Ogun OPC Refutes Pastor's Abduction

Re: OPC Abducts Pastor During Service 

The attention of the O'dua People's Congress, Ogun State Chapter has been drawn to a newspaper reports (Punch newspaper) of Tuesday 27th of September, 2016 with above headline and we think, for the sake of the unsuspecting public who might be misled by such damaging reports which portray the O'dua People's Congress (OPC) in bad light, as an organization of hoodlums, we need to set the record straight. 

We need to state unequivocally and without any fear of contradiction, that no member of our organization, the O'dua People's Congress was involved the abduction of any pastor whether during or after church service on the day in question or at any other place and time thereafter . 

We are not disputing the fact that the said pastor have fallen victim of some hoodlums contracted to do some hatchet jobs, but we maintain clearly those are not members of our organization. 

For the avoidance of doubt, members of the O'dua People's Congress have means of identification, and this was a deliberate measure put in place by the leadership of Otunba Gani Adams to distinguish our members from the various impostors and hoodlums who may want to hide under the name of the organisation to perpetuate evil. 

Besides, our organization does not have any unit or cell in the Onigbogbo, Atan Ota area referred to in the story. And the question of any of our members being drafted from any other area to do such hatchet jobs in an unknown territory does not arise, chiefly because we run a command structure whereby most, if not all activities of our members, units and cells are closely monitored. 

The O'dua People's Congress as a responsible socio-cultural organisation that looks after the security and welfare of Yoruba people and nation, and has acquitted itself creditable well in various forms of charity. It could not be used as a tool for the oppression of the people it elects to protect. 

We therefore call on the relevant security agency to carry out their investigations diligently with a view to unraveling the true identity of the people who perpetrated this act, bring them to book, ensure justice is done, and establish the cause of this misrepresentation. 

Dada Jesiliu 

Secretary, O'dua People's Congress

Ogun State Chapter.