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On Tuesday, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) revealed details about the sit-at-home order they announced for Monday, February 2, 2026, to express solidarity with Onitsha Main Market traders in Anambra State after Governor Chukwuma Soludo closed their shops.

The group announced through its spokesperson, Emma Powerful, that the government’s use of “propaganda and deception” did not succeed in concealing the fact that there was total adherence to the sit-at-home order in Anambra.

In a similar manner, IPOB clarified that its resistance to Soludo’s decision to close Onitsha Main Market and his ensuing threats to demolish shops stemmed from the necessity of preventing the governor from suggesting that Igbo businesses, homes, and other properties outside of Igboland can be destroyed without repercussions.

IPOB provided the following explanation for its declaration of a sit-at-home on February 2, despite leader Nnamdi Kanu’s termination of enforcement: “To allow Governor Soludo to intimidate our people into submission would set a dangerous precedent. It would signal to states outside Biafraland that Igbo homes and businesses can be destroyed at will and without consequences—as has repeatedly happened in Lagos and Abuja over the years. That is the clear implication of the threats now being issued against Onitsha traders.

“This is precisely what IPOB stands against. It must be remembered that our leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, ended enforced sit-at-home many years ago; what is being defended today is not coercion, but dignity, solidarity, and the right of our people to resist intimidation.

“The message from the people of Biafra is clear and unmistakable: intimidation has lost its power. Unity defeated propaganda.”

The statement titled ‘Lies, propaganda and the failure of deception in Onitsha’ observed that the government tried to minimize the perceived success of the sit-at-home on February 2.

The statement added, “The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) notes with deep concern that our people have entered an era where lies are deliberately manufactured and aggressively sold as truth by a compromised propaganda machinery. Biafrans must be prepared to confront this dangerous deception with clarity, courage, and collective resolve.

“Throughout the early hours of yesterday (Monday, February 2, 2026), there was total compliance with the sit-at-home order issued in solidarity with traders of Onitsha Main Market and other markets across the South-East. The markets were shut. The streets were empty. This reality was visible across Biafraland and beyond.

“The compliance was so total that even Soludo’s own local government area, Aguata, was under lockdown. Government House, Awka, was shut. No schools opened. No banks functioned. Government parastatals were deserted. Yet, in a desperate bid to manufacture a false narrative, a few rented security men and a handful of APGA party chairmen were hastily assembled to pose for BBC cameras—standing beneath visibly locked shops in an otherwise deserted market. This was not reporting; it was blatant deception.

“Once the scale of compliance became undeniable, a well-oiled and heavily financed propaganda network swung into action. Platforms that had earlier shown deserted markets suddenly reversed themselves, falsely claiming that shops were open. In Nigeria today, lies are elevated to truth, while truth is deliberately suppressed.

“Yesterday exposed this deception. If, as falsely claimed, the markets were opened, why did Governor Soludo threaten to demolish 10,000 shops? They could not keep their own script straight. On one hand, they denied what the eyes could plainly see; on the other, they threatened punishment for an alleged failure to open shops.”

The pro-Biafra group emphasized its fearlessness in facing any reality, asserting that truth will triumph over propaganda and that a united people cannot be silenced by intimidation.

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