The Ooni said this over the weekend when the National Coordinator of the Oodua People’s Congress and National Promoter of Olokun Festival Foundation, Otunba Gani Adams, visited him in his palace in Ile-Ife, Osun State
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Ooni Ogunwusi made his position known in a statement released by his Director of Media and Public Affairs, Comrade Moses Olafare, who described Adams as an unapologetic loyalist of the Ooni’risa
The commendation was contained in a statement on Sunday by the National Coordinator of the OPC, Otunba Gani Adams
The position of the OPC was taken at the organization’s meeting in Lagos on January 10 and 11, 2016
Adams said: “Baba Olaniwun is a prodigy of immeasurable value both to the Yoruba race and the stability of Nigeria as a nation.
“He was a man who had a cosmopolitan outlook of Nigeria’s politics in relation to the unity of the Yoruba within a true federal structure
The movie is set for screening on August 25, 2016 at the Silverbird Cinema located inside the Ikeja City Mall, Lagos
The farm was last year invaded by some Fulani herdsmen, who kidnapped the Yoruba leader
He said: “Now it is Manchester in England, Lekki in Lagos, Tema in Ghana and Okota in Lagos that Otunba Gani Adams has houses again.
This was conveyed to the press by the Director of Media and Publicity of the OPC, Yinka Oguntimehin
Otunba Adams was accompanied on the visit by several aides and members of the OPU Worldwide
Adams, in a statement on Saturday, said he only saw the statement, used by some media houses bearing his photographh, just like other Nigerians
In a statement on Wednesday, Otunba Adams described the statement credited to Amosun alleging that the OPC and other militias had secessionist tendencies as “hopelessly unfortunate, frivolous in intention and an act which is very undignified of the personality of a South -West Governor”
In his address at the launching ceremony on Saturday, Otunba Gani Adams, expressed delight that OPU, which was conceived not too long ago is gradually blossoming from a dream to reality
Among those whose companies got the contract for the protection of the pipelines during Jonathan’s administration were the Leader of the Niger Delta Volunteer Force, Mujahid Asari-Dokubo; the President of the Oodua Peoples Congress, Dr. Frederick Faseun; and the National Coordinator of the OPC, Otunba Gani Adams
The deceased, who was six months pregnant, was reportedly on her way from the hospital where her husband, Bukola Fajana, was admitted, when she was killed
As early as 6am, the hoodlums had established their presence at Charity Bus Stop
The picture shown by Channels Television was an old picture taken during the rally organised by the Baba Fasehun faction of OPC during the anti-Boko Haram rally on the same Ikorodu road in September, 2011
The APCPCO said in a statement on Wednesday, signed by Mallam Garba Shehu, its Director of Media and Publicity, that the petition follows the massive terror unleashed on the residents of Lagos State by armed pro-Jonathan groups under the dubious cover of a faction of the Oodua People’s Congress
The basis of their demand, they said were the perceived irregularities in the commission in the build up to the 2015 general elections scheduled for March 28 and April 11
It specifically accused the APC senatorial candidate for Lagos West Senatorial District, Hon. Olalekan Solomon Adeola, popularly known as Yayi, as the brain behind the plot