Anambra Guber: IPOB members chase Peter Obi, Abaripe, other PDP leaders from campaign ground [VIDEO]

Nine days to the Anambra governorship election, scores of members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) reportedly harassed and ‘chased’ the former Governor of the state, Peter Obi, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, and other members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during a political campaign at Onitsha South.

It was gathered that Peter Obi, a vice-presidential candidate of the PDP in the 2019 general elections, and other ranking members of the opposition party had visited the ‘Ogbo Ogu’ market in Onitsha South to campaign for the party’s candidate in the forthcoming November 6 governorship election, Valentine Ozigbo, when the IPOB members struck.

In a video obtained by Newsflash Nigeria, the PDP members were stopped from holding a campaign rally at the head medicine market, popularly known as Ogbo Ogwu Onitsha.

They had visited the market to hold their campaign ahead of the November 6 governorship election in the state.

Rather than being welcomed, the politicians were disgraced and booed off by the traders who were heard saying there would be no campaign in the market.

In the video, the traders were seen singing in support of the detained leader of IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu.

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They were heard chanting, “Holy, Holy, Nnamdi Kanu is another saviour.”

The Federal government had in June announced Kanu’s arrest and extradition from Kenya to continue to face trial in Nigeria.

He is facing charges bordering on treasonable felony instituted against him at the court in response to years of the campaign for the independent Republic of Biafra through IPOB.

The IPOB leader was granted bail in April 2017 for health reasons but fled the country after his house in Abia State was attacked by the military.

The IPOB has constantly threatened that ‘no elections’ will hold in the Anambra State as the group called on the residents of the state to abandon the governorship election.

Watch the video here:

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