Simon Ekpa claims 50m voted during Biafran referendum

Self-styled Prime Minister of the Biafra Republic Government in Exile (BRGIE), Simon Ekpa, claims that over 50 million persons voted in a recent referendum to determine if they wanted a Biafran self-determination.

Ekpa who posted the claim on his X handle on Tuesday, said the way Biafrans all over the world embraced the e-voting and physical voting process during the referendum, showed their enthusiasm for liberation and a break away from Nigeria.

He further stated that the number of Biafrans who voted for self-determination in the last eight months surpassed the number of voters in the 2023 Nigerian presidential election which stood at 25,286,616 million.

“Let it be on record, the sample of the Biafra Self Referendum physical voting card has recorded over 50 million votes, double the general election result,” the Finland-based Ekpa wrote.
“50 million votes officially recorded and registered in the 40 United States of Biafra.

“We are making it happen! Tell your children this is how we did it. Let the historians go to work,” he claimed.

He added that marginalization, underdevelopment, insecurity, attack against Christians and poverty in the South-East and South-South regions were some of the major reasons the people gave as justification for the self-referendum.

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