2019: Yorubas Must Speak With One Voice And Go Sam Direction- OPC

As the 2019 presidential election is fast approaching, the Oodua
Peoples Congress, OPC New Era has urged Yorubas to speak with one
voice and go same direction to vote for a presidential candidate that
will represent the interest of Yoruba people.
The group in a press release signed by its spokesman, Comrade Adeshina
Akinpelu and made available to journalists said that it will be in the
best interest of Yoruba people to speak with one voice and go same
direction to vote for a presidential candidate that will best
represent the interest of the race.
“It’s very unfortunate that Yorubas, especially its leaders are not
speaking in one voice, not to talk of going the same direction. The
crop of Yoruba leaders we have around today are individuals who are
consumed by greed, pride and ego. These are people responsible for the
problems facing Yorubas now. They are ready to sacrifice the race on
the altar of politics. It is such a shame that none of them can truly
be called a leader because of their antecedents.”
Akinpelu added that the 2019 presidential election is yet another
avenue for the Yoruba leaders to salvage their tainted names by
speaking with one voice and go same direction to elect a president
that will protect the interest of the race.
“To say Yorubas have been cheated in the scheme of things in Nigeria
is stating the fact. And if we failed to get it right and come
together in 2019; we will suffer for it. Our people are suffering
today just because some of our opportune leaders have mortgaged the
resources that ordinarily should have gone to many. In the midst of
plenty our people are suffering and yet these crops of leaders have
not found useful to speak with one voice and chart a beneficial way
forward for Yorubas.”
Speaking further, the OPC spokesman said that his own faction has in
the last two years being working with other factions of OPC to
harmonise various groups into one.
“OPC New Era believes that the realization of Yoruba objectives can
best be achieved if all Yoruba pressure groups can come together. If
OPC New Era can come up with this noble idea; why is it difficult for
our leaders in Yorubaland to equally come together in the interest of
the race to speak with one voice.”