QUIT ORDER NOTICE: OPC BLOWS HOT

QUIT ORDER NOTICE: OPC BLOWS HOT

Wale Odunsi

Following the quit  order notice recently issued by the Niger Delta militants, to bothe the Yorubas and the northerners  living in the region, the Oodua People’s Congress, (OPC) has ​warned ​southern leaders to caution the Niger Delta Agitators (NDA)

 OPC said any attempt to effect the provocation will lead to serious consequences.

A statement on Friday by National Coordinator, Otunba Gani Adams​, condemned the threat​, saying such “could deflate the robust relationship being experienced by the Southwest and the Southern counterpart.”

 ​He observed that the deadline issued by John Duku, ​NDA ​leader​, was the second in recent time​.

 ​”​We know that the position of the ​m​ilitants may not reflect that of their leaders​. ​

“Hence, ​t​here is a need for them to speak out against the move of the group.

”We​ see the Southerners as friends but we are not in any way comfortable with the threat to quit ”​, Adams stated.​

 

​He ​informed the ​NDA that there were more indigenes of their region in the Southwest​, warning that “Yorubas must be safe in Niger Delta.”‎

Gani Adams

​OPC, however, ​hailed the Southern Leaders’ Forum over its ​recent ​position on the state of the nation​.

 The group said​ it was in agreement with the Forum’s stance that Nigeria had long ceased to be a federation, adding that the only solution to the issues confronting the nation at this time was restructuring of the country along regional line.

OPC further decried the “emerging systematic war against freedom of speech in the country and an indirect clampdown on the media by agencies of the ​f​ederal government​”.
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“Nigeria of today is different from that of the 80s, people’s freedom to speak should not be gagged if we don’t want to relapse into the brutish military era”​,​ the ​statement concluded.