No Difference Between IPOB, OPC AND BOKOHARAM-Dambazau

The Former Minister of Interior, Lt.-Gen. Abdul-Rahman Dambazau (rtd), on Friday, said the O’odua People’s Congress (OPC) and the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) are extremist groups like Boko Haram.

Dambazau made this comments at the Army War College in Abuja while delivering a lecture to participants of course 5/2021.

He alleged that the two groups were sponsoring a new wave of extremism that could ignite ethnic conflict to achieve their aims of dividing the country.Dambazau said the police have a critical role to play in quelling recent agitations across the country, “instead of leaving everything for the military”.

He further added that the two groups have been making efforts to ignite nationwide inter-ethnic conflicts through their violent attacks on northern residents or transacting businesses in the south as a quick way to realise their dream for a divided Nigeria.

“We see parallels between Boko Haram and the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), both ethnic extremist groups.

All the three groups operate on the platform of extremism,” DailyTrust quoted Dambazau to have said.