A former Vice President and African Democratic Congress presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has called for a full-scale investigation into the alleged leak of information from the Independent National Electoral Commission’s Continuous Voter Registration database, arguing that the electoral body’s latest explanation has raised more questions than answers.
Atiku said INEC’s admission that voter information was accessed using valid official credentials and subsequently released without authorisation has shifted the controversy from speculation about external hacking to concerns over internal compromise and possible political interference.
In a statement issued on Tuesday by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, the former vice president said the commission must explain how information stored in a restricted electoral database ended up in the public domain.
“INEC’s statement has moved this issue beyond conjecture. The Commission has now confirmed that voter information was accessed through credentials assigned to personnel participating in the ongoing CVR exercise and that such information was released without authority,” Atiku said.
“What Nigerians want to know is simple: how did information that resides within a restricted electoral database find its way into the hands of political actors and their associates?”
