2027: Obi plans independent results transmission

Abimbola Joseph

Peter Obi, the National Democratic Congress presidential candidate for the 2027 election, says his campaign plans to establish an independent system for transmitting polling-unit results to its situation room.

Obi said the arrangement would operate alongside the Independent National Electoral Commission’s official result-transmission system, allowing his team to monitor results as they are recorded at polling units.

The former Anambra State governor disclosed this in an interview with Arise TV on Thursday, saying the initiative was aimed at ensuring that results reaching the public could be traced to the figures recorded at the polling units.

“We will have even a dual transmission,” Obi said, explaining that results would be sent to INEC’s designated portal while a copy would also be transmitted to his team’s situation room.

He rejected the suggestion that the plan amounted to establishing a parallel result-transmission system.

“All we are saying is that this time around, we will make sure that in every polling unit, we must have a system that transmits to our own situation room the correct results,” he said.

Obi said other organisations could establish similar monitoring systems, arguing that such arrangements would make it harder for results unrelated to those recorded at polling units to be declared.

He said his objective was to strengthen transparency and accountability in the electoral process, citing Ghana and other countries as examples of places where transparent elections were achievable.

Obi also described the 2027 presidential election as a contest involving Nigerians and the government, rather than one centred solely on political parties.