By Emmanuel Oladesu, Deputy Editor
A group, Human Rights Writers Association (HURIWA), yesterday raised the alarm that the ongoing online registration of prospective voters by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) may have been compromised.
It said the exercise may have been hacked, judging by the suspicious figures being bandied by the officials as the statistical entries of the completed registrants so far.
Citing the case of Osun State, HURIWA, which calls for investigation, said the figures recently released by INEC as the updated figures of eligible voters, who have registered in the ongoing Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) being conducted online, appears twisted and doctored to favour certain political power centres across the country.
Quoting INEC, HURIWA said a breakdown of the statistics uploaded on the commission’s website recently gave Osun State 67,773 out of the total figure of 203, 497 eligible voters, who have registered within a week of the start of the online phase of the Continuous Voters Registration at the beginning of July.
According to a data released by INEC, Osun State is trailed by another Southwest state, Lagos, which has 30,338, followed by Ogun State with 8,886.
The rights group, which faulted the demography of the released updated figures of online registered potential, called for immediate, transparent and accountable forensic investigation of the process because it was inconceivable “that Osun has these figures allotted to it, but Anambra State with a highly anticipated Governorship Election that is only a few weeks away, is not even mentioned in this edited and heavily doctored statistics of voters already enlisted by way of the ongoing online registration.”
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