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NATIONAL Coordinator of Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, Otunba Gani Adams, has said that members of OPC were not involved in last Friday's clash between students of Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago Iwoye, Ogun State and residents of the town.
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NATIONAL Coordinator of Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, Otunba Gani Adams, has said that members of OPC were not involved in last Friday's clash between students of Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago Iwoye, Ogun State and residents of the town.
In a chat with Sunday Vanguard in Lagos, yesterday, Adams stated no member of the organisation (OPC) was involved in the clash adding that the story was fabricated with the intent of bringing the organisation to ridicule.
"Let me state here that no member of the OPC was involved in the clash at Ago-Iwoye, because we have got in touch with one of our coordinators there and he has given us word that none of his men was involved in the clash. I will want to quickly add that the story was fabricated that OPC members were the ones that killed the students; it`s a lie because all I know is that it is the vigilante group, set up by the Oba of the town to reduce cult activities, that keep watch over the town. So I don`t know where they got their story from.
As far as I`m concerned, they are trying to ridicule our organisation"
Adams alleged that "the attack was politically motivated because normally, every Oba is expected to celebrate its annual year of ascension onto the throne and in fact, some few months to come, the Oba of Ago-Iwoye will be celebrating his first year as the Oba of the town and seeing that, some bad eggs of the town may want to try to cause chaos so that such event will not hold."
Meanwhile, the Ogun State Government yesterday announced the setting up of a commission of inquiry to investigate the remote and immediate causes of the crisis that engulfed the university town of Ago-Iwoye during which at least 40 of the students were feared dead.
Commissioner for Information and Strategy Mr. Niran Malaolu in a statement issued in Abeokuta said that the five-member panel would be inaugurated this week by Governor Olugbenga Daniel.
He was however silent on the particular day as the governor is currently far away in China.
Mr. Malaolu who said that the panel is to be headed by Major SA Keku (rtd) explained that it would submit its report within three weeks.