THE crisis between Chief Gani Adams, National Coordinator of Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, and some members led by the estranged Publicity Secretary of the congress, Mr. Sina Akinpelu, worsened yesterday as the latter asked Adams to explain what happened to the alleged mobilisation fee and his inability to garner six million votes that the embattled leader allegedly promised President Goodluck Jonathan in the March 28 election.
The faction within the OPC under the aegis of the National Coordinating Council of the Oodua People’s Congress, OPC, in a statement signed by the spokesman of the council, Adesina Akinpelu, said that one of the factors that led to President Jonathan’s defeat in South West was his romance with people like Gani Adams.
Akinpelu, who the faction loyal to Adams, had purportedly suspended over allegations of working for the Peoples Democratic Party, argued that as one of the founding fathers of OPC, he had contributed in so many ways to the liberation of the Yoruba race from the shackles of oppressors, and it was based on this that he and some conscious members of the congress challenged Adams’ decision for allegedly sacrificing the Yoruba race for pecuniary gains.