IPOB should use ANAMBRA as a referendum. This practice is not new. Every election is seen as a referendum on the popularity of the Parties and issues in the election. The ANAMBRA election will be a referendum on acceptance or rejection of the Nigerian Federal constitution. Not necessarily every thing in it. just the essential principle of indissolubility and peaceful coexistence of the people thereof.

what should IPOB do?
1. It may simply issue directive that Igbos should not participate in the election as a sign of rejecting the Federal constitution and all it represents forever. If IPOB achieve this without threatening or actually preventing Igbos from voting then it would have a cast iron evidence for the whole world that Igbos are essentially unanimous in leaving the Nigerian Federation.
2. IPOB on the other hand may field candidates for the election who will assume office for one thing and no other advocate for self determination just like the nationalists before independence. This approach is more legally purposive and it a mark of democratic civilization that the whole world can relate with.
3. IPOB may follow a known pattern of willful resistance of constituted authority. This has dire penal consequence under Nigerian laws. But the law does not prohibit offences acts it only spells out the consequence of offences. The law does not "say do not engage in breach public peace" rather it says
This is an example of a provision on breach of public peace
the Peace
see. Criminal Code Act
Chapter C39
Laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 2004
69. When three or more persons, with intent to Carry out some Common purpose, assemble in such a
manner or, being assembled, conduct themselves in such a manner, as to cause persons in the
neighbourhood to fear on reasonable grounds that the persons so assembled will tumultuously
disturb the peace, or will by such assembly needlessly and without any reasonable occasion
provoke other persons tumultuously to disturb the peace, they are an unlawful assembly.
It is immaterial that the original assembling was lawful if, being assembled, they conduct
themselves with a common purpose in such a manner as aforesaid.
An assembly of three or more persons who assemble for the purpose of protecting any house
against persons threatening to break and enter the house in order to commit a felony or
misdemeanour therein is not an unlawful assembly.
When an unlawful assembly has begun to act in so tumultuous a manner as to disturb the peace,
the assembly is called a riot, and the persons assembled are said to be riotously assembled.
70. Any person who takes part in an unlawful assembly is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to
imprisonment for one year.
71. Any person who takes part in a riot is guilty of a felony, and is liable to imprisonment for three
years.

The law of course is an ass. For some socio-political some laws under some circumstances are more honoured in breach than in observance. What we know in practice however is that the State frequently apply its laws as necessity requires and laws serve as reference point in relating with "a person of interest"

Make no mistake about it money will be made by one or more parties in any of the three options above. Money are made through security vote, compromise, mobilization, propaganda, conflict resolution or prosecution. Any party who wishes to participate in one way or the other should be sure that even if he would not get a dime, no one one should become richer at his own expense.

Nsala day loading

Don't mind those cowards!


When their poliTHIEFcians will flaunt a thousand naira note and a little sachet of rice, they will all run out and queue up to vote.



In fact election has already taken place. INEC is collating the election results.

Anambra cannot be seen as a referendum on Biafra, Anambra is just one state. The referendum on Biafra was on the 30th when the entire SE and parts of the SS was shut down

Hopefully, the Anambra election boycott, if sucessful, will be the start of a political revolution

The shut down of SE is a sign of widespread acknowledgment of IPOB for good or ill. There is no democratic yardstick to gauge the level of voluntary submission to the directives of IPOB. Even armed robbers can lock down a neighbourhood with a one paragraph letter. A bunch of terrorists can order a whole state to stay indoors in preparation for liberation.

Election gives people the free wil to vote or not to vote. to accept cash in exchange for vote and damn the outcome of the election. If IPOB is not amenable to democratic process then it's claim to liberation is as good a mask of tortoise on a pile of vipers