Dambazau equating OPC with Boko Haram, wrong profiling ― Fasehun-led faction

Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) faction led by late Dr. Frederick Fasehun has condemned the former Interior Minister, General Abdulrahman Bello Dambazzau, for equating the group and others to the dreaded Boko Haram, describing such as a cheap attempt at blackmailing and profiling the group negatively which OPC would not succumb to.

The group’s newly-elected president, Chief Wasiu Afolabi, said this on Wednesday in a release made available to journalists in Lagos, declaring that the group was not, had never been and would never be a terrorist organisation, adding that such labelling was an attempt to give a dog a bad name in order to hang it.

Afolabi said Dambazzau, who is also a former Chief of Army Staff, displayed a dangerous level of mischief, prejudice and narrow-mindedness by making the comparison of a pro-democracy group like OPC with a world-acclaimed terrorist organisation like Boko Haram.

“Is this an attempt to give a dog a bad name in order to hang it? It will not work. We shall not succumb to this cheap attempt at blackmail and negative profiling.

“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,” he said.

“But it won’t work, not even with the backing they are giving killer Fulani herdsmen,” Otunba Afolabi declared.

“Northern leaders have treated Boko Haram like a pet snake and allowed it to grow stronger instead of killing it once and for all. What they should realise is that there is neither Federal Character nor Quota System in terrorism.

“The North should call a spade a spade and demand its leaders to bring this ugly Boko Haram insurgency to a close,” the OPC chieftain said.

Speaking further, Afolabi said OPC had continued to maintain excellent relationships with police, Directorate of State Security (DSS) and other relevant agencies for the maintenance of security, law and order in the entire South-West, recalling the group’s role during the last #EndSARS protests.

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