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Kingsley34:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBBF2zezF9Q

On February 2, 2026, Onitsha Main Market — one of Nigeria's biggest commercial hubs — officially reopened its gates after a one-week temporary shutdown ordered by Anambra State Governor Charles Soludo.

The closure came as punishment for traders' continued observance of Monday "sit-at-home" orders (linked to regional security and IPOB issues), costing the state billions in lost revenue weekly. Governor Soludo had warned of stricter measures if markets stayed shut on Mondays, but today marks a return to normalcy — with security assurances from the state.

In this exclusive morning footage:
Traders and shoppers gradually returning to shops and stalls

Busy walkways with people carrying goods and opening up for business

Signs of life in the usually packed market sections
Some areas still quieter than usual, showing hesitation from fear or uncertainty
Is this a big win for Soludo against sit-at-home enforcers, or just partial compliance?

I challenge this person to make a video of main market on any other working day and compare it to today's video.

Some mu.mu people are here jubulilating. When Main market opens, you won't even get a space to walk because cars would've blocked all the roads. No vehicular movement as well but see how empty the road is.

Make una no dey mumuni una self. This is not up to a tenth of the market when it is opened

lionphil:
I challenge this person to make a video of main market on any other working day and compare it to today's video.

Some mu.mu people are here jubulilating. When Main market opens, you won't even get a space to walk because cars would've blocked all the roads. No vehicular movement as well but see how empty the road is.

Make una no dey mumuni una self. This is not up to a tenth of the market when it is opened

Why are u angry? after 4 years of sit @ home, na small small that mondays will get back to normal.

OkayDaddy:
Out of cowardice, not reverence.

your condition

Professor Chukwuma Soludo na man you be!!!... Gradually we will get our Monday back[/quote]Oga you lied , inside market didn't open, people are in the market but they didn't open their shop, my plaza young did not open but few people came in

sonofsteven:
This is false.....

The market is locked, I have shop there and none came out

Even the market chairman resigned early hours of today

Oshodi under bridge tout has shop at Onitsha main market?




Tele me somefiiiine

Jerryblaq:
Something tells me they will only observe it for like a month then go back to their default mode.

Monday is for Nnamdi kanu
Nobody can change that until he is released from custody

Insanity; doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome.

Them no achieve anything in 5 years of sit at home na now them want achieve am?

Last last them go dey alright by Koboko or otherwise.

South West propaganda

Armaggedon:
Everywhere is locked in Anambra including Awka that used to have more activities on Monday. Soludo misfired.

You lie,liar.

cremedelacreme:
Let Soludo be deceiving himself. Main market looking this empty on a normal day? I laugh.

You expect the markets to function like normal overnight?

Una agenda no work people are moving and going about their businesses.

Next Monday and the next and next will be better.

NEXT MONDAY AGAIN LOCK DOWN



NIGERIA MUST ALLOW KANU RETURN TO HIS FAMILY

IF SOLUDO WANT SHOP OPEN ON MONDAY




HE WILL HAVE TO GO AND START TRADING AT ONITSHA AND OPEN HIS OWN SHOP THERE

LEADERSHIP NA BY EXAMPLE NOT DICTATOR


HE IS S BEGGAR THAT WAS JOINED APGA CAP IN HAND



APGA PARTY IS FOR REAL LEADERS LIKE OBI

IT IS ALWAYS A SHAME WEN PEOPLE WIYH POTENTIAL ALLOW DEAD WEIGHT DRAG THRM DOWN



ANAMBRA ARE NOT COWED



WE DONT FORGIVE, JUST DONT START WAT U CANNOT FINISH

OBIANO WAS THERE WENT AWAY



U ARE SHINING EYE FOR WHO?



A BEGGAR AND CHARITY CASE WE PITY GIVE GOVERNOR



DO U KNOW HOW MANY TIMES U RAN?



U FOR TRY THIS BEFORE ELECTION AND SEE IF WE WONT THROW APGA OUT VECOS OF U

And who is going to suffer for it, if they continue to sit at home?

