Peter Obi Addressing journalists at the protest ground, Obi condemned what he described as the steady erosion of democratic gains in the country, warning that credible elections remain the foundation of national stability and development.
“We must dismantle this criminality and prove that we are now a nation that shows light in Africa,” he charged.
He urged the National Assembly to enact laws mandating electronic transmission of election results.
“The danger was clear. We have suffered the danger. That’s what we have suffered before. We don’t want any glitch again. This is finished. We want things to come back to normal. No more glitch,” the former Anambra governor said.
Obi’s appearance at the protest further galvanised the crowd, many of whom view him as a symbol of the 2023 youth-driven political awakening that challenged Nigeria’s traditional political order.
The National Coordinator of the Obidient Movement Worldwide, Dr. Yunusa Tanko, said the agitation would continue until the National Assembly explicitly restores real-time electronic transmission of results in the amended law.
“If there is no electronic transmission of results, there will be no election. Our elections must be credible,” he said.
Tanko argued that past elections had been marred by manual interference during result collation, a problem electronic transmission was meant to address following reforms introduced after the 2011 and 2015 elections.
