IPOB Cancels Monday Sit at Home in Southeast as Nnamdi Kanu Orders Full Return to Normal Activities
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has officially announced the total and permanent cancellation of the Monday sit at home in Southeast.
The directive takes effect immediately on Monday, February 9, 2026. The group said the decision came directly from its supreme leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, and was confirmed in a statement released on Sunday by Emma Powerful, IPOB spokesperson.
According to the statement, “The Monday sit at home across the Southeast is officially and permanently cancelled with effect from tomorrow, Monday, February 9, 2026.”
IPOB explained that Nnamdi Kanu made the move to ensure that normal life returns to the region and that residents can go about their daily activities without fear.
The group said Kanu had “once again staked everything on the line to ensure that our children return to school every Monday and that our people go about their lawful businesses without fear, intimidation, or molestation.”
It added, “Any person in doubt should visit Sokoto Correctional Centre to confirm with him. We can no longer hide under ‘Onyendu cannot be reached to confirm’ to persist with our recalcitrance or docility. Monday sit at home is over. That era is gone!”
Emphasizing the end of the Monday sit at home in the Southeast, IPOB directed that all markets, schools, offices, transport services, and economic activities must resume fully and normally. Describing the order as final, the group said, “This is the clear and unequivocal order of the Supreme Leader of IPOB.”
IPOB also warned that any person or group attempting to enforce sit at home going forward is acting against Nnamdi Kanu’s direct command. “Such persons are enemies of our people and the Biafran cause. They will be pursued to the ends of the earth and confronted until they are completely defeated,” the statement added.
The group further claimed that enemies of Biafra may attempt false flag operations to create fear or intimidate residents into staying indoors, stressing that anyone identified as enforcing the sit at home will be confronted. Residents of the Southeast were urged to remain vigilant, calm, and law-abiding as the Monday sit at home in the Southeast comes to an end.
However, IPOB further cautioned the Southeast state governments against taking action against traders who may still choose to stay at home, saying, “No state governor has the right to threaten, demolish, or forcibly shut down the businesses of traders who, out of conscience, choose to sit at home in solidarity with our leader.”
It specifically warned that “any attempt by Governor Soludo or any other governor to intimidate our people with demolition threats or forced market closures will be firmly resisted.”
On market development projects, IPOB stated that any renovation or reconstruction involving temporary relocation must be done with the consent of all stakeholders and with adequate temporary trading sites provided. Calling for unity, the group said, “Our enemies have in the past succeeded in instigating crises and planting seeds of discord among our people. We must not allow them to succeed again. We are one people, united by a common destiny.”
Reiterating the cancellation of the Monday sit at home in the Southeast, IPOB urged residents to resume normal activities, saying, “We therefore call on all our people across the Southeast to come out tomorrow, open their shops, go to work, and send their children to school without fear. The era of Monday sit at home in southeast is over”
Earlier, a viral video featuring an IPOB group led by Igwe Butuzo and Gentle De Yahoo also announced the cancellation. “As the information reaching my table to inform Biafrans, an order from the highest command of the Biafran restoration movement, Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi, has reached us that the Monday sit at home is cancelled from today,” the group said.
Reacting to the development, Aloy Ejimakor, legal consultant to Nnamdi Kanu, disclosed that Kanu had called for the discontinuation of the civil disobedience as far back as 2024.
“So Mazi Nnamdi Kanu had always, at least from July 2024, almost two years ago, or one year and eight or nine months ago, been on the record, publicly, that this Monday sit at home be discontinued,” Ejimakor said, adding that Kanu has consistently opposed any attempt by individuals or groups to enforce it.
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