News
Sit-at-home: You Won’t Enslave Ndigbo for One Week – Ohanaeze Tells IPOB
- Ohanaeze protests IPOB’s one-week Sit-at-home order.
- He cautioned that such orders if implemented would give a particular political party an edge in the election.
Ekohotblog reports that on Sunday, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide protested the Indigenous People of Biafra’s (IPOB) one-week sit-in.
According to reports, the pro-Biafra group had threatened a one-week sit-in if its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, was not released immediately.
The announcement, which is aimed at the Anambra election on November 6, has sparked widespread outrage.
Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, Secretary-General of the Chidi Ibeh-led apex Igbo socio-cultural group, stated in a statement that Ndigbo should not heed the order this time.
He said, “any declaration that unleashes untold hardship, leads to the collapse of commercial and industrial activities, boycott of Anambra elections, and interrupts the academic calendar in the Southeastern states is nonsensical, absurd, and anti-Igbo agenda, for the enemy’s amusement.”
While describing the order as the enslavement of Ndigbo, Isiguzoro said it was time “for the Igbo to rise to the occasion and end being trampled with orders from overseas by those without any investments in the South-East”.
He added that “IPOB should discern that there was self-determination struggle in Africa before now. Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in jail and never in the history of the movement against Apartheid was starvation, anguish, and catastrophe unleashed on Black South Africans by ANC.
“It is impulsive and reckless to order Ndigbo to observe one-week sit-at-home when it’s obvious that Nnamdi Kanu will not be released without the approval of courts.
“IPOB should revisit and nullify the one-week sit-at-home or they will likely lose the support of the Ndigbo henceforth, Ndigbo must participate in Anambra election and nothing should stop it”.
He cautioned that such orders if implemented would give a particular political party an edge in the election.
Advertise or Publish a Story on EkoHot Blog:
Kindly contact us at [email protected]. Breaking stories should be sent to the above email and substantiated with pictorial evidence.
Citizen journalists will receive a token as data incentive.
Call or Whatsapp: 0803 561 7233, 0703 414 5611
