A faction of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), the New Era, on Thursday condemned Iba Gani Adams, the Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, for organising the 25th anniversary of the Yoruba socio-cultural group.
The OPC New Era, in a statement signed by its President, Comrade Razak Arogundade and National Public Relations Officer, Adeshina Akinpelu, described the celebration of the 25th anniversary of OPC by Adams as ill-conceived, selfish and attempt to further destabilise the Yoruba pressure group.
Arogundade accused Adams of celebrating the 25th anniversary of a group he was not the founder and trying to take credit for the works of others.
The statement said: “It came to us as a surprise that Gani Adams will once again come out to hoodwink Yoruba people into believing that he founded the OPC by organising its 25th anniversary. Here is a man who never accorded the late founder of OPC, Chief Fredrick Faseun, any respect while alive. It is the sweat of late Chief Fredrick Faseun that he is trying to reap from today.
“Ask Adams who celebrated the 25th anniversary of OPC the kind of relationship he had with the Founder of the group, late Chief Fredrick Faseun, and other leaders who made OPC what it is today? Ask him if he had ever visited the families or had any welfare plan for the families of our members who died during the struggle?”
He noted that Adams had encouraged further disunity among different factions of the OPC by organising the anniversary.
