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The spokesman of the Command, Olugbenga Fadeyi, confirmed this in a statement on Sunday, adding that the Commissioner of Police, Ngozi Onadeko, had swung into action in respect of the case

A member of the OPC that effected the arrest, Chief Adedeji Oluwole, drove Wakili from the point he was arrested to the handover point to the Department of State Services

The PUNCH had reported that farmers and residents of Ayete lived in perpetual fear of Wakili who was accused of displacing them from their farms.

The group under the supervision of the Oyo State coordinator of the Gani Adams-led OPC, Comrade Rotimi Olumo, also made huge progress with the arrest of the Second-in-Command to dreaded kidnapper, Wakilu, Isiaka Muhammadu.

Speaking after a meeting of the group’s leaders at Century Hotel, Okota, Lagos on Tuesday, Otunba Wasiu Afolabi, alias Askari, Deputy President to the late OPC Founder, Dr. Frederick Fasehun, said the government had shown that it preferred to defend Fulani from outside Nigeria instead of protecting the country’s citizens and indigenes.

Speaking against the backdrop of the recent encroachment of Prof. Wole Soyinka’s Ijegba, Abeokuta, Ogun State residence by herders, Adams, in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Aderemi, said the manner of the encroachment was largely a threat to the privacy of the Nobel laureate.

Igboho made this declaration in a video interview released in 2020.

Justice Ayokunle Rotimi-Balogun delivering her judgment held that all the evidence tendered had convinced the court beyond reasonable doubt that Ibrahim committed the offences as charged.

The group in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Yinka Oguntimehin, said with the recent efforts of Amotekun in Oyo and Osun States, there are hopes that the security challenges in the region will soon become a thing of the past.

Speaking against the backdrop of the call made by the group for the inclusion of its members and other ethnic groups in the South West outfit, the OPC expressed worry that MACBAN has created the greatest security challenges in Nigeria.

The group also restated its support and commitment to true federalism on the basis of regionalism, adding that Nigeria cannot make any meaningful progress with the 1999 Constitution, which it described as a democratic albatross.

Rising at the end of the highly technical meeting attended by all leaders and top delegates of the 17 European countries, where the OPU is currently established across Europe, the group expressed its displeasure at the present spate of insecurity in the country, lamenting that the ship of state appears to be rudderless as insecurity, banditry, Boko Haram Terrorists and Fulani herdsmen all appear to be having a field day

The ceremonial ruler said this at a virtual meeting with some prominent Lagosians, including one of them he identified as Alhaji Gbadamosi.

This was as the Ifako-Ijaye Local Government Area, which covers the area, provided a detailed report on the clash, which broke out on Tuesday

The OPC in a statement by the Publicity Secretary, Barrister Yinka Oguntimehin, expressed concern on the situation leading to the death of some of the defenceless protesters in Lekki, arguing that the killing was barbaric and an attempt to cow the people from expressing their views against the government.

The group said this in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Yinka Oguntimehin, on Wednesday

Adams, in a statement on Thursday by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Aderemi, expressed joy that part of the dreams of the Oodua Peoples Congress under his leadership has been realised with the celebration of June 12 as the authentic democracy day.

The suspects were said to have carried out the killing as a reprisal.

The Oodua Peoples Congress on Wednesday donated N3 million for food and procurements of essential items to patients of the deadly COVID-19 disease across the six states of the South West and Kwara and Kogi States.

The deceased, identified just as Akin, aka AK, a father of four, was found dead inside the container, while the lady was gasping for breath