When Transparent Election Monitoring Platform Becomes Ruling Party’s Nightmare

The article discusses the warning issued by the pro-All Progressives Congress group, Renewed Hope for Greater Nigeria, against plans by associated groups of the Nigeria Democratic Congress and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, to deploy independent polling-unit result monitoring and protection ahead of the 2027 general elections. It states that what the group presented as a defence of institutional order has instead revealed a deeper anxiety, describing a transparent, citizens-driven election monitoring platform as the ruling party's nightmare. At the centre of this fear stands Obidient Connect, a technology-enabled civic platform developed under the Professor Pat Utomi-led Big Tent Coalition. The article argues that the platform is not the parallel electoral authority some APC voices have claimed.

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