Political activist and Nigeria Democratic Congress member, Aisha Yesufu, has said supporters of the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, will not rely solely on electoral institutions to protect their votes in the 2027 presidential election.
Yesufu said Obi’s supporters would deploy representatives to polling units and monitor the movement of election materials and results from polling units through the various collation centres to Abuja.
She stated this during an interview on Arise News, where she discussed Obi’s chances in the 2027 presidential election and lessons from the 2023 election.
According to her, the experience of the 2023 election had made it necessary for voters and political groups to take a more active role in protecting their votes.
“Yes, we are going to have people at every polling unit to protect the votes,” Yesufu said.
She said the plan was to monitor the results at every stage of the collation process, from the polling unit to the ward, local government and state levels, until the final declaration in Abuja.
“No result sheet will leave our sight. We will follow the results from the polling units all the way to Abuja,” she said.
Yesufu said the strategy was aimed at ensuring that the results eventually declared reflected the votes cast by Nigerians.
She further stated that she had “zero trust” in INEC, security agencies and the judiciary, insisting that citizens could not afford to leave the protection of their votes entirely to institutions.
According to her, the 2027 election would therefore require greater grassroots mobilisation, with supporters concentrating on polling units rather than relying only on political rallies and campaigns.
