* Olooye Adegboyega Adegoke, FCA, (left) exchanging pleasantries with the Olu of Igbo-Ora, Oba Jimo Titiloye, during the celebration of 2025 World Twins Festival at the weekend.
By Ibidapo Olowolayemo, Ibadan
Thursday October 16, 2025
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Aare Egbe-Omo Balogun of Ibadanland, Olooye Adegboyega Taofeek Adegoke (FCA), has commended the Oyo State governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde, for creating Ministry of Culture and Tourism, saying this decision shows that the governor is a lover of cultural developments.
He also noted that if the annual World Twins Festival held in Igbo-Ora was sustained and properly coordinated to attract foreign tourists, it would boost the economy of not only Ibarapaland, but also the entire Oyo State.
Olooye Adegoke, is governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State, made this known while delivering his speech as the chairman of this year’s World Twins Festival held in Igbo-Ora at the weekend.
“If we all come together to celebrate this festival every year, if we come together to organise it in a perfect way and we attract tourists from other countries like the Caribbean nations and the Latin America, it will help catapult the economy of IIbarapaland.
“And you know Ibarapa is a sub-set of Oyo State. “Therefore, if the economy of Ibarapa improves, invariably, the economy of Oyo State will improve.
“If this festival attracts tourists from overseas, definitely it will attract developments. It will boost the economy of Ibarapaland, because people will invest in hotels and tourism.
“People will invest in transportation, government will invest in security, electricity and other infrastructural developments.
“And I want to be part of the people that will bring developments to this place and encourage developments in Oyo State.
“By next year, I will be here; and by then, I would have picked the governorship ticket and by 2027, by God’s grace, I will be governor of Oyo State and we will do it better,” he said.
Adegoke later donated a sum of N20 million to the development of the festival and another N10 million each to the people of Ibarapa Central, Ibarapa North and Ibarapa East.
Also speaking, the Olu of Igbo-Ora, Oba Jimoh Olajide Titiloye, said it was the collective aspiration of all that the people of Igbo-Ora that Twins Festival continued to grow, “not only as a global celebration of our uniqueness, but also as a platform for youth development, peace-building and empowerment.
“Together, let us uphold the value, tradition and spirit that makes Igbo-Ora great, while praying for a better future for generations yet unborn.
“We must nurture in our youth, the spirit of cooperation, discipline, hard work dignity of labour and patriotism.”
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