After some two years in detention by the Federal Government, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, was released on stringent bail conditions by the Federal High Court in Abuja. Two of the bail conditions were that he was not to be seen in public gatherings of more than 10 people; and he was not to grant media interviews. However, as soon as Kanu got to his home in Umuahia, Abia state, he began to grant interviews to foreign and local media, and also hosted large gatherings of IPOB members who came calling at his home. His house became a sort of Mecca to IPOB members who camped within and outside the compound walls, violating all the bail conditions that he agreed to.

Emboldened by the states’ perceived inability to try him in court and remand him for violating his bail conditions, Mr. Kanu decided to up the ante. Following the perceived success of a work boycott on May 30 – Biafra Heroes Day commemorating those who died on the Biafran side during the Nigerian civil war, Mr. Kanu and his group declared that there would be no elections in Anambra state, on November 18. That is this Saturday.

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