It beats me to heart to see my people (Afemais) come out in their thousands to receive me this morning as I return home on a thank you visit.
With joy in their hearts, they ushered me into the city of Auchi with songs, prayers, chants, and hailings in their loudest voices.
My return home will see me tour houses and palaces of royal fathers, chiefs, clergymen, political bigwigs, and the people, who stood solidly behind me in the last year of my trying time against political tyrants.
My ambition to serve the good people of Edo was fought and to them, denied, but justice will prevail.
It’s a divine calling that will see me and others build our state and not BURN it down as others have said out of their desperation
— HPS