IPOB Warn INEC:- postpone Anambra Election Because Of IPOB And Military Crisis On Ground Now

 Voters Rights International has called for the postponement of the November 18 Anambra election, warning that the faceoff between the Nigerian Army and the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) could jeopardize a successful conduct.

Voters Rights International president, Barrister Jezie Ekejiuba, said this in reaction to a statement by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Anambra State, Dr. Nkwachukwu Orji penultimate Thursday at Awka.

Addressing the participants, Dr. Orji said that some of the challenges that may affect the election process include the pro-Biafra agitators, general discontentment in the SouthEast region and security challenges in the region which might rub off in the electoral process.

He also listed other challenges already affecting the job of the commission to include meagre funding, erratic power supply, policy delay and discontentment on the part of voters.

Reacting, VRI said it doesn't perceive how the commission will do any enchantment to defeat challenges recognized by the commission in under two months time.

 It stated: "Aside from the over INEC's distinguished difficulties to the survey, we review the prior dangers acted to the survey like announced in the media including the boasts by Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) that it would stop the election unless there was a referendum on Biafra before the gather information and the legitimate test by the pending Supreme Court case in Appeal No. SC.671/2016 INEC V. Counselor Jezie Ekejiuba and Anor in which the extremist legal advisor had just cautioned the commission that he would document an interlocutory application for an order to prevent the commission from directing the Anambra governorship decision for barring in the past deregistered political gatherings as suggested by Dr. Orji in his above statement.

"​On the foot rear areas of these risky difficulties comes the current presentation of IPOB as a psychological militant association by the Nigerian Military and banishment of IPOB by the SouthEast Governors which to all aims and designs resemble pouring fuel to seething flame instead of following the piece of serene dialogue."It is against the scenery of these unwholesome frailty difficulties and crises that we therefore approach the commission to quit spending the accessible pitiful subsidizing on the Anambra governorship race that is destined to be put off in view of the staggering proof on the ground.

"We additionally approach the commission to as an issue of law and security put off the Anambra governorship race over the waiting SouthEast Army/IPOB instability emergency caused by the current intrusion of the SouthEast locale by the Nigerian Military labeled Operation Python Dance II (Egwu Eke II) which started on September 15, 2017."​Section 26(1) of the Electoral Act 2010 as revised unmistakably given to deferment of decision accordingly: "Where a date has been selected for the holding of a race, and there is motivation to trust that a genuine break of the peace is probably going to happen if the race is continued with on that date or it is difficult to direct the races because of cataclysmic events or different crises, the Commission may put off the race and should in regard of the range or zones concerned delegate another date for the holding of the delayed race gave that such motivation to the delay is fitting and verifiable"."​We consider what is going on in the SouthEast district (counting Anambra State) today as constituting as "different crises" and "pertinent and evident reason" as gave in the above cited arrangement of the Electoral Act enough for INEC as a dependable constituent body to take after to deflect loss of lives of voters amid the election.

"INEC thusly should earnestly notice this clarion call to put off the Anambra governorship race to a later date sufficiently helpful for voters to turn out and vote with no dread and without military attack, generally called Operation Python Dance II."Meanwhile, IPOB has blamed the Nigerian government and military for withholding subtle elements on the whereabouts of its leader  Nnamdi Kanu.

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Police Arrested 59 IPOB Members Whom They Will Be Charged As Terrorists

UMUAHIA—The Abia State Police Commissioner, Anthony Ogbizi, has said that with the proscription of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, by governors in the South-East and its declaration as a terrorist group by Defence Headquarters, arrested IPOB members would be tried as terrorists and anybody found with Biafra materials would be arrested and prosecuted.

Nigerian army feeds arrested IPOB members with rice, fried chicken
This came as President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, held a closed-door meeting with some northern governors before departing for New York where he will be attending the 72nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly, UNGA.
This is even as former President Goodluck Jonathan has called for peaceful coexistence among the different ethnic nationalities.

In a related development, President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, said the Senate would meet with security chiefs to chart a path for resolution of contentious issues engendering tension in the South-East.
IPOB members to be tried for murder
Ogbizi disclosed this at a media briefing where he paraded seven of the suspected members of IPOB at Ariaria police station in Aba.

