft his incandescent flambeau….God bless the Ooni….”
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