Fasehun's OPC sacks 3 national officers

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(Nigeria) The Oodua People’s Congress, OPC, has announced the dismissal of three of its recently-dropped national officers, including the former General Secretary, Dare Adesope, who recently proclaimed himself the organisation’s President.
OPC Founder/President, Dr. Frederick Fasehun, disclosed this in a statement on Friday, said that those dismissed alongside Adesope included: Olusola Ajayi Edward, the former Publicity Secretary, and Alhaji Taofik Adeyemi, the former Organising Secretary.
According to the OPC President, the trio has been fired over charges of insubordination, fraud, misappropriation and impersonation, as well as for conduct likely to cause a breach of the peace.
The resolution arose after a meeting Fasehun held in Lagos yesterday with new members of the OPC executive, including the Deputy President –Otunba Wasiu Afolabi, Assistant President –Alhaji Lateef Lawal, and OPC National Coordinator –Comrade Odunayo Ogunmoye, announced in a newspaper advertisement on October 1.
The organisation also decided it would not be drawn into violence, despite the provocation being engineered by the dismissed former officers.
OPC condemned Adesope for claiming to be the new President of OPC, while declaring that Fasehun would now be regarded merely as the Founder.
“They have been dismissed now following their attempt to mislead Nigerians through the press conference they held on Wednesday, during which they proclaimed themselves as the new leaders of OPC, with Dare Adesope as the new President,” the OPC statement said. “OPC is also charging them with perpetrating fraud and mishandling the organisation’s finances.”
It also charged them with being moles in the organisation, and that they had turned mercenary because of money dangled by a financier keen on destroying OPC.
“I have no intention to remain OPC President for life,” Fasehun said. “I founded the organisation but the membership insisted I should remain as President to put together a successor executive, which I will, God willing, dedicate the next couple of years to do.”
To complaints that the renegades had taken exemption to the newly announced leaders, Fasehun said that OPC leaders had never evolved by election.
The organisation considered it an irony that Adesope, Edward and Adeyemi, who had themselves been appointed and had served six years instead of the four years stipulated in the OPC constitution, could turn around to kick against their ouster and the mode of selecting the new leaders.
Fasehun said: “These new leaders emerged after wide consultations with stakeholders within and outside the organisation.”

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