APGA chieftain warns IPOB over Anambra polls

An All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) Chieftain, Chief Onwuka Ukwa, has added his voice to the list of Nigerians urging the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to backdown on its threats to scuttle the Anambra state gubernatorial elections.

Ukwa made the call at a stakeholders’ forum in Oba, near Onitsha, on Friday.

It would be recalled that the pro- Biafran group, IPOB, had threatened that it would ensure that the Nov.18 governorship election in Anambra does not see the light of the day.

Ukwa said that such threat was “expensive’’ and could truncate democracy in the state.

He cautioned that such situation must be avoided and urged the pro-Biafra group to allow the Anambra election to progress unhindered.

According to him, the ugly experience of last census in 2006 was still being suffered by the people of the South-East when there was such call by MASSOB.

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“We should preach against anything that will stop election holding in Anambra on Nov. 18.

“We should not allow the Federal Government to impose a military administrator on Anambra when other states in the country are enjoying democratically-elected government.

“I know we are annoyed about the happenings in Igboland, but I beg you to allow the Nov. 18 election in Anambra as well as work together for a better region.

“If there is no election in Anambra, who is at a loss – the Igbos or Yorubas or Hausas? We should be wise,” he said.

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