Two weeks ago, the desire of Yeye Ajesikemi Omolara, a priestess, to hold an “Isese festival” in Ilorin, Kwara state.ignited first a firestorm of opposition and then controversy that went beyond Kwara State.
The Isese festival controversy has been long in the making as the dust was first raised in January when Yeye Ajisikemi Omolara, an Ifa priestess showed her intent to hold the festival in Ilorin, a state noted for large number of Muslims, who hold a strict interpretation of Islam that forbids syncretism.
