2023: No sit at home during general elections – IPOB
...Urges Ndigbo To Disregard Sponsored Anti-Democratic Forces
By Cajetan Mmuta, Awka
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has condemned the recent attacks on INEC offices and staff in Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State.
It disclosed that the criminal gangs operating within Ihiala LGA, Orsu Ihiteukwa in Orsu Local Government Area, are primarily funded and sponsored by unscrupulous politicians allegedly Imo state government to demonize IPOB and ESN Operatives.
IPOB in a statement by its Director of Media and Publicity Secretary, Comrade Emma Powerful on Monday maintained that its members has no interest in the selection process called the Nigeria election hence it refrained from making any statement concerning the exercise.
According to Powerful, “Our only demand is a referendum date for Biafrans to decide their political, social and economic future either in united Nigeria or Independent Biafra Nation.”
“IPOB and ESN operatives did not ask any group to attack INEC facilities for whatever reason, neither did we issue any sit-at-home order within the election period.”
The group warned that,”Anybody linking IPOB to the malicious sit-at-home order must be very ignorant. IPOB has its own channels to disseminate information, which are through Radio Biafra programs, through our Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, or through an official IPOB memo signed by the Head of the Directorate of State of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Chika Edoziem.”
It said that “Any IPOB public information that is not from the above-mentioned channels should be disregarded.”
“We urge our people not to pay attention to any fake information purporting to link IPOB to criminal activities of infiltrators and collaborators.”
“IPOB volunteers and ESN Operatives will make Biafraland very uncomfortable to criminal gangs paid to intimidate our people and blackmail our peaceful movement. Nigeria Security Agencies who have been aiding, abetting and supporting these criminals recruited and funded by politicians must stay clear because we will unleash our venom on those who want to blackmail IPOB.”
“The task ahead is enormous, and our enemies are relentlessly exploiting every means to destroy IPOB through this election, but we won’t allow them to continue in their obnoxious plan to destroy IPOB and ESN Operatives and derail our freedom match. The attacks on INEC facilities within this period are not supported by IPOB, because that will not add any positive value to our struggle.”
” We are only seeking Biafra freedom through peaceful means and not through violence,” the bod stated.
