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Late Founder of Oodua People Congress (OPC), Dr Fredrick Fasehun
The Late Dr Frederick Fasehun-led faction of Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), has faulted a statement credited to former Chief of Army Staff and Minister of Interior, retired Lt. Gen. Abdurahman Dambazau, describing the group as terrorists.
The OPC faction in a statement in Lagos on Wednesday by its newly elected President, Otunba Wasiu Afolabi, said it was not proper for the ex- army chief to equate the group with activities of Boko Haram insurgents.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that Dambazau had said the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and OPC shared similarities with the insurgent Boko Haram.
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Late Founder of Oodua People Congress (OPC), Dr Fredrick Fasehun
The Late Dr Frederick Fasehun-led faction of Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), has faulted a statement credited to former Chief of Army Staff and Minister of Interior, retired Lt. Gen. Abdurahman Dambazau, describing the group as terrorists.
The OPC faction in a statement in Lagos on Wednesday by its newly elected President, Otunba Wasiu Afolabi, said it was not proper for the ex- army chief to equate the group with activities of Boko Haram insurgents.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that Dambazau had said the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and OPC shared similarities with the insurgent Boko Haram.
In a statement released by OPC’s Publicity Secretary, Yinka Oguntimehin, the former Army Chief was suffering from “acute dementia and steadily losing contact with the reality of the moment .
Furthermore, the OPC said Dambazau and four top Northern leaders in 2014 before the general elections, were behind the recruitment of bandits into the country.
“Dambazau’s statement that OPC and IPOB are very much the same as the dreaded Boko Haram was made in bad faith. Such statements raise questions about his intentions, interests and morality as a former COAS that has been supporting bandits financially and technically.
“This same former chief of army staff, together with four top Northern leaders had in 2014, before the general elections organised the recruitment of bandits into the country.
The O’odua Peoples Congress has slammed the former Chief of Army Staff, Abdurahman Dambazau (retd) for likening them, as well as the Indigenous People of