IPOB expresses support for 2023 elections, berates PANPIEC

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Thursday have expressed support for the 2023 general elections in Nigeria, saying will not issue any sit-at-home order during the February poll.

The group then issued a warning to the Pan Nigeria President of Igbo Extraction Coalition (PANPIEC) to desist from linking IPOB with the enforcement of sit-at-home orders to blackmail IPOB and ESN.

In a statement by its media and publicity secretary, Emma Powerful, IPOB said it has no plan or intention to order any sit-at-home during the election period.

The statement reads: “IPOB led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has never forcefully obstructed the election process in Nigeria. Rather, we once called Biafrans to boycott elections, which was later called off.

“We have maintained that we don’t have any interest in the Nigeria shambolic political selection process called Nigeria elections scheduled for February 2023.

“Our interest and focus is the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and the date for the Biafra referendum for Biafrans to determine their political future in or outside Nigeria.

Biafra : Dr Ezeife to Rev Akukwe, Tell Simon Ekpa to Suspend Sit at Home, as Igbo Mandate Congress Operatives briefs Igbo Elders

 

The Chaiirman of Igbo Elders Consultative Forum and Former Governor of Anambra State, Dr Chukwuemeka Ezeife have called upon the Director General of Igbo Mandate Congress, Rev Obinna Akukwe to tell the Commander of IPOB Auto-Pilot, Simon Ekpa to suspend the Sit at Home scheduled for February 23rd to allow Peter Obi win the Presidency.

 

This was contained in his response when Directors of Igbo Mandate Congress IMC visited him in Abuja on Friday for a continuation of the monthly briefing over the Security Situation in the South East, Plot to stall 2023 elections in and other sundry matters that affects Ndigbo.

 

Dr Ezeife in his response said that;

 

" Akukwe please tell Simon Ekpa that his Sit at Home is dangerous to Peter Obi's Presidency bid which has received support from all over Nigeria.

 

“We just had endorsement of Peter Obi from Southern, Middle Belt Forum. Please tell Simon Ekpa and his group to stop, the whole Nigeria is rooting for Peter Obi. I have spoken with Emma Powerful, and his men are solidly behind us, they said they will not stop the elections”

 

Rev Akukwe had earlier informed the Igbo Elders Consultative Forum that politicians are sabotaging their efforts to secure the release of Nnamdu KANU, including efforts made after the January 14th meeting.

Alleged Assassination of Prof Obiozor, Mbazulike Amechi- Igbo Mandate Warns IPOB Against Bloody Statements.

 

Igbo Mandate Congress IMC have warned the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB to avoid any statement capable of exacerbating the tense security situation in Igbo land .

The call came when some Veteran Ohanaeze Ndigbo Chieftains who honored the Day of Tribute for Chief Mbazulike Amechi at Yar'adua Centre, asked the leadership of IMC to clarify, using it's vast intelligence network, the allegations that Governor Hope Uzodimma masterminded the murder of late Ohanaeze Ndigbo President General Prof George Obiozor, and former Chairman Ohanaeze Ndigbo Elders Council, Chief Mbazulike Amechi for calling for the release of Nnamdi KANU.

 

Ohanaeze Chieftains cited a recent press release by IPOB , signed by its publicity secretary, Emma Powerful, where he claimed that the octogenarians were killed through Chemical Spray because they asked for the release of Nnamdi Kanu.

PANPIEC Warns Ndigbo-Cant Have Biafra, Igbo Presidency Same Time , says Fulani not in control of South East.

 

The Pan Nigerian President of Igbo Extraction Coalition PANPIEC have warned Ndigbo that they cannot be pursuing Biafra and Nigerian presidency at the same time.

Speaking in Abuja on

Tuesday with cross section of church leaders during a concerned stakeholders meeting , the Chairman of PANPIEC Igbo Presidency 2023 Strategy Team, Rev Obinna Akukwe said that Ndigbo are prepared for 2023 elections but there is a vocal minority who wants Biafra at all costs.

 

Allaying the fears of the concerned clerics, especially from the north, that Peter Obi will declare Biafra if he becomes president, Rev Akukwe said that the insinuations are unfounded.

 

Akukwe warned Ndigbo to stop all the tales that Fulani have taken over South East. According to him

" I came back from the South East Peace Tour on Sunday, apart from about six communities having clashes with Fulani, two in Enugu State, one in IMO,Anambra, Abia and Ebony, which the security agencies are tackling, Fulani have not invaded South East"

 

Sit at Home in February and Forget Presidency, PANPIEC Warns Ndigbo

 

.PANPIEC Igbo Presidency Strategy Team warns that the Sit at Home of February 24th will be used by frustrated politicians to demarket the aspirations of Igbo Presidency and give the impression that South East voters are awaiting Biafra.

 

PANPIEC us aware that some members of the Strategy Team are working behind the scene for the release of Nnamdi KANU, details of which will not be made public.

Therefore, any further Multiple Sit at Home represents a multiple demarketing of the Igbo Presidency Project.

PANPIEC advises Simon Ekpa, Commander of IPOB Auto-Pilot, to jettison his Biafra Agitations till after the 2023 elections to enable teeming Igbo Youth exercise their civic responsibilities.

