{"id":86119,"date":"2023-04-13T21:47:51","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T20:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/obi-won-presidential-election-but-inec-declared-tinubu-winner-ekpa-tells-un"},"modified":"2023-04-13T23:05:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T22:05:25","slug":"obi-won-presidential-election-but-inec-declared-tinubu-winner-ekpa-tells-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obi-won-presidential-election-but-inec-declared-tinubu-winner-ekpa-tells-un","title":{"rendered":"Obi won presidential election but INEC declared Tinubu winner \u2013 Ekpa tells UN"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa on Thursday accused the Nigerian government of scuttling the election of Peter Obi at the February 25 presidential poll.<\/p>\n

Obi, the candidate of the Labour Party, LP, rejected the result and is now in court to challenge the victory of President-elect Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC.<\/p>\n

In a letter to the United Nations General Assembly, UNGA, Ekpa berated Information Minister Lai Mohammed for \u201clying\u201d about the elections.<\/p>\n

He said the official has been \u201cjunketing…telling lies and calling for a ban on all fund-raising activities of the indigenous people of Biafra with threats of sanctions\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cLittle did he say to the world, Mr. Peter Obi of the LP won the presidential election and the government and its subservient electoral body declared the ruling APC candidate (Tinubu), winner\u201d.<\/p>\n

Ekpa noted that even the UN has admitted the general elections \u201crevealed ethnic, religious, demographic fault lines in Nigeria\u201d.<\/p>\n

The position, according to him, somehow captures the situation of Nigeria that needs urgent redress through a referendum.<\/p>\n

Ekpa said when Obi\u2019s running mate, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, cited election irregularities, Mohammed \u201cthrough his broadcasting commission slammed a N5 million fine on the television station\u201d.<\/p>\n

On the election in Lagos State, the secessionist said Obi defeated Tinubu, despite the disenfranchisement of \u201cBiafra people\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cState-sponsored political thugs went on a rampage, burning down the markets where the Biafra people are dominant and their businesses.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnother Market was burned in Maiduguri (capital of Borno) where Eastern (Biafra) people do their businesses.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlmost all big markets have been burned down by a combination of government security agencies and the terrorist Fulani herdsmen conducting economic jihad.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ekpa told 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.<\/p>\n

