Former presidential candidate Peter Obi has vowed that anyattempt to rig the 2027 election will be resisted lawfully and legitimately. Speaking in Enugu on Wednesday, Obi called for earlyverification of academic records of candidates to avoid pre-election disputes. Obi spoke while formally announcing his defection to theopposition coalition backed African Democratic Congress, ADC. He said: “We have all watched those who benefitted from ourdemocracy now becoming accessories of our democracy either through coercion organgsterism to the opposition. “We can’t allow this to happen, we will resist it. We nowsee people celebrating electoral fraud publicly. “And we are saying that those planning to rig elections inNigeria come 2027, we will resist it by every means lawful and legitimate.”
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