OPC Declares Support for President Jonathan
The National Co-ordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Comrade Gani Adams, has said all six million members of the group are in support of President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election bid.
According to Adams, the members of the congress held a National Co-ordinating Council meeting, during which they compared the benefits of voting for either President Goodluck Jonathan and Major Gen Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) and they decided President Jonathan is a better option.
He stated that the OPC decided to support Jonathan because of his convocation of national conference and subsequent pledge to implement the 633 recommendations that were arrived at during the confab.
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.
