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Onitsha Market Closure: Nnamdi Kanu Stands With the Oppressed Traders.”—IPOB
INTERNAL MEMORANDUM TO ALL IPOB FAMILY MEMBERS
DATE: 31ST JANUARY 2026.
THE CHAIN OF COMMAND IN IPOB IS NOT A RECENT INVENTION. IT IS AS OLD AS THE MOVEMENT ITSELF-(IPOB) .
Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu deliberately created structured departments to manage the affairs of IPOB in moments exactly like this. His word is final. What he says is law within IPOB. Anyone struggling with this basic fact is either new to the struggle or fundamentally undisciplined.
The Directorate of Media & Publicity predates all Directorates except Finance. If you do not understand this, then you lack historical grounding in IPOB. No newspaper, media house, or international platform publishes anything concerning IPOB without passing through the office of the Spokesperson. That is not arrogance; that is structure.
As Spokesperson of IPOB, my duty is simple and clear:
To communicate to the world the direction set by our leader.
To help secure the release of our leader while keeping the movement resolute, disciplined, and uncontaminated in the collective effort to restore Biafra.
IPOB is led by Onyendu as long as he lives. He appointed members of the Directorate of State (DOS) while in DSS custody, acting through his then-lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, who has nothing to do with Onyendu or IPOB except personal legal representation for individuals within the movement. If Onyendu could appoint officers from detention, it means his directives are supreme and not subject to debate or query. He made this position clear to Asia Rep. that visited him last week on behalf of DOS. So there is no confusion whatsoever.
Only one person appoints or removes anyone in IPOB—our leader. No committee, no platform, no noise on social media alters this reality.
The sit-at-home scheduled for Monday, February 2, is a one-off action in direct response to Governor Soludo’s reckless intimidation of our people for showing solidarity with Onyendu. It is not open to speculation, reinterpretation, or distortion.
Let it also be clearly understood that those claiming to be from DOS that held a secret meeting with representatives of Governor Soludo on Thursday, claiming to speak in the name of our leader and allegedly assuring him that IPOB would not oppose the intimidation and humiliation of our businessmen and women at Onitsha Main Market, are gravely mistaken. They neither represent Onyendu nor understand him. Our leader has always stood—and will always stand—with the oppressed masses, not with their tormentors. No private meeting, inducement, or cowardly compromise can rewrite that truth.
Anyone genuinely confused should go to Sokoto and seek clarification from our leader—not engage in idle gossip or internal sabotage online.
Those hoping we will forget Onyendu and start chasing shadows are deluding themselves. He founded IPOB. He called us into this struggle. We remain bound to his vision and his instructions.
If you are unwilling to follow what Onyendu wants, then form your own group and stop yapping on social media under the IPOB name.
For the avoidance of doubt:
The press statement concerning Monday’s sit-at-home was issued by me and by nobody else.
COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL SPOKESPERSON, MEDA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF BIAFRA IPOB
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