Daniel hails Gani Adams

A previous legislative head of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, has portrayed the Aare Ona Kakanfo-assign and national facilitator of the Oodua Peoples Congress, Otunba Gani Adams, as the best in his age.

Daniel additionally said he had comparable ideological perspectives with Adams, particularly in the zone of Yoruba liberation.

An announcement issued by Adams' Chief of Staff, Segun Akanni, got on Wednesday by The PUNCH, said Daniel communicated these perspectives amid an obligingness approach him by Adams at his Asoludero home.

The announcement cited Daniel as saying, "I invite you to Asoludero, your second home. I need to uniquely praise you. I am content with the choice of Iku Baba Yeye, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, who many don't know I have an extraordinary association with as a dear companion of my late father. It isn't lost to have made you the fifteenth Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yoruba Land.

"I have come to consider you to be an extremely principled man who does not revere cash; I have seen you waste individuals with cash over your principled stand; I have not seen a more noteworthy Yoruba man in your age, you have stirred our kin through the OPC and of late the Oodua Progressive Union now in 79 nations. You have turned into a wonder, an ideal case of an independent man. We are for you."

Adams said he acknowledged Daniel for his great deeds. He guaranteed to relate with all Yoruba children and girls, regardless of their political affiliations, saying it would be a genuine oversight in the event that he neglected to visit Daniel after his arrangement as the Aare Ona Kakanfo.

He reviewed how Daniel added to settling the OPC factional emergency in 2005.

He stated, "In 2005, that year I was captured and kept, he went out on a limb to visit me in confinement as a sitting representative with the then Inspector-General of Police, Sunday Ehindero, who he asked to guarantee that I was not abused.

"Otunba Daniel assigned me as an individual from his progress panel which I surrendered to my OPC organizer in Ogun State to speak to me in the board of trustees, among a few other great deeds; you are a genuine child of Oduduwa."