{
  "id": 8922346,
  "title": "Odibo: Pro-APC Group’s Warning Against Result Monitoring in 2027 Polls Deeply Troubling",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/odibo-pro-apc-groups-warning-against-result-monitoring-in-2027-polls",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-21T12:32:21.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "This Day",
    "slug": "this-day",
    "url": "https://www.thisdaylive.com/2026/09/21/odibo-pro-apc-groups-warning-against-result-monitoring-in-2027-polls-deeply-troubling/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The recent statement by the pro-APC group, Renewed Hope for Greater Nigeria (RHGN), warning against independent result monitoring in the 2027 elections has raised significant concerns. Charles Odibo, Coordinator of Obidient Connect, a civic platform aimed at empowering Nigerians to monitor election results in real-time, highlighted the alarming lack of transparency from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and its support groups. Odibo asked the crucial question, \"Why is the ruling APC so afraid of transparency, real-time capture of polling unit results, and technology-driven vote protection?\"\n\nAccording to Odibo, the Independence National Electoral Commission (INEC) mandates that certified Form EC8A results must be displayed at every polling unit. The emergence of Mundx.com, an election monitoring application, revealed that 48% of 2023 election result sheets on the IReV portal were not transmitted from the BVAS machines, but from over 800 different phone devices. This blatant violation of the law occurred in Oru-East Local Government Area of Imo State, where over 100 polling units had no party agents, yet the APC won all of them.\n\nEven more troubling, all results from these agent-less polling units were uploaded from just two locations, not from the actual polling units, suggesting a concerted effort to manipulate the results. Odibo strongly emphasized that the call for stronger, independent, technology-enabled citizen monitoring has never been more urgent. He warned the APC that if they genuinely believe in free, fair, credible, and transparent elections, they should welcome platforms like Obidient Connect rather than attacking them. Odibo reaffirmed that Nigerians will not be intimidated and will continue to demand that every vote counts and can be independently verified. The choice before the APC, he stated, is clear — either embrace transparency or demonstrate that they have something to hide.",
  "summary": "Obidient Connect has stated that the recent outburst by the pro-APC group, Renewed Hope for Greater Nigeria (RHGN), in a story titled ‘2027: APC group warns Obi, NDC over result",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}