IPOB
The Indigenous People of Biafra on
Sunday described as false the allegation that the group intended to
disrupt the November 18 governorship election in Anambra State.
A statement made available to our
correspondent in Awka, Anambra State by the group’s Media and Publicity
Secretary, Emma Powerful, said the instruction to its members and
others was for them to boycott the poll not to disrupt it.
He said the concept of disrupting the poll was being propagated by some South-East leaders to discredit IPOB.
The statement read in part, “The
leadership and entire members of the Indigenous People of Biafra
worldwide, led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, wish to state for the purpose of
clarity that we are boycotting the Anambra governorship election, which
is a form of civil disobedience.
“The rumour that the IPOB intend to
disrupt the polls on Saturday as peddled by politicians, Nnia Nwodo-led
Ohanaeze Ndigbo and the Independent National Electoral Commission, is
not only baseless, but also it is completely unfounded.
“We insist on total boycott of all
election because voting in Anambra or any other elections in Nigeria is
an exercise in futility since Aso Rock has already decided who it wants
to be sworn in as governor of the state.
“Risking one’s life to go and vote on
Saturday, with trigger-happy Hausa/Fulani soldiers looking for a Biafran
to kill, is a risky adventure not worth undertaking by any sane
person.”
It alleged that IPOB had uncovered some plots to bring voters from certain South-East states to rig the Anambra poll.
Powerful added, “Anambra people must
know that the same politicians asking us to go and vote were the same
people that conspired with Aso Rock cabal to bring death to our land
through the Operation Python Dance II.
“Ohanaeze Ndigbo and these same Igbo
politicians asking us to vote on Saturday have never condemned Fulani
herdsmen killing our people on regular basis, but they quickly rushed to
label their own people terrorists.
“No sane person should listen to them
because they have come to do the bidding of their Arewa masters. The
blood of over 90 Biafran youths, including the 28 people killed at
Nnamdi Kanu’s residence, is upon the heads of these charlatans. Anybody
listening to them is making the mistake of his life.
“We hereby warn all commercial vehicle
operators to please stay away from Anambra State, starting from the
evening of November 17, because any vehicle seen will be regarded as
hostile and working to subvert the will of the people.
“Therefore, we advise everybody to stay
in doors on that fateful day in Anambra State and to desist from driving
through the state from 5pm on Friday, November 17 to 6pm on Saturday
the 18th.”
Meanwhile, the lawmaker representing
Anambra North Senatorial District, Senator Stella Oduah, has urged the
electorate in Anambra State to come and exercise their franchise in the
governorship election holding on Saturday.
Oduah, who dropped out of the
governorship primary of the Peoples Democratic Party, which produced
Oseloka Obaze as the party’s candidate for the poll, warned that failure
to exercise their franchise could lead to the declaration of a state of
emergency in Anambra.
The former minister of Aviation and
Chairman of the Senate Committee on Cooperation and Integration, stated
that emergency declaration would not be in the best interest of the
state, as the democratic leadership would be removed.
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