Award of Excellence is to be bestowed on deserving community members in different categories in the forthcoming Isanlu-Isin Ajokogun 2024 Fiesta billed for 30th of this Month in Isanlu-Isin, Isin Local Government Area of the State
Chairman, 2024 AJOKOGUN Organizing Committee, Chief Akogun Iyiola Oyedepo announced this at the Press Conference as part of activities of the cultural celebration held in Ilorin, Kwara State Capital
Chief Oyedepo said significant part of this year Ajokogun Fiesta is the N250m fund raising activities for the purpose of construction of an Ultra-Modern Town Hall for the Community.
He called on several friends and lovers of the community to help generously towards the efforts to start this project very early in year 2025.
Chief Oyedepo said the Ajokogun of this year is more than celebration of the past as makes Isanlu-Isin unique in terms of culture and history will also be well displayed.
According to him, there will be cultural exhibition where the history of the community will be pictorially displayed.
He pointed out that part of the events will be the display of local cuisine that may have been lost to modernity like, ewu-Iyan, lakitipa, Lagba, Ekuru, Sanpala, obe oopa, obe egungun and Isapa,
The Chairman Organizing Committee maintained that mode of dressing of the past by men and women especially the fading hairdos of the past would be showcased.
According to him, all clubs, branches of Isanlu-Isin Development Association, the eight different wards of the community and the traditional chiefs will be in their different attires and splendor, each taking the turns to pay homage the Kabiyesi, the Alayeluwa, the Olusin of Isanlu-Isin, Oba Solomon Oloyede, Atobatele the second and the Olusin will be royally decked.
The theme of the Ajokogun of 2024 is “Unity For Development” where a paper is expected to be presented by an Erudite Scholar from the Community.
Chief Oyedepo therefore appealed to sons, daughters, friends and lovers of Isanlu-Isin, to witness this epoch-making Ajokogun 2024 Fiesta
