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How Birth Of A Baby Girl Added Colour To Ojude Oba Festival

Kemi Ashefon by Kemi Ashefon
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“It’s the hands of the gods” everyone chanted as a newborn baby arrived the venue of the Ojude Oba 2017 festival.
Ijebu indigenes on Sunday raised chants of praise to acknowledge the presence of the gods as a baby girl was delivered at the basement of the arena where the 2017 Ojude-Oba festival held on Sunday at the Awujale’s Courtyard in Ijebu Ode.
The new mother, in her late ’30s, was said to be a member of the Regberegbe age group in Ijebuland.
According to Janet Adekemi, a Cleaner at the courtyard, in the heat of the Ojude-Oba celebration, a lady screamed in pain and knelt down at the basement of the arena.
She recalled that onlookers had no idea what she was going through until she raised her wrapper and the head of a baby could be seen.
“It was a few minutes to 1:00 p.m. when I heard a lady shouting not too far away but many ignored her.
“No one knew the magnitude of what the woman was going through until she started crying with all of her strength.
“All I saw was the head of her baby and other women immediately rallied around her to help.
“A few skilled Traditional Birth Attendants came to her aid and assisted her to deliver the baby, just as onlookers prayed in their mother tongue, while some traditionalists chanted incantations,” she said.
Adekemi told NAN that both mother and baby were immediately moved to the Ijebu-Ode General hospital for proper medical attention.
Abayomi Oke, younger brother to the Head Queen, told NAN that the new baby was a gift from the gods to mark the celebration of of 2017 Ojude-Oba festival.
“Only special children are born at such events and of a truth, I know that the 16 Alagemos (gods that protect the land) will always be with that baby.
“We will do everything possible to send words across to Gov. Ibikunle Amosun and the Awujale, that a child was born during the 2017 celebration,” he added.
The Ojude Oba is a Yoruba festival held in Ijebu Ode, Ogun State, in Southwestern Nigeria.
The festival began over 100 years ago, is held annually on the third day after the Eid el-Kabir.
Today, the festival is usually attended by over 250, 000 people from across the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria and it involves the parade of age grades in Ijebuland and some horse riding before the Awujale of Ijebu-Ode, Oba Sikiru Adetona.

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