PanNigerianNews 
The Isanlu-Isin community in Isin Local Government Area of Kwara State, has announced that it will hold the 2024 edition of its annual Ajokogun Fiesta in the town on December 30, 2024.
Chairman of the Organizing Committee, Akogun Iyiola Oyedepo, while briefing stakeholders at the Palace of the Olusin of Isanlu-Isin, Oba (Dr.) Solomon Olugbenga Oloyede, at the weekend said all hands are on the deck to ensure that the event is successful.
Oyedepo, former Chief Whip of the Kwara State House of Assembly, said the fiesta was to celebrate the people’s rich culture rather than being a return to paganism.
He implored the people to realize that religion and culture are two different things.
Accompanied on the journey to the Palace by Vice President of the Isanlu-Isin Development Association, Barrister Jacob Ayanda, and Secretary of the Development Association, Mr Sunday Ajide, Oyedepo said the theme for the 2024 edition of the fiesta is: “Unity for Development”.
Others on the trip included, Chairman of the History and Culture Sub-Committee, Deacon Mike Dada and member of the Entertainment Sub-Committee, Mrs. Folake Ajide.
Akogun Oyedepo added that the principal purpose of the annual celebration that has come to stay is to arouse the sense of loyalty and pride in the sons and daughters of Isanlu Isin.
According to him, Ajokogun is about the display of mythical security of our people during great challenges of intra and inter-ethnic wars.
“The then Defence of the time was for the entire community. Unity of purpose by then provided for unity as a result of which Isanlu-Isin was never conquered or conquerable.
“It is therefore part of the pride of the community that we were never conquered in the wars of the old. But since we are now predominantly Christians, our refuge is now in the Lord, not the mystical power of the then Oloke. And we are not without where we are coming from, our origin.
“Ajokogun is a celebration of culture and identity. It is a sociocultural gathering like that of Ojude Oba in Ijebu, Durbar in Ilorin, Ijakadi in Offa, Baragbon in Esie.
“With Ajokogun, we can bring back our history in pictorial form for tourism,” Oyedepo said.
