Adams also said the death was a great loss to Nigeria and the world at large, pointing out that Faseun left behind a worthy legacy.
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The Senior Special Adviser on Media to Fasehun, Adeoye Jolaosho, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Saturday.
Fasehun spoke with newsmen on the sidelines of a youth conference organised by the group in Lagos.
The group however said it would support candidates that truly believed in its ideal of restructuring.
Publicity Secretary of the group, Yinka Oguntimehin, who reaffirmed the OPC’s belief in restructuring said that Nigeria could only get it right when all the federating states developed at their own pace.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, CP Imohimi Edgal, who led detectives on Tuesday to the shrine, ordered for it destruction.
Speaking at 2018 edition of the Leadership Training Retreat in Ibadan, Oyo State, the Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Aare Gani Adams, said leadership is about service to humanity.
The OPC chief, while speaking during the 2016 edition of the annual Ifa Festival, organised by the Olokun Festival Foundation, which took place in Abule-Ado area of Amuwo Odofin Local Government, Lagos State, described the invasion of the South West by militants as “one too many”
The governor noted that the formation of the group was one of the many legacies of Fasehun
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
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Oguntimehin said: “When we were given the contract on March 15, it was agreed that they will release money for the OPC personnel for effective protection of the NNPC pipelines nationwide
According to a statement by the Lagos State Coordinator of OPC, Alhaji Mutair Adeshina, “Despite several warnings and attempts by the elders of the congress to ensure that this duo toe the line of responsibility as members of the Congress, they continued to behave in a manner that is capable of bringing the esteem name of the congress into disrepute
“My members know my position on illegal arms possession. They do not carry arms near me and if they do so, it is at their own risk and not the organisation’’ Fasehun said.
Adams equally advised Yoruba people in the Diaspora to cultivate the attitude of returning home to invest and prepare for their journey back home.
In the statement titled: “The many lies of a parasite: Adeshina Akinpelu cannot speak for OPC,” the nine national leaders of the group said: “Our attention has been drawn to a purported press interview granted by Adeshina Akinpelu, who claims to be a member of the National Coordinating Council nor the spokes person of Oodua People’s Congress (0PC), led by Otunba Gani Adams
But the OPC in its reaction said: “We wish to bring to the notice of the general public that the recent publication by the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed via the social media linking Otunba (Dr.) Gani Adams with an allegation of planning to rig the gubernatorial elections in Lagos State coming up on 11th day of April, 2105 is a blatant falsehood
In a statement issued in Lagos on Friday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said OPC members were sighted at Owu -Elepe in Ikorodu Local Government Area of Lagos State on Friday morning changing into fake police and army uniforms, confirming the alarm earlier raised by the party that fake uniforms of security agencies were being sewn in the capital city of a South West state
It had in attendance Nigeria’s Ambassador to France, Hakeem Olawale, who was represented by the Head of Chancery, Olumide Olowo; the Zaki of Arigidi, Oba Yisa Olanipekun; Captain Olatokunbo Adesina; Akogun Banji Ojo; Chief Yomi George Giwa; Staff of Nigeria High Commission in France; the Europe Coordinator of OPU; and all OPU Coordinators in Europe and Great Britain