Prince Adebisi Ifedayo is the chairman of this year’s Ilefunta / Oyemekun Day in Akure, he speaks to Hakeem Gbadamosi on the committee’s plans to make the day a special one; the activities lined up for the festival and the effort of his committee to unite and bring unprecedented development to the town. Excerpts:
Why the innovation about Ilefunta and not Oyemekun Day?
It is part of innovation because if you look at the background of all these festivals, in the early 50s you people were always coming together to contribute money and send their brilliant children in the community to school through communal effort and community service and when you hear of Akure Day, Ife Day or Ibadan Day and it gradually turned into festival and each of these communities used something that is peculiar to them and likewise we changed Akure Day to Oyemekun Festival because Akure is…
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