People- National Coordinating Council Of OPC
Here’s a press statement by the National
Coordinating Council of the OODUA People Congress
(OPC) after a ‘violent’ protest occurred today in
Lagos calling for the removal of INEC Chairman by
Gani Adams fraction. The National Coordinator and
other key members released this statement
disassociating themselves from the act and wanting
Nigerians to know Gani is on his own. Read….
We, the members of the National Coordinating
Council of the Oodua People’s Congress, OPC, the
highest ruling body of the organization, wish to
disassociate ourselves from the shameful,
destructive, violent and reactionary activities of the
Gani Adam-led team which occurred in Lagos
today. What was witnessed today in Lagos was the
highest level of political violence sponsored and
funded by certain elements in the Jonathan
government.
Gani Adams is on his own and does not enjoy the
support of a large size of our membership spread
across the country. He is working for the sponsors
of violence against our people who want the March
28 elections not to hold. Unleashing terror on
innocent citizens and killing them is not the way of
democracy. It is not our idea of a people-oriented
advocacy.
Gani Adams is on dubious project. He is using the
Pipleline contract from the Jonathan government as
a ploy or excuse to recruit people to work for
Jonathan and PDP in the South West. Gani Adams
is acting against Yoruba interest. The compromises
he has made amounts to selling the Yoruba to the
present government for a piece of Pipeline contract
to line his pockets. OPC is not about Pipleline
contracts or any other contracts for that matter. The
Yoruba interest is beyond contracts. We seek
justice and fairness from the current government.
We, members of the National Coordinating Council of
the Odua People’s Congress, OPC, call all true
Yoruba leaders, sons and daughters to stand with
us in totally condemning Gani and his anti-
democratic tendencies. We must renounce him and
remind him he cannot sell the Yoruba race to
Jonathan and PDP on the cheap. He also has no
authority to speak on behalf of the Yoruba people.
We pity those who rely on him to win votes. They
will be sorely disappointed. Their investment is a
bad one already. We reject today and always any
attempt to use our organization and its members for
narrow and selfish partisan purposes.
We must remind them that the Yoruba people
cannot be hoodwinked by sweeteners. No one
should expect them to kow tow to an individual who
is a Lilliputian in the political development and
history of the Yoruba nation. The Yorubas are a
politically sophisticated persons and will simply
ignore political opportunists like Gani Adams. We
renounce him and his activities which are against
the larger Yoruba interest. We renounce all other
Yoruba sons and daughters who are playing roles
inimical to the welfare and interest the larger
Yoruba nation.
We call on our people to be vigilant politically at this
time. Nigeria needs a new leadership, a new
direction and a country that works.
Comrade Shina Akinpelu
March 16th, 2015
In attendance were Monsuru Akande, Sunday
Adebayo, Kilanko Oladipupo, Kehinde Ogunyale, and
Gbenga Eegunlusi. All pioneer members of the OPC.
Ladun laidi
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