The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has declared Monday, February 2 as lockdown in all the five states of South-East in solidarity with Onitsha traders.
This appears to be an attempt to defy Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s directive that traders in Anambra State resume regular Monday trading operations.
Emma Powerful, the organization’s media and publicity secretary, made the remark.
It stated that the sit-at-home protest on February 2, 2026, was a direct, nonviolent, and coordinated reaction to Governor Soludo’s oppressive acts.
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“The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. under the leadership of our leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, hereby declares a Biafra-wide solidarity strike, a complete lockdown of all economic activities across Igboland and wider Biafran territories, on Monday, February 2, 2026.
“This total shutdown across Biafraland is a direct, peaceful, and unified response to the tyrannical actions of Anambra State Governor, Charles Soludo, who has shut down the Onitsha Main Market for one week and threatened further month-long closures, revocation of land ownership, demolition, and punitive repurposing if traders continue their legitimate observance of Monday sit-at-home in solidarity with our unjustly imprisoned leader,” the statement read in part.
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