When only 14 out of 100 registered voters show up, democracy is on life support. When a citizen’s voter data leaks from inside INEC, the system bleeds.
With Ekiti, Osun and 2027 looming, the question is brutal: Has INEC become the biggest threat to Nigeria’s elections?
The bottom line is that INEC isn’t protecting voters. It’s pushing them out.
The law says registration must be continuous. Yet INEC shut it down six months before the 2023 polls, forcing a court battle just to add 31 days. Result: millions begged to vote but couldn’t. This time, the same six-month blackout is back for 2027.
When 86 per cent of Abuja voters stay home and 400,000 people’s data leaks from INEC’s own staff, that’s not an accident. That’s design by neglect.
Proof? Access is a crime scene. Polling units sit eight kilometres from voters in Lugbe and Kuje. PVC collection ends without
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