Former Minister of Education and founder of #FixPolitics, Dr. Obiageli “Oby” Ezekwesili, has warned that Nigeria can not conduct credible normal elections in 2027 underneath the current management of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Citing current high-level confessions from INEC’s personal Directorate of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Ezekwesili warned that the foundational doc of Nigeria’s democracy—the preliminary register of voters—has been compromised from inside by the injection of AI-generated images and duplicate data.
Invoking her position as an “Occupant of the Office of the Citizen,” Ezekwesili in an open memo referred to as for the fast structure of an impartial Caretaker Electoral Rescue Team, backed by a National Assembly emergency legislation underneath a “Doctrine of Necessity,” to strip INEC of its sole custody over the voter register clean-up.
The open memo stems from alarming disclosures made on October 30 and November 1, 2026, by Dr. Lawrence Bayode, INEC’s Director of ICT.
Bayode revealed on nationwide tv that registration officers throughout a number of states used their official login credentials to compromise the preliminary voter register.
According to Dr. Bayode, the breach was not an exterior hack or a technical glitch, however calculated insider sabotage. Most damningly, the INEC official confessed that “the trust is on ground zero.”
Ezekwesili slammed INEC’s dealing with of the disaster, declaring that almost per week after the invention, the fee has failed to call the implicated states, native governments, or rogue officers, or affirm whether or not any suspensions or police handovers have occurred.
“This is sabotage from within the very institution to which the Nigerian people entrusted the register of our sovereignty,” Ezekwesili wrote. “The people paid to protect the list of citizens manufactured phantom citizens… INEC cannot investigate INEC. Impossible.”
Arguing that belief can’t be rebuilt just by repeating the phrase, Ezekwesili asserted that an inner INEC inquiry will solely end in a compromised preliminary register being licensed right into a poisoned closing voter listing forward of 2027.
To avert a nationwide catastrophe, she proposed an impartial Caretaker Electoral Rescue Team composed of non-partisan consultants together with impartial Nigerian and worldwide knowledge, cybersecurity, and biometric professionals to audit entry logs and picture information, representatives from civil society, the Nigerian Bar Association, ICT and accounting skilled our bodies, and academia in addition to religion leaders and conventional establishments.
The memo explicitly bars any serving or former INEC official, political officeholder, candidate, or occasion official from sitting on the workforce.
Ezekwesili referred to as on the National Assembly to behave urgently—shifting previous historic legislative inertia—to cross emergency laws establishing the workforce underneath a Doctrine of Necessity.
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