National Co-ordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Otunba Gani Adams, said on Sunday that more than six million members of the group have resolved to vote for President Goodluck Jonathan at the March 28 presidential polls.
According to him, 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).
Adams, who spoke 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, 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.
‘’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,” he said.
He further said, “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.”
The main social cultural group of the Yoruba people Afenifere had earlier endorsed Jonathan for thesame reasons re-echoed by Adams.
Both Adams-led OPC and the other fashion led by Dr. Fredrick Faseun, are both members of Afenifere and have offered strong endorsement to President Jonathsn.
