Anambra Police Commissioner,
Garba Umar, said his men almost opened fire on members of the Indigenous
People of Biafra (IPOB) who blocked Anambra State Governor, Willie
Obiano, on Sunday.
The Biafra agitators had
confronted Obiano at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Ekwulobia, Anambra State.
It was gathered that the scene
was charged and restraint on the part of the police saved the day.
The IPOB members in their
hundreds chanted ‘no election in Anambra on November 18’.
“The Governor had to be smuggled
out by his security details,” an eyewitness said.
Confirmed the incident, CP
Garba warned that the police would no longer tolerate such impunity.
“You press people should report
this. We will no longer tolerate this impunity from anybody”, he told Punch.
“Why should they protest to the church? The
Church is a place of worship and not a place of protest. It is obvious that
they had criminal intention to attack the governor.
“The police had to stop them at
the gate. If they had dared my men, it would have been a different story. We
can’t watch anybody breach public peace in this state. They should be warned to
desist from this impunity.”
IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, had
declared that the forthcoming governorship election in Anambra will not hold.
But Obiano recently fired back
and warned IPOB not to cross the line by attempting to stop a constitutional
process.
Two weeks ago, a group of
youths, suspected to be members of IPOB, disrupted a church function attended
by the governorship candidate of the Progressives Peoples Alliance, Godwin
Ezeemo, at Odoekpe, Ogbaru LGA of the state.
Of course it would always be PUNCH newspaper that they would tell... fake newspaper....EVERY POLITICAL LEADER SHOULD KNOW THAT THERE WOULD BE NO REST FOR THEM AND THEIR GENERATIONS UNTIL THEY LISTEN TO THE VOICE OF THE MASSES
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