IPOB: Nnamdi Kanu ‘calls-off’ election boycott Nigeria

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The leader of the Indigenous
People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has suspended his call that
Igbo’s boycott the general elections.

Mr Kanu stated this on his Twitter handle Thursday evening. The
tweet was also shared by IPOB on the Radio Biafra Facebook
page.

“Having confirmed this evening that all our preconditions and
terms have been met, signed, sealed and delivered; I hereby
call-off the election boycott across Biafraland on Feb. 16, 2019”,
the IPOB leader who is on self-exile wrote.

“I dedicate this historic victory to the formidable #IPOB family
worldwide.”

The comment by Mr Kanu is coming few days after he had an
exclusive interview with BBC Journalist, Chiagozie Mwomwu, where he
reiterated IPOBs initial decision to shun the elections across
“Biafra land,” a term he uses for South-east Nigeria.

“We want to send a very clear and unmistaken message to humanity
that we are serious about Biafra. We will lock Biafra down on the
16th to convey this message that

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Biafra is all that we are seeking is all that we want not
Nigeria…”, he was quoted as saying during the interview.

It is not immediately clear why Mr Kanu decided to suspend the
boycott. He did not also give details of the “preconditions and
terms” he said he had “confirmed” to be met.

During a recent live broadcast on Radio Biafra, Mr Kanu said the
boycott can only be called off if the government “agrees to sign
the documents given to them.”

Pics of Nnamdi kanu boycott call off on radio biafra Facebook
page
“Those pressuring me to call off the election boycott know what to
do. Sign that document I gave to you and I will call off the
election boycott, you know what the document contains.”

Then, he did not also reveal what is contained in the “documents
given to them.”

Mr Kanu has been at the vanguard of the call for an independent
Biafra Republic from the Nigerian state through a referendum.

The IPOB leader, who is facing charges of treasonable felony at
the Federal High Court in Abuja, had called for a boycott of
elections in Anambra in November 2017 if the government failed to
set a date for a referendum.

The call for a boycott failed as thousands participated in the
election.

Two months before the Anambra election, a clash occurred between
IPOB members and soldiers when the military commenced an operation
in South-east states.

Since then, Mr Kanu’s whereabouts remained unknown until his
reappearance in an online video showing him praying in Israel 13
months after he disappeared.

His call for boycott of the elections has been condemned by Igbo
leaders including the Ohaneze Ndigbo, an Igbo soci-political
group.

Nigeria’s presidential and federal parliamentary elections hold
on Saturday. State elections hold two weeks later on March 2.

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