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The national executive council of Okun Development Association (ODA) has condemned, in strong terms, various vituperation, unsavory utterances and violent activities of some political office holders which are meant to drag the good name of Okun people into the mud.
In a communique issued after at the end of her meeting in Kabba, the executives believed that such unguided activities if not checked, could tarnish the most cherished culture of honesty, dedication, hardwork characteristic of the Okun people.
The communique reads in part; “Political office holders and other disgruntled elements within the Okun political, social and religious hemisphere should desist henceforth from negative act of using Okun people and its territory as a launch pad for political violence, acrimonious relationships and as a platform for disseminating official or unofficial falsehood under any guise; capricious wastage of human resources and the destruction of our age-long cherished legacies which are capable of embarrassing the Okun nation.
“There is the urgent need to evolve a throw-back mechanism into the workings of the Okun people whereby genuine people’s needs, liberty, self-determination through national and global development, hard work transparency and accountability which are veritable virtues associated with the Okun people are brought back and better refined.
“There should be deliberate and concerted efforts at driving out the negative virtues of social marginalization, abject poverty, mutual distrust, tension, segregation, rancor and acrimony within the Okun nation as these are negative virtues which impede the economic and political growth of Okun land.
“In the interest of political peace and peaceful co-existence, members of the ruling party (APC) at the National level should as a matter of expediency close ranks and bridge the lacuna that occasion the imbroglio between Governor Yahaya Bello and Senator Dino Melaye of Kogi West Senatorial Districts while calling on Senator Smart Adeyemi and Honourable Taofiq Isa to as a matter of respect for the Okun Nation, shield their swords and create veritable platform for an amicable resolution of their differences.
The meeting which was conveyed at the instance of the National president of the association, Elder Babatunde Paul Fadumiyo had in attendance 15 members of the executives.
After a thorough, extensive and painstaking deliberation, ODA wholeheartedly appreciate the Nigerian Government at the Local, State and Federal levels for considering their illustrious sons and daughters to serve in key positions in the present dispensation.
Following the clarion call for the restructuring of Nigeria as a whole, a committee comprising eminent Okun sons and daughters be set up with Chief E.O. Otitoju (MFR) as the chairman. The committee was mandated to chart a new course for the Okun nation so as to allow the Okun nation occupy its rightful place in the comity of nations, especially along with its kith and kins in the South-West.
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