National Publicity Secretary of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Alex Ogbonnia, has again urged the people of the South‑East to resist any sit‑at‑home order issued by an anti‑Igbo group during the forthcoming election. The call was made in a communiqué released after an emergency meeting of the organisation’s National Executive Committee, held on Friday in Enugu and presided over by Secretary General Ambassador Okey Emuchay.
The statement noted that the meeting discussed the sit‑at‑home order announced by the Indigenous People of Biafra and a total lockdown imposed on the Igbo by Simon Ekpa, who is based in Finland. Ohanaeze Ndigbo expressed shock and disbelief that any true Igbo would embark on a disingenuous, duplicitous venture aimed at denigrating, disenfranchising, and decimating their own people. The organisation found it especially disturbing that Ekpa’s unscrupulous sit‑at‑home and lockdown orders coincide with the Nigerian general election.
Ohanaeze affirmed its commitment to natural justice and equity, proclaiming that it is now the South‑East’s turn to produce a president for Nigeria, guided by providence. The group praised Peter Obi of the Labour Party as the most suitable, competent, visionary, inspiring, and energetic presidential candidate for the upcoming election, noting that right‑thinking Nigerians and the global community have embraced his virtues.
The statement also criticized a youth who, in the midst of a rare consensus of history, equity, public consciousness, and expertise embodied by Obi, was engaging in “an unreflective drum‑beat that draws his people to a macabre dance.” The News Agency Nigeria reported that women from the South‑East had, on February 15, called on Ekpa to leave the people alone and urged everyone to resist the sit‑at‑home order.
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