One
week to the governorship election in Anambra State, the proscribed Indigenous
People of Biafra has threatened voters with death if they vote. They also vowed
to disrupt the election.
The
members of the group marched around some streets in Onitsha, Anambra State on
Friday, vowing a lockdown on the day of the election, which is scheduled to
hold on Saturday, November 18, 2017.
Members
of the group can be heard threatening voters in videos of the march
circulating online.
They
said, ““If you vote you will die. Don’t go out, stay in your house. If you vote
on November 18, you will die. We are not running around for the zoo.
“There
will be no election. We will not participate, we will not vote. Nothing
concerns us with any election. We are formidable.
“We
are in Onitsha to tell the Federal Government to produce Kanu. They should
release all the Biafrans in Nigerian prisons.”
Speaking
with one of Punch correspondents on the telephone, IPOB’s Media and Publicity
Secretary, Emma Powerful, noted that the purpose of the demonstration in
Onitsha was to show the world that “the threat of bullet” would not stop the
group from realising its aim of having Biafra Republic.
He
said Igbo people living outside the South-East should contact their families at
home to boycott all future Nigerian elections, including the governorship
election.
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