The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Abimbola Akeem Owoade I, has urged the Oyo people, and indeed Nigerians, to strive to face the problems confronting the nation with courage, facing them headlong and not giving up, as it is in doing so that the country can progress and attain overall stability.
Oba Owoade gave the charge in Oyo during the grand finale of the week-long memorialisation of the 1895 “Ogun Pepe” (Pepe War) which ravaged Oyo Town following the British imperialist oppressive rule but which the then Alaafin, Adeyemi Alowolodu, and his subjects courageously fought against and eventually surmounted.
The name “Ogun Pepe” evolved from the sound of the Gatling gun
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