Architect Kester Ifeadi, President
of Organisation For the Advancement of Anioma Culture (OFAAC), the organizers
of Anioma Cultural Festival has said that all is set for this year’s edition
just as Union Bank Plc., has thrown its sponsorship support behind the festival
which is in its 14th edition.
The bank which has played strongly
and still dictating the pace in Nigeria’s financial turf is partnering with the
Organisation For the Advancement of Anioma Culture (OFAAC), to make this year’s
edition of the festival one to be remembered for a long time.
And as part of plans to make the
festival which holds on Easter Monday April 17 huge success, OFAAC has
commenced its usual courtesy call on traditional rulers and personalities of
high networth in the nine local government areas that make up Delta North
Senatorial District otherwise known as Anioma Nation.
The visitation which started on
Wednesday April 5 was one of the decisions reached at the crucial meeting of
board members and stakeholders of Organisation for the Advancement of Anioma
Culture (OFAAC) organisers of the cultural festival which took place in Asaba
last Saturday and which was presided over by Architect Kester Ifeadi.
Aside the monarchs, the commissioner
for culture and tourism, Chief Dan Okenyi, Chief Newton Jibunoh among others
have been visited and briefed on the preparations for the festival.
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The theme for year’s edition which
will take place at the open field of Asaba Girls Grammar School (AGGS) is
“let’s celebrate our cultural values’ and will as usual attract cultural
troupes, traditional wrestlers. There will also be exhibition of arts and
crafts, the traditional ‘akwa ocha’ which the people of Anioma are known for,
Anioma cuisines, music, raffle draws.
According to Ifeadi,
everything has been put in place for a successful festival as has been done in
the past.
“All the groups that will be taking
part in the festival are ready and gearing to go. We have dotted all the Is and
crossed the Ts and I promise Deltans another swell time. Anioma Cultural
Festival has become the number one cultural event in Delta State that attracts
people from all parts of the state from all walks of life,” Ifeadi said.
Last year, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa
led members of his executive to the festival at which he praised the organizers
and promised that the state would organise a pan-Delta cultural festival as a
way of promoting peace and unity among the different ethnic nationalities in
the state.
The festival is one of the many
projects through which OFAAC, which was founded 15 years ago connects with the
people of Anioma and other stakeholders in Delta State. Other projects the
organization is involved in includes an annual lecture, micro-credit scheme and
community service.
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