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Factional crisis tears OPC apart

By Sam Oluwalana, Ibadan
08 February 2016   |   3:09 am
The crisis within the Yoruba-based group, Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) took a turn for the worse at the weekend when the body’s national council expelled some members who have called for the sacking of the body’s National Coordinator, Otunba Gani Adams. The affected members of the body had at a meeting convened in Ibadan, Oyo…

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The crisis within the Yoruba-based group, Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) took a turn for the worse at the weekend when the body’s national council expelled some members who have called for the sacking of the body’s National Coordinator, Otunba Gani Adams.

The affected members of the body had at a meeting convened in Ibadan, Oyo state capital called for his removal. They alleged that Adams had outlived his usefulness over what they called his style of administration and that is why he is no longer capable of leading the group again.

The OPC members under the aegis of National Coordinating Council (NCC) from Kwara, Oyo, Ondo, Bayelsa, Delta, Sokoto and Kaduna States, also called on Yoruba elders of thought and traditional rulers, to prevail on Adams to listen to the voice of reason and quit.

However, the National Coordinating Council of OPC on Sunday announced the expulsion of some members for anti-congress activities and gross indiscipline, which will portray OPC as anti-people and a lawless organisation.

In a press release signed and made available to The Guardian by the group’s Director of Media and Publicity, Barrister Yinka Oguntimehin, the former members listed for expulsion are; Marruf Salami (Former Kwara State Coordinator) Adeola Adeagbo (Former Oyo State Coordinator) Rotimi Akinsowon(Former Ondo State Coordinator,Boye Mayungbe(Former Baba Odua) Akeem Ologburo(Former Bayelsa Coordinator) .

The statement reads; ‘’The Congress frowns seriously at the expelled members who have exhibited gross anti-congress activities and acts that may bring the Congress to public ridicule.

‘’ OPC over the years have come out of various negative perceptions and the congress have through its activities which include cultural promotions and humanitarian services, complementing the efforts of security agencies especially in South West, the formation of OPC spread across 63 countries over the world, to allow such ill -mannered people to be in leadership positions, thereby breeding anti societal elements.

‘’Subsequently they have been replaced with Oguntunde Rotimi Olumo (Oyo), Pius Ogunsanya (Ondo)who are to act as state coordinators and take charge of the state secretariats while competent hands will soon be appointed for other states’’.

In their own press statement, which was read by the Kwara State Coordinator of the group, Salam Marruff Olanrewaju, who addressed journalists, on behalf of the group, accused Adams of turning the group to his personal fiefdom, such that he is the only one dictating the fortune of the group to the detriment of the teeming members of the group.

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