The leader of Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) and generalismo of Yoruba land, Otumba Gani Adams has refused to be drawn into endorsing the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar insisting that Yorubas will vote only for candidate that is determined to bring about peaceful coexistence of Nigerians.
The Are Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland who spoke yesterday, Saturday when a former Governor of Ogun State and the Deputy Director General/Chairman, (South) of the PDP presidential campaign Council, Otunba Gbenga Daniel led a team of some stakeholders in the Southwest geopolitical zone to pay a courtesy visit on him at his Lagos residence, emphasised that restructuring is very key in Nigeria’s march towards nationhood, and that a candidate who preaches this as one of his core agenda in the coming election will be considered above others.
“The coming election will be based on ideologies rather than partisanship or sentiments as it was in the past.”
Otumba Gani Adams, however, acknowledged that Otunba Daniel had once averted what could have been a bloody scenario in the Yorubaland when two factions of the group were enmeshed in battle of supremacy some years back.
He recalled that it was Daniel who waded into the matter and established a lasting truce between the leaders and members of the two factions forestalling what could have snowballed into violent unrest.
The PDP chieftain had tried to convince Ona kakanfo why OPC and the Southwest should endorse Atiku, saying that a situation where the Yoruba people appear not to be getting it right in the governance of the country especially at the centre has been one of the reasons he got involved in national politics which took him round the country on about three occasions.
He assured that he is convinced of the electoral promises of Atiku Abubabar who he described as “a thorough and visionary politician who is so passionate about the Nigerian project, a lover of the Yoruba people, a honest and true Nigerian who will not say what he could not do.”