The Police said they have arrested 59 suspected members of IPOB, in Abia State. They also confirmed the death of an officer after an attack by members of the now outlawed group.
He said the suspects would be prosecuted under the anti-terrorism act to ensure they were properly dealt with.

While restating hat the armed force had before stated, Ogbizi said IPOB had shown itself to be a "fear monger gathering," which must be managed as such.Ogbizi said the armed force recouped a few displays, including the ensign of Biafra from the suspects, including: "As I am conversing with you now, data contacting me said they have begun gathering at Nnamdi Kanu's house.

"Ogbizi approached subjects to volunteer data on the whereabouts of Nnamdi Kanu, pioneer of IPOB and denied the bits of gossip flowing in the express that security operators captured Kanu's father.Buhari holds shut entryway meeting with Northern govsThe governors that were in shut entryway meeting with the President at the Presidential Villa, Abuja were Kashim Shettima of Borno State, Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State and Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State.

It was accumulated that the meeting may not be detached with the charged encounters in a few sections of the north where individuals from a segment of the nation were allegedly being assaulted and their shops consumed as a response assault to the current improvement in the South-East.Special Adviser to Governor Tambuwal on Media, Mallam Imam Liman, affirmed the meeting on his Facebook page, yesterday, in Abuja.… withdraws to New YorkBesides, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, likewise affirmed the takeoff of President Buhari to New York, through the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.Adesina on his Facebook page posted: "President Buhari leaves Abuja to New York for 72nd Session of the United Nation General Assembly on Sept. 17, 2017."The president, who was joined by the governors of Zamfara, Ebonyi and Ondo States and additionally key bureau clergymen, would travel through London on his way back to the country.Buhari would likewise join other world pioneers at the gathering to be facilitated by the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres.He is additionally being relied upon to hold a respective meeting with the UN copyist and in addition a lunch meeting with President Donald Trump of the United States of America, alongside other world leaders.

Jonathan sues for peaceThe previous president expressed this on his Facebook divider, yesterday, in response to the sending of military faculty to Abia state to control the rough unsettling by individuals from IPOB.Worried by the miserable unforeseen development, Jonathan approached well intentioned Nigerians to live in peace among themselves even as he approached the Council of States to swim into the emergency in light of a legitimate concern for the nation.He stated: "The reports I have gotten about late improvements in the nation lead me to engage all men of goodwill to utilize whatever impact they need to push for tranquil concurrence and limitation on all sides.

Maybe, it is the ideal opportunity for the Council of States to intercede and offer its shrewd counsel."Irrespective of whatever incitement, Nigerians should never turn on each other. Indeed, even despite troublesome conditions, we should have confidence that God in his boundless knowledge will direct us to finding an exit plan that is reasonable and just to all concerned."Senate to meet security chiefsAccording to Saraki, the meeting would address the strain in the South-east and the engagements in Plateau.Saraki said in an announcement, yesterday, in Abuja that security offices, political and religious pioneers must work for the advancement of exchange as a methods for handling fomentations, to guarantee peace in the country.

In the announcement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, he asked all Nigerians to keep up peace and maintain a strategic distance from articulations or activities fit for irritating the pressure in parts of the country.The leader of the senate said that the emergencies in the nation were not detached to the monetary difficulties being confronted by citizens.Army, S-East govs can't pronounce us fear monger gathering—IPOBFollowing its revelation as a psychological militant gathering, IPOB has depicted as illicit and unlawful the presentation by the Nigerian Army that it is a psychological oppressor group.

IPOB in an announcement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Comrade Emma Powerful, said the Nigerian Army did not have the established energy to proclaim any gathering as a fear monger gathering, saying it will disregard the statement by the Army and some other gathering and proceed with its unsettling for Biafra restoration.It stated: "We in IPOB censure the illicit assertion made by Nigerian armed force marking the quiet flexibility battling association as IPOB as a psychological militant association. We found the announcement by Nigerian Army an absurd signal. We will keep doing what we are doing which is serene unsettling for Biafra flexibility."… SERG tooAlso, yesterday, South East Revival Group, SERG, said it wasn't right for the Nigerian military to pronounce IPOB as a dread gathering in an offer to legitimize an unjustifiable intrusion of Nnamdi Kanu's home.

