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By Lawrence Agbo
The Executive Secretary of the National Institute of Cultural Orientation, Abiodun Ajiboye, has stated why Nigeria can’t afford real-time transmission of election results during an interview with ARISE NEWS on Monday.
Ajiboye stated that Nigeria lacks the infrastructure required to adopt electronic voting.
“Transmitting election results electronically is the function of the manner of voting.
“If you vote manually and you collate results, how do you then transmit electronically in real time? It’s just not possible. We can’t even afford it. Even if we wish to, we can’t afford it,” he said.
Ajiboye further explained that Nigeria do not have the telecommunication infrastructure, a capable electricity supply to facilitate the process and the right cybersecurity apparatus to avoid attacks on the system.
“Is the infrastructure of telecom companies sufficient enough to undertake such exercise?
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“The last election we had, the INEC server was attacked over a million times.
“So what they’re saying is that we should put the electoral process within the vulnerability of hijackers, causing a lot of confusion. This is what I see them pushing.”
“A man is only able to do what he is capable of. We have no capability to do electronic voting or real-time transmission at this time.
“America does not even do real-time transmission. Go and check. We don’t even have telecom provided for some rural communities.
“Some rural communities don’t even have electricity. You’re trying to disenfranchise a lot of people by pushing for what is not possible.
“Technologically, it is not possible. Stop stampeding the Senate and National Assembly into getting into something very difficult, that will put everybody in a mess at the end of the day,” he concluded.
