OPC Group Blasts Ex-Army Chief, Dambazau, Says He Suffers From Acute Dementia

 

The O’odua Peoples Congress, OPC, yesterday, lampooned former the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Abdurahman Dambazau (retd) for comparing the OPC as the dreaded Boko Haram, saying the former Army chief was suffering from acute dementia and gradually losing touch with the realities of the moment. OPC in a statement on Saturday by its Publicity Secretary, Mr Yinka Oguntimehin, while reacting to the statement credited to the former Interior Minister that the OPC was the same as the dreaded Boko Haram, such statements were capable of heating up the polity and disrupting national peace.

Oguntimehin also described Dambazau as a northern irredentist and extremist popularly noted for his unguarded statements and utterances.

The assertion reads: “From his declaration, it's far apparent that the ex-COAS is tormented by acute dementia and he is gradually dropping touch with the realities of this time.

Dambazau’s declaration that OPC and IPOB are very an awful lot similar to the scary Boko Haram changed into made in awful faith and such statements have raised some fundamental questions about his intentions, pastimes and morality as a former COAS and minister of Interior that have allegedly been assisting the bandits by way of providing each economic and technical help to the group.

“Such excessive profile ex-army officer cannot be trusted in the fight in opposition to insurgency because he had on numerous occasion pleaded on their behalf.

So for such a person to have stated that OPC is the same as Boko Haram is not only derogatory, but it's miles maximum unlucky, to mention the least.

“Boko Haram is adjudged globally as the third maximum dreaded terrorist agencies within the global. And up until nowadays, it stays as such with numerous instances of killings across the North.

For instance, presently, Boko Haram and bandits have taken over four states in the North and Danbazau had never condemned their atrocities, he didn’t boost a finger.

“It is not any doubt that he is one in every of their sponsors. That is why he had, instead of offering an enduring approach to the insurgency in the north and across the us of a, remained an ardent promoter of bandits and other terrorist organizations in Nigeria.

“So, from his announcement, it shows that the ex-minister isn't always in his proper frame of mind, because when bandits killed a fundamental Oba in Ondo, he didn’t talk. When other reputable leaders from the north held a meeting at the vital protection.

The situation within the united states, he didn’t attend.”

The OPC spokesman stated further that the institution has seeing that its life in 1994 remains one of the maximum dependable corporations which have been protecting the hobby of the humans of the southwest.

He stated: “OPC has in no way been involved in any act of insurgency, such as kidnapping or killings. Our group has been at the leading edge of helping the police and providing statistics that can assist the police in ensuring powerful security on the grassroots.
For instance, all through the END SARS protests, OPC got here to the rescue in the southwest and we blanketed the police stations and the police formations towards unscrupulous rioters that had hijacked the non violent protests.

“Recently, the OPC beneath our amiable chief, the Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, apprehended the infamous Kidnap kingpin, Abdullah Iskilu Wakili that had been terrorising the people of Ibarapa and its environs, and we surpassed him over to the police.

So for somebody of Dambazau’s status to mention such a institution is just like the Boko Haram, sincerely suggests his mind-set and stage of wondering. Such a person has simply lost touch with the realities of the existing time because today, the OPC has been reorganised, repackaged, and re-orientated in the sort of manner that it has grow to be a thorn within the flesh of bandits, kidnappers and terrorists. And these days, the fear of the OPC has really turn out to be the start of knowledge for humans like Danbazau and his allies.”