On Eastern Security Network, ESN, he said the group made up of volunteer indigenous youths, was formed against \u201cstate-sponsored terrorists\u2019 herdsmen and their accomplices in the military\u201d.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Nigeria<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa on Thursday accused the Nigerian government of scuttling the election of Peter Obi at the February 25 presidential poll. Obi, the candidate of the Labour Party, LP, rejected the result and is now in court to challenge the victory of President-elect Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":86118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1570,2140,251,254,4891,5186,945,332],"class_list":["post-86119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-inec","tag-nigeria","tag-obi","tag-simon-ekpa","tag-tinubu","tag-un"],"yoast_head":"\nObi won presidential election but INEC declared Tinubu winner \u2013 Ekpa tells UN - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa on Thursday accused the Nigerian government of scuttling the election of Peter Obi at the Fe ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obi-won-presidential-election-but-inec-declared-tinubu-winner-ekpa-tells-un\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Obi won presidential election but INEC declared Tinubu winner \u2013 Ekpa tells UN\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa on Thursday accused the Nigerian government of scuttling the election of Peter Obi at the Fe ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obi-won-presidential-election-but-inec-declared-tinubu-winner-ekpa-tells-un\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-04-13T20:47:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-04-13T22:05:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1681406288.02.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obi-won-presidential-election-but-inec-declared-tinubu-winner-ekpa-tells-un#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obi-won-presidential-election-but-inec-declared-tinubu-winner-ekpa-tells-un\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Obi won presidential election but INEC declared Tinubu winner \u2013 Ekpa tells UN\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-04-13T20:47:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-04-13T22:05:25+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obi-won-presidential-election-but-inec-declared-tinubu-winner-ekpa-tells-un\"},\"wordCount\":354,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obi-won-presidential-election-but-inec-declared-tinubu-winner-ekpa-tells-un#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1681406288.02.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"INEC\",\"Nigeria\",\"Obi\",\"Simon Ekpa\",\"Tinubu\",\"UN\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obi-won-presidential-election-but-inec-declared-tinubu-winner-ekpa-tells-un#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obi-won-presidential-election-but-inec-declared-tinubu-winner-ekpa-tells-un\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obi-won-presidential-election-but-inec-declared-tinubu-winner-ekpa-tells-un\",\"name\":\"Obi won presidential election but INEC declared Tinubu winner \u2013 Ekpa tells UN - Nigeria\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obi-won-presidential-election-but-inec-declared-tinubu-winner-ekpa-tells-un#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obi-won-presidential-election-but-inec-declared-tinubu-winner-ekpa-tells-un#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1681406288.02.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-04-13T20:47:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-04-13T22:05:25+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa on Thursday accused the Nigerian government of scuttling the election of Peter Obi at the Fe ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obi-won-presidential-election-but-inec-declared-tinubu-winner-ekpa-tells-un#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obi-won-presidential-election-but-inec-declared-tinubu-winner-ekpa-tells-un\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obi-won-presidential-election-but-inec-declared-tinubu-winner-ekpa-tells-un#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1681406288.02.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1681406288.02.jpg\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":720,\"caption\":\"Obi won presidential election but INEC declared Tinubu winner \u2013 Ekpa tells UN\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obi-won-presidential-election-but-inec-declared-tinubu-winner-ekpa-tells-un#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Obi won presidential election but INEC declared Tinubu winner \u2013 Ekpa tells UN\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\",\"name\":\"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Obi won presidential election but INEC declared Tinubu winner \u2013 Ekpa tells UN - Nigeria","description":"Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa on Thursday accused the Nigerian government of scuttling the election of Peter Obi at the Fe ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obi-won-presidential-election-but-inec-declared-tinubu-winner-ekpa-tells-un","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Obi won presidential election but INEC declared Tinubu winner \u2013 Ekpa tells UN","og_description":"Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa on Thursday accused the Nigerian government of scuttling the election of Peter Obi at the Fe ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obi-won-presidential-election-but-inec-declared-tinubu-winner-ekpa-tells-un","og_site_name":"Nigeria","article_published_time":"2023-04-13T20:47:51+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-04-13T22:05:25+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1280,"height":720,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1681406288.02.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obi-won-presidential-election-but-inec-declared-tinubu-winner-ekpa-tells-un#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obi-won-presidential-election-but-inec-declared-tinubu-winner-ekpa-tells-un"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Obi won presidential election but INEC declared Tinubu winner \u2013 Ekpa tells UN","datePublished":"2023-04-13T20:47:51+00:00","dateModified":"2023-04-13T22:05:25+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obi-won-presidential-election-but-inec-declared-tinubu-winner-ekpa-tells-un"},"wordCount":354,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obi-won-presidential-election-but-inec-declared-tinubu-winner-ekpa-tells-un#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1681406288.02.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Nigeria","INEC","Nigeria","Obi","Simon Ekpa","Tinubu","UN"],"articleSection":["all news","Policy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obi-won-presidential-election-but-inec-declared-tinubu-winner-ekpa-tells-un#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obi-won-presidential-election-but-inec-declared-tinubu-winner-ekpa-tells-un","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obi-won-presidential-election-but-inec-declared-tinubu-winner-ekpa-tells-un","name":"Obi won presidential election but INEC declared Tinubu winner \u2013 Ekpa tells UN - Nigeria","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obi-won-presidential-election-but-inec-declared-tinubu-winner-ekpa-tells-un#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obi-won-presidential-election-but-inec-declared-tinubu-winner-ekpa-tells-un#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1681406288.02.jpg","datePublished":"2023-04-13T20:47:51+00:00","dateModified":"2023-04-13T22:05:25+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa on Thursday accused the Nigerian government of scuttling the election of Peter Obi at the Fe ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obi-won-presidential-election-but-inec-declared-tinubu-winner-ekpa-tells-un#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obi-won-presidential-election-but-inec-declared-tinubu-winner-ekpa-tells-un"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obi-won-presidential-election-but-inec-declared-tinubu-winner-ekpa-tells-un#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1681406288.02.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1681406288.02.jpg","width":1280,"height":720,"caption":"Obi won presidential election but INEC declared Tinubu winner \u2013 Ekpa tells UN"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obi-won-presidential-election-but-inec-declared-tinubu-winner-ekpa-tells-un#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Obi won presidential election but INEC declared Tinubu winner \u2013 Ekpa tells UN"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/","name":"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}