Dr Fredrick Fasehun, founder, Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), in this
phone interview with SEYI GESINDE ot Nigerian Tribune, clears the air on
issues surrounding his visit to Kano with Major Al-Mustapha, his
relationship with him and certain statements credited to him.
On
Mustapha declaring him as his father En, ooto lo so yen (Yes, he said
so). Does the fact that he called me his father make me his biological
father? I have no apology to make in the choice of my friends and that I
travelled with him to his hometown after his 14 years absence from such
a town, ah! Please, we don’t need to make a mountain out of a mole
hill. This is one Nigeria, are we at war? Is Nigeria at war?
On
him declaring Mustapha as a national hero. I didn’t say that. That is a
lie. I never used the word hero. I said Mustapha is a Nigerian citizen
and that he shouldn’t have been kept for that long in the prison and
that we thank God now that he has regained his freedom and that
Nigerians should view it as a new dawn. Do we have heroes in Nigeria?
Where are the heroes in Nigeria?
On OPC providing security for
Al-Mustapha How can I provide security in Kano? The OPC in Kano got to
know that I would be in Kano and they came to meet me.
They
didn’t provide security, but for me. Mustapha didn’t need security to be
provided for him. Security was made available to him by the state
government. So, there is no way I will come from the South West and come
and provide security for a northerner. Won kan npuro ni o (they are
just lying). Every Nigerian knows that OPC is widely spread in the
north. Whenever I go to the North, I am received by members of OPC.
Relationship
with Mustapha I came to Kano with Mustapha who has just been released
from 14 years incarceration and he is my friend and like many of his
father-friends, we came to accompany him to return to his home state.
That’s all we had done and I’m surprised that people are now insinuating
that I provided security for him, I did this, and I did that, far from
it.

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