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The organizers of the competition of Senator Gbenga Daniel Choir, “The Asiwaju by Remo Christians Choir Festival Competition”, said on Monday that n30 million is at stake in the 2025 competition scheduled for July 6.
The Festival is an annual event founded and sponsored in the last 20 years by Daniel, the senator who represents Ogun East.
The festival held every year in Sagamu, in the state of Ogun, has been expanded in the last four years to include the price for the winners to make it more competitive and for the participation of choirs at national level and beyond the country.
Giving himself to journalists on Monday in Lagos, Daniel said he was motivated by his experience as a member of the Baptist Boys’ High School, Ogun, as a chorister and pianist of college.
The senator said that music played a fundamental role in modeling his spiritual and musical journey.
“These training experiences have thrown the
Foundation for my passion for music and its potential to inspire and raise others, “he said.
The senator said he understood that he could use the festival to model and influence the values and morals of the younger generations.
“Much has changed in society with people who no longer ask questions about morale.
“My passion is like supporting imminent generations and changing our people’s psyche using this festival.
“We must create more interest in music/choir and use it to influence the education of future generations, influencing their morality and redirecting them to what is right.
“Growing up, people have asked for the source of sudden wealth, but in these days no one matters. Moral decline is such as to face.
“This is one of the ways I chose to influence young minds to be disciplined and do the right thing,” he said.
Remo Cristiani’s asiwaju urged parents to do more in changing the system of values, which he said, would do a lot to remodel society.
Speaking also, dr. Opeymi Asaolu, curator and member of the Festival’s organizational council, said that 850 choristers are scheduled for the event.
Asolu said that the 2025 event would take place in the Church of Abraham Tabernacle, Sagamu, in the state of Ogun, an ecumenical church under the management of the Nigerian Battista convention.
Asolu said that nine choirs qualified for the competition against the usual six choirs in the last three editions.
“The only choir that has an automatic qualification for the competition is the host choir, the Abraham Tabernacle choir.
“In addition, the choir that defends its winning title automatically qualifies for the neighbor.
“The total reward amount to be won in this year’s edition of the Choir Festival is n30 million, with the winner who returns home with N5 million.
“The second prize is N3.5 million, the third prize is N2.5 million, the fourth N1 million prize, the fifth prize is N900.000, the sixth prize is N800,000, seventh award N700.000, Otto N600.000 N600.000 and ninth N500.000.
“We have 21 choirs observed and will return home with N500,000 each,” he said.
He said the participants were chosen after the hearing, saying that the choirs for the 2025 edition, by various parts of the country, were selected after the hearing.
He urged the Nigerians to join the sponsorship of the Festival to make room for greater participation.
The 2024 edition was held in Remo, Sagamu, the hometown of Daniel, former governor of Ogun and Asiwaju of Remo.
In 2024, N10 million was put aside as prizes for the participants, with the winning choir that received N3 million, against the N5 million for the winning choir in the 2025 competition.
Other members of the Festival’s Board of Directors are Lilian Imoni, Dr. Adeola Badru and Mr. Seun Owoaje.
