Lawrence Nwimo, Awka
Pro-Biafra agitation group, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has said it is not against political rallies in the South-East, because IPOB is not interested in Nigerian elections.
The group made the statement against the backdrop of announcement by the campaign council of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who made public that campaign activities for its presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, will hold on Monday in some parts of the South-East.
It was gathered that the APC did not earlier consider that Monday is observed as a sit-at-home in some areas of the South-East, a situation that had made it to now reschedule its campaign in the zone.
However, reacting in a statement made available to Ikengaonline, IPOB Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, assured that there was no threat against any political rally in the South-East on Monday, because IPOB had cancelled the “non-existent” sit-at-home in the region.
“No threat whatsoever because we have cancelled the non-existent Monday sit-at-home order since, but what the political parties should know is that there is insecurity in the South-East and nobody should blame IPOB for any eventuality.
“IPOB is not interested on their jamboree selection process called Nigeria election.
“They are free to do their campaign but what we will not accept is a situation where they will clash with their political opponents and they will now blame it on IPOB,” Powerful said.
The pro-Biafran group pointed out that there was no threat to any political party holding its campaign rally across the South-East on Mondays because it had long cancelled the Monday sit-at-home.
Although, the group had said on several occasions that it had cancelled the Monday sit-at-home it introduced across the region in 2021 to protest the unlawful detention of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, the people still observe the order.
Mondays in most places in the region offices, banks, market places, motor parks, schools, petrol stations and every other public outlet remain shut.
The campaign council of the All Progressives Congress had earlier scheduled its campaign activities for its presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to hold on Monday in some parts of the South-East.
It was gathered that the APC did not earlier consider that Monday is observed as a sit-at-home in some areas of the South-East, a situation that had made it to now reschedule its campaign in the zone.
