Labour Party Candidate Condemns Sit-At-Home Order, Says Attackers Want To Jeopardise Obi’s Chances In The Southeast

The Labour Party senatorial candidate for Imo west district for the 2023 general election, Charles Ahize has joined the league of those who have come out to condemn the recent attacks by unknown gunmen enforcing the five days sit-at-home order in the southeast region of the country.

According to him, those sponsoring such acts in the region are considered enemies of the struggle for self-determination, who want to be against the emergence of the Labour Party’s flag bearer, Pater Obi in the region.

Ahize noted that those issuing the order and those enforcing it, are not considering the interest of the people of the region but they only care about their paymasters.

Naija News reports that the Labour Party chieftain, while speaking at his Ideato country home on Tuesday maintained that sponsors of the order were enemies of Ala-Igbo whose aim is to profit from instability and insecurity in the southeast region.

While faulting the recent violent attacks in Urualla and Obodoukwu local communities in Ideato local government area in Imo State, he claimed that the mercenaries were contracted to destabilise the southeast zone of Igbo ethnic extraction and jeopardise the political chances of Obi in next year’s general elections in Nigeria.

Ahize observed that the several attacks from the order was a step to disenfranchise the southeast ahead of the general election.

He submitted that “The undisputed leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has many times said through his lawyers and other approved spokespersons of his organization that he is not in support of any sit-at-home order.

”It is not impossible that those sponsoring these attacks want to systemically disenfranchise the southeast but we must not let them succeed in this game.

“Ndigbo are mostly traders and anyone who tries to stop the Igbo man from opening his shop or selling his goods is the greatest saboteur of Igbo emancipation.

“There cannot be social justice without economic freedom and there cannot be economic freedom while our communities are shut down and businesses are made to shutter by agents of retrogression.

“We must not allow anyone to deceive us. We want justice and we want to progress but we cannot support criminality of any sort.”

While urging the people to go and collect their permanent voter cards (PVC), he said; “I urge you to go get your PVC. Get your PVC and vote for the right candidates. They are trying to frighten you from voting, so that they can continue installing their stooges in different offices, to underdevelop the southeast. Do not allow them to succeed. Go out there and collect your voter cards and make sure you vote right.”