The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 elections in Nigeria, Peter Obi, has offered an explanation for why the servers of the Independent National Electoral Commission did not work during the poll.
The former two-term governor of Anambra State offered the explanation when he met with Nigerians in Brampton, Canada.
The meeting, held over the weekend, also had the Mayor of Brampton, Patrick Brown, in attendance.
Obi told the fully packed hall: “Where did we go wrong in the last election?
“We didn’t go wrong anywhere.
“We did the right things.
“But as I can always tell people: when you bring a change, you fight all those who live off the old order.
“They don’t go away.
“They gang up.
“And don’t think it’s a straight race to remove an establishment.
“It’s a long-distance journey anywhere in the world.
“Go and check anywhere, whether you are looking at what happened in India, with Mandela in South Africa, or in America.
“No change has happened overnight.
“It takes time.
“I urge all of you, if you want change, we have just begun.
“We just have to continue from where we are.
“Yes, there might be one or two things we will correct.
“Those things we will correct.
“I assure you we are correcting them without naming them.
“It’s not going to be easy.
“The INEC server was the same as the establishment.
“The server would not work because it was the establishment that made it so it wouldn’t work.
“It’s ours to continue to say that it would work.
“But there was no glitch.
“Amazon came and said there was no glitch.
“Amazon glitch is noticed globally.
“It’s recorded globally.
“And at that period, we brought down an Amazon person who said this is the number of glitches we have had since inception.
“There was none that it reported that day.
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“We know it didn’t occur.
“It was the glitch of the establishment criminality that was in the system.
“And we must one day make it work.”
Mayor Brown said he was delighted to have Obi in the city, having heard so much about him.