One Week Sit-At-Home: Ohanaeze Moves Against IPOB, Says It Will Not Happen

 

Plans by the Indigenous People of Biafra to impose one-week sit-at-home in the South East has been resisted by the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide.

 

Ohanaeze kicked against the plan on Sunday.

 

Recall that the pro-Biafra group had threatened a one-week sit-at-home if their leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, was not released forthwith.

 

The declaration, targeted at the November 6 Anambra election, has been attracting wild condemnation.

 

In a statement by the Secretary-General of the Chidi Ibeh-led apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, he said Ndigbo should not obey the order this time.

 

He said, “any declaration that unleashes untold hardship, leads to the collapse of commercial and industrial activities, boycott of Anambra elections, and interrupts the academic calendar in the Southeastern states is nonsensical, absurd, and anti-Igbo agenda, for the enemy’s amusement.”

He added that “IPOB should discern that there was self-determination struggle in Africa before now. Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in jail and never in the history of the movement against Apartheid was starvation, anguish, and catastrophe unleashed on Black South Africans by ANC.

He cautioned that such orders if implemented would give a particular political party an edge in the election.