 

Igbo cannot be asking for Biafra and Igbo Presidency at the same time.

 

PANPIEC warns for the last time that the indiscriminate Sit at Home strikes fear into the minds of other stakeholders in the north favorably disposed to Igbo Presidency.

 

Politicians Sabotaging Nnamdi Kanu's Release- Igbo Mandate Congress, Ohanaeze Leaders Spits Fire

 

 Igbo Mandate Congress IMC has reported that notable Igbo politicians interested in 2023 elections are sabotaging the plot by the Buhari regime to release Nnamdi KANU.

This was contained in a quarterly situation report to stakeholders of Ohanaeze Ndigbo and Igbo Elders Consultative Forum at Enugu on Thursday by the Director General of Igbo Mandate Congress IMC, Rev Obinna Akukwe.

According to the Igbo leader, " Igbo Mandate Congress have reached advanced stage in negotiations for the release of the leader of Indigenous Peoples of Biafra IPOB with the Northern establishment, military and security agencies and cabals within the Presidency but politicians of Igbo extraction aware of our secret plot have frustrated the moves.

“We have contacted some traditional rulers and Muslim clerics to put pressures on Buhari to show pity on Nnamdi KANU’s condition, since 2021 , but whenever the deal is about to be struck , some Igbo politicians interested in 2023 elections will bring damning information that Kanu’s boys cannot be controlled, and that the initiator of bloody  of Sit at Home should be made to Sit and Rot in DSS detention"

Akukwe asked the stakeholders and Igbo Elders to convince the politicians that Nnamdi KANU is not an impediment to anybody in 2023.

Simon Ekpa not arrested- Igbo Think Tank ITT Responds to Inquirers, Condemns Bloody Sit at Home.

 

Igbo Think Tank ITT , a body of professionals and activists bent on Turning Igboland into Japan of Africa, do hereby responds to concerned inquiries from Nigerians over the news that Simon Ekpa is arrested by Interpol.

 

ITT declares the news false and states that as at 6am 17 th December, Simon Ekpa is in his Finland home with his family.

 

ITT is still engaging all feuding elements in IPOB for truce so that peace will return to South East, Senseless Sit at Home abolished, and peaceful conduct of 2023 polls.

 

Igbo Think Tank ITT hereby condemns the murder, arson and destruction of properties in IMO , Enugu and Ebonyi States by agents of Auto Pilot branch of IPOB enforcing Six day Sit at Home.

 

ITT also condemns the frequent abductions, arson and murder of Hausa Truck and Bus Drivers in various locations in the South East by the secessionists , which though unreported in the media, is creating tension in the North. ITT also condemns the spate of attacks on farmlands in Eha-Amufu and calls on the military authorities to fish out the perpetrators without delay.

2023 Polls vs Biafra: Igbo Think Tank ITT to Negotiate with IPOB, Simon Ekpa

 

Igbo Think Tank ITT has set in motion processes that will ensure proper conduct of polls in the South East in 2023 despite threats of violence by IPOB Auto Pilot branch led by Simon Ekpa.

 

This was disclosed to select church leaders in Abakaliki on Wednesday by the Vice Chairman of Board of Trustees of Igbo Think Tank ITT during an interactive session aimed at dissuading compliance with the 6 Day Sit at Home imposed by the leader of Auto- Pilot branch of IPOB.

 

Akukwe told the concerned clerics that 2023 elections is sacrosanct in Igboland and any attempt to disrupt it will be viewed with disdain.

 

According to Akukwe " ITT Security and Intelligence Committee have reached advanced stage in its quest to settle the rift between Chika Edozien and Simon Ekpa before Ifeanyi Ejiofor's unguarded outbursts against Auto Pilot scattered the initiative.

A Divided IPOB - ESN Cannot Stop Fulani Kidnappers- Memo to Igbo Leaders

 

Written by Obinna Akukwe

 

Rev Obinna Akukwe is asking all the Igbo leaders, elites, politicians and diasporas claiming that governors sabotaged IPOB and Eastern Security Network ESN , and rendered it ineffective in combating threats from Fulani Kidnappers rampaging Awgu, Nsukka, Okigwe, Orumba and other places to answer the follow questions.

 

Which ESN will combat the Fulani kidnappers, the one commanded by Chika Edozien or the one commanded by Simon Ekpa.

 

The Edozien led ESN had claimed that Double Lion and his ESN group at Ihiala were kidnappers and colluded with Soludo vigilante to kill them.

No Elections in Igboland in 2023, Decision Final-IPOB Auto-Pilot Responds to Igbo Think Tank Warnings not to Disrupt Polls

 

 No Elections in Igboland in 2023, Decision Final-IPOB Auto-Pilot Responds to Igbo Think Tank Warnings not to Disrupt Polls

 

The Auto Pilot branch of IPOB has insisted that its decision on no election in Biafraland is final. This response has been communicated both orally by some of its agents, and by a series of tweets from its leader Simon Ekpa to IGBO Think Tank.

Igbo Think Tank had met with elements of IPOB who were in Abuja over Kanu’s deteriorating health and continued detention on the 29^th of September and discussed several things and the group through its Vice Chairman Board of Trustees, Rev Obinna Akukwe made it clear that disrupting 2023 elections in Igboland is not an option.