By Cajetan Mmuta
The Youth wing of apex socio-cultural organization, Ohaneze Ndigbo said it has set up a Situation room and Election Security Monitoring Team to ensure Saturday’s governorship election in Anambra state is free, fair, and credible.
It expressed optimism on the release of the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu before the poll or show reasonable readiness to do so.
Acting Youth Leader, Onwuasoanya Jones, Ohanaeze in a statement made available to newsmen in Awka the Anambra state capital also called on members of the Independent People of Biafra (IPOB) to reconsider the five-day sit-at-home order in view of the adverse effects on the people of the Southeast and the economy of the geo-political zone.
According to the statement, “The Anambra Election Security Monitoring Team is led by Mazi Chukwuma Okpalaezeukwu, the Secretary-General shall coordinate the 50 youths per ward, Anambra Youth Volunteer Corps, which has been working assiduously towards a peaceful and credible Governorship election.”
The group said, “We are hopeful that the Federal Government shall pay heed to good counsel and release Nnamdi Kanu before the 5th of November or at least show a reasonable readiness to do that by then.”
“While we, on our part, continue to call on our IPOB comrades to reconsider the five-day sit-at-home order, as this will adversely affect the businesses of our brothers and sisters in the Southeast more than it will ever affect any other group in this country.”
“We are in active consultation with our brothers to explore other ways of registering our protest without hurting our business and educational interests.
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“We are happy to inform us that while no decision has been reached on that, our brothers are not insensitive to our plight and they have continued to demonstrate a clear readiness to put the interest of Ala Igbo before anything else.
“We are therefore encouraging all eligible Anambra electorate to file out, peacefully on the 6th of November to cast their votes for any candidate or party of their choice and to also ensure that their votes are not diverted or stolen.
“We shall be deploying our limited resources towards ensuring that this election is not stolen and only a candidate popularly voted by Ndi Anambra shall govern Anambra State.”
