We want to be recruited to fight insecurity – OPC

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FROM LEFT: Bunmi Fasehun (OPC National Secretary), Adeoye Jolaosho (OPC Consultant), Kunle Adesokan (OPC-BOT Member), Wale Oshun (OPC-BOT Chairman), Remi Fasehun (Son), Mrs. Iyabo Fasehun (OPC Founder’s Widow), Wasiu Afolabi (OPC President), Kole Fasehun (Son), Jubril Ogundimu (OPC-BOT Member), Babatunde Adewale (OPC-GOC), at the Okota, Lagos home of the organisation’s late Founder, on Sunday 6 March, 2022.

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*As new trustees pledge to sustain Frederick Fasehun’s legacy

By BASHIR ADEFAKA

National executive members of the Odua People’s Congress (OPC) have vowed to sustain the legacy of its group’s founder, late Chief Frederick Fasehun, by taking part in effort to ensure security and safety in the region.

Led at the weekend to Deaconess Iyabo Fasehun, widow of the late founder, Hon. Wale Oshun, who is Chairman of the new OPC’s Board of Trustees, made the pledge saying, it became necessary to pay Mrs. Fasehun a courtesy visit in order for her to bestow her blessing on the newly constituted BoT.

While apprising her with the BoT’s plans to sustain the organisation, especially at this critical state of the nation’s life, Oshun, during the visit of Sunday 6 March 2022, observed that Mrs. Fasehun must be given due credit and recognition as a co-traveller with her husband during the struggle to enthrone democracy in Nigeria.

Oshun, former Chief Whip in the House of Representatives, is also the Chairman of the Afenifere Renewal Group (ARG).

Other members of the BOT present were Bashorun Kunle Adesokan and Comrade Jubril Ogundimu, OPC President, Otunba Wasiu Idowu Afolabi, the Secretary-General, Comrade Bunmi Fasehun, and the General Officer Commanding, Comrade Babatunde Adewale.

Details of the visit were contained in a statement sent to The DEFENDER by Comrade Bunmi Fasehun, Secretary General of the OPC.

Afolabi, OPC President, said that the organisation would readily collaborate with the government to confront insecurity whenever it was invited to do so.

“We realise that if we cannot keep our environment peaceful, we too cannot live in peace,” he said. “As a result, OPC is ever-ready to play its traditional role of tackling any threat by anybody to security anywhere in the South-West.”

Welcoming the visitors to her Okota, Lagos home, Deaconess Fasehun thanked Oshun and the other trustees for remaining steadfast and supportive of the organisation after the death of its Founder.

She, however, enjoined OPC members everywhere to operate in love for one another as that was the basis for her husband founding the organisation.

She said, “It was the love for the Yoruba race and Nigeria that made my husband found the Oodua People’s Congress to demand for the rights of every man and woman of Yoruba origin, as well as to ensure social justice for all Nigerians.”

While commending the new OPC executive and BOT for sustaining the legacy of Fasehun who died on December 1, 2018, she described the group as a pacesetter, recalling that it was after it was founded in 1994 that other regional and self-determination organisations sprang up.

Furthermore, Deaconess Fasehun said OPC must educate members to eschew violence, and that it must leverage on its huge size to remain united and lead by example.

Mrs. Fasehun, who last October adorned Afolabi with the insignia of office as OPC President, urged members of different factions to return to the mainstream under him, as this would be the wish of the late Founder who in his lifetime had appointed him Deputy President of the congress.

Fellow BOT member and former OPC Secretary, Bashorun Adesokan, said that the contribution of Fasehun to the enthronement of democracy in Nigeria could never be over-emphasised, and that history would be kind to the Founder for the role he played.

Ogundimu said: “The spirit of the Founder of OPC, Dr. Frederick Fasehun, can never die. It lives on in the group and in Mama as evident in the way Mama carried on to uphold the legacy of her husband.”


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