INEC has lost all Credibility to be an Independent umpire of Nigeria’s Elections
By Obiageli “Oby” Ezekwesili DOCTRINE OF NECESSITY OPEN MEMO The question of whether Nigeria can conduct a credible 2027 election is already answered. Nigeria cannot hold a credible 2027 election under the leadership of INEC. INEC has lost all credibility to be an independent umpire of Nigeria’s elections, and ignoring this could upend our hard-won democracy. On Friday, 30 October 2026, and again on Sunday, 1 November, INEC’s Director of Information and Communication Technology, Dr Lawrence Bayode, told Nigerians on national television what many of us had feared and some of us had warned against. Registration officers of the Independent National Electoral Commission used their official login credentials to inject AI-generated photographs, duplicate records and other fabricated entries int…
