2023 Presidential election: Peter Obi won but INEC declared Tinubu winner – Ekpa tells UN

Simon Ekpa, a Biafra agitator, recently addressed the United Nations General Assembly

(UNGA) in a letter, in which he accused the Nigerian government of rigging the presidential election that was held on February 25th. According to Ekpa, Peter Obi of the Labour Party won the election, but the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner.

 

Ekpa went on to berate Information Minister Lai Mohammed for lying about the elections, and accused him of junketing and calling for a ban on all fundraising activities of the indigenous people of Biafra, with threats of sanctions. Ekpa claimed that Mohammed failed to disclose that Peter Obi of the LP won the presidential election and that the government and its subservient electoral body declared the ruling APC candidate, Tinubu, as the winner.

 

Ekpa noted that even the UN has admitted that the general elections in Nigeria “revealed ethnic, religious, demographic fault lines in Nigeria”. He added that this position somehow captures the situation of Nigeria that needs urgent redress through a referendum.

 

Ekpa also stated that when Obi’s running mate, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, cited election irregularities, Mohammed “through his broadcasting commission slammed a N5 million fine on the television station”.

 

On the election in Lagos State, the secessionist said Obi defeated Tinubu, despite the disenfranchisement of “Biafra people”. He added that “state-sponsored political thugs went on a rampage, burning down the markets where the Biafra people are dominant and their businesses. Another market was burned in Maiduguri (capital of Borno) where Eastern (Biafra) people do their businesses. Almost all big markets have been burned down by a combination of government security agencies and the terrorist Fulani herdsmen conducting economic jihad.”

 

Ekpa also informed the UN that killings are still going on while the burning of homes, markets, and churches is being perpetrated by government-sponsored terrorists and arsonists in state uniforms. On the Eastern Security Network (ESN), Ekpa said the group made up of volunteer indigenous youths was formed against “state-sponsored terrorists’ herdsmen and their accomplices in the military”.