While approaching the Federal Government to promptly pull back troops from Igboland to enable the pioneers to close their discourse with the youngsters occupied with self-assurance, the gathering denounced the pioneers in the district for their rushed prohibition on the exercises of the IPOB at once its endeavors towards settling the present security challenges in South Eastern Nigeria were yielding fruits.The SERG in an announcement by its National Coordinator, Chief Willy Ezugwu, encouraged the Federal Government to be aware of the risk innate in holding the conveyed troops in the area as it has been misconstrued by the instigators, saying that the IPOB ought to be occupied with exchange as the legislature did with the Arewa adolescents after their quit notice to Igbo in the north.

It stated: "For us, there is no contrasting option to exchange. Appropriate correspondence and edification stay imperative instruments to guaranteeing agreement in the nation as of now as all aspects of the nation is feeling minimized in one way or the other."We envision what might have happened if troops were conveyed toward the north after the removal notice to the Igbo in the 19 northern states notwithstanding require their capture by some citizens."The Nigerian government gave the pioneers in the district the chance to deplete all conceivable exchange windows for the determination of the issue, even at once the Arewa young people resolvedly demanded that the Igbos in the north should go."Why the rushed sending of troops to South-East and attack of Nnamdi Kanu's main residence, under the appearance of a military preparing exercise, at once discourse with the adolescents and conferences were on-going?"No concealing spot for IPOB individuals in Anambra — ObianoAlso yesterday, Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State, said his legislature has adjusted itself totally with the choices of the South-East governors in the prohibition of the exercises of IPOB.

The senator who talked in an announcement by his Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Tony Nnacheta, said there would be no concealing spot for wickedness creators and any individual who might wish to contort the common peace in the state.Obiano kept up that he would actualize the choices of the South-East governors to the letter in Anambra State.He ordered the general population of the state to be cautious, including that the security and welfare of the general population the range were central to his government.

The representative said most extreme security cover would be given to spots of love of all beliefs; for lodging settlements of non-indigenes, engine parks and all other open spots to ensure the peace and wellbeing of all.The explanation read to a limited extent, "Continuation of the choice of the South East Governors gathering which met on the fifteenth of September , 2017, at Enugu, where among different choices, was the banishment of the exercises of Indigenous People of Biafra, the Government of Anambra State wishes to state as takes after: Government adjusts itself to the clarion call from the South East Governors exhorting all people with grievances and nervousness to transmit their position through recommended channels of chose agents to the forum."Government is additionally immovably in help of the rebuilding plan as declared by the Governors Forum and urges Ndi Anambra to verbalize their musings to finish on this issue."The security of Ndi Anambra and all inhabitants in Anambra, the security of their lives, properties and condition are cardinal needs of the Willie Obiano Administration which has guaranteed that everybody goes about unreservedly inside our condition without let or deterrent."

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Video: Biafra Finally Agree To Hold Election In Anambra state :Uwazuruike

 Leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Chief Ralph Uwazurike has said that there must be elections in Anambra state. Uwazurike said that statement   during the anniversary of MASSOB in Anambra state. 

The reason he gave for saying that election must hold in Anambra state was that, he said that Biafra Group is for non violent not violent group, and the must surprising fact is that, those Biafra's who were saying there will be no election in Anambra state before, agreed with him that there will be election in Anambra state, the question is what came over them :- drop your comment below.. 

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You Can't Stop us, IPOB Tell Nigeria Army

 IPOB in a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Comrade Emma Powerful said the Nigerian Army lack the constitutional power to declare any group as a terrorist group, saying that it will ignore the declaration by the Army and any other group and continue its agitation for Biafra restoration.

We in IPOB condemn the illegal declaration made by Nigerian army labelling the peaceful freedom fighting organization as IPOB as a terrorist organization. We found the statement made by Nigerian army a laughable and caricature the Nigerian Army is making of itself, we will continue doing what we are doing which is peaceful agitation for Biafra freedom.

“Whatever be the case Nigerian Army has no right or power to labelling IPOB a terrorist group whiles the case still in the court. It is the duty of Nigerian court to decide the case between the Nigerian government and IPOB under the leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
“We urge the Nigerian government and her security operatives to stop their barbaric and unprovoked attacks to unarmed and innocent civilians who have not been involved in any act of crime or violence since the inception of this struggle for Biafra independence championed by IPOB.

