The Oodua People’s Congress (OPC)
says it will continue to uphold the legacy of its founder, Fredrick Faseun, by
not allowing politicians to turn Nigeria into an animal kingdom.
Prince Osibote, OPC worldwide
president, made this known in a statement on Sunday, to commemorate the
one-year anniversary of Faseun’s death.
Fasehun, a medical doctor and
activist, died in December 2018 at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital
in Ikeja.
“As we celebrate your life, Dr
Fasehun, we as your disciples, promise to guide against the present crop of
political leaders at all levels turning Nigeria into another dungeon, returning
to the inglorious era of fear, tear and sorrow,” he said.
“We are prepared to make the
necessary sacrifice to guarantee that Nigeria does not become a land of
vampires, hyenas and locusts. We will not condone, tolerate or allow fifth
columnists to reduce Nigeria to yet another animal kingdom, where might is
right.
“We are ready, prepared and
poised to collaborate with other well-meaning individuals and organisations to
ensure that Nigerians have food on their table and a secured future.
“We promise never to compromise
on the battle you started, consolidated and sustained until your dying days as
a distinguished and worthy ambassador of mankind.”
Speaking further, Osibote said
the group will not be cowed into deserting its aims and objectives.
“We insist that no individual or
group, no matter how highly placed, can cow us from upholding the cardinal aims
and objectives of the OPC to take the battle to the doorstep of whoever tries
to undermine the Yoruba race and deprive us of their rights and privileges.
Whoever tries to test our will won’t be spared,” he said.
The president said Fasehun left a
legacy of visionary leadership as he “made his mark as an exceptional
individual who believed in sharing with the citizens their dreams, desires,
pains and challenges”.
He said it was because of that
vision that the OPC founder “planted the seed called OPC that defends and
protects with a consummate zeal and passion, the fundamental rights of all
citizens”.
Osibote said the OPC is willing
to collaborate with other stakeholders in ensuring the progress of the country.
The OPC was founded in 1994 to
protect the interests of the Yoruba tribe after claiming the ethnic group was
politically marginalised.
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