Anambra election: IPOB declares sit at home boycott on November 18

The Indigenous People of Biafra has reiterated
its order asking members to sit at home during
forthcoming Anambra election
- IPOB insists that the November 18 governorship
polls in Anambra will not take place
- The group stated that boycotting the election
would send a statement to the international
community about the seriousness of Biafria
agitation
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has
insisted that forthcoming governorship polls
in Anambra will not hold.
According to Daily Trust, the group ordered
its members and other freedom fighters in
the area to stay at home on voting day
November 18.
Emma Powerful, IPOB's publicity secretary
said the voting was a test case for IPOB and
its allies in Biafra territory, adding that
boycotting would send a statement to the
international community about the
seriousness of the agitation for Biafra.
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The body maintained that it must teach
corrupt Igbo politicians that money cannot
buy IPOB as they are special breed untainted
by the corrupt tendencies of Nigerian politics.
Read the statement: "Every genuine Biafran
desiring of freedom for Biafra from this
Islamic bondage of Hausa Fulani caliphate
called Nigeria, must not only stay at home on
that day, but must also make sure those
around them do not vote. November 18, 2017
is a date with history,” he said in a statement
in Awka, Anambra.
" If we Biafrans succeed in demonstrating
before international observers that we are
serious about our freedom by locking down
Anambra State on that day, the world will be
in no doubt that Biafra is unstoppable.
"Locking down Anambra State will pave the
way for IPOB to announce a date for
substantive referendum later next year with or
without the approval of Nigeria.
"Events in Catalonia and Kurdistan have
pointed the way forward for we Biafrans
because it was clearly demonstrated by both
nations that we can call for and conduct our
referendum with or without the cooperation of
Nigeria.
"Election boycott is the only legitimate tool left
in the hands of we oppressed people to register
our displeasure with the ongoing genocide in
our land, arbitrary arrests, torture and reign
of saboteurs in government houses across
Biafraland. If we vote, Nigeria will never again
take Biafra agitation serious.
"The whole world is watching to see how
serious we are towards the realisation of this
great nation of Biafra. The successful boycott
of the election come November 18 will prove to
the entire world how determined we are
towards having our own new nation where all
men will be equal before the law.
"For the sake of our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu
who was abducted and presumably murdered
by the Hausa-Fulani rulers of Nigeria and
their co-conspirators in Igboland, especially
Igbo governors and Ohaneze leadership, we
must as a people boycott the elections.
"For the sake of the blood of our fathers,
mothers, brothers and sisters murdered in
cold by Buhari, Buratai, Willy Obiano and
Okezie we must boycott the elections. For the
sake of our hope and collective aspiration as a
people unfulfilled and down trodden in Nigeria,
we must boycott this every other election in
Nigeria.
"The Nigerian government, Igbo governors and
certain sections of Ohaneze Ndigbo leadership
have been pouring billions of Naira into a well
prepared media propaganda to try and tarnish
the clean image of IPOB and that of our leader
with no success.
"Every lie and fabrication have been cleverly
deployed by these conspirators through their
well paid and compromised media houses to
sell fear and anarchy to the people of Anambra
State. The truth remains that corrupt Igbo
politicians want to destroy IPOB by all means
because they know we represent the people
and will never take money from Abuja to
compromise the struggle as they have all done.

"They were the people that begged Buratai to
bring his Islamic army into our land to kill our
brothers and sisters because they value the
crumbs they are getting from Abuja over our
well-being as a people."
In a previous report by NAIJ.com the
Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC) on Thursday, September 14, said it has
registered no fewer than two million voters
for the November 18 governorship election in
Anambra state.
The commission said the comprehensive
register would be printed within the next
three weeks.
The state resident electoral commissioner,
Nwachukwu Orji, speaking during a meeting
with electoral officers and members of the
civil society organizations in Awka, Anambra
state capital said the register would be
published in three installments across all local
government areas in the state.

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