The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has ordered a total end to the weekly Monday sit-at-home in the South-East.

According to a statement on Sunday by IPOB spokesperson, Emma Powerful, the directive is effective Monday, February 9, 2026.

According to Powerful, all normal economic activities should resume tomorrow, adding that schools, workplaces, and markets should open without fear or intimidation.

According to the IPOB’s spokesperson, any attempt to enforce the sit-at-home going forward, would be considered opposition to Kanu’s orders and the Biafran cause.

“All markets, schools, offices, transport services, and economic activities must resume fully and normally from tomorrow. The era of Monday sit-at-home is over,” the statement read.

The pro-Biafra group also warned that no state governor has the authority to threaten or forcibly shut down the businesses of traders who may choose to observe personal discretion.

While urging citizens to remain vigilant, calm, and law-abiding, the statement stressed that any market renovations or relocations must involve stakeholder consent and provision of temporary trading sites before work begins.

Meanwhile, a legal consultant to the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, Aloy Ejimakor, has criticised calls urging a chieftain of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Peter Obi, to abandon his 2027 presidential ambition.

Ejimakor described such appeals as “cowardly and duplicitous,” insisting that claims about President Bola Tinubu’s alleged control of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and security agencies should not be used to discourage Obi from contesting.

It was  reports that in a statement shared via his 𝕏 handle, the lawyer argued that Nigeria’s political history contradicts the notion that incumbency guarantees electoral victory.

According to him, the belief that Obi cannot win because of the perceived influence of the ruling party over state institutions is both misleading and historically inaccurate.

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The Head of Woro Village, in Kwara State, Umar Salihu, has blamed inadequate security for the deadly bandit attack that reportedly claimed over 200 lives in the community, saying the assailants operated for nearly 10 hours without resistance.

Salihu disclosed that the attackers had earlier sent a letter to the community, claiming they were coming to preach before launching the deadly assault.

According to the village head, the letter was delivered on January 10, 2026, through a traditional leader from a neighbouring village who had allegedly been abducted and forced to deliver the message.

“I received the notification on the 10th of January around 7.45 from a man who came; he is the Hakimi of one small village about four kilometres from my community,” Daily Post quoted Salihu saying over the weekend.

“According to him, they abducted him and forced him to bring the letter or else they would kill him and that is why he brought the letter to me.”

He said he immediately reported the matter to security agencies and traditional authorities.

The village head said, “When the letter got to me, I went to the DSS in our local government headquarters and the following day I took the letter to the Emirate council and they wrote a letter in that respect to the various appropriate quarters.”

Salihu explained that the letter did not specify a date or time for the planned visit.

“The content of the letter said they were coming down to preach but there was no date and time, they just said they were coming down to preach,” he added.

The village head said the attackers eventually struck and operated freely for several hours, killing scores of residents and destroying property.

He attributed the scale of the attack to the absence of security personnel in the area.

“We have soldiers staying there but the bandits came over the night and there was gun exchange between the army and bandits; since then, they took away the soldiers and that place has remained open.

“There is no security presence and that is why they came and spent almost 10 hours,” he said.

Salihu described the incident as devastating, revealing that many victims were burned alive in churches and inside their homes.

“There are some that are buried according to Christian rites, there are some that have been affected and do not belong to the community and have to take their corpses to a different location.

“There are some that were burned down in the church. Some, they locked them inside their rooms and set them on fire. Those that were burned inside the church, we cannot identify some; we can’t count the number of people burnt down,” he lamented.

The community leader called for urgent security intervention to prevent further attacks and protect residents from continued threats by bandits.

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The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has announced the total and permanent cancellation of the Monday sit-at-home across the South-East, saying the directive takes immediate effect from Monday, February 9, 2026.

In a statement issued on Sunday by its spokesperson, Emma Powerful, IPOB said the order came directly from its ‘supreme leader’, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

The statement said, “The Monday sit-at-home across the South-East is officially and permanently cancelled with effect from tomorrow, Monday, February 9, 2026.”

IPOB said Kanu took the decision to ensure that normal life returns to the South-East.

