Due to the mandatory sit-at-home order issued by the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra, the ruling party had changed the timing of their campaign in the zone from Monday.
According to the source, it is at the owner's risk to drive anywhere on a Monday in the South-East. You can't suddenly veer towards the South-East and start gathering people for political purposes.
Therefore, we must change the dates as necessary, not necessarily to avoid a potential altercation but rather to encourage people to attend the rallies.
In an effort to protest and demand the release of Nnamdi Kanu, the separatist movement's supreme leader, who is currently on trial for treason and terrorism, the group issued the sit-at-home directive in August 2021.
Originally slated to take place in Imo State on Monday, November 21, Tinubu's campaign and zonal stakeholders' meeting was moved to Tuesday.
According to the revised presidential campaign schedule, which was made public on Friday night by the campaign committee, Anambra's event, which was originally scheduled for Monday, January 30, has also been shifted to Tuesday.
Festus Keyamo, the Chief Spokesman for the APC Presidential Campaign Council, assured our correspondent that IPOB or the Eastern Security Network are not to blame for the date change when he was approached.
"As the current government, our goal is to include the entire nation. We shouldn't be perceived as supporting non-state actors, he said.
In response to the question of whether the APC is avoiding IPOB by moving their rallies from the Mondays that were previously scheduled, Keyamo revealed that the claim was untrue.
