Oba Adedokun Abolarin, Orangun of Oke-ila on Tuesday said Yoruba leaders should draw development plan for the run instead of living in past glory.
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He lamented the rate Yoruba youths are running from the country due to the capacity of poverty in the country. despite many resources accessible within the region.
Delivering a paper at a colloquium themed, “Yoruba race in the world system”, organised by the Global Affairs and Sustainable Development Institute (GASDI), held at the main campus, Osun State University, Osogbo, he stressed the need for stakeholders in Yorubaland, including monarchs to jettison superiority struggle and focus on harnessing both human and natural resources for the benefit of its people.
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“With the volume of wealth with which the younger generation are trained and enormous resources available in the land, our children still struggle to run to a foreign land, then we have failed the founding fathers of the race.
“If with all the education that we have, our people all over Yoruba land cannot benefit from any significant development, it is important for us as a race to be futuristic and draw a development agenda for Yoruba nation which will later be copied by Nigeria.
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