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Updated: April 10, 2021

IPOB, OPC, Operating Like Boko Haram – Former Minister

By Bada Yusuf Amoo
April 10, 2021
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A former Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau, has said that the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) are operating like the insurgent group in the North East, Boko Haram.

He added that both the OPC and IPOB were working to plunge the country into ethnic war.

The ex-Chief of Army Staff who spoke on Friday in Abuja at the inauguration of Army War College Nigeria Course 5/2021, said the two groups were exhibiting features similar to that of Boko Haram when the insurgent group started out in 2009.

He noted that all the three groups operate on the platform of extremism and secessionist threats.

The ex-minister said, “They are all non-state actors; they all have separatist agenda to carve out states out of Nigeria’s territory; they all do not believe in the Nigerian project, its unity and peaceful co-existence just like BH.”