The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has halted its 2026 presidential election after a cyberattack disrupted its electronic voting platform just before voting was due to begin on Saturday.
Voting was scheduled to commence at 12:00 a.m. on Saturday, July 18, but the process could not begin after the Electoral Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association (ECNBA) said external actors targeted the platform in an attempt to interfere with the election.
The ECNBA announced the development in a statement issued in the early hours of Saturday.
According to the committee, the e-voting platform came under a “deliberate, coordinated and sustained cyberattack” shortly before voting was due to commence. It said the attack was specifically designed to disrupt, sabotage and undermine the 2026 NBA national elections and described it as a direct assault on the technical infrastructure put in place to conduct the exercise.
The committee stated that its cybersecurity experts immediately activated emergency response measures
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