IPOB Warns INEC, Staff, Ad-hoc Staff Against Rigging Imo Elections

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) warned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) against any attempt to rig the governorship election in Imo State.

The IPOB also warned that any INEC ad-hoc staff using their position to undermine the will of the people in Imo in favor of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) will face consequences, even after the November 11, 2023, elections.

A statement by IPOB Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful entitled: “Any INEC staff that rigs Imo State governorship election will receive it hot” equally warned INEC staff and non-staff that if they know they cannot resist bribes and intimidation from APC, it is better to back off to avoid regrets.

IPoB statement read, “We the global movement and family of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPoB, ably led by our great leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, wish to reiterate once again that any INEC staff or ad-hoc staff that uses his or her desk to subvert the will of the people of Imo State in the name of working for APC and will receive it hot even after the elections on the 11th November 2023.

“If you knew you could not resist bribes and intimidation from APC, it’s better to back off to avoid had I known. Any INEC Adhoc staff, SPO, PO, and NYSC member who will be used by APC agents to falsify results or try to transmit fake results from the polling units will be doing so at his or her own risk. The same goes for the political thugs working for and as agents for APC to rig the Ilo election should be ready for what will befall them even after the election.

“We IPoB wish to reiterate our stand towards free and fairness in the election because nobody wants to witness the atrocities that have happened in Imo State in the last four years to continue. The will of the people of Imo State must not be subverted this time and those who have been contracted to subvert the will of the people must be ready to face the consequences.

“All those employed and drafted to various polling units to help rig the election will be doing so to their own and family risk; their families must call them to order or they all will sorely regret having participated in this election. Anyone that enthroned evil on the people deserves no mercy. IPoB eyes are at every corner of the state, monitoring the activities of political jobbers and criminals.

“Hotel owners, we must warn again, should not collude with APC in their desperate moves to force themself on Imo people that rejected them in the first election, before the vulcanized Supreme Court forced APC and their candidate on Ndimo.

“A party that has committed so many atrocities in the state will not be accepted by Imolites. They won’t rejoice to see them take over the state anymore. Every Imo State Indigene and those living in the state will suffer should those barbarians in government continue. APC should go with their evil achievements so far. Imo people don’t want APC extension in the state.”

Kanyi Daily recalls that the Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Alhaji Atiku Bagudu, had announced an allocation of N18 billion to support the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in facilitating the elections in Bayelsa, Kogi, and Imo states.