Browsing: opc

Speaking in Ikeja, Lagos, at the commemoration anniversary of June 12, organized by the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), Iba Gani Adams stated that the late Abiola’s victory in the 1993 elections came with lots of sacrifices, adding that there were some heroes and heroines of that struggle that put their lives on the line for the actualisation of the June 12 struggle.

Speaking on Monday in Lagos at a briefing to unveil the programmes for this year’s edition of the Olokun Festival, Iba Gani Adams, who is also the chief promoter of Olokun Festival Foundation,(OFF) revealed that the annual fiesta has made significant  impacts in boosting the economy of the ancient town and the entire state.

Speaking against the backdrop of the recent attack on Yoruba nation activist Sunday Adeyemo Igboho’s Soka residence where two persons were allegedly killed,and the last week arrest in Cotonou, Republic of Benin, OPC in statement by its Publicity Secretary, Barrister Yinka Oguntimehin, flayed Federal Government’s approach in Igboho’s ordeals, maintaining that the use and application of force on self determination agitators has only justified Federal Government’s lack of respect to human rights and intolerance to the views of others.