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Ohanaeze Urges Ndigbo To Ignore Sit-At-Home Order On Election Day

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By Lawrence Njoku, Enugu

The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has again urged the people of the South East to resist the sit-at-home order by an anti-Igbo group during the forthcoming elections.

The group made the call in a communiqué signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Alex Ogbonnia, at the end of an emergency meeting of the group’s National Executive Committee in Enugu at the weekend.

The meeting was presided over by the Secretary General of the group, Chief Okey Emuchay. Ogbonnia said the NEC elaborated on a few issues of national interest and reached some major resolutions.

According to him, the most worrisome among them was the sit-at-home and total lockdown order to the Igbo by one Simon Ekpa, who is based in Finland.

He said: “Ohanaeze Ndigbo expresses shock and doubt that a true Igbo would unconscionably embark on a disingenuous duplicitous adventure aimed at denigrating, disenfranchising and decimating his people.

“The most disturbing is that the unscrupulous sit-at-home and total lockdown order by Ekpa falls within the general election. Ohanaeze stands firmly on natural justice and equity to proclaim that it is the turn of the South East of Nigeria to produce a president for Nigeria and by the irrevocable forces of providence.”

According to him, “right-thinking Nigerians and the global community have embraced the virtues of Peter Obi as the most suitable, competent, visionary, inspiring and energetic presidential candidate for the forthcoming general election.

“It is, therefore, strange that at the very rare consensus and convergence of history, equity, public consciousness and expertise in Obi, an impetuous youth will engage in an unreflective drum-beat that draws his people to a macabre dance,” he added.

Ogbonnia said the Media and Publicity Secretary of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Emma Powerful, had dissociated IPOB from any sit-at-home in the South East during the election period.

“We are urging residents to disregard the rumoured order making the rounds by Ekpa” and that “IPOB is only interested in the unconditional release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.”

“The autopilot ignores the necessary landing permit by his people and Ohanaeze, therefore, urges the residents in Igboland to ignore the sit-at-home in its entirety,” Ogbonnia said.

Speaking further, the apex Igbo group commended: the interventions of the Finish Ambassador to Nigeria, Leena Pylvanainen by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chief Geoffrey Onyeama, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba, the Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor, Igbo Union in Finland, the general public, especially the youths and the reassurances of President Muhammadu Buhari with respect to security and a free and fair election in 2023.

Source: The Guardian

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