Some state coordinators of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) have urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate the bank accounts of the group's National Coordinator, Gani Adams and some of his personal aides.

The coordinators advised the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to monitor the banking sector, asking that "how can someone save over a N1billion within one month without the bank raising an alarm if there is no connivance"?

Speaking with reporters yesterday in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, the state coordinator, Salami Olarewaju, urged the national coordinator to react to the allegation of $22 million he collected from the late Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi.

Flanked by Oyo and Ondo state coordinators, national publicity secretary and other national leaders, Olarewaju said: "Gani Adams has lost direction, focus and abandoned the main objectives formation of OPC.

"He is a product of crises; he has turned OPC to his personal property; he runs the affairs of OPC as his family company and he should know that Kwara State is not an extension of Lagos or any other state." Said he: "He promised our members that if Jonathan released money, each member will get between N200,000 and N250,000 as empowerment.

"Jonathan released N1.6 billion for that empowerment and there was nothing to show for it. He should explain how Jonathan's money was spent. "Before the election, there was a publication by Alhaji Lai Mohammed that Gani Adams had collected N9 billion from Jonathan to disorganise the Yoruba race.

"We denied that but later we realised that he collected the money. "At the first meeting after the election, he told us that he spent N800million on OPU outside the country. Where did he get the money? He also bought some property.

"After the election, he went to London to establish Oodua Voice Radio, which cost him thousands of pounds, where did he get the money from if he did not collect N9 billion from Jonathan."

Olarenwaju listed Adams'other offences as greediness, self-centredness and unaccountablity. Others are lack of respect for elders and leaders in politics and outside politics and lack of freedom for state and local government coordinators.

"He should explain how Jonathan's money was spent. He should show the whole world the registration certificate of Olokun Festival Foundation, Oodua Economic Empowerment Initiative and Oodua Voice Radio'

"Just of recent, you are all living witnesses when a former President Olusegun Obasanjo went to Ooni of Ife, he prostrated before the Ooni. But when Gani Adams went, he just bowed his head and had a handshake with the Ooni. That is disrespectful.

"He is a disgrace to Yoruba culture. When you are promoting culture and you cannot bow in front of one of the most highly respected Oba in Yoruba land that is totally unacceptable," he added.