The Maye of Ife and the President of the Oduduwa University Ipetumodu (OUI), Chief Ramon Adedoyin has promised to give out N50, 000, 000 scholarships to Ife indigenes.
According to the high chief of Ife, the gesture his own way of giving back to the society where he has his investments.
He further stated that by giving scholarship to Ife people, he is carrying out the instruction of the late Ooni of Ife, the late Oba Okunade Sijuwade. ” Why am I doing this for Ife and not Osun State? I am doing it because I’m a bonifade Ife son, left, right and centre. Up or down. My father’s fathers were Ife. My mother’s mothers were Ife. I’m making my billions from Ife. In addition, when the late Ooni was to die, in the presence of Ife chiefs and palace emeses, he said: ”take good care of our Ife people, as you continue to do it, the Almighty God will continue to bless you.”
Maye said many other spiritual instructions were also given which but he chose to keep them to himself .
He insisted that scholarship would not be the first thing he would do to assist Ife people. He disclosed that his feeding programme in Ife was a successful one as he hosts some Ife people on Fridays where he assists them by giving out foods, drinks and money.
He vowed not to shirk in these responsibilities because God has always been blessing him in return.
The OUI president further revealed that plans are in top gear for the people of Osun in general to benefit from his humanitarian programmes. “I will role out that soon,” he confidently told reporters.
He described the forthcoming Olojo festival as a good festival saying it was “the day God created the earth in Ile Ife and the place started expanding.”
Maye promised not only to celebrate Olojo festival with the Ooni, but also send “my beautiful gifts there as I join him in celebrating with Ife people.”
He, however, said some people have wrong notion about Ife Day celebration and wished it was cancelled and pay attention to Olojo festival because, “some Ife people see Olojo as spiritual and don’t want to see themselves identified with idol worshiping. I disagree with them. They can do it without going to Oke Mogun where things like that are practiced. I wish all Ifes home and abroad a joyous moment.”
