“Obi has done his job, he has fleed from Nigeria, he couldn’t even stay for the final result (sic),” reads a tweet posted on February 28, 2023.
A screenshot of the false post, taken on March 2, 2023
The tweet was posted by Simon Ekpa, a self-declared leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a separatist group pushing for independence in Nigeria's southeast.
He repeatedly threatened “open war” against those who came out to vote in the southeast despite his stay-at-home orders, which called for a curfew and lockdowns.
Ekpa was recently arrested in Finland, where he lives, for using social media allegedly to incite violence.
The tweet includes a video of a young man speaking in Igbo to the Labour Party's Obi at an airport, with planes and the tarmac visible in the background. But the audio is largely inaudible over the plane engines.
Obi responds in English, saying: "What we need is to remain calm and persistent, saying this is wrong. We will remain calm, remain persistent." Nigeria held elections on February 25, 2023.
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