The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Tuesday, warned Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State against underestimating the affection the people of the Southeast have for its leader, Nnamdi Kanu.
IPOB said Soludo and his cronies should be careful over the continent’s intimidation of residents of the state, adhering to the Mondays’ sit-at-home order.
Soludo had ordered traders across Anambra State to disregard the Monday sit-at-home order but it was flouted.
However, IPOB’s spokesman, Emma Powerful said those adhering to the sit-at-home order were doing so due to their love for Kanu and not the enforcers.
In a statement he signed, Powerful said: “We the great and noble family of the Indigenous People of Biafra under the command of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu wish to inform Governor Chukwuma Soludo not to underestimate the deep affection Biafrans in the 13 contiguous states and especially those in core Igboland and diaspora have for the leader of Biafra Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
“Dear Governor, please know that people staying at home on Mondays are doing so voluntarily not because of any threat from inconsequential individuals or coercive action by any actors. Ask anybody, including those purportedly enforcing the order, they will tell you that the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is all they require to stop.
“Biafrans see this act of self-sacrifice on Mondays as the only way to register their protest and displeasure at the unwarranted and continued unlawful detention of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu which south-east governors, of which you are one, is actively aiding and abetting. The same people you are asking to abandon their quiet protest on Mondays are the same people you and your fellow governors from the southeast have repeatedly disappointed in your calculated failure to honour your word to visit the Nigerian president to formally request for the release of our leader. It’s nearly 6 months now since you and your fellow governors resolved in your meeting at Enugu to visit President Tinubu to effect the release of Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, but to date, nothing has happened.
“Insecurity in our own beautiful state of Anambra is still raging and you know that the only thing that can bring this sorry state of affairs to an immediate halt is the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, yet you have failed to activate this solution. In fairness to you, you tried to appeal to the controllers of the last regime but they failed to see reason with you due to their pathological hatred of the Igbo race.
“It’s also on record that south-east governors have failed to honour their pledge to Igbo people worldwide to visit the presidency to press for the release of our leader. As long as this remains the state of affairs, most people will choose Monday as the day to protest their injustice against the unlawful detention of our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
“You south-east governors are playing politics with this issue of Monday sit-at-home and the attending Insecurity across our land because you all underestimate the deep-seated anger and resentment our people feel at the impotency of the leadership to make a simple trip to Abuja. Deep down in your hearts, you people- governors, are directly benefiting, financially, from the chaos and mayhem, death and misery bedevilling the ancient and sacred land of the Igbo race.
“Some of you governors who are happily enjoying an inflated security budget on the back of insecurity in our land, occasioned by the illegal incarceration of our leader, are to blame for the raging insecurity in our land because you are the direct beneficiaries of insecurity.
“Those that choose to sit at home on Mondays are exercising their right to peaceful protest. You are not in a position to sanction them when they have not broken any laws. Those choosing to sit at home are doing so because of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and nobody else. You cannot stop it by force.”
