The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has stated that it did not call for and has no intention of declaring a sit-at-home during the 2023 elections due to start on Saturday, 25 February 2023.
IPOB reiterates that it is neither interested in Nigeria's elections and electoral process nor is it stopping anybody from participating in the elections if they so desire.
A statement by IPOB signed by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful insists that its interest and focus is for the Federal Government to release IPOB's detained leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, and set a date for a referendum on the future of Biafra.
IPOB further said that the calls for sit-at-home and elections boycott in the Southeast are being made by anti-democratic forces.
The IPOB statement reads in part: “The global family and movement of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) under the command and leadership of our great leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu who is illegally detained in DSS solitary confinement once more unequivocally and publicly declare our lack of interest in the Nigeria fraudulent selection process called elections coming up this month February 2023.
“We have stated for the umpteenth time that we have nothing to do with the Nigeria elections and have neither called for a boycott nor do we have the intention to call for an election boycott during this coming election.
"More importantly, IPOB has not called for any Sit-At-Home during the duration of the election and therefore distance ourselves from any purported sit-at-home in Biafra land during the election.
"Those calling for “No Election” and sit-at-home during the election period are simply Fulani agents whose sole motive is to discredit our Self Determination movement by attempting to paint it as an anti-democratic force.
“They intend to create the groundwork for the international community to view IPOB as being against the democratic process and provide them with an excuse to clamp down on our activities and IPOB Leadership.
“Nigeria Security Agencies have kept silent on these double agents because they are working for the Nigeria government. Let IPOB call for this sit-at-home or No Election, the entire Nigeria Security Agencies would have been ranting and threatening the entire Biafra land.
“Those calling for no election or Sit-at-home during this forthcoming fraudulent elections do not represent IPOB, are not IPOB family members, never were IPOB family members, and are not working for Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
"We have continued to make this fact public and for reasons best known to the Nigerian Media and some public commentators, they have deliberately continually attributed the actions of these Nigerian politicians and Nigerian government-paid infiltrators to the noble movement of the Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB WORLDWIDE,” the statement said.
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