By John Ugo, Awka
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has announced the cancellation of the weekly sit-at-home order during the presidential and national assembly elections across the five states in the Southeast geo political zone of the country.
It also warned the Pan Nigeria President of Igbo Extraction Coalition (PANPIEC) against linking the group with the enforcement of sit-at-home orders to blackmail IPOB and ESN.
The group in a statement by its Director of Media and Publicity Secretary, Comrade Emma Powerful on Thursday said IPOB has no intention to enforce sit-at-home during the elections.
The statement reads, “IPOB led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has never forcefully obstructed the election process in Nigeria. Rather, we once called Biafrans to boycott elections, which was later called off.
“We have maintained that we don’t have any interest in Nigeria’s shambolic political selection process called elections scheduled for February 2023.
“Our interest and focus is the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and the date for the Biafra referendum for Biafrans to determine their political future in or outside Nigeria
“We knew that this mushroom group called PANPIEC is among those sponsoring this fake group claiming that they are IPOB issuing and enforcing reckless sit at homes in the East.
“If they are not their sponsors, why do they keep linking the paid Agents of confusion with us even as IPOB has publicly denounced any link with Simon Ekpa and his collaborators?
“It’s on record and in the public domain that IPOB has not called for any sit-at-home during the February elections.”
“It’s also obvious that IPOB and ESN do not have any faction or splinter groups. IPOB remains peaceful and indivisible under one command for the liberation of the Biafra Nation from the Republic called Nigeria.
“We reiterate for the records that, IPOB have not, did not, and will not issue any sit-at-home order in February during the elections period. We also did not call for any boycott of the upcoming elections yet.”
“The focus of IPOB is the release from illegal detention of our Leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, whom the Appeal Court and other courts have discharged and acquitted since the 13th of October 2022, and the Biafra referendum date,” the group added
