Ifeanyi Ubah, the candidate of the Young Progressives Party in the November 6 Anambra State Governorship Election, says the insistence by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, that the election will not hold will create problems.
Ubah stated this on Monday in an interview with BBC.
IPOB had insisted that the election will not hold unless its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is released from detention.
Ubah who is also the Senator representing Anambra South in the national assembly, while speaking on the worsening security situation in the South-East and how it could affect the November governorship election in Anambra said, “We will talk to our brothers – the IPOB people, they should not say no election because if they say so, they will be imposing something we don’t want.
“So, we have to tell them the importance. We know they have power but let them pipe down for us to do this election because if we don’t do this election proper, there will be trouble. Anambra is the head of Igbo Nation.”
When asked what the sit-at-home order by IPOB had caused Anambra, Ubah said, “You cannot estimate (it), the trauma also is so much. The truth about it is that our governors should wake up and engage with IPOB.
“It is IPOB that gave such order; talk to them, tell them that we are losing. We are agitating, we must fight for our brother but we can’t also be fighting for our brother and suffering our people.
Ubah noted that South-East politicians were working on a political solution to resolve the case of the detained IPOB leader.
“I believe in (the) Nigerian entity, I believe also that we, the Igbos, through the instrumentality of our state governments, can make Igbo a mini-nation inside the nation.
“We have everything as contained in the Nigerian constitution as a legitimate state, a state that can make what we want. I don’t think unless I change the name of the state; I believe that the more I get from Nigeria, I can now partner with our brothers abroad to bring the aspirations and what they want in the state.”
