Emmanuel Ariwodo

ELECTORAL FRAUD ALART!!! What we are confronting is bigger than ordinary election rigging. It is the possibility of weaponising Artificial Intelligence to manufacture identities, manipulate voter records, generate fictitious votes and digitally engineer electoral outcomes. Imagine a situation where fake identities are created, fictitious voters are inserted into the register, and fraudulent figures are manipulated at polling units, during electronic transmission to IReV, or at central collation points. The consequences could be devastating. A few million fabricated votes could be used to distort a presidential election. Hundreds of thousands could alter a governorship election. And the most frightening part? The manipulation could be disguised as legitimate digital data. Let nobody misunderstand me: I am not saying this has already happened. I am raising an urgent national security and electoral integrity concern that INEC must address transparently, independently and immediately. Yes, we know the traditional methods of rigging: vote buying, intimidation, violence, suppression and manipulation rewriting of results. But the digitalisation of electoral fraud introduces another dimension that Nigeria cannot afford to ignore. HERE IS WHAT MUST HAPPEN: 1. INEC must immediately conduct an independent forensic audit of the entire voter register. 2. Every suspicious, duplicated, fabricated or unverifiable identity must be identified, investigated and lawfully addressed. 3. The BVAS, IReV and central collation infrastructure must undergo independent cybersecurity and forensic integrity assessments. 4. All relevant digital logs, databases and audit trails must be preserved against alteration or destruction. 5. Independent technical experts, civil society organisations and credible stakeholders must be given verifiable access to the audit process. 6. INEC must publicly disclose its findings and demonstrate that every eligible voter is protected and every fraudulent record is dealt with. INEC MUST NOT WAIT UNTIL ELECTION DAY! The Nigerian people must wake up. Civil society must rise. Technology experts must speak up. The National Assembly, security agencies and all relevant institutions must take responsibility to preventing a national disaster. We cannot allow a handful of people, hiding behind technology, to manufacture millions of imaginary Nigerians and use their fictitious votes to determine the future of over 200 plus million real Nigerians. Democracy cannot survive where the identity of the voter is questionable and the integrity of the vote cannot be independently verified. OUR VOTES MUST COUNT. OUR IDENTITIES MUST BE PROTECTED. OUR FUTURE MUST NOT BE PROGRAMMED BY FRAUDSTERS. INEC, the burden is on you. Nigerians are watching. The 2027 election must be credible, transparent, auditable and verifiable. Anything less is unacceptable. A NEW NIGERIA IS POSSIBLE, BUT WE MUST FIRST PROTECT THE INTEGRITY OF THE VOTE! Dr. Mo National Coordinator, Obidient Movement