However, General Olusegun Obasanjo did not change the lyrics of the National Pledge which was created by Professor (Mrs) Felicia Adebola Adedoyin in 1976. Professor Adedoyin who was born on November 6, 1938 is the second of six children and a princess from the Iji ruling house of Shaki in Shaki West Local Government of Oke Ogun area of Oyo State. Her children were already acquainted with reciting the Oath of Allegiance in their school in New York, USA and also the State Pledge (Which was introduced on June 1, 1976) in Achimotu School in Accra Ghana. Instinctively, out of

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