Spokesman of the Indigenous Folks of Biafra, IPOB, Comrade Emma Powerful, has insisted that the February 2, 2026 sit-at-home within the South-East, ordered by the group to point out solidarity with merchants in Onitsha Main Market, will hold.

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Powerful spoke in an announcement launched to newsmen on Sunday.

DAILY POST stories that Onitsha Main Market was closed for every week by Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, following the merchants’ non-compliance together with his ban on the observance of the Monday sit-at-home within the state.

The market is to be reopened on Monday, February 2 and the governor has warned that if the merchants nonetheless refuse to open their outlets, the market will be closed for a month.

IPOB, which opposed the closure of the market by Soludo, introduced a sit-at-home slated for February 2, throughout the South-East, to point out solidarity with the Onitsha Main Market merchants.

However a lawyer of the group, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, and a few members of the IPOB Directorate of State kicked in opposition to the sit-at-home introduced by Powerful, saying the group had lengthy jettisoned sit-at-home directives within the South-East. In addition they questioned Powerful’s credibility, alleging that the workplace of spokesperson has been compromised. They equally claimed the spokesperson doesn’t exist as an individual.

In a clarification issued on Sunday, Powerful, who earlier stated Ejiofor has been expelled and as a non-member can not converse for IPOB, insisted that the February 2 sit-at-home is sacrosanct.

Within the assertion titled ‘Clarification assertion on the lies & falsehoods’, Powerful alleged that some brokers of the federal government and the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, are masquerading as IPOB members in a bid to deceive the general public.

Insisting that Ejiofor had been sacked, Powerful alleged that two members of the IPOB Directorate of State, Chinasa Nworu and Chike Edoziem, are plotting to hijack the group and divert consideration from the detained chief, Nnamdi Kanu.

He additional alleged that they’re doing the bidding of Anambra State governor, Soludo, after holding a gathering with him.

The assertion learn, “Monday, 2 February, sit-at-home is sacrosanct and will hold. Any authorities or APC agent masquerading as IPOB will be uncovered in the end. It’s public data that Ifeanyi Ejiofor has been sacked by Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and neither represents him nor the IPOB he leads.

“Ifeanyi Ejiofor was sacked over 2 years in the past and has no enterprise with Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Chinasa Nworu and Chika Edoziem contacted me final week and requested me to cease issuing statements publicizing our chief’s illegal detention and I refused. That was after they began plotting to hijack the management of IPOB and divert consideration away from our chief.

“These people appointed into the Directorate of State (DOS) by our chief,  have compromised the integrity of this battle by holding conferences with Governor Soludo geared toward undermining the solidarity proven to Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu by the merchants of Onitsha Main Market ought to be ashamed of themselves.”

Powerful in the identical vein dismissed claims that he’s only a pseudonym and doesn’t exist.

“The general public is hereby suggested to ignore each pretend and fabricated resignation being circulated in my identify. I spoke with a member of DOS two days in the past within the individual of Chinasa Nworu, who desires me to desert our chief in detention. If I “don’t exist,” the general public ought to ask him who he spoke to.

“For the avoidance of doubt, Ifeanyi Ejiofor wrote to me yesterday, requesting that I name off the sit-at-home. If I don’t exist, who precisely did he write to? He now not represents our chief and has no authority inside IPOB.

“Anti-Biafra forces against the discharge of our chief have infiltrated and hijacked the net house, utilizing the names of IPOB and DOS to confuse the general public. These political jobbers don’t work for Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and don’t converse for IPOB. They will be unmasked.

“I will be showing on speak exhibits and granting radio and media interviews from right this moment by tomorrow morning. Makes an attempt to make use of my short-term non-look to say I “don’t exist” are laughable. The identical people I spoke with days in the past are actually spreading falsehoods on-line.

“Whereas brokers of the Nigerian authorities could have seized management of components inside DOS, the broader IPOB household stays uncontaminated. Biafrans are suggested to watch out for charlatans, ignore misinformation, and adjust to the sit-at-home order on Monday.”