National Coordinator of the O’odua People’s Congress (OPC) , Otunba Gani Adams, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to use tourism as a tool for national development and progress.
The OPC boss, while speaking in the 2017 edition of the Eledumare Festival held recently at the National Arts Theatre, Lagos, called for the renovation of all national monuments.
Adams also urged the different tiers of government to harness the tourism potential in the country, so that Nigeria can become a tourist destination. This, he said, would help in creating other avenues for generating income for the country.
He said: “I appeal to both the states and federal government to harness the tourism potential in the country.
“Nigeria, no doubt, can become a tourist destination in the world, if the government could tap into the tourism potential that abounds in various parts of the country. This is very important at a time like this when oil dependency seems to be leading us nowhere.
“The need to tap at the resources for the better life of the ordinary citizens is important and tourism is one huge asset for the country, especially now that the sector is becoming a huge business in the world.”
On the Eledumare Festival, Adams said it was important to celebrate cultural heritage. We should also play significant roles in identifying our creator as a race.
He said the Eledumare Festival is an important festival.He said: It is important in the sense that Eledumare is the supreme being that controls the earth and heaven. Believers in various religious denominations believe in the supremacy of God, the omnipotent and the omniscience. Moslems call Eledumare Allah, Christians call Him Jehovah and in the Yoruba language we call him Eledumare.”
Adams harped on the need to promote the Yoruba language. He said: “ The Yoruba language is important to our cultural development as a people, and we can hardly make any meaningful progress if we continue to disregard our language”.
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