{"id":51949,"date":"2019-01-05T16:08:04","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T16:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metronewsng.online\/?p=48153"},"modified":"2019-01-05T16:08:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T16:08:04","slug":"2019-ooni-of-ife-warns-against-bloodshed-violence-during-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/2019-ooni-of-ife-warns-against-bloodshed-violence-during-election\/","title":{"rendered":"2019: Ooni of Ife warns against bloodshed, violence during election"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, on Saturday warned against violence during the forth coming elections.<\/p>\n

Ogunwusi armed that there was no gain in shedding of blood, adding that a dead person can\u2019t be useful to the society.<\/p>\n

The traditional ruler issued the warning at the Grand-finale of New Year Prayer Service organised by Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Ile- Ife Chapter, at Afenworo Park, Enuwa Square, Ile-Ife, Osun State.<\/p>\n

According to Ooni, \u201cThere is no gain in shedding of blood, trouble and violence. Anyone who dies cannot come back to be useful to the society again.\u201d<\/p>\n

The monarch urged stakeholders to maintain peace and orderliness in the forthcoming elections, stressing that \u201d it is only God that enthrones and put his choice on the throne.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oba Ogunwusi further called on politicians to give peace a chance and allow peaceful coexistence.<\/p>\n

He stated that if truly politicians want to serve humanity, they should desist from do or die affairs.<\/p>\n

The traditional ruler urged youths to struggle for their future and run away from politicians that want to misuse them for political violence and selfish interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, on Saturday warned against violence during the forth coming elections. Ogunwusi armed that there was no gain in shedding of blood, adding that a dead person can\u2019t be useful to the society. The traditional ruler issued the warning at the Grand-finale of New Year Prayer Service organised by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2568,1757,2358],"class_list":["post-51949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-election","tag-ooni-of-ife","tag-violence","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}