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Nationalist movement in Nigeria

The Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) is a Yorubanationalist, regionalist, and vigilante organization in Nigeria.

It is also known as the Oodua Liberation Movement (OLM) or the Revolutionary Council of Nigeria.^[1] It is based in southwestern Nigeria and has grassroots support within the Yoruba ethnic community.^[2]

History

The Oodua Peoples Congress was formed by a group of Yoruba elites and artisans which included Dr.

Fredrick Fasehun (founder and its first national leader),^[3]

They decided to form an organization to actualize the annulled mandate of Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, a Yoruba who most people believed to be on his way to winning the presidential election of 12 June 1993, which was subsequently annulled by the military government before vote tallying was complete.^[4]

Although the founding president of the OPC was Frederick Fasehun, ^{[citation needed}