Igbo Elders Reject 5days Sit at home Order

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Residents of the South-East should reject the five-day sit-at-home declared by Simon Ekpa, a Finland-based protégé of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, Igbo Elders Consultative Forum led by a former Governor of Anambra State, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, has said.

The pan-Igbo socio-political organisation also described the order as draconian and epitomising insensitivity to the plight of the people.

Ezeife told journalists in Abuja on Thursday night that it must never be observed nor allowed to stand.

According to him, the IECF met, discussed and made critical analysis of some national issues and questions that had far reaching consequences on the peace, unity, stability and corporate existence of Nigeria in general, and Igbo land in particular including Elpa’s sit-at –home order in the South East.


He said, “The Igbo Elders Consultative Forum has always believed that some faceless individuals in government and other unpatriotic elements who do not wish Ndigbo well, and have been working hard with collaborators to truncate the scheduled 2023 general election in the South-East are behind the purported sit-at-home order in the zone.

“The scheduled February 2023 presidential election will be historic in Nigeria because we are optimistic that patriotic and progressive Nigerians will elect Peter Obi of the Labour Party as the next President of this country in a free, fair and credible election. Hence, elements must never be allowed to use the purported sit-at-home order to truncate next year general election.”

The Igbo elders also called on the Independent Electoral Commission to take necessary measures to provide a level playing ground for all the political parties and their candidates as well as conduct a free, fair and credible election in 2023.

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