The 17 years spent by Chief Gani Adams as leader of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) has been a major disaster for group, Co-ordinator of OPC in Kwara, Comrade Adeshina Akinpelu, has claimed.
Akinpelu made the statement against the backdrop of the 17th anniversary of the revolution that led to a change of guard in the leadership of the OPC, with the young, 29-year-old Gani Adams replacing the elderly Dr. Frederick Fasehun.
Seventeen years on, some members of the OPC feel betrayed by alleged “treachery” of their former leader, Gani Adams, who is a carpenter.
Fasehun was accused by Gani Adams of collecting money from politicians,. He claimed that Adams had collected billions of naira – both in local and foreign currencies- from all manners of politicians without consideration for political leanings and tendencies.
Akinpelu said that the former okada rider now lives a flamboyant lifestyle than the already made medical doctor he replaced.
Furthermore Akinpelu claimed that Gani Adams has mortgaged the lives and existence of the entire cadre of the OPC in order to maintain and “sustain his pretentious lifestyle.”
Akinpelu wrote: “Today, and with the benefit of his position as the leader of the OPC,
Adams sits atop a long list of assets and raw cash. There is a house built at Abule-Ado with money from Asiwaju Tinubu. There is also another one built in his village, Arigidi, Ondo state. He has houses in Ibeju-Lekki, Omole Phase (II) (worth over N500m), another at Okota,
Lagos (worth N50m) and one in Tema, Ghana and Manchester in UK among
others.
“These are beside the several exotic cars (worth over N150m), domiciliary accounts in several Nigerian banks, a pure water factory at Magboro, Ogun State, several trailers (over 20 pieces) and several acres/hectares all over Yorubaland. The undeveloped lands are the
proceeds of his land-grabbing activities.
“With the above and in retrospect, it appeared clearly that Gani Adams was beyond redemption and has since been removed from the leadership
of the Congress.
“Adams, among several other fraudulent acts against the members of the
OPC, collected N20 million from the Ondo State government as compensation for the brutal murder of several of our members at Owo, as they returned from the funeral of Chief Bola Ige.”
Akinpelu said “his anti-congress activities wwere so much that he was advised to resign
honourably, borrowing a leaf from the instance of his one-time friend and paymaster, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, who saved Nigeria from imminent chaos by accepting his defeat at the 2015 general elections.”
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