There was confusion Thursday when the Abia State Governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, announced that soldiers would withdraw from the streets of the capital city of Umuahia and Aba, the commercial nerve centre of the state by Friday, but was contradicted by the army command in Abuja, which said his statement was not true.
In a show of force called Operation Python Dance II, the Nigerian Army had deployed soldiers in Abia State, the home state of IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu, whose group has been agitating for the break-up of Nigeria and the realisation of the Republic of Biafra.
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