Ex-INEC Director Questions 1.5 Million Voter Records

Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, the former Director of Voter and Publicity Education at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), expressed concerns regarding the presence of 1.5 million questionable entries in the voter register. During an interview on Arise Television, he noted that although INEC had cleaned up about 1.2 million records, the existence of such a large number of questionable entries was troubling.

Osaze-Uzzi highlighted that voter registration should be straightforward, as it requires physical presence for biometric capture, making it difficult to understand how these irregularities occurred. He criticized INEC for not providing sufficient details about the period of the exercise or how the questionable records were identified.

He suggested that the Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) could help detect multiple registrations and emphasized the need for clarification on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the registration process.