The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has claimed that its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, was the reason the general elections slated for today (Saturday) were called off and shifted.
The group claimed the lift of an order for members and South East electorate to boycott the 2019 general election was reason the poll was postponed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
It said the announcement by Kanu reversing the group’s boycott order allegedly threw President Muhammadu Buhari and the cabal in his government into confusion and made it impossible for “Jubril and his handlers to proceed to rig the elections.”
INEC chairman, Professor Mahmood, had few hours before the commencement of the presidential and National Assembly election on Saturday, announced the postponement of the poll to February 23, while the governorship and House of Assembly poll scheduled earlier for March 2, are to hold on March 9.
Reacting in a statement by its spokesman, Emma Powerful, IPOB said, “Events surrounding the postponement of the Nigerian presidential elections previously scheduled for today February 16, 2019 is confirmation that IPOB decision to lift the boycott was a masterstroke that took the cabal by surprise.
“The move by IPOB apex leadership to call off the boycott made it virtually impossible for Jubril and his handlers to proceed to rig the elections on the account that IPOB boycotted the polls.
“ It is now clear for the world to see that some nefarious elements within the corridors of power in Aso Rock wanted so desperately for IPOB to boycott these elections in order to justify their already perfected script that our boycott made it possible for them to emerge victorious. By calling off the boycott, Jubril and his cabal lost the initiative and were headed straight for defeat.
“Our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the prophet of our time, is light years ahead of the intrigues and machinations that characterise politics in Nigeria.
“Had the leadership of our great movement IPOB not called off the boycott, the sham elections would have proceeded as rigged, with a Sudanese impostor Jubril announced as the winner on account that IPOB boycotted the exercise.