Jerryblaq:
Something tells me they will only observe it for like a month then go back to their default mode.

Monday is for Nnamdi kanu
Nobody can change that until he is released from custody

Soludo is just wasting his time

That Monday sit at home has come to stay in igboland

I don't even think the release of Maazị Kanu will end it

Because so many of our people have come to realize that Mondays is a very important resting day now

Thundafireseun:
Everything is not brute force

Customers won’t even come out to buy anything on Mondays ….

Police protection is not enough to protect both the customers and the sellers… that is the bitter truth

Once people know market is open theyll plan accordingly

Kingsley34:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBBF2zezF9Q

On February 2, 2026, Onitsha Main Market — one of Nigeria's biggest commercial hubs — officially reopened its gates after a one-week temporary shutdown ordered by Anambra State Governor Charles Soludo.

The closure came as punishment for traders' continued observance of Monday "sit-at-home" orders (linked to regional security and IPOB issues), costing the state billions in lost revenue weekly. Governor Soludo had warned of stricter measures if markets stayed shut on Mondays, but today marks a return to normalcy — with security assurances from the state.

In this exclusive morning footage:
Traders and shoppers gradually returning to shops and stalls

Busy walkways with people carrying goods and opening up for business

Signs of life in the usually packed market sections
Some areas still quieter than usual, showing hesitation from fear or uncertainty
Is this a big win for Soludo against sit-at-home enforcers, or just partial compliance?

Is it in south east they jailed him,
At everyone tried for his release,they refused.
Continuous sit at home won't make them release him,is a gradual process.
It is dialogue and diplomacy that will lead to his release, maybe is the sit at home that kept him in cell.
Look at how Nigeria is and we are doing sit at home,
Please,pity for your Igbo brothers and sisters.
I know people that relocated because of sit at home.
Let us show good moral.

Other states are turning to Dubai and China, South East is busy doing sit at home,hope our head is correct?
When are we going to have sense?
Instead of planning how to turn southeast to America,they are busy sitting at home,

Be wise,illiteracy is bad.
The cause of all these is lack of education.
Stop destroying south east,

Okoroawusa:
Professor Chukwuma Soludo na man you be!!!... Gradually we will get our Monday back

Hahahahaha... Check pictures, people didn't open.

Thundafireseun:
Everything is not brute force

Customers won’t even come out to buy anything on Mondays ….

Police protection is not enough to protect both the customers and the sellers… that is the bitter truth

we don't care if we sell or not.the message is simple we will no longer succumb to fear and threats by failed and lazy men in the bush that don't want to do anything in their life using biafra struggle to cover their laziness and drug addiction. Enough is enough we will only observe sit at home on 30th may like before

lionphil:
I challenge this person to make a video of main market on any other working day and compare it to today's video.

Some mu.mu people are here jubulilating. When Main market opens, you won't even get a space to walk because cars would've blocked all the roads. No vehicular movement as well but see how empty the road is.

Make una no dey mumuni una self. This is not up to a tenth of the market when it is opened

Thundafireseun:
Everything is not brute force

Customers won’t even come out to buy anything on Mondays ….

Police protection is not enough to protect both the customers and the sellers… that is the bitter truth

gennny:
Hahahahaha... Check pictures, people didn't open.

It was still early morning. Compare to before - nobody dared come out before
Besides, as time goes on don't you think the crowd will get bigger and bigger every Monday?

Switruth:
Lol. You don go onitsha market before ? That place look like open market for your eye?

dem open abi dey no open ?

When markets remain open on Mondays consistently, customers will know that they can get to buy stuffs on Mondays.

QuinQ:
It was still early morning. Compare to before - nobody dared come out before
Besides, as time goes on don't you think the crowd will get bigger and bigger every Monday?

No! People go there businesses with issues, but today those who open before, didn't try it today for the sake of their life.

PDPdestroyer:
Soludo should be ready for more shutdowns because the mother of all sit-at-homes will be declared when Obi loses to Tinubu in 2027. This time around, we will open only once in a week till our stolen mandate is returned

If you like make una no open at all.. una loss

gennny:
No! People go there businesses with issues, but today those who open before, didn't try it today for the sake of their life.

