The Lower Niger Congress (LNC), comprising agitators in the South East and South South, has threatened to boycott the 2019 general elections if Biafra Republic is not realised.

It was reliably gathered that in the last couple of weeks, the Igbo in Asaba, Ibusa and other parts of the Delta State have been meeting with a view to perfecting the plot. A top member of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Tony Okonkwo, told our reporter in Asaba: “We will not participate in the 2019 general elections unless we achieve our Biafra State. We will resist the polls. Nigeria, as a country, is sick. We are not going to take laws into our hands but we will call the bluff of the election.”

The Secretary-General of the LNC, Tony Nnadi, had also reiterated the same stance at the recent World Igbo Congress in Enugu where he maintained that Ndigbo’s participation in the upcoming polls would further enslave them.

“We are not talking about boycott. We are going to prevent the preparation towards any further election under the 1999 Constitution. We must now go for a referendum,” he stated.

•Excerpted from a Guardian report.