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OPC Leader Accuses National Coordinator Of Assassination Bid

The lingering crisis rocking Oodua People’s Congress took another dimension as a leader of a faction tagged, New Era Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), Comrade Adesina Akinpelu, has raised an alarm that the National Coordinator of OPC, Otunba Gani Adams, is after his life.

Addressing newsmen in Ibadan at the weekend, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the New Era OPC, revealed that the N1.5 billion Adams collected from former President Goodluck Jonathan in the name of OPC for the 2015 election and other allegations of highhandedness were  the cause of the crisis within the group. 

Akinpelu also blamed Adams and some of the organizers of the Yoruba summit that took place in Ibadan recently for the clash among OPC factions during the event. 

The New Era OPC PRO who was seriously injured during the clash, insisted that the aim of his attackers was to kill him, if not for the timely intervention of a police team that rescued him. 

Akinpelu revealed that himself and other concerned leaders of OPC broke away from the Adams’ faction, after he (Adams) disrupted the peace in Yorubaland through his anti-Jega rally in Lagos on March 16, 2015.

“We members of the National Coordinating Council of the OPC decided to call Otunba Adams to order after we realized that he had derailed from the OPC agenda, but he refused to listen. So, on the day he held his rally, we addressed a press conference in Somolu, Lagos, where we declared that he is no more our leader”, Akinpelu stated. 

He explained further that ever since then, there have been attacks on those who broke away, including himself in Ibadan, and others in Lagos,  like Dele Onigbongbo, Chief Olowoporoku and Alhaji Dauda Oyelowo.

Akinpelu added that he had reported cases of series of attacks on him to the police and the Department of State Security (DSS) in Oyo state before the recent factional clash in Ibadan.

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