- warns Gov Soludo towards punitive measures for any recalcitrant dealer
Indigenous Individuals of Biafra, on Sunday, introduced the overall and everlasting cancellation of the Monday sit-at-home throughout the South-East.
IPOB stated the directive takes instant impact from Monday, February 9, 2026.
IPOB spokesman, Emma Highly effective, in a press release on Sunday, stated the order got here instantly from the organisation’s ‘supreme chief’, Nnamdi Kanu.
In keeping with the assertion, “The Monday sit-at-home throughout the South-East is formally and completely cancelled with impact from tomorrow, Monday, February 9, 2026.”
IPOB stated Kanu took the choice to make sure that regular life returns to the South-East.
The assertion added that Kanu has “as soon as once more staked every little thing on the road to make sure that our kids return to high school each Monday and that our folks go about their lawful companies with out concern, intimidation, or molestation.
“Any individual doubtful ought to go to Sokoto Correctional Centre to substantiate with him. We will now not cover below ‘Onyendu can’t be reached to substantiate’ to stick with our recalcitrance or docility. Monday sit-at-home is over. That period is gone!”
IPOB burdened that there was “no want, excuse, or justification for anybody to remain at house on Mondays,” directing that “all markets, colleges, workplaces, transport companies, and {economic} actions should resume absolutely and usually from tomorrow.”
The assertion which described the directive as closing, stated, “That is the clear and unequivocal order of the Supreme Chief of IPOB.”
IPOB additionally warned towards any try to implement sit-at-home going ahead, stressing that Kanu had made it “abundantly clear that any particular person or group trying to implement sit-at-home from this second ahead is performing towards his direct command.
“Such individuals are enemies of our folks and the Biafran trigger. They are going to be pursued to the ends of the earth and confronted till they’re fully defeated.”
The IPOB assertion additional claimed that “enemies of Biafra could try false-flag operations designed to create concern, stage assaults, or intimidate our folks into staying indoors,” warning that “any individual or group recognized as imposing or enabling sit-at-home will likely be confronted wherever they’re.”
IPOB in the identical vein urged residents of the South-East to stay “vigilant, calm, and law-abiding.”
However the group cautioned state governments towards taking motion towards merchants who should still select to remain at house.
IPOB stated, “No state governor has the precise to threaten, demolish, or forcibly shut down the companies of merchants who, out of conscience, select to take a seat at house in solidarity with our chief.”
The group particularly warned that “any try by Governor Soludo or another governor to intimidate our folks with demolition threats or compelled market closures will likely be firmly resisted.”
On market growth tasks, IPOB said that “any renovation, reconstruction, or enchancment of markets that includes momentary relocation have to be carried out solely with the consent of all stakeholders,” including that “ample momentary buying and selling websites have to be supplied earlier than any such tasks begin.”
Calling for unity, IPOB stated, “Our enemies have prior to now succeeded in instigating crises and planting seeds of discord amongst our folks. We should not permit them to succeed once more. We’re one folks, united by a typical future.”
IPOB equally urged residents to renew regular actions, saying, “We subsequently name on all our folks throughout the South-East to come back out tomorrow, open their retailers, go to work, and ship their kids to high school with out concern.
“The period of Monday sit-at-home is over.”
Earlier on Saturday, in a viral video, an IPOB group headed by Igwe Butuzo and Light De Yahoo additionally introduced the cancellation of Monday sit-at-home.
“This data is coming from the Triple Common, Common Igwe Butuzo, Common De Yahoo, and all of the forty state commanders in Biafraland.
“As the data reaching my desk to tell Biafrans, an order from the very best command of the Biafran restoration motion, Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi, has reached us that the Monday sit-at-home is cancelled from in the present day. Final Monday’s sit-at-home was a one-off applied because of Soludo’s stupidity and won’t occur once more,” the IPOB group stated within the viral video.
Talking on the event, Aloy Ejimakor, authorized advisor to Nnamdi Kanu, stated Nnamdi Kanu has since 2024 known as for the cancellation of the civil disobedience in his honor.
“In July 2024, he had given me written directions, which had been extensively revealed, for those who recall.
“He stated that the sit-at-home be cancelled, but it surely persevered. It wasn’t very profitable; I used to be threatened and every kind of issues occurred, and a few folks, lots of people, had been against it, and all that.
“So Mazi Nnamdi Kanu had at all times, not less than from July 2024, virtually two years in the past, or one 12 months and eight or 9 months in the past, been on the document, publicly, that this Monday sit-at-home be discontinued.
“And he additionally was and has at all times been towards any try by any group of individuals to try to implement it.