No Elections in Igboland in 2023, Decision Final-IPOB Auto-Pilot Responds to Igbo Think Tank Warnings not to Disrupt Polls

 No Elections in Igboland in 2023, Decision Final-IPOB Auto-Pilot Responds to Igbo Think Tank Warnings not to Disrupt Polls

 

The Auto Pilot branch of IPOB has insisted that its decision on no election in Biafraland is final. This response has been communicated both orally by some of its agents, and by a series of tweets from its leader Simon Ekpa to IGBO Think Tank.

Igbo Think Tank had met with elements of IPOB who were in Abuja over Kanu’s deteriorating health and continued detention on the 29^th of September and discussed several things and the group through its Vice Chairman Board of Trustees, Rev Obinna Akukwe made it clear that disrupting 2023 elections in Igboland is not an option.

 

A press statement was made to that effect on the 29^th day of September, after the Igbo Day Celebrations, and a subsequent on October 3^rd warning IPOB not to disrupt the elections.

Igbo Think Tank Alerts on Possible Disruption of 2023 Polls in Igboland

 

Igbo Think Tank umbrella body of Igbo Professionals, intellectuals and clergy whose aim is to Turn Igboland into Japan of Africa, do hereby by this memo, alerts the Board of Trustees that there is likely going to be a partial disruption of presidential polls in the South East due to the irreconcilable differences between difference camps of secessionist agitations.

 Igbo Think Tank had earlier initiated engagements with elements of the two feuding camps of IPOB, the DoS and the Auto-Pilot in Abuja.

 Recall that the Vice Chairman BoT of ITT, Rev Obinna Akukwe and team of ITT Security and Intelligence Committee engaged elements of the two branches that were in Abuja over the continued detention of Nnamdi KANU and deteriorating health conditions. The IPOB faithful also met some Igbo leaders present during the Igbo Day Celebrations in Abuja.

 Igbo Think Tank engaged elements of two groups on the disruption of Polls in the South East on the 29th of September and issued press releases warning against any disruption of polls in the South East. ITT also promised to align with other peace building agencies viz Igbo Mandate Congress IMC, PANPIEC 2023 Presidency Strategy Team, General Assembly of all Igbo Christian Organizations and Ministers GAAICOM , Veteran Igbo Activists on Peace Mission VIAPM, to step up the political pressure for the release of Nnamdi KANU through the organic links of these bodies.

The Auto-Pilot Group through its leadership Mazi Simon Ekpa responded promptly on the 30th September to Igbo Think Tank Group, that ‘They will not allow elections in Biafraland’.

Nigerian Coalition of Pastors Condemns Endless Sit at Home

 

Speaking at the event, the Enugu State Coordinator of Nigerian Coalition of Pastors for Good Governance NCPGL, Rev Obinna Akukwe said that in the coming weeks it will set up a task force to persuade those behind the endless sit at home to give South East a breather.

The Nigerian Coalition of Pastors for Good Leadership has condemned the endless sit at home embarked upon by Igbos in the South East. They vowed to engage all relevant stakeholders to seek other means of engaging government in grievances without disrupting the system.

This was stated in Enugu on Sunday during the stakeholders parley between the Pastors and various Christian youth groups in New Haven.

Speaking at the event, the Enugu State Coordinator of Nigerian Coalition of Pastors for Good Governance NCPGL, Rev Obinna Akukwe said that in the coming weeks it will set up a task force to persuade those behind the endless sit at home to give South East a breather.

Leah Sharibu,Chibok Girls, Muslim Ticket and Powerless Nigerian Church

 

 

Written by Obinna Akukwe

 

Rev Obinna Akukwe is insisting that he Nigerian Church is powerless. I make no apologies to that, and I prophetically insist that any candidate they endorse in 2023 presidential polls will fail. Presidential candidates who want to win should seek their cooperation NOT endorsement.

 

A church whose Fire Prayers cannot deliver the majority of Chibok Christian Girls from captivity is powerless.

In one of the piece I wrote on the abducted Chibok school girls in 2014 titled ' Boko Haram, Chibok Girls and Jihad of the Penis' I warned that the nation that looked the other way as 276 Chibok Christian Girls are being raped to death by terrorists, will bring a curse on the nation.

 

Igbo Elites Attack Obiora Okonkwo For not Supporting Peter Obi.

Written by Obinna Akukwe

 

 

Igbo elites in Nigeria and Diasporas have unleashed heavy criticisms on Obiora Okonkwo, a former PDP governorship aspirant in Anambra State for declaring open support for Atiu Abubakar instead of Peter Obi.

 

Obiora Okonkwo who lost the PDP governorship primaries in 2021 by four votes to Val Ozigbo, have been abused, insulted, debased and called all sorts of names for daring to openly canvass for Atik Abubakar as his preferred presidential candidate in the South East.

 

Since the plethora of abuses he got on hundreds of whatsappa and facebook platforms, many supporters of Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar have decided to keep their mouth shut, and do their worst few days to the elections.

 

Many prominent supporters of Atiku and Tinubu have told me that they will mobilize for their principals at the last moment because they are not ready to be hushed, abused, insulted and cursed for holding contrary political opinion.

 

Rev Obinna Akukwe is appalled at the level of abuse Igbo elites heaped on Obiora Okonkwo , a former governorship aspirant in PDP for not supporting Peter Obi.

 

Obiora Okonkwo is entitled to his opinion over PDP . This mob mentality has never taken Ndigbo anywhere. Afenifere have abandoned Tinubu for Peter Obi and the Yoruba elite is not crucifying them.

 

Some Muslim leaders have told me they will support Peter Obi and their fellow colleagues are not crucifying them for abandoning Tinubu or Atiku.