National Coordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, Otunba Gani Adams, yesterday threw his weight behind the calls for dialogue with the dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram, urging President Goodluck Jonathan, to open up dialogue with members of the sect with a view to granting them amnesty.

He made this call while speaking with journalists during the 2013 Oke-Ibadan Festival organised by the OPC and Olokun Festival Foundation, which took place at the historic Mapo Hall, Ibadan, insisting on the promotion of history and culture as panacea to the socio-political and economic problems militating against the country.

The OPC leader, who supported the recent call by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Saad Abubakar, that members of the Boko Haram sect should be granted amnesty by the Federal Government, maintained that the call by the Sultan was in the best interest of the country.

He lamented that the lingering Boko Haram crisis has continued to give millions of Nigerians sleepless nights and has become a source of embarrassment to the country in the international community.

He said if granting amnesty to members of the sect will bring a lasting solution to the Boko Haram menace, it will not be out of place for the President to consider it.

Adams while maintaining that whatever that could be done to ensure peace in the country will not be too much for the Federal Government to do, enjoined President Jonathan to consider the Sultan’s suggestion.

He said if amnesty could be granted to militants in the Niger Delta, the same should be extended to members of the Boko Haram in the interest of peaceful co-existence of the country.

His words: “My position on the comment by the Sultan of Sokoto is that I support his suggestion. His suggestion was in order if it will bring a lasting solution to the Boko Haram crisis. After war-war, we should create a room for dialogue.

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wooo is the only word for this stand

just loosing trust by the day on these folks

9ja voice: just loosing trust by the day on these folks

Which folks, 9javoice?

He said if amnesty could be granted to militants in the Niger Delta, the same should be extended to members of the Boko Haram in the interest of peaceful co-existence of the country.

His words: “My position on the comment by the Sultan of Sokoto is that I support his suggestion. His suggestion was in order if it will bring a lasting solution to the Boko Haram crisis. After war-war, we should create a room for dialogue.


I just don't get it, he's brothers too were massacred in the North. Could it be that this is some kinda trick?

When bloody Boko Haram is granted amnesty, then what next? I bet other more bloody groups will spring-up asking for

amnesty too.

He said if amnesty could be granted to militants in the Niger Delta, the same should be extended to members of the Boko Haram in the interest of peaceful co-existence of the country.

Armed robbers, Kinappers, Prostitutes , Ritual killers NURTW In lagos and Ibadan should all be given Amnesty no wonder some people despite not passing through genocidal civil war and marginalization have absolutely nothing good to offer Nigeria only making noise on the pages of Newspapers