Igbos for a Progressive Nigeria (IPAN), an Igbo socio-political group, has called on Anambra electorates not to allow the six days sit-at-home order issued by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), to discourage them from going out to elect who governed the state after Willie Obiano, come November 6, 2021.
The group made the call on Sunday, in Awka, during its IPAN’s launched #AnambraShineYaEyes campaign, to sensitize Ndi Anambra on the need to choose the right person to govern Anambra State.
Tribune Online had earlier reported that the Indigenous People of Biafra has declared a one-week sit-at-home protest from November 5 to prevail on the Federal to release its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful disclosed this in a statement made available to Newsmen in Awka, Anambra State on Saturday.
This is coming as Anambra State is having a governorship election on November 6, 2021.
But the IPAN National President, Comrade Lawrence Onuzulike, while addressing Journalists at the event, assured the people that the election must hold as scheduled by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) through the help of security agencies deployed to the state for the purpose.
He explained that the sensitization exercise was to inform Ndi-Anambra that before going to the polls, they should properly scrutinize each candidate and carefully go through their manifestos before voting, stressing that Anambra cannot afford to elect a wrong person again. Not on IPAN’s watch.
Comrade Onuzulike, charged the Anambra electorate to shine their eyes, as it was time for Ndigbo to reintegrate into the national polity.
According to him, Anambra November sixth election is an opportunity to right the wrongs of the past, regretting that Anambra leaders in the past paid little attention to the issues that matter most, leaving in trail decayed education, health institutions, poor water facility and refuse disposal system.
The IPAN believes that the time for a new beginning had come in Anambra, adding that the polls should be able to spring up a candidate that will be capable of seeing Ndigbo at the centre, with the election of an Igbo person as president in 2023.
It posited that the new governor does not need to be in the ruling party at the centre, but needed a political base with a general spread.
Contributing, the national secretary of IPAN, Mr Michael Chibuzo, frowned at the seeming grouse by some non-state actors against the planned election, pointing out that forcing people indoor will allow the election of a candidate that does not support the wishes and aspirations of Ndigbo.
Mr Chibuzo appealed to major gladiators across the parties to check their overzealous supporters, so as not to mar the smooth conduct of the polls, adding that IPAN would monitor the polls to ensure that it is hitch-free.
On non-release of Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs, to those that participated in the last registration exercise, few weeks to the poll, Mr Chibuzo described it as a dangerous signal and promised to liaise with the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for timely distribution of the PVCs to prospective voters.
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