The candidate of the Young
Progressives Party in the forthcoming Anambra State Governorship Election,
Ifeanyi Ubah, says there will be trouble if the proscribed Indigenous People of
Biafra insists that the November 6, 2021 election won’t hold.
Ubah, who represents Anambra
South in the upper legislative chamber, made this known on Monday in an
interview with BBC Pidgin.
IPOB had threatened that no
election would hold in the entire South-East zone (Imo, Anambra, Enugu, Ebonyi
and Abia states) till it achieved its agitation for secession from the Nigerian
state.
Scores of police stations, offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission and other government institutions had been burnt by rampaging hoodlums in the past few months. Though security agents had fingered members of IPOB’s military wing, the Eastern Security Network, as masterminds of the attacks, the proscribed group had denied the allegations.
IPOB had also threatened that the
2017 governorship election won’t hold in Anambra but the poll was conducted and
the incumbent, Willie Obiano, won his re-election on the platform of the All
Progressive Grand Alliance.
Speaking on the worsening
security situation in the South-East and how it could affect the November
governorship election in Anambra, Ubah said, “We will talk to our brothers –
the IPOB people, they should not say no election because if they say so, they
will be imposing something we don’t want.
“So, we have to tell them the
importance. We know they have power but let them pipe down for us to do this
election because if we don’t do this election proper, there will be trouble.
Anambra is the head of Igbo Nation.”
When asked what the sit-at-home
order by IPOB had caused Anambra, Ubah said, “You cannot estimate (it), the
trauma also is so much. The truth about it is that our governors should wake up
and engage with IPOB.
“It is IPOB that gave such order;
talk to them, tell them that we are losing. We are agitating, we must fight for
our brother but we can’t also be fighting for our brother and suffering our
people.”
Continuing, the senator said, “I
believe in (the) Nigerian entity, I believe also that we, the Igbos, through
the instrumentality of our state governments, can make Igbo a mini-nation
inside the nation.
“We have everything as contained
in the Nigerian constitution as a legitimate state, a state that can make what
we want. I don’t think unless I change the name of the state; I believe that
the more I get from Nigeria, I can now partner with our brothers abroad to
bring the aspirations and what they want in the state.”
Ubah also noted that South-East
politicians were working on a political solution to resolve the case of the
detained IPOB leader.
Recall that IPOB pronounced a weekly sit-at-home order in the entire South-East
beginning August 9, 2021, to protest the continued detention of its leader,
Nnamdi Kanu, who has been in the custody of the Department of State Services
for over three months.
IPOB subsequently suspended the
Monday sit-at-home order, saying it would be observed any day Kanu appears in
court but the last seven Mondays had turned bloody in the South-East as
“unknown gunmen” attacked travellers, traders, students, and other persons who
came out for normal activities.
Many had been killed, injured and
vehicles had been burnt while banks, markets, schools, and other public places
continue to shut down every Monday as people stayed indoors out of fear of
being assailed outside.
The case of Kanu, who is facing
terrorism-related charged before Justice Binta Nyako, has been adjourned to
October 21, 2021, for continuation of hearing.
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