OPC National Leader, Akinpelu mourns Buhari, Awujale

National Leader of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), Comrade Adesina Akinpelu, has expressed condolences to the people of Daura, Kastina State and entire Nigerians over the death of former President Muhammadu Buhari.

This is just as the OPC National Leader commiserated with the family of the late former President.

Akinpelu in a statement he personally signed, however, condemned strongly how leaders usually travelled abroad for medical treatments, stating that the lesson learnt from Buhari ‘s death is that our political leaders should fix the medical facilities in the country.

“This will stop them from dying in foreign hospitals and bringing their corpses back  as cargo to their fatherland”, he stated.

Akinpelu also mourned the demise of the Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona, who last Sunday joined his ancestors.

He commiserated with the people of Ijebuland, within and outside the country, and also the Ogun State government.

Akinpelu, however, described what happened during the burial of the monarch as an embarrassment to the Yoruba traditional institution.

The OPC Leader appealed to all traditional leaders in Yorubaland to remain calm and use maturity to address what happened during the burial in Ijebu- Ode.

He used the opportunity to call on kingmakers (Afobaje) across all Yorubaland not to allow anybody with foreign religion to be crowned as an Oba henceforth .

The OPC National Leader lamented, “Anybody who is not ready to embrace our culture and tradition should not even aspire to be crown as an Oba. This is causing setback for our tradition.”