All I know is, I no see anyone shouting "show me the law!" and "hooly..."

Burob:
Why are u angry? after 4 years of sit @ home, na small small that mondays will get back to normal.

I've never been a fan of sit at home except if it is for the sole purpose of getting the world to understand that Nnamdi Kanu being behind bars is simply political. If the people have embraced a Monday sit at home, the governor doesn't have a right to lock up their shops. They aren't his government workers which he pays through funds from this market. These marketers pay other dues and levies to the government. They can choose to stay at home if they want.

Meanwhile, what's the essence of opening on Monday and customers refuse to come out? Will he force them to come out as well?
The huge investors in the market are mainly from other geopolitical zones like the North and south west. When the shops open, how will they come down to Onitsha? Will they fly? Many have lost their trucks and tankers to this sit at home. Do you really think they will be willing to risk it?

Why didn't he leave the security people there to protect the traders every monday? Even the security guys are scared for their lives. They always avoid the highway on Mondays. You only see very few army guys on the road, police is never around. Is it that same police that will protect the people?

You need to stay in the east on Mondays to understand. If they people have embraced it, then let them be. Other major markets in Onitsha refuse to open as well.

Soludo should leave half his convoy at Awka before coming down let us know if he won't be jittery.

The same soludo went to an even and noticed a funny movement, he immediately thought it was unknown gun men and was already making a run for it. We should stop acting like we have 2 lives at home just to prove a point.

The citizens have spoken, they want to keep staying at home so let them be. He was trying to cover shame by claiming he loved the turn out. If he truly loved the turn out then why does the want to demolish 10,000 shops?

Not everything is done with force, last week the Onitsha head bridge was blocked and a riot almost started. If he had locked the shop for one extra week, he would've seen what his eyes have never seen before, that's why he decided to open the market.

Thundafireseun:
Lets all watch out and see how far his funny force goes….

Banks don’t even open on Mondays are you aware??

You didn't answer my question. Stop sympathizing with. terrorists if you are not one of them, pls

Stolen:
NEXT MONDAY AGAIN LOCK DOWN



NIGERIA MUST ALLOW KANU RETURN TO HIS FAMILY

Why only Monday? Let's lock up the market for a month I think by then Nigeria will allow Kanu return to his family.

lionphil:
I've never been a fan of sit at home except if it is for the sole purpose of getting the world to understand that Nnamdi Kanu being behind bars is simply political. If the people have embraced a Monday sit at home, the governor doesn't have a right to lock up their shops. They aren't his government workers which he pays through funds from this market. These marketers pay other dues and levies to the government. They can choose to stay at home if they want.

Meanwhile, what's the essence of opening on Monday and customers refuse to come out? Will he force them to come out as well?
The huge investors in the market are mainly from other geopolitical zones like the North and south west. When the shops open, how will they come down to Onitsha? Will they fly? Many have lost their trucks and tankers to this sit at home. Do you really think they will be willing to risk it?

Why didn't he leave the security people there to protect the traders every monday? Even the security guys are scared for their lives. They always avoid the highway on Mondays. You only see very few army guys on the road, police is never around. Is it that same police that will protect the people?

You need to stay in the east on Mondays to understand. If they people have embraced it, then let them be. Other major markets in Onitsha refuse to open as well.

Soludo should leave half his convoy at Awka before coming down let us know if he won't be jittery.

The same soludo went to an even and noticed a funny movement, he immediately thought it was unknown gun men and was already making a run for it. We should stop acting like we have 2 lives at home just to prove a point.

The citizens have spoken, they want to keep staying at home so let them be. He was trying to cover shame by claiming he loved the turn out. If he truly loved the turn out then why does the want to demolish 10,000 shops?

Not everything is done with force, last week the Onitsha head bridge was blocked and a riot almost started. If he had locked the shop for one extra week, he would've seen what his eyes have never seen before, that's why he decided to open the market.

You have not been a fan of sit at home yet you wrote an epistle to support it....🤣