OPC may become a political party ‘in few months’ —Gani Adams

National coordinator of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), Iba Gani Adams, has said that the group may go into partisan politics.

This, according to Adams, was to liberate the Yoruba nation from the shackles of poverty, oppression and other injustices that they had suffered over the years.

He charged the President Muhammadu Buhari government to restructure Nigeria, otherwise the OPC would go into active politics and lead the push for restructuring.

Adams made this comment on Thursday, while speaking at the celebration of OPC 25th anniversary.

He said: “It is sad that up till the present moment, we have not seen any tangible evidence or sign that we are moving in that direction, with all of us knowing that the way the country is presently structured can only bring nothing but disaster.

“For those who have followed this agitation on restructuring, we are calling for the government to implement the recommendations of the National Conference convoked by the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan.

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“It is in this light that I say that if in the next few months, there is no tangible evidence that the country will be restructured, then OPC will become partisan. The details we are still keeping to our chest.

“With a membership of over six million, even if it is members of the legislature at the states and federal levels that we are able to produce, we will be in a position to influence what happens in the government at all levels. Time for “siddon look” is over,” he stated.

“I look back at what started 25 years ago as a movement for the validation of the June 12, 1993 presidential election won by our own irrepressible Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, the late MKO Abiola, but which today has blossomed into the proverbial Iron tree that, still by the grace of “Olodumare”, can no longer be uprooted.

“From a gathering of just ten men on August 13, 1995 at number 110, Palm Avenue Street, Mushin, in Lagos, the OPC has grown into an organisation of over six million members spreading not just across the South West states but to all parts of Nigeria.”

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