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 OPC Urges Tinubu To Restore Pipeline Security Contract

The Oodua People's Congress (OPC) founded by Late Dr. Fredrick Isiotan Fasehun has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to restore the pipeline security contract to the organization to enhance the energy security of the country.

This appeal was handed out by the president of the organization, Otunba Wasiu Afolabi during the 30th anniversary ceremony of the organization held in Lagos on Thursday, August 29th 2024.

Otunba Afolabi appealed to President Tinubu to give opportunity to the organization to contribute its own quota to the energy security of Nigeria by restoring the pipeline security contract which was cancelled by former president Muhammadu Buhari.

According to the OPC boss, the restoration of the contract will not only help to checkmate oil pipeline vandalism across the South-west states but also tackle unemployment in the region including Kogi, Kwara and Edo states.

Otunba Afolabi remarked that OPC which was formed as a child of necessity in 1994 by Dr. Fredrick Fasehun had fought vigorously for the restoration of democratic rule in the country by mobilizing the bravest and the best of Yoruba race to fight for the restoration of the June 12 mandate of Chief MKO Abiola.

He added: "The result of OPC's courage and sacrifice is the democracy that Nigerians have today."

During the struggle for the restoration of democracy in the country, Otunba Afolabi stated that many OPC loyalists died, even as many others shed their blood while others lost everything they ever worked for without any hope of compensation.

Regrettably, the OPC boss noted that the organization has received virtually zero-benefit in the struggle for democracy for which it sacrificed so much to produce. "In the last 25 years of civilian rule, Yoruba land has been blessed with two sons as Presidents of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. 

"In the last 25 years, each of the six states of Yoruba land has had at least four governors. Put together, the entire South-west has been ruled by no fewer than 32 elected governors. Which of them has remembered OPC? Which of the 137 local government areas of the South-west with over 1000 council chairmen can boast of doing anything for OPC since 1999?. He queried.

As a panacea for moving the country out of its social and economic down turn, Otunba Afolabi advised government to listen to the NLC and #EndbadGovernance agitators. "Let the poor breathe. Give us affordable electricity, education, fuel, gas and food," Otunba Afolabi advised.