Oyogist.com has learned that the Indigenous People Of Biafra(IPOB) have declared sit-at-home protest on Thursday in Imo state.
The sit-at-home scheduled on Thursday is coming on the day President Muhammadu Buhari is supposed to visit the State.
IPOB in a broadcast on Monday evening declared Thursday as a Sit-at-home protest over the president’s visit.
One of the IPOB executives, Mazi Chika Edoziem, stated this on Monday.
IPOB declared that Nigeria’s president is not “welcomed into Imo State, Biafra Land on Thursday, September 9, 2021.”
According to him, “all the traditional rulers, all ndi iche and every Biafran should stay away from any ceremony organised by Hope Uzodimma to welcome him.”
IPOB equally declared total lock down of Biafra on that day.
The Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, disclosed that President Buhari would visit the state on Thursday. The governor had made the disclosure at the Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport in Owerri.
Uzodinma had stated that his trip to Abuja was to “address some political matters and some critical issues.”
Uzodinma had announced that the President would commission “significant projects” while in Imo.
