NIGERIAN ELECTION: IPOB Declares No sit-at-home for February election

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has declared that during the February poll, it will not issue any sit-at-home orders in the South-East.

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In a statement issued on Thursday, February 2, the separatist organization also cautioned the Pan Nigeria President of Igbo Extraction Coalition (PANPIEC) to stop using IPOB and ESN as bargaining chips by associating IPOB with the execution of sit-at-home orders.

The statement reads:

IPOB led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has never forcefully obstructed the election process in Nigeria. Rather, we once called Biafrans to boycott elections, which was later called off.

?We have maintained that we don?t have any interest in the Nigeria shambolic political selection process called Nigeria elections scheduled for February 2023. Our interest and focus is the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and the date for Biafra referendum for Biafrans to determine their political future in or outside Nigeria.

?We knew that this mushroom group called PANPIEC is among those sponsoring this fake group claiming that they are IPOB issuing and enforcing reckless sit at homes in the East.

?If they are not their sponsors, why do they keep linking the paid Agents of confusion with us even as IPOB have publicly denounced any link with Simon Ekpa and his collaborators.

?It?s on record and in the public domain that IPOB has not called for any sit-at-home during February elections. It?s also obvious that IPOB and ESN do not have any faction or splinter groups. IPOB remains peaceful and indivisible under one command for the liberation of Biafra Nation from Republic called Nigeria.

?We reiterate for the records that, IPOB have not, did not and will not issue any sit-at-.home order in February during the elections period. We also did not call for any boycott of the upcoming elections yet.

?The focus of IPOB is the release from illegal detention of our Leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, whom Appeal Court and other courts have discharged and acquitted since 13th of October 2022, and Biafra referendum date.

ABOUT NIGERIA'S 2023 ELECTION

On February 25, 2023, Nigeria will have general elections to choose the country's President, Vice President, and members of the Senate and House of Representatives. Due to his term limit, current President Muhammadu Buhari is not eligible to run.

Nigeria has a two-round system that has been changed for presidential elections. A candidate needs to win a majority of the vote and more than 25% of the vote in at least 24 of the 36 states in order to be elected in the first round. The top contender and the next candidate to obtain a majority of votes in the most states will face off in a second round if no candidate surpasses this cutoff.

First-past-the-post voting is used to select the 109 senators from 109 single-seat constituencies (three in each state and one for the Federal Capital Territory). First-past-the-post voting is also used to elect the 360 members of the House of Representatives in single-member districts.

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