The leader of the Indigenous People
of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has called off the election boycott order he
had issued his supporters in the South East.
Kanu had issued the
boycott order, saying there would not be election in the south-east until the
federal government conducted a referendum. Kanu, who is wont of giving orders
to his supporters during election and as well as declaring sit-at-home orders to
IPOB members to underscore the group’s demand for a referendum, Friday,
recanted on his earlier boycott order.
kanu had, last year, vanished from
Nigeria after the military launched an exercise code-named Operation Python
Dance (Egwu Eke) which saw the troops attacking the home of the Biafran leader.
The group had claimed that their leader, who went underground for over six
months, was killed by the military only for him to surface in Israel, alive.
Since he issued the boycott order, condemnations had trailed his order,
especially from the Igbo apex Socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, who had
urged him to call off the order. However, just few hours to the election day,
th IPOB leader and his group called off the boycott order, saying some
conditions it gave were met.
The group said all the terms and conditions it
gave those wishing it to call off the order had been met. In the statement by
the group’s spokesperson, it said in due course, it would made public the
document of the agreement it signed with those who urged it to call of the
boycott order. The statement partly reads thus: “It’s important we notify the
world at large and the indefatigable global IPOB family in particular that our
supreme leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has called-off the election boycott in
Biafraland.
“After a brief emergency session of the Directorate of State late
last night, presided over by our leader, it was determined that all our terms
and conditions had been met by those wishing us to lift the ban on voting, it
was unanimously agreed that the boycott should be lifted.
“The signed document
agreeing to IPOB terms and conditions are in our possession and will be made
public in due course. “We can, therefore, state with utmost sense of
responsibility and pride that IPOB has accomplished what no other people or
group has been able to do in the history of our people.
Without prejudice, this
will go down as the defining moment when the irreversibility of the restoration
of Biafra was firmly entrenched in the subconscious of all and sundry. As a
result of which we can state categorically that Biafra is a lot closer than we
think as a result of this.”
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