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We did not order sit-at-home for 2023 general election - IPOB warns Igbo group

By Humphrey Obi, Owerri

Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), Thursday, warned an Igbo group,   Pan Nigeria President of Igbo Extraction Coalition, (PANPIEC), to desist from linking it with alleged sponsored criminal gang, issuing and enforcing sit-at-home order to blackmail IPOB and Eastern Security Network, ESN. 

Sounding the note of warning through its image maker, Emma Powerful, IPOB said that it has no plan or intention to order any sit-at-home during the election period pointing out that its leader, 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 know that this mushroom group called PANPIEC, is among those sponsoring this fake group claiming that they are IPOB issuing and enforcing reckless sit at home order in the East. If they are not their sponsors with the Fulani Government of Nigeria, why do they keep linking the paid agents of confusion with us even as IPOB has 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 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 damnable Republic called Nigeria," he posited.

He went further to reiterate for the records that, IPOB has not, did not and will not issue any sit-at-.home order in February during the election period and also did not call for any  boycott of the upcoming elections yet. 

The spokesman posited that nobody should blame or link IPOB to the statements or actions of government agendist operating in the Eastern region as the focus of IPOB is the release from detention of Kanu, who he said Appeal court and other courts have discharged and acquitted since 13th of October 2022.

 "Therefore, any group claiming to be IPOB while issuing sit-at-home orders are criminals and state sponsored agents and do not represent IPOB led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, he further explained..