IPOB Vows To Disrupt Anambra Election
The Indigenous People of Biafra has reiterated that no election will hold in the South-east until a referendum is conducted.
The pro-Biafra group, in a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, on Sunday, said it will disrupt the November 18 governorship election in Anambra State.
The group said it would not allow any election that will enslave the Igbos, adding that it is not going back on the issue contrary to insinuations in some quarters.
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The statement reads: “Biafrans cannot be reasonably expected to agree to any electoral process that will only perpetuate their current slave status and misery in this colonial contraption named Nigeria.
“While we may accept being routinely killed and dispossessed outside our land, such intimidation cannot be allowed to go unchecked in Biafraland.
“We are therefore calling on all those who claim to be Igbo leaders especially those on the payroll of Nigerian government to please retrace their steps before it is too late.”
IPOB was reacting to the recent threat by the Anambra State Commissioner of Police, Garba Umar that it would deal ruthlessly with any group that would threaten the Anambra poll.
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Mr Umar had earlier stated that nobody or group has the capacity to stop the election, as it is scheduled by an authorised government agency.
Umar said: “Anambra Citizens have the right to have periodic elections to elect their leaders; nobody or group of persons can deny them such right.
“We are here to provide them the protection to exercise their franchise. Nobody can’t stop them from exercising their constitutional rights. We shall have no option than to suppress such threat. We have the capacity to do so”, Umar added.
