Gani Adams Has Betrayed Us & The Yoruba 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.