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<\/p>\nNnebe, who represents Awka North\/South Constituency in the House of Representatives, spoke on Monday with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja.<\/p>\n
NAN reports that Kanu had called on Ndigbo to boycott the 2019 general elections.<\/p>\n
In a live Facebook broadcast aired by Radio Biafra, Kanu said, \u201cYou own the power, you take it back.<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2019You can boycott the election and decide what you want. Stand your ground, cripple the 2019 elections and see the effects in your life.\u201d<\/p>\n
The lawmaker, who is also the Deputy Chairman, House Committee on Sports, said the leaders and elders in the South-East region would not relent in persuading the youth on the need to actively participate in the elections.<\/p>\n
\u2018\u20192019 election is far ahead and the truth of the matter is that the elders would be talking to our young men to see the need for us to actually get involved in the election,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He said members of the National Assembly from the region too, would do their best to ensure that the aggrieved youth had a change of mind.<\/p>\n
According to him, it will impact negatively on the South-East if for any reason, people got involved in boycotting the election.<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2019Boycott for who? I don\u2019t think such advice will ever have effect. I believe the elders will discuss with them; let them see reasons because there are so many ways of agitating.<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2019You don\u2019t shoot yourself in the foot to make a point,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Nnebe expressed optimism that the issue would be resolved before the elections.<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2019It will be resolved. You know these IPOB people are our people.<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2019They are youth and you know about youthful exuberance, but the elders will be there to checkmate them by advising them and preaching caution.<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2019There won\u2019t be any problem; those people will see reason,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Also speaking, Rep Emmanuel Orker-Jev (PDP-Benue) said since the issue of security is everybody\u2019s business, all Nigerians must work with the Federal Government toward ensuring peaceful polls in the country.<\/p>\n
Orker-Jev, who represents Buruku Federal Constituency of Benue, said: \u201cI have read that some leaders in the South-East are rebuffing what Kanu was purported to have said.<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2019So let\u2019s see how the leaders from the South-East themselves respond to that because security is not just about what the government or those in government can do.<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2019It is a responsibility of all of us, including the community leaders, religious leaders, social leaders, etc. It is the entire responsibility of everybody.<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2019And as far as we are concerned, Nigeria has a lot of issues, a lot of problems, but we are one country, one indivisible country and that is the way I look at it now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rep. Anayo Nnebe (PDP-Anambra), has dismissed the call by leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, on the people of the South East to boycott the 2019 general elections. Nnebe, who represents Awka North\/South Constituency in the House of Representatives, spoke on Monday with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[4149,518],"class_list":["post-60808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-2019-election","tag-nnamdi-kanu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}