Text you copy will automatically show here "It's exceptionally shocking that south East governors will dependably stoop so low to enable our general adversaries to keep on tele manage them in their meeting at Enugu in teaming up with security agents to wipe out their kin whom they assume to ensure in light of the fact that they need re race of political office in 2019.

"In any case we don't respect the South East governors, to the extent Biafra battle is concerned we don't respect, and don't realize that South East Governor exist, they are not responsible for the states they are Governors"According to IPOB "it is basic to remind Nigerians that we are not in question that Nigerian government and her security agents particularly the Nigerian armed force can't win this fight and don't have the audacity to name IPOB under the administration of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu a fear based oppressor gathering, while the case between the Nigerian government and IPOB is still in the Federal High Court Abuja.""It is clear to all sundry, that this activity of the Nigerian Army which began killing pure Biafran populaces for the sake of seeking after offenders in all aspects of Biafra arrive, and in the meantime naming IPOB as a psychological militant gathering is a characteristic the consummation of the annihilation of Igbo plans set amid the time Usman Dan Fodio.

, We are not astonish that the present killings and scares in South East especially in Umuahia, Aba and Port Harcourt has the sponsorship of the present caliphate in Sokoto, which has esteemed it important to take after the means set around their progenitors to wipe out Biafrans and to clear path for the islamization of South east."The Fulani herders has been engaged with killing and assaulting of South East, wrecking ranch crops with no record of capture or confinement of any of them since the introduction of this present government Muhammadu Buhari, and he has constantly kept quiet on their exercises, and the patches dependably help them at whatever point they are on mission to kill Christians, they have not be proclaimed a fear monger gathering of individuals, what a government."Buhari and his troopers can't win this war against IPOB on the grounds that it is on record in all aspects of Biafra arrive and the world over that since the beginning the IPOB exercises, no one will state he has been badgering threatened or shot by IPOB, no one will at any point turn out to demonstrate he has seen any of our part with arms like the herders are obviously observed with AK 47 riffle."Nobody in Biafra arrive or in the Diaspora including outside nationals and those outsiders living in any piece of Biafra arrive, will ever say IPOB convey arms, our weapon tranquil dissent which we have suspended for quite a while, yet we are passing our message to the general population while Nigerian Government keep on being jittery.

"IPOB under the initiative of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu wins more changes over consistently disregarding the assaults, killings, terrorizing on the guiltless regular citizens and serene individuals from IPOB, we can't acknowledge the announcement credited to Nigeria Army of marking us a fear monger gathering, Nigerian Army is the genuine psychological oppressor group."We ask Nigerian government and its Army to hold up till October 17 October 2017 when the case will come up, in the event that they have a better contentions than challenge our pioneer Mazi Kanu and IPOB individuals overall they should go to the equipped court of locale to table their case not parading themselves, not us as a psychological oppressor group."The just constituted specialist that can pronounce IPOB a psychological oppressor aggregate is a capable court of purview in Nigeria, not the Nigerian Army and South East Governors, they are just making joke of their selves."

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Some IPOB Members Will Face Murder Charge In Abia :- Commissioner Of Police

 The new Police Commissioner in Abia state, Mr Anthony Ogbizi, has said that suspected members of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), recently arrested, will be prosecuted for murder, arson and other related crimes.
Ogbizi disclosed this during a press briefing and parade of seven suspected members of IPOB at Ariaria police station in Aba.

He said following the proscription of IPOB by governors in the South East and its declaration as a terrorist group by Nigerian Army, anybody found with Biafran materials would be arrested and prosecuted.
He said that they would be prosecuted under the anti-terrorism Act to ensure they were properly dealt with.
Ogbizi, echoing what the army had earlier said, stressed that IPOB by their action had shown itself to be a “terrorist group” which must be dealt with as such.

He said that they would be prosecuted under the counter fear based oppression Act to guarantee they were legitimately managed with.Ogbizi, reverberating what the armed force had before stated, focused on that IPOB by their activity had shown itself to be a "psychological militant gathering" which must be managed as such.He said that between Sept. 10 and Sept 14 the Ariaria police headquarters was assaulted by associated individuals with IPOB who decimated everything at the station.

