OPC removes leader over malpractices

On Monday, the Oyo State branch of the Oodua People’s Congress announced that Rotimi Oguntade, the organization’s former coordinator, had been fired for engaging in organizational irregularities.

Wasiu Adeogun, the state secretary, announced this in a statement.

Adeogun added that attitudes that have the potential to harm the OPC’s reputation in the state were a factor in Oguntade’s removal, along with that of Lateef Babalola, the state commandant.

He claimed that the National Executive Council and National Coordinating Council, the organization’s two highest decision-making bodies, approved their removal, and that this decision is still in effect.

We cannot close our eyes to the numerous unethical actions of the former coordinator of the OPC in the state, he asserted.

“Comrade Rotimi Olumo’s removal as the OPC’s Oyo state coordinator is no longer news.

“The NEC/NCC decided to fire him after it became clear that he had engaged in organizational malpractices.

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“He further dug his own grave by insisting that he was still the state’s OPC coordinator while raising his voice in the media that he had been fired from his position without providing any proof.

Such actions were unethical, and they only served to highlight his extreme desperation.

That is the level of his desperation, and the OPC as a socio-cultural organization will never permit such desperate people to lead the organization, according to Adeogun, who questioned why Olumo continued to parade himself as the coordinator despite being fired.

The scribe went on to say that the OPC in Oyo State is still operational and that all of the organization’s activities there are smoothly coordinated.

“OPC is not about a particular person. It is a company that has persevered through many difficulties, particularly during the lean years of the military. We therefore have a national perspective, and the organization’s leadership has effectively coordinated our activities and organizational structure, ” he said.