Anambra: ‘ Many Voters Already Left’– Residents Describe IPOB’s Cancellation Of Sit-At-Home As Medicine After Death

Many ‘runaway’ eligible voters, who would have cast their votes at Saturday’s governorship election in Anambra State, told THE WHISTLER on Friday that the belated cancellation of the sit-at-home order by the Indigenous People of Biafra is medicine after death.

According to them, many had already left their electoral wards for neighbouring states for safety.

Greg Okechukwu, who spoke with our correspondent from Orlu, Imo State, said, “I left Ekwulobia where I ought to have voted two days ago. Who would fund my return to cast my votes? The cancellation is dead on arrival.”

Steven Ogbu returned to Enugu on Thursday. He said, “How can one agree that the cancellation is genuine when the usual Monday’s sit-at-home was cancelled but people still heed to it. Maybe the whole thing is politics. For me and my family, we won’t risk such. It is medicine after death.”

A civil rights activist, Nze Kanayo Chukwumezie, however, has advised Gov Willie Obiano to bring back fleeing eligible voters to cast their votes.

He told our correspondent in Awka that, “Obiano should know what to do. If I were in his shoes, I would send luxury buses to Enugu, Owerri, Umuahia, Aba, Asaba, Abakiliki, Lagos, Abuja etc to bring back eligible voters that want to return. But you can only board if you show your voter’s card. Such might raise dust but the dust settles down after flying around.

“We thank God the one week sit-at-home has been called off. All that worked towards the calling off of this sit-at-home are Igbo patriots and will be blessed by God. 

“Anambra people should vote a governor that will be a rallying point of other Igbo governors that will emerge in 2023. If he is so good, he should change the focus of the current governors who are so far a bunch of errand boys of the presidency.”