Gani Adams warns Simon Ekpa over instructions on sit-at-home for igbos in Lagos

The Aare Onakakanfo of Yoruba land, Otunba Gani Adams, has dared the self-proclaimed Prime Minister of Biafran Republic Government In Exile, Simon Ekpa, to declare a two-week sit-at-home in Lagos.

The Finland-based Ekpa, a factional leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), had in a statement on Thursday, said a two-week sit-at-home would be imposed in Lagos at the end of the one he ordered in the South-East which, is scheduled to commence on July 31as part of actions to demand the release of IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu.

But while reacting to the threat through a statement on Saturday, the former leader of the O’odua Peoples’ Congress (OPC), advised the fugitive Ekpa to perish sthe thought, warning that he would be “repeating the mistake of the 1970s.”

Adams warned that as the South-West is not part of the Biafra Republic, Ekpa’s order would be resisted by the Yoruba.

He added that it is preposterous for “outsiders to dictate or impose their agenda on people of other regions, who they cohabit with as residents.”

“I can’t go to the South-East now and say I want to decide for the people of that region. So, it is not possible to import the South-East agenda into Yorubaland. It would be counter-productive. We advise him (Ekpa) to drop that idea,” he said in the statement.

“He should not try that. The South-West is not Biafra Republic. Any attempt to impose the Biafra Republic agenda will be resisted. He should desist from repeating the mistake of the 1970s. He should be very, very careful.

“They are entitled to their opinion, but South-West is not their Biafran region. He should be very, very careful,” Adams warned.

The sit-at-home order, which has been forced on the South East region in the last three years, has taken severe toll on the socio-economic life of the residents.

Although the governments of the South Eastern states have severally countered such order, which takes effect every Monday, the security forces have recently vowed to crush the enforcers, some of whom have either been killed in gun duels, arrested and taken into custody.

Indeed governments of the South Eastern states have urged the residents to go about their legitimate shores, and ignore the illegal order.