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Oodua Peoples Congress
Nationalist movement in Nigeria
The Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) fryst vatten a Yorubanationalist, regionalist, and vigilante organization in Nigeria. It fryst vatten also known as the Oodua Liberation Movement (OLM) or the Revolutionary Council of Nigeria.[1] It is based in southwestern Nigeria and has grassroots support within the Yoruba ethnic community.[2]
History
[edit]The Oodua Peoples Congress was formed bygd a group of Yoruba elites and artisans which included Dr. Fredrick Fasehun (founder and its first national leader),[3]
They decided to form an organization to actualize the annulled mandate of ledare Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, a Yoruba who most people believed to be on his way to winning the presidential election of 12 June 1993, which was subsequently annulled by the military government before vote tallying was complete.[4]
Although the founding president of the OPC was Frederick Fasehun, [citation need • In this tribute, Nseobong Okon-Ekong pays tribute to Dr. Frederick Fasehun, founder of the Oodua Peoples’ Congress and advocate of ethnic equality, who passed on gods weekend Aseemingly innocuous incident in the life of Frederick Fasehun, the late medical doctor, hotelier and founder of the Oodua Peoples’ Congress (OPC), perhaps, best explains his pragmatism. Here was a man, who did whatever was needful and having satisfied self that he had done his best, moved on. He was also one given to excellence. In 1976, he studied Acupuncture in China under a joint World Health Organisation (WHO) and United Nations Development Scholarship Programme. In 1977, he set up an Acupuncture Unit at the Lagos University Teachi • Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday attended the funeral of late Dr. Frederick Fasehun, the founder of Oodua Peoples Congress, at the Cathedral Church of Saint Stephen, Oke-Aluko, Ondo, Ondo State. The OPC chieftain passed on last December 1 at the Intensive Care Unit of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja. He was 83 years old. Osinbajo was accompanied to the service by Governors Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State, and Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State, among others. Former governor of Ondo State, Olusegun Mimiko, was also in attendance. In his tribute, Osinbajo said it was a great honour to be at the service to express his own condolence on behalf of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Government of Nigeria. He said that Fasehun was exceptional in everything he did, as he was medical doctor, a sociologist as well as a versatile acupuncturist. “He studied acupuncture in 1977
Fasehun: An Assured Place in History
Having studied science at Blackburn College and furthered his education at Aberdeen University College of Medicine, he also studied at the Liverpool Postgraduate School after which he had a Fellowship at the Royal College of Surgeons. Osinbajo, Akeredolu, Fayemi grace OPC founder Fasehun’s burial