Dr Frederick Fasehun led arm of OPC has warned Otunba Gani Adams, former NADECO Secretary, Mr. Ayo Opadokun, and others, to stop endangering the peace of Yoruba land by casting aspersions on the person and integrity of the Founder and President of the socio-cultural organisation, Fasehun.
In a statement signed by comrade Dare Adesope,
National
general secretary and comrade Sola Ajayi Edward, national publicity secretary, OPC, the camp threw its weight behind Dr. Fasehun’s
campaign for the release of former Chief Security Officer to General Sani
Abacha, Al-Mustapha, freed recently by the Court of Appeal from a death
sentence he bagged from a Lagos High Court over the assassination of Alhaja
Kudirat Abiola.
Rising from a meeting in Lagos,
Monday, the OPC leaders made their views known.
Fasehun’s camps kicked against
recent statements made in several print and broadcast media by Opadokun and
Adams, who have derided Fasehun for campaigning for the release of late
Dictator General Sani Abacha’s former Chief Security Officer, Major Hamza
Al-Mustapha, charged with ordering the assassination of Alhaja Kudirat Abiola,
wife of the June 12 hero.
Taking exception to Opadokun’s claim
that Fasehun’s relationship with Al-Mustapha amounted to “dining with the
devil,” OPC challenged the former NADECO boss to explain what he and other
Yoruba leaders went to do in Aso Rock with Abacha’s successor, General
Abdulsalami Abubakar, the day after the death of Bashorun M.K.O.
Abiola.
The statement reads: “Rather than
bad-mouth our esteemed Founder, Opadokun should explain to the world what
happened to cash withdrawals made during their visit totalling, $200 million
£75 million and N500 million. All these are duly recorded and we have the tape.
“These self-appointed critics
intentionally insinuate that Dr. Fasehun collected money from Al-Mustapha
support him because they themselves never do anything for free.
“Adams is demonstrating his
usual taste for blood by calling for the head of a man declared innocent by the
Judiciary. His reaction to the release of Al-Mustapha is a reflection of his
educational deficiency and nothing more should be expected from an illiterate
who dropped out of apprenticeship as a carpenter. How can such an
educational-retard have the slightest notion that the ruling of a higher court,
the Court of Appeal, supersedes the judgment of a lower court?”
Noting that the South-West has
enjoyed calm for some time now, leaders of OPC who met in Lagos said recent
utterances by Gani were capable of inflaming anger amongst members.
“We have the names of Gani’s
sponsors and paymasters, and if trouble breaks out due to his violent
utterances, they will not escape the wrath of Yoruba people. Adams is trying to
get undeserved recognition and sympathy for himself, because he has been losing
members in droves. It is better for him and his cohorts to stop disparaging Dr.
Fasehun in the day and coming to prostrate before him at night,” said Adesope
and Ajayi.
They said Adams and his
paymasters were now afraid that Fasehun’s successful efforts in the Al-Mustapha
case gave UPN colossal political mileage in the North.
“In fact, Gani Adams benefited
immensely from Abacha’s incarceration of Fasehun. Adams seized the opportunity
of Fasehun’s long absence to champion the factionalisation of OPC.”
They insisted that since Fasehun
escorted Al-Mustapha to Kano last week, the lives and security of Yoruba people
had become more guaranteed than ever before throughout the North.
“He needs
to be educated that in sensitive criminal matters like murder, no court will
convict an Accused unless the case is proved beyond reasonable doubt,”
maintained the OPC leaders
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