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.
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.”
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