Alleged Threat To Life: OPC Coordinator Exonerates Gani Adams, Says Akanni Is An Ingrate

By ABIODUN JIMOH, ABEOKUTA

Oodua Peoples Congress,(OPC), Lagos State Coordinator, Alhaji Mutairu Adesina, has described assassinating plot allegation leveled against Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams by his former Chief of Staff, Segun Akanni as frivolous and ridiculous.

He hereby advised the embattled former chief of staff to better toe the path of honour rather than making spirited efforts to bite the fingers that fed him in the past.

The coordinator in a statement related Akanni to an ingrate with short memory who he said remained one of the good beneficiaries of the national coordinator of the congress.

Adeshina hinted that Akanni had for the past one and a half year remained lonely and down, thus making desperate efforts to soil the name of his former boss and benefactor, and finding ways to also tarnish the image of the OPC.

He hereby advised the embattled former chief of staff to better toe the path of honour rather than making spirited efforts to bite the fingers that fed him in the past.

Furthermore, he expressed dismay and wondered why Akanni had only resorted to propaganda, blackmailing, and lying against Aare Gani Adams, all in an attempt to seek asylum in Canada.

Adeshina said: “I have read the stories in the social media and I wondered how he had decided to toe such ignominious path with uncanny ignominy. In the last few weeks, he has been trying to seek asylum in Canada through the back door, and one of his strategies was to go to the media alleging threat to his life.

“There’s nothing strange about what Segun Akanni did. Liars, they say, always have short memories and people can be so dishonorable that they forget the past so easily. But truth is, we must remind him that the office of Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland is so sacred and big for such a featherweight to put to disrepute.

“That is why we have decided not to issue any statement on this, but as a chieftain of the group, I think it is necessary for me to put the record straight on his various lies against our boss.

Segun Akanni was a staff of Aare Gani Adams, he was not a member of the National Executive Council, (NEC) the highest decision making organ of either the OPC or OPU. Whatever benefits he enjoyed then resulted from the office he served. But he later blew the opportunity.”

While narrating insight into the situation surrounding Akanni’s exit from the organisation, Adeshina said that he was sacked as a result of his dubious and questionable character as a visa racketeer.

Moreover, Adeshina who was devastated said: “He was relieved of his job when it became open that he had conspired with some powerful people both within and outside the organisation to mortgage the future of the organisation.

“Akanni was sacked because he had drifted from the struggle for the emancipation of the Yoruba race, his body and soul is no longer with the group.

“I have known him for the past 14 years, and from the outset he was very notorious for telling lies. He was a pathological liar, and that is why it seems funny to me when a pot is desperately calling the kettle black.

“For Segun Akanni to have launched spurious attacks and words of calumny against our leader, only showed the level of his pettiness and little knowledge of history. Here is an ordinary road-side engine oil seller, that was brought to the limelight and laterally become somebody leveraging on the generousity of our leader.

“It is an irony of fate that such an ingrate could be so blessed to work with Aare Gani Adams, and eventually, reached the peak of his career by becoming the chief of staff. Akanni’s allegations as frivolous.”

The OPC chieftain stressed that the records are available that he (Akanni) served Aare Gani Adams for 14 years, and not 17 years as he had alleged.

“Segun Akanni’s file at the office indicated that he joined the office of the Aare Onakakanfo and Olokun Festival Foundation officially in 2004 as one of the aides. He later became persona