IPOB declares total boycott of APC, says Kanu’s appeal case file is “missing”

•Dismisses sit-at- home video message

From Godwin Tsa, Abuja

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has directed its supporters to boycott ‘everything connected’ to the All Progressives Congress (APC), accusing the Federal Government of obstructing the hearing of detained leader Nnamdi Kanu’s appeal.

In a weekly address yesterday, the group’s Directorate of State (DOS), headed by Mazi Chris Nwaogu, said the boycott takes effect immediately.

It described this as the first phase of a “phased political disengagement” ahead of a total boycott of the 2027 general elections.

Nwaogu told supporters to stop attending APC rallies, carrying party flags or defending APC governors.

He also said any Igbo person who campaigns for the party is “acting as an enemy of the people.” The group did not say how the directive would be enforced.

IPOB alleged two acts of “judicial sabotage”. It claimed that at a hearing two weeks ago, the presiding judge of the FCT High Court told the court that the file in Kanu’s fundamental rights suit was missing.

The suit concerns his alleged 14-month detention after the Court of Appeal discharged him on October 13, 2022.

It also said the Court of Appeal has refused to list Kanu’s appeal against his November 20, 2025 conviction by Justice James Omotosho, despite the record of appeal having been compiled and transmitted.

IPOB said the Federal Government has filed no respondent’s brief. It argued the conviction cannot stand under Section 36(12) of the Constitution, claiming the law behind it has been repealed.

Daily Sun could not independently verify the claims about the missing file or the respondent’s brief, and the court has not publicly commented on them.

The group dismissed an audio message circulating online that announced a return of the Monday sit-at-home order. It called the message a “false flag operation” by the APC.

It said neither the DOS nor the Eastern Security Network (ESN) had ordered any sit-at-home, and warned that anyone enforcing one would be “decisively dealt with”.

Nwaogu also took aim at South-East politicians he called “errand boys” of the APC, citing Imo State Governor Hope Uzodinma and Minister of Works Dave Umahi.

He predicted that Anambra State Governor Charles Soludo would suffer the fate of former Imo governor Rochas Okorocha.

He further claimed IPOB’s lawyers had traced 68 Biafrans moved from Wawa Barracks to Kuje, Keffi and Suleja prisons. He urged supporters to back the legal team and the ESN.

Kanu was convicted and handed a life sentence by the Federal High Court in Abuja, and filed a notice of appeal on February 4, 2026.

As of October 2026, the Court of Appeal has not scheduled the case for hearing. On September 1, IPOB gave the Federal Government a 14-day ultimatum to list and hear the appeal, threatening an election boycott across the South-East.

In July, the Court of Appeal struck out a separate appeal by Kanu, holding it had become academic after his conviction.

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