The move comes as a response to Anambra State Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s directive for traders to resume business on Mondays. IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, said the sit-at-home will be peaceful
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has announced a lockdown across all five South-East states on Monday, February 2, 2026, in solidarity with Onitsha traders.
The move comes as a response to Anambra State Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s directive for traders to resume business on Mondays. IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, said the sit-at-home will be peaceful.
“The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, under the leadership of our leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, hereby declares a Biafra-wide solidarity strike, a complete lockdown of all economic activities across Igboland and wider Biafran territories, on Monday, February 2, 2026,” the statement read.
It added, “This total shutdown across Biafraland is a direct, peaceful, and unified response to the tyrannical actions of Anambra State Governor, Charles Soludo, who has shut down the Onitsha Main Market for one week and threatened further month-long closures, revocation of land ownership, demolition, and punitive repurposing if traders continue their legitimate observance of Monday sit-at-home in solidarity with our unjustly imprisoned leader.”
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