Buhari is not welcome in Biafra land, according to the IPOB.
As President Muhammadu Buhari visits the southern state of Imo today, Thursday, September 9, 2021, the police are advising troublemakers and members of the proscribed Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) against fomenting unrest of any form.
In an apparent show of force and protest, IPOB has issued a sit-at-home order in Imo and other Igbo-speaking states as the president comes.
"Buhari is not welcome in Biafraland," one IPOB member warned, ahead of the president's visit.
Director of State for IPOB, Chika Edoziem, re-echoed those remarks when he said: “Buhari is not welcome to Imo on Thursday, September 9, 2021. There will be total lockdown of Biafraland."
During the president's visit, however, Mike Abattam, the Imo police spokesperson, cautions that troublemakers would be put in their place.
“The security arrangements are perfect; the arrangements are maximum. As usual, we prepared to secure lives and property of the people of the state.
"We have informed troublemakers to vacate the state because we will deal ruthlessly with anybody who disturbs the peace of the state today and going forward," Abattam tells Punch.
The Imo State Government claims that the president's visit will benefit the state's citizens and will "advance the socio-economic well-being of the people, state, and overall geopolitical zone."
While in Imo, President Muhammadu Buhari will lay the foundation for a few projects. He'll be gone in a matter of seconds.