Oyo abduction: Women traditionalists go spiritual, storm shrines 

Women accepted worshippers from crossed Egbaland, connected Friday, stormed large streets and shrines successful Abeokuta, Ogun State, seeking divine involution for the harmless merchandise of the victims of the Oyo abduction.

Clad successful achromatic accepted worship attire and carrying assorted ritual paraphernalia, the women moved done salient taste and spiritual landmarks successful Abeokuta, invoking ancestral spirits and deities to intervene successful the worsening information situation.

The spiritual workout was led by the Yeye Olokun Agbaye and Olori of Orile-Ilawo Kingdom, Dr Omolara Fashola-MacGregor, who described the procession arsenic a ineffable entreaty and enactment of appeasement to revered deities and ancestral spirits for extortion implicit Yorubaland and the federation astatine large.

They visited respective revered shrines, including those astatine Olumo Rock, Lisabi Agbongbo-Akala, and the shrine of the legendary Egba warrior, Sodeke, earlier concluding the procession astatine the Itoku shrine located astatine Orita Aje Junction successful Abeokuta.

The worshippers, astatine each location, offered prayers and accepted rites successful enactment with longstanding taste practices.

Addressing newsmen during the spiritual exercise, Fashola-MacGregor said the inaugural was borne retired of heavy interest for the information of guiltless schoolchildren, their teachers, and different Nigerians presently being held captive by kidnappers. 

“We are present ...