Xmas: Ooni Preaches Love, Harmony

By Abdulrofiu Agboola, Osogbo

The Ooni of Ife, His Imperial Majesty Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja II, has called on Christian all over the world to emulate Jesus Christ with a view to achieve harmonious co-existence with the generality of the people.

The revered monarch, who described Jesus Christ as the lord of peace, love and unparalleled forgiving spirit, maintained that Jesus should always be remembered and honoured with the existence of love and peace by the Christians.

Ooni Ogunwusi stated this on Saturday in his Christmas message through a press statement released by his spokesman Comrade Moses Olafare. He said that people of the world must see themselves as one before the God almighty and must treat one another with forgiveness, peace and love as symbolized by Jesus Christ if the world must be a conducive place for everyone to survive.

“there is no greater gift and honour you can give to Jesus Christ other than exhibition of forgiving spirit, display of love and ensurance of absolute peace because these are what the lord Jesus symbolizes. We all must see ourselves as equal before the almighty God who purposefully created us with different cultural backgrounds. The surest way of achieving the much needed global harmony is when we always imbibe the spirit of forgiveness and extend hand of love and peace to one another, with this Jesus Christ will be happy in heaven, God will always smile to us and of course the world will become a better place for all of us to dwell happily”.

The African foremost monarch while wishing all the Christians in Nigeria and across the globe a merry Christmas also  charged the religious leaders to always lead  by example by not just preaching like Jesus Christ but always act like Him if their followers should take them seriously.