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Charges Nigerians to Protect Votes
- Safiu Kehinde
The 2027 Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has harped on the need for Nigerians to protect their votes.
Obi held that Nigerians’ departure from the polling units after casting their votes give room for rigging.
The former Anambra state governor made this known in a recent public engagement with a Nigerian diaspora community.
Addressing the community in a video shared on X on Friday, Obi charged Nigerians to ensure they wait at their respective polling units after voting to ensure that their votes are counted and transmitted.
“Elections are rigged in Nigeria because Nigerians want it to be rigged. I will do whatever is possible to protect the votes but unless Nigerians decide that their vote will count, it will not count.
“If you vote and you stay in your polling unit and said that this must be counted here, it will be counted.
“But Nigerians, because our politics is transactional, the average Nigerian doesn’t know who his problem is.
“A Nigeria will rather vote and go home and go to night vigil when he should actually say the night vigil will be counting his votes.” He said.
Obi further identified leadership as the core problem facing Nigeria.
This, according to him, can only be solved when everyone engages in the protection of the votes.
“The question is to ask yourself today what is the problem of Nigeria?
“Nigeria have only one problem, leadership. Any other thing, God gave Nigeria everything.
“I can tell you Nigeria is more blessed than this country. If Nigerians know that their problem is leadership, they will face it. Everybody will be part of protecting that vote.” He added.