He said they accompanied petroleum bombs which they used to get access, annihilate properties and made three pump move guns."Even some policemen were genuinely harmed. Truth be told as I am conversing with you, one of the harmed cop is dead. Specialists attempted futile to spare his life."Now we have lost a spirit and you realize what it takes to prepare a cop. You know the vacuum that makes. It takes at least one year to prepare a cop", he said.Ogbizi said they likewise decimated property of legal residents too including that their show was not peaceful.

He additionally charged that the gathering assaulted a close-by bank to inspire cash to procure more weapons.The police manager said in regards to 30 IPOB individuals were captured when they assaulted fighters at Isiala Ngwa and around 29 were captured in Umuahia.He said that speculated IPOB individuals additionally assaulted military officers and the habitations of Commissioner of Police and AIG Zone 9 in Umuahia.Ogbizi said that the armed force recuperated a few displays including the crest of Biafra from the suspects."As I am conversing with you now data contacting me said they have begun gathering at Nnamdi Kanu's home", he said.Ogbizi approached the general population to volunteer data on the whereabout of the Leader of IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu.He denied the gossipy tidbits circling in the express that security operators have captured Kanu's dad.

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Rev. Fr Ejike Mbaka Reveal Reason Why Igbos Should Remain With Nigeria.

 Enugu-based Catholic cleric , Rev . Fr Ejike Mbaka has revealed why Igbos must demand to remain with Nigeria he also said that Igbo ought not be looking for separation since they remain to lose a great deal if Biafra is accomplished .

The disputable priest kept up that Igbos claim the majority of the business wanders crosswise over Nigeria , all things considered should look for Nigeria' s solidarity .Addressing a social event of Igbos in East London, on Tuesday , Mbaka stated, "No Hausa individual possesses property in Igboland . No Yoruba individual possesses property in Igboland .

But 60% of businesses in northern Nigeria are owned by Igbos . 40 % of businesses in western Nigeria are owned by Igbos . ”
Claiming to know how much Igbos owned across Nigeria because he was regularly invited to say blessings at the opening of new businesses by Igbos in northern Nigeria, Mbaka said, “Go to Sabon Gari in Kano and see what Igbos own there”.

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South East Governor Banned IPOB Activities In East

 The governors of the five South-East states took the decision during a five-hour closed-door meeting at the Government House in Enugu, which was attended by the Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo John Nwodo, and the General Officer Commanding 82 Division of the Nigerian Army, Lt-Gen, Adamu Abubakar.
Among the resolutions during the meeting is an appeal to the President to withdraw the military in the South East at the moment.

In spite of the fact that the governors "strengthened their sense of duty regarding one joined together and indissoluble Nigeria", they repeated their require the rebuilding of Nigeria "to accomplish equity and decency to each Nigerian".Also, they guaranteed all Nigerians, indigenes and non-indigenes,

in the locale of their security, including that they have been in contact with the Northern Governors Forum, which guaranteed them of the wellbeing of South-East indigenes living in the North.On the current brutality in the district and affirmations against the military and IPOB, the governors said examinations were continuous and "fitting move will be made against anybody chargeable".

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Some Suspected IPOB Members Invaded Some Mosque In Abia State Destroy Properties..

  A mosque in Abia state has been invaded and allegedly destroyed by individuals suspected to be members of the Indigenous People of Biafra

The IPOB members allegedly defecated in the property, and also stole various items from it as they wreaked havoc

The miscreants were also accused of destroying the certificates of students who worship at the mosque

Suspected members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) have been accused of invading a Yoruba mosque in Abia state and destroying everything in it.

The development was made public by a Facebook user, Yuslah Faruk.

In the post, a video was uploaded to show the level of destruction on the property.In the video, a man could be heard bemoaning, as he blamed the blackguards for likewise crapping in the place of love and taking different things including fans, meter, and even protectors. Various heaps of paper were seen sprinkled about the place as the storyteller expressed that the crooks had additionally obliterated the testaments of understudies who venerated in the mosque.Registering his dismay over the shocking occurrence, he expressed: "It is out of line, this is excessively. Yorubas are not inspired by anything about Biafra or whatever."These individuals are insidious and unfeeling, they demolished all over the place, took their money."He additionally expressed: "I trust that God will judge them".

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