A chieftain of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), Hon. Ejike Njeze, has said the vow made public by
the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to ensure that the forthcoming
governorship election in Anambra State is boycotted unless the federal
government grants its desire for a referendum is doomed to fail.
A Commander of the newly
inaugurated Biafra Secret Service (BSS), Ezekwesiri Kenneth, had bragged that
the governorship poll in Anambra state will only hold “over their dead
bodies.”
However, in his reaction, Njeze
said the misleading call for the boycott of Anambra governorship election by
IPOB was akin to the death of the group, stressing that the government will do
all within its powers to ensure that the election was held peacefully and
rancour-free.
According to him, the tone of the
threats coming from IPOB over the Anambra election indicated that the group had
made plans to use violence to try to stop the lawful election.
He, however, urged IPOB to
withdraw its call for the boycott of the forthcoming Anambra guber poll,
warning that any attempt to halt the election in any form was sure to be
resisted by security agencies.
He said: “There is no reality
behind laying a claim that an individual or IPOB could halt the governorship
election in Anambra state. Any attempt to stop a lawful process like an
election is chasing a wild goose. It is equivalent to a young child looking at
the moon and thinking that he could pluck the moon simply because he could see
it.
“For me, it is clear that IPOB
will attempt to use violence to try to stop a lawful process but the
law-enforcement agencies will not sit-down and watch any individual or group
set Anambra state ablaze. Rather than one man set the whole state ablaze, the
state will set the man ablaze.
“No well-meaning and responsible
Anambra person will support that call for the halting of the progress of the
state through election boycott. Honestly, I don’t see the place of calling for
the boycott of Anambra governorship election in the Biafra agitation.
“What Nigerians should expect is
the election results because the conduct of the governorship poll is
non-contestable. IPOB lacks the locus standi to halt a constitutional election
of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“IPOB has given the options to
the government that it is between their dead bodies and the conduct of the
elections and the most realistic between the two alternatives is the latter.
So, I urge them to have a rethink on the call to boycott Anambra election since
it is doomed to woefully fail and also bring forth unpleasant consequences
among Igbos in the Southeast.”
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