According to the statement, Kanu has “once again staked everything on the line to ensure that our children return to school every Monday and that our people go about their lawful businesses without fear, intimidation, or molestation”.

“Any person in doubt should visit Sokoto Correctional Centre to confirm with him. We can no longer hide under ‘Onyendu cannot be reached to confirm’ to persist with our recalcitrance or docility. Monday sit-at-home is over. That era is gone!,” the statement added.

IPOB stressed that there was “no need, excuse, or justification for anyone to stay at home on Mondays,” directing that “all markets, schools, offices, transport services, and economic activities must resume fully and normally from tomorrow”.

Describing the directive as final, the statement said, “This is the clear and unequivocal order of the Supreme Leader of IPOB.”

The statement also warned against any attempt to enforce sit-at-home going forward. IPOB said Kanu had made it “abundantly clear that any individual or group attempting to enforce sit-at-home from this moment forward is acting against his direct command”.

“Such persons are enemies of our people and the Biafran cause. They will be pursued to the ends of the earth and confronted until they are completely defeated.”

IPOB further claimed that “enemies of Biafra may attempt false-flag operations designed to create fear, stage attacks, or intimidate our people into staying indoors,” warning that “any person or group identified as enforcing or enabling sit-at-home will be confronted wherever they are”.

The group in the same vein urged residents of the South-East to remain “vigilant, calm, and law-abiding”.

However, IPOB cautioned state governments against taking action against traders who may still choose to stay at home.

The group said, “No state governor has the right to threaten, demolish, or forcibly shut down the businesses of traders who, out of conscience, choose to sit at home in solidarity with our leader.”

It specifically warned that “any attempt by Governor Soludo or any other governor to intimidate our people with demolition threats or forced market closures will be firmly resisted”.

On market development projects, IPOB stated that “any renovation, reconstruction, or improvement of markets that involves temporary relocation must be carried out only with the consent of all stakeholders,” adding that “adequate temporary trading sites must be provided before any such projects commence.”

Calling for unity, the IPOB said, “Our enemies have in the past succeeded in instigating crises and planting seeds of discord among our people. We must not allow them to succeed again. We are one people, united by a common destiny.”

IPOB equally urged residents to resume normal activities, saying, “We therefore call on all our people across the South-East to come out tomorrow, open their shops, go to work, and send their children to school without fear.

“The era of Monday sit-at-home is over.”

Earlier on Saturday, in a viral video, an IPOB group headed by Igwe Butuzo and Gentle De Yahoo also announced the cancellation of Monday sit-at-home.

“This information is coming from the Triple General, General Igwe Butuzo, General De Yahoo, and all the forty state commanders in Biafraland.

“As the information reaching my table to inform Biafrans, an order from the highest command of the Biafran restoration movement, Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi, has reached us that the Monday sit-at-home is cancelled from today. Last Monday’s sit-at-home was a one-off implemented due to Soludo’s stupidity and will not happen again,” the IPOB group said in the viral video.

Speaking on the development, Aloy Ejimakor, legal consultant to Nnamdi Kanu, said Nnamdi Kanu has since 2024 called for the cancellation of the civil disobedience in his honor.

“In July 2024, he had given me written instructions, which were widely published, if you recall. Even the DAILY POST carried it widely.

“He said that the sit-at-home be cancelled, but it persisted. It wasn’t very successful; I was threatened and all kinds of things happened, and some people, a lot of people, were opposed to it, and all that.

“So Mazi Nnamdi Kanu had always, at least from July 2024, almost two years ago, or one year and eight or nine months ago, been on the record, publicly, that this Monday sit-at-home be discontinued.

“And he also was and has always been against any attempt by any group of people to attempt to enforce it.

“So that’s it; that position has never changed. So if anybody comes up and says they are cancelling the sit-at-home, the Monday sit-at-home in Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s name, that person is not speaking out of tune.

“But my assumption is that that video is based on that instruction he had given in July 2024. I don’t think anybody can say that it’s inaccurate,” Ejimakor said.

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