Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, will next weekend lead top dignitaries to declare open the Kayokayo Festival, a historical and highly revered religious gathering of the Epe people. The one week festival, the traditional melting pot of Epe Indigenes, and a baby of Oba Shafiu Olatunji Adewale, Bamgbopa Eshilokun, the Olu Epe of Epe Kingdom, is an annual celebration of the historical arrival of Prince Kosoko, a famous Lagos King, to the Epe Kingdom in 1851.
The festival, which places a lot of religious importance on its tourism value chain, is seen by the people of the town which incidentally is the home town of Governor Ambode, as a look-alike arrival of Noah of the bible.
Chairman Kayokayo 2016 Organising Committee Alhaji (Chief) Shakiru Alade Okule explained that the 2016 festival will be celebrated to open the Epe historical kingdom to the tourism dreams of Lagos State government, adding that the week-long event would keep tourists on their toes with Oganla exponent, Wasiu Alabi Pasuma, to drive the entertainment content.
Other key contents of the KayoKayo festival include prayer outing, or Tahjud, at the Epe Central Mosque next Friday, a Quranic competition, a replica of the water voyage of King Kosoko, a youth rally, children’s party, royal visit by the Oba to the districts of Epe founding fathers, royal procession on the Lagoon beach and the Kayokayo Musical Night.
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