Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, who represents Anambra South in the Senate, has advised a Biafran agitator, Simon Ekpa, to take his sit-at-home protest to his own state of Ebonyi and leave Anambra State out of it.
Despite the mainstream leadership of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, discontinuing the exercise, Ekpa has been a staunch supporter of sit-at-home directives in the South Eastern states.
Senator Ubah expressed security and economic concerns during an Anambra South zone stakeholders meeting, citing the ineffective Monday sit-at-home order and calling for its abolition, beginning with Nnewi.
The Anambra South Senator admonished Ekpa, who he said was doing his work in Finland on Monday, to cease advising a sit-at-home order in Anambra State on Mondays.
Ubah said “I have heard from one Simon Ekpa, this is a warning Simon, for 17 good times you have mentioned Ifeanyi Ubah and I did not reply to you. You have been seeking my attention for 17 good times and I am answering you today, never ever mention Ifeanyi Ubah or Nnewi again.
“Your state Ebonyi is APC state and you have never one day mentioned your state Ebonyi. Ebonyi does not observe sit-at-home, you are in Finland contesting for councillorship or whatever, and you go to your job on Mondays but you want to deprive people because you have communication gadgets, you have the internet to run propaganda.
“I am elected officer of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and I represent the people of Anambra South. To you Simon Ekpa and your co-travellers, for anyone of you to mention sit-at-home again, you will start preaching the sit-at-home from Ebonyi before you continue to mention Anambra State and Enugu.
“I am telling you Simon Ekpa, be careful, I won’t say more than this, you have mentioned me 17 times and I’m going to reply once, Try me you will see.
“Go and observe sit-at-home in Ebonyi and also with your father, your family go and observe sit-at-home in your village and leave Anambra State alone,” Ubah said.
Despite spies’ attempts to influence in their business, the legislator stated that they will stick to their resolution to repeal any sit-at-home directive.
“As a representative of the people of Anambra State, Nnewi North being the political capital of Anambra South, we deem it fit to say we will not continue to sit at home on Mondays.
“From this Monday, every business based in Nnewi will be open for business. We have our men, we have our system – we know saboteurs will come to sabotage what we are doing but we are resolute to fight any aggressor that will come into this town,” Ubah declared.
