Internal War Breaks, OPC Leader Gani Adams
Adviced To Resign, Might Even Refund Jonathan
Funds
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. «BACK TO NEWS
