The late Dr Frederick Fasehun-led faction of the O’odua People’s Congress has endorsed President Bola Tinubu for a second term in office in the 2027 presidential election.
The group made the declaration in Lagos on Saturday during the celebration of its 32nd Founders’ Day and the inauguration of a new National Executive Council.
Hundreds of members gathered at the event to mark the group’s 32nd anniversary and formally declare their support for Tinubu’s re-election in 2027.
Speaking at the event, the OPC’s re-elected President, Mr Wasiu Afolabi, pledged that the group would work for Tinubu’s re-election in 2027, just as it did during his first bid for the presidency in 2023.
He said, “We contributed our quota to ensuring the victory of Tinubu in 2023. One lesson from Fasehun is that the organisation should regard any Yoruba man in office as OPC’s corporate project.
“As a result of this orientation that our founder gave us, and if the right atmosphere is created, we shall still queue behind President Tinubu for the 2027 presidential election.
“We also urge the other regions to support the President’s second-term bid to help him perfect the visionary reforms he has embarked upon.
“The North especially should realise that it is payback time for the backing that Tinubu gave to late President Muhammadu Buhari’s two tenures of eight years.”
He recalled the national crisis that brought about the formation of the OPC in August 1994, saying, “Some 32 years ago, when Dr Frederick Fasehun took the initiative to establish the OPC, it was to fulfil a divine assignment. OPC was born as a child of necessity.”
Afolabi said the June 12 mandate of the late Chief MKO Abiola was stolen by the military government, which was not only an insult to the eight million Nigerian voters who had given that mandate to MKO but especially a direct insult to the over 40 million-strong Yoruba race.
Also speaking, the Chairman of the occasion, Mr Wale Oshun, said the group remained a leading legacy organisation in Nigeria’s struggle for democracy following the military’s annulment of the June 12, 1993, election won by the late M.K.O. Abiola.
Oshun, who chairs the OPC’s Board of Trustees, said the organisation’s continued growth, eight years after the death of its founder, Dr Fasehun, was a testament to the strength of his vision.
