Recalcitrantly Obstinate! No Apologies For Traveling To Kano With Al Mustapha; I Never Called Him A National Hero – Fasheun Dr Fredrick Fasehun, founder, Oodua People’s Congress,OPC,, has cleared the air on issues surrounding his visit to Kano with Major Al-Mustapha who was recently set free by an appellant court, against the initial death sentence passed on him. In an interview with Nigerian Tribune, he spoke on his relationship with the military officer and statements credited to him. On Al-Mustapha’s declaration that he has found a father in him, Faseun asked “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 traveled 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? He stated that he never refereed to Al-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 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? he queried. When asked to comment on OPC’s security arrangement for Al-Mustapha, he retorted: “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. Source: DailyPost
Posted on: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 06:04:29 +0000