The Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) has clarified that it has no intention of establishing a parallel result collation system for the upcoming 2027 general elections.

 

Addressing recent public debate, NDC chieftain Senator Victor Umeh explained during an appearance on Channels Television's *Politics Today* that presidential candidate Peter Obi was misunderstood following his recent comments on Arise Television.

 

### Key Points of the Clarification:

 

* **Independent Party Collation, Not a Parallel System:** The NDC will deploy agents to every polling unit to collect official result forms once votes are counted and announced on-site.

* **Direct Transmission to Situation Room:** Party agents will transmit these official, declared polling unit results straight to the NDC situation room for independent tracking and verification.

* **Preventing Electoral Irregularities:** The goal is to safeguard vote integrity by ensuring figures match what was officially recorded at the polling unit level.

* **INEC’s Legal Role Intact:** Umeh emphasized that while the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) manages official elections, it holds no monopoly on internal data tracking by political parties.

 

> *"I believe he must have been misquoted. What he is trying to say is that the party would have its agents at every polling unit and once the results are collated, declared, and put in the prescribed result form, they will be doing their own collation in the situation room. INEC has no monopoly of collation of data."*

> — **Victor Umeh, NDC Chieftain**

 

By establishing a robust situation room to monitor polling unit data in real time, the NDC aims to protect its votes and maintain an independent record throughout the 2027 election process.