For every Nigerian who has had the benefit of a decent education, now is the time to obtain something else: some kind of swivel for your attention on public issues.
As you may have heard, last weekend, there was a curious breach of INEC’s Continuous Voter Registration Portal.
Lere Olayinka, a media aide to Nyesom Wike, the Federal Capital Territory Minister, who is nominally a member of a faction of the PDP but operates within the political orbit of the APC, published information from the depths of a database to which he should not have had access.
DSS is investigating, it claims. But DSS, an organisation with a poor image in Nigeria, including the rogue detention of a journalist for over 13 years since he set foot on the soil of his fatherland, does not inspire confidence.
INEC is also investigating. It should. It inspires fear, even loathing. Its preliminary narrative is a convenient “lone insider, audit trail identified the account,” which localises the problem to one bad actor and protects the claim that the system itself is sound.
