OPC warns Tinubu over plot to remove Adams

Emmanuel Thomas, Lagos

August 18, 2015 – Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) has warned the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress(APC) Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to stay clear of expelled members who are plotting removal of its leader, Otunba Gani Adams.

In a statement issued today, its Director of Media and Publicity, Mr. Yinka Oguntimehin said it has uncovered plans by dismissed members of the group to enlist support of Tinubu to oust Gani Adams as President/National Coordinator.

The group alleged that the dismissed members of the group had written a letter, dated August 4, 2015, to Asiwaju BolaTinubu, seeking his support and blessing to remove or get rid of Adams as the OPC president.

The letter which was signed by Rasak Balogun, Monsuru Akande, Musiliu Amusa, Adesina Akinpelu, Olayiwola Ogunsolu, Lateef Ogungbayi, Gbenga Egunlusi, Ranti Akande, Lateef Oshodi,Soji Folorunsho, Segun Olusanya, Idowu Akintunde, Sunday Bankole, Kehinde Ogunyale, and Sunday Adebayo, all dismissed by the group appealed to the former governor to help them with their plans to remove or get rid of Mr. Gani Adams as the National Coordinator of OPC.

“The names, handwriting and signatures on the letter tally perfectly with the information available in our archives. They have also mounted a campaign of calumny and malicious falsehood to malign the person of the national coordinator in the print and electronic media all to no avail.

“In their letter to the former Lagos State Governor, a copy of which was brought to our notice by a good Samaritan, the dismissed group regarded themselves as ‘The Ten Million Boys Strike Force’ – an appellation for their crude conduct. They are so desperate to enlist Asiwaju BolaTinubu to get the support of the former governor and enlist some Yoruba leaders to create crisis in the OPC,” the statement read.

OPC maintained that its National Coordinating Council was in “unequivocal support” of the leadership of Adams and urged members of the general public to disregard its former members.