The Indigenous People of Biafra,
IPOB, has insisted residents of Anambra must boycott Saturday’s governorship
election because “Aso Rock decides who gets appointed into political offices.”.
Describing elections conducted by
the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as “fraudulent,” the
pro-Biafra group emphasised the need for the South East to ignore polls until
Federal Government fixes a date for referendum.
In a statement signed by its
spokesperson, Emma Powerful and sent to DAILY POST, on Friday, the group
stressed that it cannot participate in an “electoral process where Aso Rock,
through INEC, simply compile their own figures and declare whoever they like as
the winner.”
According to the statement, IPOB
said it would allow voting across the South East when a referendum is called.
The statement reads, “The
worldwide family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and it’s leadership,
under the supreme command of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu consider it imperative to
reinstate the reasons why Biafrans have decided to lock down Anambra State on
the 18th of November 2017 and never to participate in any fraudulent elections
organised by INEC until a date for referendum on Biafra is set. IPOB family
worldwide under the command and leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu wish to remind
the General public that we are not disrupting any election instead directing
every Biafran living in Anambra State to boycott the election on Saturday 18
November 2017.
“It is patently clear to all that
since the return to what can best be described as the Arewa dominated
militocracy in 1999, we Biafrans have been voting with nothing to show for it
till date. In fact, the whole electoral exercise in Nigeria is as fraudulent as
Nigeria itself. Nigerian government through the instrumentallity of INEC and
security operatives especially the Nigerian Army and Police are doing
everything possible to undermine the people’s wish in Anambra State election.
“People can campaign and
electioneer all they like, Aso Rock decides who gets appointed into political
office. Our votes don’t count and will never count. Those participating in
elections in Nigeria under the crazy militaristic Northern constitution drawn
up by a Northern Islamic military head of state Abdulsalami Abubakar for the
benefit of the Muslim North are either ignorant of what democracy entails or
they are guilty of engaging in willful hypocrisy.
“Nigeria runs a very corrupt
quasi military feudalism modeled on the subservient ethos of the Hausa Fulani
traditional emirate system of governance. That we call rulers of states in
Nigeria governors or the fact they belong to political parties with stipulated
tenure in office doesn’t remove the fact that they are in effect glorified
Emirs answering to the new Sultanate Aso Rock instead of Sokoto. What obtains
in Nigeria is not democracy, electioneering or voting, what we have is a
carefully choreographed display of primitively nauseating politics of the
jungle.
“No reasonable person can point
to a singular benefit of the much trumpeted dividend of democracy till date.
Even the emergence of Buhari at the ballot box was characterised by such brazen
rigging by 4 year olds in the North that Western election observers were
repulsed to the point of concluding that it would be better and less shameful
for their not to mention what happened in Arewa North. This is the same
electoral climate you expect IPOB, the children of light, to participate in.
“IPOB cannot participate in an
electoral process where Aso Rock, through INEC, simply compile their own
figures and declare whoever they like as the winner. Such political banditry
will end in Nigeria tomorrow. It is therefore in the interest of democracy,
good governance and accountability that all right thinking and courageous
people must join IPOB to cleanse the political landscape by boycotting
elections in Anambra State come tomorrow.
“We pray other ethnic groups in
Nigeria wake up to realise what IPOB is doing by demonstrating that power does
indeed reside with the people, it will trigger a constitutional crisis that
will lead to a renegotiated and people oriented governing constitution for
Nigeria. This is simple common sense. Waiting for the same corrupt, lazy, oil
dependent, repressive government of mediocrity to change their ways by voting
for them every four years, is nothing short of foolishness of the highest
order. The more you vote, the more they take you for granted. Enough is enough,
let the revolution to free the enslaved masses begin this Saturday.
“IPOB will only allow voting in
Biafraland if and when a referendum date is agreed to determine the fate of
Biafra independence. We the people are demanding freedom and freedom we must
have. “
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Emma weakness, na you get ya mouth na. Just be ready to scuttle it. Tomorrow is the D day.
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