Virtually all the streets in Awka, Anambra state capital, were on Friday, in lack of people as residents closed shops, including corporate activities in fear of what the day would look like.
Journalists and other election observers moving to different parts of the state, such as Nnewi, to cover the Saturday governorship election could not find transportation since the movement was paralysed.
Ohanaeze Ndigbo in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Alex Ogbonnia applauded the decision of IPOB to cancel the one-week Sit-at-Home order earlier scheduled to commence on Friday and urged the people of the state to come out en mass to cast their votes.
Ohanaeze Ndigbo had earlier pleaded with IPOB to reconsider its position on Sit-at-Home syndrome in the South East of Nigeria, reiterating that self-immolation is the worst form of rights’ struggle.
