Edo Election: Pro-Biafra Leader, Nnamdi Kanu Of IPOB Says Poll 'First Truly Free And Fair In History Of Nigeria'

Nnamdi Kanu, a Nigerian Biafra political activist, and leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a group canvassing for the secession and sovereignty of Eastern Nigeria, has described last weekend's Edo Election which produced Governor Godwin Obaseki as the duly-elected leader of the South-South State as "the first truly free and fair elections in the history of Nigeria", AllNews reports.

Self-exiled Kanu via his known Facebook page on Monday credited Mary Beth Leonard,  the current United States Ambassador to Nigeria as the one who "delivered" the "unbiased" election. He linked the recent US visa restriction imposition on some individuals for their actions during the November 2019 Kogi and Bayelsa state elections to the outcome of the Edo poll.

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On Saturday the people of Edo came out en masse to elect their choice leader for the next four years.

The election - which was recorded to be one of the most peaceful elections in the state against the forecast of violence and intimidation as predicted by election observers - had the incumbent governor and the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Godwin Obaseki defeating All Progressives Congress' (APC) Osagie Ize-Iyamu, his main contender, and 12 candidates of other political parties.

Polling a total of 223, 619, Ize-Iyamu was unable to match Obaseki who polled a total of 307, 955, and winning 13 of the 18 local government areas in the state to retain his position as the state governor.

While a lot of political observers pointed out that it will be difficult to decide who was going to emerge winner of the election, an opinion poll conducted by AllNews and targeted at the Edo voters predicted that the incumbent governor, Obaseki, was going to emerge victorious. Indeed, it happened!