- Obi explained that Amazon testified that no outages were recorded worldwide on presidential election day
Former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, says the servers of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, failed to function during the last presidential election because some criminal elements wanted it that way.
Obi, who was the presidential candidate of the Labor Party, LP, during the elections, said the “establishment of criminality” was behind the outage that affected the Electoral Commission server.
Obi explained that Amazon testified that no outages were recorded worldwide on presidential election day.
He spoke in Canada on Friday while discussing the issues surrounding the last general election, including IREV servers.
Obi was in Canada on a thank you tour to appreciate Nigerians living in the country for their support extended to him during the 2023 campaign/general elections.
He said: “Where did we go wrong in the last election? We didn’t go wrong anywhere. We’ve done the right things. But as I always tell people, when you bring change, you are fighting against all those who live by the old order. They don’t go away; they form a group. And don’t think it’s a straight race to remove an establishment. It’s a long-distance journey, anywhere in the world. Go look everywhere, whether you look at what happened in India, with Mandela in South Africa or in America. Change doesn’t happen overnight, it takes time. I urge all of you: If you really want change, we’ve only just begun. We just have to continue where we are now.
“Yes, there may be one or two things that we will correct, those things that we will correct. I assure you that we correct them without mentioning them.
“The INEC server was the same as the establishment. The server would not work because it was the setting that caused it not to work. It’s up to us to keep saying it would work. But there was no malfunction. Amazon came and said there was no outage. The Amazon glitch is being noticed worldwide – it’s being recorded worldwide. And during that period we took down an Amazon person who said this is the number of problems we’ve had since inception. And there was nothing reporting it that day. We know it didn’t happen. It was the fault of the established crime that was in the system. And one day we have to make it work.”
