The National Coordinating Council of the Oodua People’s
Congress (OPC), has asked the National Coordinator of the congress, Otunba
Gani Adams, to immediately resign his appointment in order to forestall another
“internal war” within the organisation.
Speaking with newsmen in Ibadan on Monday, the spokesman of the council,
Comrade Adesina Akinpelu, also asked Adams to make open, the OPC’s
statements of bank accounts since March 1, 1999 when he was made the
National President of the Yoruba socio-cultural group.
Akinpelu called on Yoruba monarchs
and governors of the Yoruba speaking states to prevail on Adams not to cause
another crisis within the OPC, saying several lives were lost during two of
such internal crises fuelled by the OPC’s National Coordinator in Lagos
and Ibadan in the past.
His words: “It is on record
that lives of many indigenes of Oyo state and Lagosians were lost in the
battles between Otunba Gani Adams and Dr. Fasheun in Lagos and between him
(Adams) and Alaka in Ibadan in the past. We will not allow him to shed any
blood in Ibadan or Lagos again. Any attempt by him to cause another internal
war within the OPC, the battle will be taken to Arigidi-Akoko, his hometown.
“We now know the antics of Gani
Adams, and we will never allow him to have his way to start another internal
war within the OPC. Just as OPC in Ekiti state has been liberated from the
shackles of Gani Adams, other state chapters will be liberated. Oyo OPC has
equally been liberated. No amount of threat and intimidation from Gani Adams
and his cohorts will stop me and other members of the council opposed to his
tyrannical rule from upholding the truth we stand for. ”
The council accused Adams of using
OPC to enrich himself and his family members at the expense of members of the
organisation, saying for example, the OPC boss has registered many companies
under his name using funds generated from the organization.
According to him, Olokun
Foundation, which has been approved by UNESCO, is one of such avenues that
Adams is using to siphon funds meant for the OPC.
“We have discovered that Gani Adams
is only after his own interests and not the interests of OPC members. He has
over the years used the organization to better the lots of his own family. Gani
Adams never funded any of the OPC programmes or cultural festivals, but the
contributions of all members are usually used to host such programmes, and yet
he collects money from individuals, groups, corporate bodies and state
governments without rendering any account to members of the group,” he
lamented.
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