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OPC Berates Dambazau Over Comparison With Boko Haram
- OPC will continue to maintain excellent relationship with security agencies to ensure law and order
The Frederick Fasehun-led faction of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) has flayed Abulrahman Dambazau, a former army chief, for likening the group to Boko Haram insurgents.
The OPC is a Yoruba nationalist organisation.
Dambazau had, on Friday, said OPC and the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) share the same ideology with Boko Haram when the insurgent group started out in 2009.
He added that just like Boko Haram, OPC and IPOB are only interested in the disintegration of Nigeria.
Reacting tó Dambazau assertion, Wasiu Afolabi, OPC president, on Wednesday, said it was not unpleasant for Dambazau to equate the group with Boko Haram insurgents, and that his comparison was “dangerous, prejudiced and false”.
“We disagree with this attempt at blackmail and negative profiling,” he said.
“OPC is not, has never been, and will never be a terrorist organisation. Nobody should link us or liken us with terrorists.
“We have never been on the global radar of terrorism like Boko Haram because we have never even been remotely connected with terrorism.
“Dambazau should realise that there is no federal character in terrorism. The south-west has never bred any terrorist organisation, least of all OPC.”
He, however, urged northern leaders to work towards bringing an end to Boko Haram insurgency, adding that for the south-west, OPC will continue to maintain excellent relationship with security agencies to ensure law and order.
Afolabi said during the #EndSARS protest, “OPC operatives guarded police stations and prevented several of them from being burnt.”
According to him, several divisional police officers (DPO) are witnesses to the patriotic action of the OPC on that occasion.
“OPC, as a socio-cultural organisation formed in 1994, has millions of followers who fought for the entrenchment of democracy as part of NADECO,” he said.
“Agitations, whether for Biafra or Oduduwa Republic, are being fueled by the rising scale of insecurity, the unhindered killings by bandits , kidnapping, and poverty which are challenges that must be tackled.
“As Dr Fasehun always said, Nigeria must come together to the negotiation table and fashion out a truly people’s constitution that will emphasise true federalism, resource control, and devolution of powers.”
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