By Iffy
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has dissociated itself from the planned sit-at-home order in the Southeast scheduled to take place between December 9 to 14.
The agenda which was orchestrated by Simon Ekpa, a self-acclaimed disciple of the IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, had declared a sit-at-home order to stop the collection of Permanent Voter Card (PVC) for five consecutive days.
Recall Simon had earlier announced that the forthcoming general elections would not be held in the Southeast.
Reacting to the order, IPOB, in a statement by its spokesperson, Emma Powerful, asked the people of the region to ignore the order, stressing that it was not part of the directive.
“Every Biafran and resident in Biafra Land should ignore such orders from untrained and brainless individuals whose agenda is to make Biafra agitation unattractive to our people.
“IPOB cannot issue such a brainless uncaring 5-day consecutive sit-at-home order to suffer our people during this critical time of the year when people are trying to make up in their businesses for the year.
“How wicked! Again, everyone has his or her right to go and collect his or her PVC from their polling and registration centres without molestation. IPOB never boycotts elections and has nothing to do with Nigeria’s shambolic elections”.
The secessionist group alleged that some agents were sponsoring Ekpa to create “insecurity and unnecessary hardships” in the region.
