The weekly sit-at-home order by the Indigenous People of Biafra has
been suspended in the Southeast for the 2023 general elections.
The group's spokesman, Emma Powerful revealed this on Thursday.
The group said for the purpose of the election, it would not issue any sit-at-home order, according to a report by Punch.
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 the
Nigeria shambolic political selection process called Nigeria elections
scheduled for February 2023. Our interest and focus is the release of
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and the date for 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.
Physically-challenged persons lament hostile environment, discrimination against political dreams
“If they are not their sponsors, why do they keep linking the
paid agents of confusion with us even as IPOB have 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 Biafra Nation from the Republic called Nigeria.
“We reiterate for the records that, IPOB has 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 Appeal Court and other courts have
discharged and acquitted since 13th of October 2022, and Biafra
referendum date.”
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