The National Coordinating Council of Oodua People’s Congress, OPC, has finally dragged its embattled National Coordinator, Otunba Gani Adams to Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over allegation of misappropriation of funds.
According to Nigerian Eye who broke the story, the National Coordinating Council of the Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC in a petition dated March 4, 2016, stated that after its extra-ordinary meeting decided to report its erstwhile leader to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Independent and Corrupt Practices Commission, ICPC over multiple cases of fraud, misappropriation of OPC funds and outright stealing that ran into several billions of Naira.
The copy of the petition which was made available to NigerianEye showed that the anti-graft agency had received the letter which contained various allegations leveled against Gani Adams.
Among sundry allegations leveled against him in the petition was that he used the Congress’s funds to float a radio station known as Oodua Voice in United Kingdom.
“We want the whole world to know that Gani Adams is a crook and a fraudster who has used his position as National Coordinator of the OPC to amass questionable wealth for himself as well as his immediate family. He has in the last fifteen years used several methods to siphon funds and exploit our members.”
“Gani Adams apart from malleable puppets he uses as fronts- is the sole signatory to the several proxy accounts operated in the OPC’s name. The accounts were opened under the names: Olokun Foundation, Gani Adams Foundation and Donys Global Concept Limited among others. Adams has thus being using the opportunity presented by the scenario to divert OPC funds at his whim and caprices to the detriment of the vast majority of members who are wallowing in poverty.”
The petition signed by twenty-six members of the National Coordinating Council also accused Gani Adams of criminal diversion of 20million naira paid to the OPC as compensation for the various malicious attacks on OPC members at Owo, as the members made their way to Gani Adams village, Arigidi Akoko in Ondo state in January 2002 after the funeral rites for the late Chief Bola Ige were concluded in Esa Oke, Osun State.
