The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has alleged that prisoners across correctional facilities in the South-East geopolitical zone have been mobilised to vote in the Anambra State governorship election slated to hold on Saturday.
A statement by the group’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, said that there was a grand plot to rob Anambra residents of their right to elect a leader of their choice in the polls.
The statement read in part, “The global family of the Indigenous People of Biafra, under the command and leadership of our great leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has through intelligence gathered that the Nigerian Government and the All Progressives Congress have gone to several correctional centres in the South-East zone and lifted inmates and Fulani youths living in other South-East states to Anambra State, with the intention to use them and thumb-print in favour of the APC, in the forthcoming November 6 governorship election, in the state.”
“We raise the alarm to the United Nations Human Rights Commission, US government; British government; Israeli government; German government; Canadian government; Russian government; Amnesty International; civil society groups in the world and all relevant and reputable human rights organisations to monitor what the APC and the government of Nigeria are doing in Biafra land, especially in Imo and Anambra states.
“We want to raise this alarm to put Ndi Anambra in particular, Ndigbo and the world in general, out of the wicked plot by the APC-led Federal Government of Nigeria to rob them of their right to choose a leader of their choice. They want to impose another puppet in Anambra State, as they did in Imo State.
“The APC has changed election norms in the history of Nigeria. We want politicians in Anambra State to be wary of what the APC is doing to them, so they can resist them.”
Meanwhile, the group has also denied reports that it called for the boycott of the November 6 governorship election.
It said that members of the group were not interested in the Anambra election rather in the release of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu.
