NATIONAL
Co-ordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Otunba Gani Adams, yesterday,
said that six million members of the group have resolved to vote for President
Goodluck Jonathan at the March 28 presidential polls.
He said OPC
members took the decision at their National Co-ordinating Council meeting after
taking time to assess President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) and Major Gen Muhammadu Buhari (retd) of the All Progressives
Congress (APC).
He made the
disclosure at his Lagos residence while hosting Special Adviser to President
Jonathan on Niger Delta Affairs, Hon Kingsley Kuku, who came to solicit his and
OPC’s support for Jonathan’s re-election.
Adams said OPC is
rooting for Jonathan because of his human rights records in not arresting or
detaining any activist since he came to power, convocation of national
conference and promise to implement the 633 recommendations that will help to
restructure the country, which he said is in the interest of the Yoruba and
South-west.
He said: ‘’OPC
is a group of six million people. We sat down at our National Co-ordinating
Council to decide on who to vote for between President Jonathan and Buhari and
the support for Jonathan is unanimous.”
”Now,
we have come out to support Jonathan because of the National Conference.
We
have been clamouring for National Conference since 1992, even our leaders could
not organise it.
President
Olusegun Obasanjo organised the National Political Reforms Conference with a
lot of no-go areas.
In
the end there was a stalemate. ”Now a minority, Jonathan, did it. The only
no-go area is the unity of the country.
He
gave us open cheque to decide the future of Nigeria.”
Source:
Vanguard
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